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In this series from the BBC and the Open University, naturalist Chris Packham reveals the natural world in a way that you've never seen it before. For him, what is really beautiful about nature, is... not the amazing animals and plants that we share the planet with - but the hidden relationships between them. These relationships may sound bizarre but without them, no life would be possible. In this episode, Chris weaves a spellbinding account of how the very special conditions that exist in the rainforest have allowed vast colourful communities of animals and plants to evolve. And he reveals one particularly extraordinary web of life centred on a tree, the Brazil nut tree. It is one of the mightiest trees in the Amazon but it can only survive thanks to a little rodent called agouti, an orchid and a very unusual bee.
In this series from the BBC and the Open University, naturalist Chris Packham reveals the natural world in a way that you've never seen it before. For him, what is really beautiful about nature, is... not the amazing animals and plants that we share the planet with - but the hidden relationships between them. These relationships may sound bizarre but without them, no life would be possible. In this episode, Chris weaves a spellbinding account of how the very special conditions that exist in the rainforest have allowed vast colourful communities of animals and plants to evolve. And he reveals one particularly extraordinary web of life centred on a tree, the Brazil nut tree. It is one of the mightiest trees in the Amazon but it can only survive thanks to a little rodent called agouti, an orchid and a very unusual bee.
| Series: | Secrets of our living planet |
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| First transmission date: | 24-06-2012 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC2 |
| Published: | 2012 |
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| Duration: | 01:04:00 |
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| Producer: | Paul Bradshaw |
| Screenwriter: | Chris Packham |
| Presenter: | Chris Packham |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | BBC Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k73zy Website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-secrets-our-living-planet |
| Subject terms: | Biotic communities |
| Master spool number: | BOU50929 |
| Production number: | FKAW861W |
| Videofinder number: | 82994 |
| Available to public: | no |
