| 00:00 | Disc One: South Pacific Arctic |
03:40 |
Ringed Seal basks on ice |
05:45 |
Arctic Fox feeds on dead reindeer |
| 08:00 |
Black Guillemot occupy frozen cliffs for nesting ledges in March |
14:40 |
Narwhals swim through melting sea ice in June |
18:40 |
Thick-billed Guillemots dive to hunt arctic cod and capelin, hold breath for nearly 2 minutes |
| 22:00 |
Beluga Whale rub off old skin against pebbles in shallow sea |
24:20 | Arctic Fox catches nesting Fulmar |
26:00 |
Thick-billed Guillemot chick nudged to take maiden flight, followed by parent |
| 28:20 | Some chicks land a long way from water, caught by
Arctic Fox who buries larder |
34:30 | Narwhal hunt for arctic cod and squid in summer open water |
35:00 |
Bowhead Whale |
| 35:50 |
Walrus can eat 4,000 clams in 10-minute dive |
40:30 | 2007 melts 400,000 square miles of ice |
46:10 | Pancake ice starts to form in autumn; frozen sea allows bears to walk on, but still too thin for |
| 47:15 |
Polar Bear |
49:00 | Diaries: Quest for Ice Whales |
1:00:00 | The Great Salmon Run |
| 1:06:00 | British Columbia: largest expanse of temperate rain forest in world; abundance of pure fresh water |
1:09:50 |
Grizzly Bear feeds on grass and sedges |
1:10:00 |
Grizzly Bear eats clam |
| 1:10:50 | 2,000
Gray Wolf in the Great Forest |
1:14:00 | Killer Whales eat a lot of salmon |
1:14:10 |
Steller Sea Lion |
| 1:14:30 |
Salmon Shark |
1:15:00 |
Bald Eagle |
1:16:00 | Pink, Chum, Coho, Sockeye, Chinook Salmon mingle in estuaries |
| 1:20:00 |
Salmon can swim up river 2000 miles |
1:30:00 | Salmon use their tails to tackle into current |
1:30:20 |
Sockeye Salmon try to swim past bears |
| 1:38:10 |
Sockeye Salmon change color when ready to breed |
1:41:20 |
Bonaparte's Gull dives for salmon eggs |
1:43:50 | Atlantic salmon can return year after year to spawn |
| 1:46:00 | Decaying salmon fertilize forest: Sitka spruce, red cedar, western hemlock. 80% of nitrogen is from the sea. |
1:49:00 | Diaries |
1:59:00 | The Great Migrations |
| 2:00:20 | Eastern edge of Serengeti dominated by Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano (Mountain of God): ashes discourage growth of trees |
2:01:20 | Short-grass plains: lion hunts wildebeest |
2:03:50 | Wildebeest start 7-month journey |
| 2:04:50 | Ndutu pride try to survive in August, hunt warthog |
2:11:00 | Giraffes and |
2:11:10 |
Impala feed on Acacia trees |
| 2:11:20 | Mice feed on seeds, hunted by |
2:11:25 |
African Wildcat |
2:16:00 | Wildebeest cross Mara River and its crocodiles |
| 2:17:30 |
Serval |
2:20:30 |
Steenbok hunted by cheetah |
2:22:45 |
Grant's Gazelle |
| 2:30:00 | December: rains bring wildebeest herd back to Ndutu pride after 7 months, give birth to 1/2 million calves |
2:37:30 |
Common Eland Africa's largest antelope joins 1/2 million Thomson and Grant's gazelles, 200,000 zebra |
2:42:00 |
Griffon Vulture and Spotted Hyenas steal cheetah kill |
| 2:43:30 |
Blue Wildebeest start courtship battles in April |
2:45:00 |
Red-Billed Quelea |
2:47:20 | Diaries |
| 00:00 | Disc Two: The Great Tide |
02:30 |
Sardines (South American pilchard) winter journey: greatest "shoal" on Earth December in Agulhas Bank, eastern shores of South Africa |
03:20 |
Common Dolphins |
| 03:40 |
Cape Gannet |
06:30 | 6 months later, winter cold currents sweep sardines up coast - Sardine Run |
07:50 |
Cape Gannet colony 100,000 breeding pairs in summer: Bird Island, off Eastern Cape |
| 10:30 |
Bryde's Whale also hunts sardines |
