Life in the Undergrowth
Life in the Undergrowth
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Life in the Undergrowth

8.3 / 10
2005
1 season
5 episodes
Documentary

David Attenborough reveals the amazing stories behind the tiny lives of invertebrates, exploring their incredible miniature world with ground-breaking camerawork and technology.

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Amazing miniature world - Sir David Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth - BBC wildlife

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Cast

Seasons

  • Invasion Of The Land

    1.Invasion Of The Land

    23-11-200549m

    David Attenborough tells the story of the land-living invertebrates. He delves into the private life of Europe's dramatic leopard slug, a common garden resident with a truly bizarr...

  • Taking to the Air

    2.Taking to the Air

    30-11-200549m

    As the early June sun begins to set over a calm river in Central Hungary, masses of ghostly shapes emerge from their larval cases to take to the air for the first time. They are ma...

  • The Silk Spinners

    3.The Silk Spinners

    07-12-200549m

    Silk is the invertebrates' great invention, used in a range of ways from from the protective stalks of lacewing eggs to the amazing hanging threads of New Zealand's 'glow worms'. S...

  • Intimate Relations

    4.Intimate Relations

    14-12-200550m

    The world of invertebrates exists in a web of relationships with plants and other animals. Unique footage of the world's smallest insect (a fairy wasp only quarter of a millimetre...

  • Supersocieties

    5.Supersocieties

    21-12-200550m

    Invertebrates don't always operate alone. True society was the last feature to evolve in invertebrates, as recently as the time of Tyrannosaurus. In the last programme see the tens...

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