DVD BBC - Life Disc 1: Reptiles and Amphibians (2010)

BBC - Life Disc 1: Reptiles and Amphibians (2010)

Amphibians and reptiles are masters of survival because they�ve devised extraordinary tricks and strategies. A pebble toad escapes a tarantula by curling into a ball and bouncing down a rock face; the basilisk lizard literally runs on water; and a highly venomous sea snake lays its eggs in a safe air-filled cavern underwater. Extreme slow-motion photography reveals an astonishing image of a chameleon snatching insect prey with its extendible, muscle-propelled tongue. In a television first, the episode reveals the savage hunting techniques of the largest lizard on earth, the nine-foot Komodo dragon.

Peter's DVD rating:
577 LIF QH 501.L544 2010

1:10	Komodo Dragon males 9 feet long (Komodo, Indonesia)	4:40	Waterfall Toad free falls from danger. (Brazil and Venezuela)	6:00	Pebble Toad falls and bounces away from Toad Eating Tarantula
9:45	Spectacled Caiman wait for fish (Brazil's Patanal)	12:20	Common Basilisk	13:10	Turkey Vulture
15:15	Brazilian Pygmy Gecko has hydrophobic skin, unsinkable	17:15	Panther Chameleon grabs prey with tongue (Madagascar)	19:50	Namaqua Chameleon female is dark on side facing the sun, mates with male (Namib Desert)
23:50	Red-sided Garter Snake males drink from melting snow and compete to mate with female	26:00	Trickster male gives off female scent to steal heat from other males (Canada)	28:00	Collared Iguana lays batch of eggs in ground, dug up by Malagasy Giant Hognose Snake (Madagascar)
30:20	Horned Lizard female fights off Western Patchnosed Snake from her eggs, plays dead against Coachwhip Snake (Sonoran Desert, Arizona)	33:20	Niue Sea Krait mating then lays eggs in air pocket under tunnel (Pacific island of Niue)	37:30	African Bullfrog digs trench for tadpoles
41:30	Komodo Dragon hunts Water Buffalo

1:10 Komodo Dragon males	4:40 Waterfall Toad	6:00 Pebble Toad
6:00 Toad Eating Tarantula	9:45 Spectacled Caiman	12:20 Common Basilisk
13:10 Turkey Vulture	15:15 Brazilian Pygmy Gecko	17:15 Panther Chameleon
19:50 Namaqua Chameleon	23:50 Red-sided Garter Snake males	26:00 Trickster male
28:00 Collared Iguana	28:00 Malagasy Giant Hognose Snake	30:20 Horned Lizard
30:20 Western Patchnosed Snake	30:20 Coachwhip Snake	33:20 Niue Sea Krait mating
37:30 African Bullfrog	41:30 Komodo Dragon	41:30 Water Buffalo


Index	Feb 18, 2011	Peter Chen