20:40 |
Brown Fur Seal (Cape Fur Seal) hunts Gannet chicks on flippers - but only for fish in their stomachs |
23:50 |
Cape Gannet chick follows common dolphin, who drive sardines to surface, but the seals are also on the hunt |
| 29:00 | Sardines cannot tolerate temperatures higher than 20 deg. C; more than 500 million fish swim towards disaster, 1/10 of population |
31:00 | 5,000 dolphins converge on Waterfall Bluff; shoal stretches along coast for 15 miles, 100 million fish in this shoal |
34:30 | Dusky, copper, and ragged-tooth sharks encircle sardines in shallow water |
| 37:30 | Fishermen on shore land only 50 tonnes, 1/10 expected in a good year |
39:40 | Dolphins separate off a pocket of sardines, herd it to surface |
40:00 |
Gannets and sharks join in feeding frenzy |
| 43:00 |
Gannets dive down to 30 ft, swim down to 60 ft |
44:30 | Bryde's Whale takes in 10,000 fish in one mouthful |
48:00 | Life on the Run |
| 59:00 | The Great Flood |
1:00:00 | Desert lands of Kalahari, southern Africa, seasonal water turns into paradise of Okavango |
1:04:30 |
Elephant skims dirty water from top |
| 1:07:10 | Catfish trapped in shrinking pool are easy prey for |
1:08:00 |
African Fish Eagle |
1:08:05 |
Marabou Stork |
| 1:10:00 |
Termites take vegetation underground |
1:10:30 |
Leopard tackles |
1:10:40 |
Crested Porcupine |
| 1:19:10 |
Red-Billed Quelea collect grass seeds: they are nomadic and follow water; one of most numerous birds on earth |
1:20:20 |
Hippopotamus males fight for territory |
1:23:15 |
Red-billed Oxpecker lick wounds and keep them open |
| 1:25:00 | Lions and elephants drink at water hole |
1:30:00 |
Dragonflies appear after flood to breed |
1:33:00 |
Common Reed Frog hides in lily |
| 1:35:20 |
Red Lechwe first to take advantage of young shoots |
1:42:00 | Lions hunt buffalo and elephant calf |
1:48:00 | Diaries: Mission Impassable |
| 2:00:00 | The Great Feast Seas along Pacific coast of North America (Alaska and British Columbia) |
2:01:45 |
Steller Sea Lion suckles young for up to 3 years due to severe winters |
2:04:00 |
Humpback Whale mother and calf embark on journey from Hawaii. |
| 2:05:00 | Calf drinks 100 gallons of milk every day |
2:05:30 |
Humpback Whale male breaching, but these whales do not feed here |
2:09 |
Phytoplankton start to bloom in March, Alaska |
| 2:10:00 |
Pacific Herring rise up to shallow coast in hundreds of millions to breed, |
2:12:30 |
Herring spawn turns hundreds of miles of coastline white: 800 billion eggs in one bay |
2:16:00 |
Zooplankton May, early summer in Alaska |
| 2:19:00 | Sea Lions hunted by Orcas |
2:22:20 | Sea Lion give birth |
2:25:00 | Storm sweeps pups to sea, stirs up nutrients to feed plankton |
| 2:28:30 | Humpbacks arrive in Alaska after 3000 miles |
2:31:00 | Ocean is alive in July |
2:31:45 |
Barnacles |
| 2:32:25 | Jellyfish swarms in late summer |
2:32:55 |
Plankton bloom radiates across north Pacific, provides earth with over 1/2 of oxygen; most intense where ocean streams through maze of coastal waterways |
2:34:20 | Sea Lions drive herring to surface, pick them off one by one |
| 2:35:50 |
Pacific White-sided Dolphin |
2:36:30 | Murres are first to find fish at surface, can out-swim herring |
2:37:25 | Gulls turn up, can dive down only 1 meter |
| 2:38:30 |
Humpback Whale gulps herring |
2:41:00 |
Humpback Whales bubble-net As few as 100 humpbacks have learned to fish like this |
2:47:00 | Diaries: Swallowed by a Whale |
Peter Chen
