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Episode 1

The Cold Blooded Truth

air day: 2008-02-04

The first episode discusses the keys to success of reptiles and amphibians, taking a look at thermoregulation, parental care and the time-scales on which reptiles function. Attenborough begins in the Galápagos Islands, utilizing thermal imaging to show how marine iguanas heat their our bodies by basking in the solar earlier than feeding. Meanwhile, the lizard inhabitants of a Minorcan island have a relationship with its indigenous useless horse arum vegetation. Attenborough visits Dassen Island to witness one of many world’s best concentrations of tortoises — round 5,000 of them. Few reptiles are lively at evening, however crocodiles can depend on water that retains a lot of its daytime temperature. Conversely, amphibians’ moist pores and skin can be broken by the solar and so most are nocturnal. An exception is the waxy monkey leaf frog, which may take care of daylight by overlaying its physique in a wax secretion. A puff adder illustrates the relative inactivity of reptiles in comparison with mammals: one massive meal can last as long as a 12 months. When it hatches on the onset of winter, the younger painted turtle stays underground, close to frozen till the spring when it may emerge. Attenborough wonders if the dinosaurs’ immense dimension allowed them to take care of heat blood. The largest dwelling reptile is the leatherback turtle and certainly is ready to take action due to insulating physique fats. Under the Skin seems to be on the hunt for the pygmy leaf chameleon, filmed in Madagascar.

Episode 2

Land Invaders

air day: 2008-02-11

The second programme explores the world of amphibians, of which there are some 6,000 identified species. Attenborough visits Australia as an example how they turned the primary back-boned creatures to colonise land: the lungfish, which is able to respiration air, and whose ancestors turned the primary amphibians. The largest of them is the Japanese large salamander and two are proven wrestling for territory. In North America, the marbled salamander spends most of its life on land, but remains to be capable of retain the mandatory moisture in its pores and skin by means of the damp leaf litter. A feminine caecilian is filmed together with her younger, whose speedy progress is found to be the results of consuming their mom’s pores and skin — re-grown for them each three days. The most profitable amphibians are frogs and toads. Their calls are most lively in the course of the breeding season: females are impressed by each quantity and frequency. However, gestures are typically wanted and the toxic Panamanian golden frog makes use of a conspicuous type of ‘semaphore’. Most different frogs depend on camouflage and the South American red-eyed tree frog is an instance. An African bullfrog is proven defending its uncovered tadpoles by digging a canal for them. Meanwhile, the male marsupial frog retains its younger moist by carrying them in its pores and skin pouches. Under the Skin examines the filming of the final inhabitants of Panamanian golden frogs, which is threatened by a fungal illness.

Episode three

Dragons of the Dry

air day: 2008-02-18

The third instalment takes a have a look at the immense variety, social expertise and shows of the lizards. While they’re extremely adept at camouflage, often there’s a want to interrupt cowl in order to keep off rivals. Attenborough holds up a mirror to an anole and causes it to increase its vibrant throat flap as a warning signal. Madagascar is host to over 60 species of chameleon however one of many largest, Meller’s chameleon, is native to Malawi and two rival males are proven jousting. A feminine South African dwarf chameleon demonstrates its potential to vary color when speaking to a possible mate, and the chameleon’s muscular tongue is depicted lassoing its prey. In southern Australia, Attenborough makes use of a baited fishing rod to draw the eye of a uncommon pygmy bluetongue skink, thought to have been extinct for over thirty years till it was rediscovered in 1992. Shinglebacks are among the many most devoted lizards and breeding pairs can reunite every year for as much as 20 years. Alongside South Africa’s Orange River, massive teams of flat lizards feed on the swarms of black flies, however the males additionally use the event to indulge in social squabbling. The Mexican beaded lizard is among the few with a toxic chunk, however males don’t make use of it when wrestling one another. Finally, Attenborough comes nose to nose with a perentie, Australia’s largest monitor lizard. Under the Skin focuses on filming in Australia.

Episode four

Sophisticated Serpents

air day: 2008-02-25

The fourth episode focuses on essentially the most trendy reptiles, the snakes, exploring how they’ve managed to turn out to be profitable regardless of their elongated physique form. Attenborough explains how they advanced from underground burrowers to floor hunters, shedding their limbs in the method. With assistance from infrared cameras, a timber rattlesnake is proven mendacity in look ahead to a mouse and sensing its repeated path earlier than despatching and consuming it. A snake’s continuously flickering tongue is used to collect and consider the molecules of its environment, and Attenborough visits Carnac Island to witness a inhabitants of blind tiger snakes, which feed on the chicks of nesting gulls. He additionally confronts a Mozambique spitting cobra, which rapidly sprays venom over the presenter’s protecting face visor. The similarities in colouration between the innocent kingsnake and probably deadly coral snake are highlighted. An instance of a snake that may deal with uncommon prey is the Queen snake, which just about completely hunts newly-moulted crayfish. A pair of rival male King cobras are seen battling and toddler cobras are proven hatching: their venom is straight away as deadly as that of their dad and mom. In Argentina, a yellow anaconda evades close by caimans to offer beginning to reside younger. Finally a turtle-headed sea snake feeds not on fish, however on their eggs laid on a coral reef

Episode 5

Armoured Giants

air day: 2008-03-03

The ultimate programme covers essentially the most historic of the reptiles: the crocodiles and turtles. In the Galápagos Islands, among the many large tortoises, Attenborough explains how the creatures got here to develop their shells as a defence towards predators. This is demonstrated by the japanese field turtle, whose shell features a hinged ‘drawbridge’. The aquatic pig-nosed turtle is uncommon in that its eggs should be submerged earlier than hatching, whereas these of different species would drown; Attenborough illustrates this by dropping an egg right into a jar of water: it instantly hatches. In the open ocean, male sea turtles try to separate a rival from its mate by attacking and overwhelming the pair, stopping them from taking in air. In northern Australia, Attenborough observes a big gathering of crocodiles at a flooded coastal highway: they time their arrival to ambush migrating mullet. The advanced communication and physique language of the American alligator is investigated and in Argentina, the calls of younger caimans assist their mom find and make them a nursery pool. The mom’s maternal intuition extends to releasing unhatched infants by gently crushing their eggs in its jaws. In Venezuela, a feminine spectacled caiman in cost of a whole crèche leads the infants from a drying river mattress on a trek to everlasting water