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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 spends all of his time in the vast seasonal forests of North America. Here, he sees why the whole forest depends on the Autumnal activities of a flying squirrel, and uncovers how the activities of an obscure moth caterpillar in Spring can mean the survival of the Canadian lynx in winter. Perhaps most amazing of all though, is how the great forests of British Columbia depend upon bears to catch salmon and take them into the forest, where their carcasses then fertilise its massive trees.
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 spends all of his time in the vast seasonal forests of North America. Here, he sees why the whole forest depends on the Autumnal activities of a flying squirrel, and uncovers how the activities of an obscure moth caterpillar in Spring can mean the survival of the Canadian lynx in winter. Perhaps most amazing of all though, is how the great forests of British Columbia depend upon bears to catch salmon and take them into the forest, where their carcasses then fertilise its massive trees.
| Series: | Secrets of our living planet |
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| First transmission date: | 01-07-2012 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC2 |
| Published: | 2012 |
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| Duration: | 00:59:01 |
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| Producer: | Paul Bradshaw |
| Presenter: | Chris Packham |
| Contributor: | 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: | BOU50940 |
| Production number: | FKAW863J |
| Videofinder number: | 82996 |
| Available to public: | no |
