BBC Planet Earth Episode 7 Great Plains 2007 Blu-Ray 1080p x264

Planet Earth



Complete Season (11 episodes)





General informations:

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Resolution: 1920x1080 Size: 7.44G Format: .MKV

Image............................: http://i316.photobucket.com/albums/mm343/bluespy2008/pe-BlueSpy.jpg

Trailer Youtube..................: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcpJMBBUvys

Alternative Trailer..............: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNAKB1kDxjM&feature=related

IMDb Link........................: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795176/

IMDb Rating......................: 9.8/10 (8,054 votes)

Release Date.....................: 27 February 2006 (UK)

Genre............................: Documentary

Awards...........................: Won 4 Primetime Emmys. Another 9 wins & 12 nominations (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795176/awards)



# The project took 40 camera teams shooting at over 200 different locations all over the world for more than five years.



# For the air shots, a special airborne camera was used with a 400mm lens that was able to zoom into single animals from a kilometer away without disturbing them.



Plot:



Season 1, Episode 7: Great Plains

Original Air Date: 8 October 2006



This episode deals with savanna, steppe, tundra, prairie, and looks at the importance and resilience of grasses in such treeless ecosystems. Their vast expanses contain the largest concentration of animal life. In Outer Mongolia, a herd of Mongolian gazelle flee a bush fire and has to move on to new grazing, but grass can repair itself rapidly and soon reappears. On the Arctic tundra during spring, millions of migratory snow geese arrive to breed and their young are preyed on by Arctic foxes. Meanwhile, time-lapse photography depicts moving herds of caribou as a calf is brought down by a chasing wolf. On the North American prairie, bison engage in the ritual to establish the dominant males. The Tibetan Plateau is the highest of the plains and despite its relative lack of grass, animals do survive there, including yak and wild ass. However, the area's most numerous resident is the pika, whose nemesis is the Tibetan fox. In tropical India, the tall grasses hide some of the largest creatures and also the smallest, such as the pygmy hog. The final sequence depicts the African savannah and elephants that are forced to share a waterhole with a pride of thirty lions. The insufficient water makes it an uneasy alliance and the latter gain the upper hand during the night when their hunger drives them to hunt and eventually kill one of the pachyderms. Planet Earth Diaries explains how the lion hunt was filmed in darkness using infrared light.





http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795176/episodes