An0n0m0us

The BBC has earnt it's license fee from me this year, i've been waiting ages for this series and it didn't disappoint. I can't wait for the next episode.

Sir David Attenborough

dpb

i cant believe there wasn't some computer / off site work there with the albatross

hodgy0_2

Agreed, stunning

An0n0m0us

I don't have an issue with snakes but those racer snakes chasing the newly hatched iguana were stuff of nightmares what a welcome into the world!

dpb

Yeah that was scary , the original Medusa

JTaylor

Just watched it on iPlayer - fantastic!

lozgti1

Fantastic! Glad they showed the end bit about how hard it was for the camera crew to get on the island.
TV at its best

lozgti1

Don't ever want to meet a racing snake and its friends.lol

dpb

Those penguins are absolute monsters of handling shoredump / riding the back of the wave back out

An0n0m0us

Another superb episode tonight! The Jaguar catching the Caiman was incredible and unexpected

urban

iTrader: (1)

Snakes are just horrible feckin creatures

ditchmyster

iTrader: (7)

lol, I used to feel the same, but you get used to them after a while, fantastic mouse catchers as well because they can get in all the places cats can't and sniff them out in walls, it's still a bit un nerving when you walk down the stairs and a 2m one darts out in front of you though.

dpb

Them ones have to be very unusual case i think ?!

the other 90 something percent wouldn't be actively hunting you out

dpb

in packs anyway

urban

iTrader: (1)

Napalm them

David Lock

Awesome photography. Best nature filming I have ever seen.


I have a fear - dread is more accurate - of snakes and half a dozen Racing snakes chasing the Iguanas was something else. Google says they are not venomous and squeeze the breath out of their victims, but what do they do then? I thought Boas and similar just swallowed their prey whole and the Racing snakes would be hard pressed to swallow a mouse never mind a chunky Iguana. Any snake gurus able to explain please.


David

joz8968

iTrader: (13)

Shakes jaws dislocate to allow them to swallow prey of much greater girth than themselves.

I've yet to see the snakes in question, so haven't got a handle on how small or not they are, when compared to said prey items.

Matty81

Brilliant program. So refreshing to have a program like this on tv again. Been too long.

David Lock

Yeah I've see plenty of pictures of Boas who have swallowed quite large things and you can see a huge swelling in stomach as animal is slowly digested. But you saw the relative sizes of the Racers and the Iguana and one had about 6 snakes wrapped around it. I just don't think it's conceivable that they could swallow one. But happy to be corrected. David

lozgti1

That was a right crunch when it bit into its skull

An0n0m0us

Yep and was surprised when they said it has the strongest bite of all the big cats, wouldn't have thought that could crunch harder than a Siberian Tiger! But that Caiman certainly knew about it

joz8968

iTrader: (13)

Jag'waaar

David Lock

Just finished the first episode. What has always amazed me is the incredible homing instinct some birds have. The Albatross coming back to the same rock where his faithful partner has been waiting. And incredibly that Penguin risking death to return with a stomach full of food for his two kids. And actually finding them amongst - was it 50 million - others by recognising mum's call. Staggering. Imagine taking your kid to a full Wembley Stadium where kid gets lost amidst 100,000 screaming fans but finding where he is by hearing his pleas for his dad.


Onto the Jaguars now - handsome things, proper moggies


David

lozgti1

And every fan is wearing the same black and white suit.lol

David Lock

The one with blood all down his shirt was sad wasn't it?


Nature's a beautiful b,astard.........


David

lozgti1

So true.There were some walking wounded.Yet they seemed to just get on with it

As dpb said,amazing how they caught that (literally) killer wave.They simply could be obliterated on those rocks.

But as Attenborugh said,to them, it was living in paradise...

hodgy0_2

nature bats last

JTaylor

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

urban

iTrader: (1)

Yeah, it was sad, but I thought the poor wee bollox's with the broken legs still trying to get back to their mates more sad.

Ash Webster

my favourite program by far - i have all of attenborough's stuff, especially love blue planet..

as dr malcolm would say - life finds a way