Life in the Undergrowth

S01E01 Invasion Of The Land

November 23, 2005 49 min

David Attenborough tells the story of the land-living invertebrates. He delves into the private life of Europe's dramatic leopard slug, a common garden resident with a truly bizarre end to its marathon mating ritual; watches...

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S01E02 Taking to the Air

November 30, 2005 49 min

As the early June sun begins to set over a calm river in Central Hungary, masses of ghostly shapes emerge from their larval cases to take to the air for the first time. They are...

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S01E03 The Silk Spinners

December 7, 2005 49 min

Silk is the invertebrates' great invention, used in a range of ways from from the protective stalks of lacewing eggs to the amazing hanging threads of New Zealand's 'glow worms'. Spiders, though, have taken silk-spinning...

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S01E04 Intimate Relations

December 14, 2005 50 min

The world of invertebrates exists in a web of relationships with plants and other animals. Unique footage of the world's smallest insect (a fairy wasp only quarter of a millimetre long) shows it flying underwater...

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S01E05 Supersocieties

December 21, 2005 50 min

Invertebrates don't always operate alone. True society was the last feature to evolve in invertebrates, as recently as the time of Tyrannosaurus. In the last programme see the tensions below the surface in some of...

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