The Living Planet
The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, looking at the ways in which living organisms, including humans,
adapt to their surroundings. The series consists of twelve episodes which explain how the Earth works and how living organisms survive and thrive in different environments.
Episode 01 - The Building of the Earth. This episode begins in the world's deepest valley: that of the Kali Gandaki river in the Himalayas. Its temperatures
range from those of the tropics in its lower reaches to that of the poles higher up. It therefore shows how creatures
become adapted to living in certain environments. The higher that Attenborough travels, the more bleak and mountainous
is the terrain, and the more suited to it are the animals that live there. However, such adaptations are comparatively
recent: these mountains were formed from the sea bed some 65 million years ago. (from wikipedia.org)
| Episode 01 - The Building of the Earth |
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