BBC Planet Earth Disc 3: Jungles (2006)

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Peter's DVD rating: 4 stars
1:00 Blue Bird of Paradise , Rifle Bird of Paradise , Six-Plumed Bird of Paradise , Magnificent Bird of Paradise courtship (Tari Valley, New Guinea) 4:30Pioneer Macaranga vines shhot tendrils, invade clearing after a tree fall in forest, then replaced by hardwoods (New Guinea) 11:00 Spider Monkeys , Emperor Tamarins , Squirrel Monkeys , Capuchin Monkeys , even leaf-eating Howler Monkeys feed on figs (Amazon)
14:00 Siamang Gibbon calls 15:30Orangutans call 17:20Six-o'clock cicadas sing
17:40Frogs call 18:00 Gliding Leaf Frog mating competition : lay eggs on leaf 21:40Amazon rainforest sustains its own rain
23:20Amoeba-like Plasmodial slime mold and fungi flourish in moist forest; recycles nutrients quickly 25:50 Beetle parent leads grubs to feed on fungi 26:10 Bullet Ant infested with Cordyceps Fungus
29:05 Flying lemur (Borneo) 31:00 Pitcher Plant digests insects 33:10 Red Crab Spider uses bubble of air to dive into Pitcher plant to catch mosquito larvae (Borneo)
36:10 African Forest Elephants eat clay under mud for minerals (Congo) 41:00 Chimpanzees eat figs. 41:30 Chimpanzees raid neighbor terrotory; eat carcass (Uganda)
Paradisaea rudolphi
1:00 Blue Bird of Paradise
Ptiloris paradiseus
1:00 Rifle Bird of Paradise
Parotia sexpennis
1:00 Six-Plumed Bird of Paradise
Cicinnurus magnificus
1:00 Magnificent Bird of Paradise courtship
Macaranga
4:30 Macaranga
Ateles
11:00 Spider Monkeys
Saguinus imperator
11:00 Emperor Tamarins
Saimiri
11:00 Squirrel Monkeys
Cebus
11:00 Capuchin Monkeys
Alouatta
11:00 Howler Monkeys
Symphalangus syndactylus
14:00 Siamang Gibbon
Agalychnis spurrelli
18:00 Gliding Leaf Frog mating competition
Physarum polycephalum
23:20 Plasmodial slime mold
Coleoptera
25:50 Beetle parent leads grubs to feed on fungi
Paraponera clavata
26:10 Bullet Ant
Cordyceps
26:10 Cordyceps Fungus
Colugo
29:05 Flying lemur
Nepenthes
31:00 Pitcher Plant digests insects
Misumenops nepenthicola
33:10 Red Crab Spider
Loxodonta cyclotis
36:10 African Forest Elephants
Pan troglodytes
41:00 Chimpanzees eat figs.
Pan troglodytes
41:30 Chimpanzees
   

Index Jan 08, 2010 CC BY 4.0 Peter Chen 2.0