June Release Date Announced for BBC's Life Nature Series
The BBC has announced that it will be releasing its nature series, Life, on June 1st for the suggested retail price of $59.98 for DVD and $69.99 for Blu-ray. The nature documentary took four years to make. The BBC says it was filmed over 3000 days across every continent and habitat. Life includes 54 animals that have never been filmed before. The documentary is narrated by Oprah Winfrey.
Here are some of the highlights captured during the nature series:
The first filming of a humpback whale mating contest called a heat run
the largest animal battle on Earth
Three cheetah brothers hunting together to bring down ostriches twice their size
Stalk-eyed flies 'growing' their eyes out on long stalks
Dolphins filmed from the air 'mudringing' - creating circles of mud to entrap fish
Giant starfish devouring a dead giant Pacific octopus, filmed in time lapse
Komodo dragons bringing down an animal 10 times their size - a real life drama that lasted over two weeks
A pebble toad rolling down a mountain, bouncing like a rubber ball, to escape a tarantula
Thousands of pink starfish, urchins and monster nemertean worms feeding on a dead seal under permanent ice in Antarctica, filmed over a month in tracking time lapse photography
The male Vogelkop bowerbird building an ornate seduction parlor that lures in a willing mate
A mass spider crab molt where thousands of crabs come to mate and shed their too-tight shells
Capuchin monkeys cracking open palm nuts with rocks, while the young ones slowly learn the method from the adults
Probably the largest gathering of polar bears ever filmed, they confront one another around a huge whale carcass
Tiny goby make an epic journey up Hawaiian waterfalls, 400 feet high, to lay their eggs in safe pools
Greater bulldog bats hunting fish - filmed at 2000 frames per second
Shot at night, massive numbers of Humboldt squid cooperatively hunting
for sardines
