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milovoo wrote,
What show is this footage from?
It’s well edited and I would be interested in seeing more in the same series and also maybe hearing the audio.
Link | January 3rd, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Dave wrote,
Milovoo-
Could be one of a number of brilliant BBC nature series fronted by David Attenborough. The man’s a living legend, and the production values are astonishing. http://www.bbcshop.com/icat/11&source=513
Link | January 3rd, 2007 at 10:07 pm
spiney wrote,
It’s from the BBC’s “Planet Earth”, narrated by David Attenborough, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(TV_series)
Link | January 3rd, 2007 at 10:13 pm
fergus the bogeyman wrote,
Hi Molovoo
this clip was taken from the British series Planet Earth. It was a BBC production, narrated (like most BBC nature programmes) by David Attenborough (brother of film producer Richard Attenborough.)
I’m sure the DVD(s) is/are available from the BBC’s own website or any good store.
Link | January 3rd, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Adam wrote,
This is Sir David Attenborough, he has narrated numerous nature specials (see here http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/who/david_attenborough.shtml) this may be part of his Life On Earth series. I completely love his style and voice, it’s so much better than today’s Animals Gone Wild and When Animals Attack style of shows.
Link | January 3rd, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Chris wrote,
Have you heard of Lancet Flukes?
Similar tasting parasite… Lancet Fluke young take over the minds of ants and force them to climb to the tops of blades of grass where they are consumed by unwitting ungulates, usually cows, who then become the hosts to the flukes which go on to complete their life cycle…
Makes me wonder about us. I know plenty of mindless zombies who I wouldn’t be surprised to find out are under the control of a parasitic fungi.
Link | January 3rd, 2007 at 11:49 pm
milovoo wrote,
It’s weird, I own the “Planet Earth” DVDs and I don’t recall this being on them.
I’m also somewhat sure it’s not on the bug-specific “life in the undergrowth”.
Perhaps “Life on Earth”? (What made me notice is that the aspect ration is wrong for “Planet Earth” which are 16:9), so it has to be either “trials of life”, “life on earth”, “living planet” or “the private life of plants” … (have I forgotten any?)
That was why I asked, but I’ll see if I can find this segment when I get home.
Link | January 4th, 2007 at 1:58 am
milovoo wrote,
oops, forget all that,
It is Episode 8 – I only have up to episode 5.
Episode 8: Jungles
Jungles cover roughly three per cent of our planet yet contain 50 per cent of the world’s species. High-definition cameras enable unprecedented views of animals living on the dark jungle floor.
In the Ngogo forest the largest chimpanzee group in the world defends its territory from neighbouring groups. Other jungle specialists include parasitic fungi which infiltrate an insect host, feed on it, and then burst out of its body.
Link | January 4th, 2007 at 2:04 am
mleak wrote,
This is great.
Reality is so much weirder than science fiction.
Link | January 4th, 2007 at 10:13 am
geedee wrote,
cordyceps can be purchased in a bottle – if you get the right kind (using hot water extraction) they’re a very powerful medicinal variety – helps with colds, the immune system, the heart, lung function, longevity, and stamina. the stuff grows out of caterpillars.
Link | January 4th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
fnerd wrote,
Geedee, I live for the day when some herbal enthusiast takes your advice and becomes the first human to host a mutated strain of cordyceps.
Link | January 7th, 2007 at 7:40 am
S.R. Fail wrote,
I read that in Nepal they use cordyceps as a traditional viagra. Dem’ spores must want in the human body real bad if they are giving us that good of a reason to digest em. Nature will always find a way to humble the mighty. When it’s our turn who knows what it may throw at us? If it is brain-hijacking half-life parasites so be it. Then again, that last sentence could also describe reality TV…
Maybe we can speed things up a little by genetically engineering ol’ cordyceps as an invincible biological weapon or something? Who’s in?!?
Link | January 9th, 2008 at 9:11 am