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Life in cold blood


Life in cold blood
Filming began in the early part of 2006 and, as with Attenborough's previous series, the production team travelled the world to photograph the required sequences. In May 2006, Attenborough celebrated his 80th birthday in the Galápagos Islands while filming giant tortoises, one of which, called Lonesome George, is thought to be the same age. Several innovative techniques were used to capture footage. Thermal imaging cameras were used to demonstrate the creatures' variable body temperatures, probe cameras allowed access to underground habitats and even a matchbox-sized one was attached to the shell of a tortoise. Expert scientists helped the producers to film animal behaviour that is rarely seen. The team 'staked out' radiotagged timber rattlesnakes in order to witness one of them despatching its prey. However, for Attenborough's close encounter with a spitting cobra, a captive snake that was used to being handled was placed in a natural setting and the presenter wore a face visor. Other examples of 'pets' being used were for sequences depicting the lassoing tongue of a chameleon (which had to be filmed at ultra-high speed) and the digestive system of a python (which was enhanced by computer-generated imagery).

Genre: Documentary

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  • Watch Life in cold blood Season 1

    • Episode 5

      Armoured Giants

      aired: Mon, Mar 3, 2008

      David Attenborough meets the reptile heavyweights to show what it's like to live within a suit of armor. He reveals a dynamic, warm and caring side to ancient giants. Mating giant tortoises fit together like spoons. Green turtles show true passion mating in tropical seas. A mother spectacled caiman rescues a huge crèche of babies, and saltwater crocodiles ambush fish just like bears catching salmon.

    • Episode 4

      Sophisticated Serpents

      aired: Mon, Feb 25, 2008

      How have this misunderstood group of reptiles used the most simple, but elegant body plan to succeed on land, sea and even in the air? A stakeout of rattlesnakes hunting shows, for the first time, what clever predators they are. But snakes aren't all about violence. Their tender side is displayed in the sinuous courtship of kingsnakes and the water birth of 15 beautiful yellow anacondas.

    • Episode 3

      Dragons Of The Dry

      aired: Mon, Feb 18, 2008

      David Attenborough comes face to face with a monitor lizard, is flashed at by anole lizards and uses a rod and line to tempt a timid skink out of its burrow. Other scaly stars include jacky lizards that wave, wrestling beaded lizards and the largest chameleons in the world jousting in the trees. He also encounters the world's smallest chameleon, no bigger than his thumbnail, and the biggest lizard in Australia.

    • Episode 2

      Invaders Of The Land

      aired: Mon, Feb 11, 2008

      Among chorusing frogs in Panama, Sir David Attenborough asks how amphibians first managed to invade the land. The Australian lungfish, an ancient relative of the amphibians that can breathe air, and the giant Japanese salamander, one of the largest amphibians on Earth, give vital clues about their first tentative steps.

    • Episode 1

      1. The Cold-Blooded Truth

      aired: Mon, Feb 4, 2008

      Reptiles and amphibians are as dramatic in combat, colorful in their communication and tender in their parental care as other animals. They also live their lives on a totally different time scale and harness their energy from the sun. The Cold-Blooded Truth reveals the secret of their success.

  • Episodes

    • Episode 2

      Life In Cold Blood: Land Invaders

      aired: Mon, Apr 2, 2012

      From steamy jungles to dry deserts, amphibians have taken their first footsteps onto land using their bizarre life histories to break their ties with the water and invade the earth. David Attenborough delves into the lives of these soft skinned amphibians and finds marsupial frogs where the father carries his young in pouches and then gives birth, giant salamanders over a meter long that wrestle for territory and newts that display just like underwater birds of paradise.

    • Episode 1

      Life In Cold Blood: The Cold Blooded Truth

      aired: Mon, Apr 2, 2012

      Reptiles and amphibians are as dramatic in combat, as colorful in their communication and as tender in their parental care as any other animals. Join giant courting crocodiles, tortoises that joust with 'lances' and bright red sumo-wrestling frogs - as they live their sophisticated, solar powered lives to the full.