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Type.................: TV Series DVD Rip
Part Size............: 50,000,000
Number of Parts......: 15
Compression Format...: RAR
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Posted by............: johncymru
Posted to............: alt.binaries.documentaries
Posted on............: 201407
Original Air Date....: 20110306
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z03pl
Madagascar is an island of extremes. While the east is cloaked in soaking
rainforest, the west and south is almost a desert. This is a scorching
landscape where it might not rain for nine months of the year, and some years
not at all. To live here, you have to be a specialist. The animals and plants
of the dry southern lands are stranger and more mysterious than on any other
part of the island, and their strategies for surviving the dryness are
extraordinary.
In this programme, we follow their fortunes as the year swings by and they wait
for the brief
rains to return. We feature a family of Verreaux's sifakas, a kind of lemur
living in one of Madagascar's strangest forests. This is the 'spiny forest',
like nowhere else on Earth all the trees here have savage spikes, and some drip
toxic chemicals. But the sifakas are totally at home here; they don't need to
drink, getting all the moisture they need from the plants' hard leaves. And
they have an incredible knack of moving among the dagger-like spines without
harming themselves. Slow-motion film shows the siafakas' technique, though
quite how they avoid spearing themselves remains a mystery. But how will their
tiny babies survive such a hostile place?
As the dry season takes a grip, we follow the lives of even stranger creatures
living in the iconic baobab forests on the west of the island. Among these
bulbous trees live huge-eyed mouse lemurs, the world's smallest primates,
emerging at night to feed on the sugary droppings of bizarre fluffy bugs.
This is a land where opportunists survive the lean times. We show the
strategies of a female vasa parrot, which gets males to feed her by singing
loudly to them. She is quite an odd-looking bird. Normally glossy black, in the
breeding season she goes bald, and her head turns orange.
In some rare places, the desiccated land gives way to patches of green forest,
clinging on to the edges of rivers that run almost dry. In these forests live
gangs of ringtailed lemurs, bringing up babies through the toughest time of
year. But these canny lemurs have tricks to get through the hungry days. They
catch giant lying insects, plucking them from the air. It's a rare and
extraordinary sight but only a few lemurs really have the knack!
When at last the rains come, for a few fleeting weeks everything changes. The
forests are transformed, and life rushes to make the most of it. A very unusual
chameleon moves through the greenery; Labord's chameleon is the shortest-lived
land vertebrate in the world. This striking animal lives just 12 weeks from
hatching to adulthood. It spent nine months in an egg and has only three months
to pack in the rest of its life: growing to adulthood, fighting off rivals,
mating and dying soon afterwards - an extreme strategy in a place where
resources are low!
These animals are all unique to the island, and exquisitely adapted to these
seasonal changes. But their challenge is not just with the passing seasons.
Much of Madagascar's extraordinary wildlife is under threat, from hunting and
loss of habitat, and none more so than in the south of the island. As David
Attenborough sums it up, 'We are still unravelling the mysteries of Madagascar's wildlife. How tragic it would be, to lose it before we've even understood it'.
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