Living Planet: A new, fully updated edition of David Attenborough’s seminal portrait of life on Earth

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Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean and volcano. In years when the vole population is high, the numbers of their main predator, the owls, increase correspondingly and spread out. By contrast, because of its connection to more temperate regions, the Arctic has been colonised by a large variety of species. Living in such isolation seems to allow some species to outgrow their mainland cousins, and Attenborough observes a group of feeding Komodo dragons at close quarters. Only the very smallest plants and animals can defy gravity, but some seeds, such as those of the sycamore, cheat this by simulating the movement of a helicopter.

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All of them lie on one great ridge of volcanic rocks that runs roughly midway between Europe and Africa to the east, and the Americas to the west. He remarks that despite its great size, little is known about it – except that its eggs are easily plundered, thus making it an endangered species.It examines the manner in which the survivors of ancient groups as well as the representatives of newly-evolved ones have together colonised and adapted to the great variety of environments that exist on earth.

A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet . The programmes were just as ambitious to produce as those in the previous series, each featuring a variety of locations from around the world.Langur monkeys from the warm plains were able to move up into the chilly rhododendron forests and gather leaves and fruit by doing no more than to develop slightly thicker coats to keep themselves warm. As you stand in Nepal beside its roaring milky waters, looking upstream towards the main range of the Himalayas, the river seems to spring from a cluster of immense snow-capped, ice-girt peaks.