BBC: Life - Complete Series English Subtitles

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Our planet may be home

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to 30 million different
kinds of animals and plants.

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Each individual locked in its
own life-long fight for survival.

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Everywhere you look, on land or in
the ocean, there are extraordinary

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examples of the lengths living
things go to to stay alive.

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This is the coast of Florida.

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Here, strange scars on the sea bed

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hint at one animal's
remarkable strategy.

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The island of Komodo in Indonesia.

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Remote and barren.

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Few people live here.

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It's ruled by a giant reptile.

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It looks like a survivor from the
age of the dinosaurs.

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The Komodo dragon.

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9 feet long.

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A top predator.

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Only one thing can challenge
a dragon's dominance.

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Antarctica.

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The earth's coldest continent,

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the one that is most hostile to life.

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Here, 800 miles from the South Pole,

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it's 40 degrees below zero.

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Of all the millions of
species of animals on Earth,

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only one can live here permanently.

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A Weddell seal.

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She can survive because she
can dive below the ice.

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Ours is truly a blue planet.

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Water covers most of
the world's surface.

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Here we are the outsiders.

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But under the waves one group thrives.

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Fish are masters of the waters.

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And sailfish are the
fastest of them all.

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Their speed makes them one of the
ocean's most fearsome predators.

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Off the coast of Mexico,
30 sailfish have surrounded
a ball of sardines.

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To catch their prey requires

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One 150 million years ago,

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as dinosaurs approached
their golden age,

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one group evolved along new
and revolutionary lines.

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Although they retained many of
their reptilian characteristics,

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they acquired extraordinary new ones...

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..feathers.

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Feathers helped with insulation

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and display.

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But they offered something
far more valuable.

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There are more kinds of insects
in the world than all other
kinds of animals put together.

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But because they are so small,

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we rarely see how
extraordinary they are.

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Occasionally, they assemble
in astonishing numbers.

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A billion monarch butterflies
hibernate in the forests of Mexico.

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Vast clouds of mayflies
emerge all at once to mate.

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Insects face endless challenges.

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They can transform their
bodies to meet every purpose -

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Life is at its most intense

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during the struggles
between predator and prey.

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Each side, to survive,

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must outwit
and outmanoeuvre the other.

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The prize, for the hunter...

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a meal.

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For the prey,
the chance to live another day.

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Three male cheetahs.

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These brothers are very special.

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The ocean. The largest habitat on Earth,

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and an inhospitable place for
those of us who live on land.

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Yet, for a billion years,
this was the only place on the planet

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where life existed.

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Today, descendants of those early
life forms continue to thrive.

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They share the sea with fish,
but outnumber them by ten to one.

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They have no backbones,

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and have evolved into
countless different forms.

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Some are huge, large-brained

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Plants have a family tree stretching
back nearly half a billion years.

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They have developed an extraordinary
range of strategies to survive.

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This tree is a bristlecone pine.

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It's taken thousands of
years to reach this size.

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It has seen empires rise and fall,

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kings, queens and presidents come and go

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and may have seen the sun rise
more than 1.5 million times.

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Bristlecone pines are the
oldest living things on Earth.

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Bamboo is the fastest growing plant.

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In the great Tree of Life,

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one branch of the mammals
has a particular fascination
for us, for we belong to it.

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Primates.

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Primate hands provide a firm grip.

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And forward facing eyes
accurately assess distance.

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Both are crucial for a lifestyle
that began in the trees.

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Intelligence among primates can
excel that of all other animals.

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Primates can solve difficult problems...

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..develop thoughts and ideas...