Life (on BBC)

[the_aphid]

I have been watching the new TV series Life, and just like all the other nature programs produced by the BBC, it is truly phenomenal. The footage is unbelievable, and what people have to go through in order to capture this footage is worthy of the a show of it's own. I suppose that is why they dedicate a section of each episode, titled "On Location", to this task of capturing these glimpses of nature on film.

Watching only the first four episodes I've seen adaptations and behaviour in the animal kingdom that I simply never would have expected to see in this lifetime. Clans of hyenas overtaking prides of lions for a meal, fish that literally climb the rocky cliffs of a waterfall to reach fresh water pools, and geckos that are so small and water repellent that they cannot sink.

And like every other BBC series I have seen on the topic of nature, it is narrated by Sir David Attenborough. In my mind his voice has simply become synonymous with the sensations of fascination and wonder with the natural world.