DVD IMAX The Secret of Life On Earth

IMAX The Secret of Life On Earth

THE SECRET OF LIFE ON EARTH begins where life apparently began three-and-a-half billion years ago. As if peering into a time capsule, we witness some of the key developments in plants that made possible the web of life - since evolved and now endangered. Brilliant use of micro, macro and time-lapse photography delivers stunning close-ups of special relationships between plants and animals: barnacles feeding, microscopic plankton, tiny grasses flowering, and pollinators at work. The interdependence between plants and animals is portrayed as an unwritten "green" contract.

Peter's DVD rating:
Good overview of the web of life on earth. The "mosquitos" attracted to the Arum should be flies.

4:50	Barnacles feed in oxygenated water	6:15	Roots penetrating soil	6:35	Fern fiddleheads unfolding
7:10	First forests	7:55	Insects molting	9:00	Cycads had swimming sex cells
9:20	Conifers have pollen and produce seeds	11:00	Flowering Plants	12:40	Arum fetid odor attracts mosquitos (or flies?)
13:50	Rainbow Lorikeet feeds on flowers and pollinates them	14:00	Honey Possum visits Banksia Flowers at night (Australia)	15:00	Flower Mantid
16:15	Sundew traps bee	16:50	Venus Flytrap	19:15	Howler Monkeys in tropical rainforest
21:05	Red-eyed Treefrog?	22:35	Flying Fox Fruit Bat feeds on fig fruit and disperses seeds	24:30	Grasses grow from base, can be grazed by Bison
25:30	Grasses flowering, pollen carried by wind	27:00	Fossil fuels: oil, coal	29:05	Fire
30:30	Burning fossil fuels: greenhouse effect	34:20	Periwinkle: drug used to treat leukemia (Madagascar)

6:35 Fern fiddleheads	14:00 Honey Possum	15:00 Flower Mantid
16:15 Sundew traps bee	16:50 Venus Flytrap	22:35 Fruit Bat


Index	Dec 08, 2005	Peter Chen