Planet Earth II
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I've always found them to be one of those animals that you watch for a while and you just think, why do you exist? You're just an evolutionary tangent.
Anyway, enjoying the series.
Agree with the comment about the lack of depth in regards to educational information; a bit more information would not go amiss and gives the chance for another few seconds of wonderful footage.
That locust swarm amazing
See, that's my problem with this series - it just feels dumbed down. Yes, that locust swarm was amazing and a true spectacle to see. However, it lacked any real meaning. Why do locusts swarm in such numbers? What ecological benefit is there to the devestation caused by a swarm? How does the next generation come about? What triggered the one that was filmed to be the "largest for a decade"? Do all those locust corpses lead to an temporary surge in the populations of their predators/scavengers? How were the UN fighting this plague? And so on.
A couple of additional sentences would've actually explained something and added some context and wonder at the complexity of nature in to the mix. It felt like a missed opportunity and was a bit surprising considering that is what the BBC and David A usually excel at.
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I know you were joking, but seriously, tell me they don't look exactly like huge guinea pigs.
That's what they are tbh.. A huge rat/guinea pig, largest member of the rodent family
With a vicious bite!
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Capybaras are great, we had one in our house for a few weeks, so adorable. They love being underwater, it would sit in a bowl of water and blow bubbles
How has no one asked you to expand on this yet? Please do tell more.
I'd love to have a capybara as a pet (based purely on having seen how they cute they are and knowing little about their behaviour)
Capybaras are great, we had one in our house for a few weeks, so adorable. They love being underwater, it would sit in a bowl of water and blow bubbles
What, similar to you sitting in a bath farting, got a video?
Just googled all the reasons not to have a capybara: You need a licence, they live in family groups (so you need more than one), they need a lot of fencing as they run very fast, they are aquatic so they need a lot of water, you can't keep them in the house as they will chew through everything.
In short, they are not really a house pet, more the sort of thing you need an animal park for.
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Not bad this week. 6/10. It's just missing a certain something in the last few episodes.
I love serval cats. Hard to believe some **** have them as pets. Arctic wolf v caribou was also good stuff. Needed more tigers though.
Also, yet again, the silly sound effects were off-putting especially the scene with the harvest mouse.
I love serval cats. Hard to believe some **** have them as pets. Arctic wolf v caribou was also good stuff. Needed more tigers though.
Also, yet again, the silly sound effects were off-putting especially the scene with the harvest mouse.
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Also, how do they know some of the 'facts' they give out?
That first animal (forgot its name) could smell new grass from 100's of miles away? How do they know this?
That first animal (forgot its name) could smell new grass from 100's of miles away? How do they know this?
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They're really dumbing down with things like this. I realise it's shown at 8pm and some might be 'upset' at seeing animals killed but they really need to show what really goes on. I've seen quite a few live lion on buffalo kills on Safari Live (check it out on Youtube) and it's nothing like what they show on these wildlife docs.
I just think they're chasing viewing figures rather than educating the viewer. BBC Earth are even using the word "bae" on their Twitter account. Horrendous.
I'm sick of the faux danger scenarios that they set up as well.
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Saiga Antelope. And yes - they don't know it, it's a speculation because of the migration pattern Saigas display (must be because they smell fresh pastures hundreds of miles away). Recently Saigas migrated much further north than expected and ultimately, it turned out to be a bitter error of ways for Saigas as about 140,000 of them died across very short period of time in 2015, literally decimating population to about half like a plague. Speculated causes include bacterial infection and inability to digest specific strains of greenery, but Kazakhstan has no means to collect, process and analyse animal samples on the scale required to answer the question to acceptable degree of certainty.
In short - it's a very rare animal, living on territories that don't favour long term studies, it's becoming extinct, in truth we know next to nothing about it and most of the "interesting facts" about rare animals are pulled out of handful of written papers that wouldn't have enough parties to peer review them even if they stated that Saigas can jump 10 meters high and play main theme to Borat on their noses when nobody's watching.