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Series : Nature's Great Events
Title : The Great Melt
Episode Number : S01E01
Genre : Documentary
iMDB URL : n/a
Air Date : 02/11/2009 (HD Broadcast)
DVD Rel Date : n/a
SFM Rel Date : 02/12/2009
Ripped By : SFM
Source : High Definition
Video Format : x264 (in matroska container)
Video Resolution : 1280x720 (25 fps)
Video Bitrate : 2 Pass @ 2762 kb/s AVG
Audio Bitrate : AC3 5.1 @ 384 kb/s AVG
Sample Rate : 48 kHz
Length : 49 MiN 40 SECS
Size : 1.09 GB (1,172,940,616 bytes)
MD5 Sum : ad6d933aef76f6159293dfbbc671d211
Packs : 24 x 50MB
EPiSODE SUMMARY
The first in a new series about the most dramatic
wildlife spectacles on our planet.
The summer melt of Arctic ice, opening up nearly three
million square miles of ocean and land, provides
opportunities for millions of animals, including beluga
whales, families of Arctic foxes, vast colonies of
seabirds, and the fabled Arctic unicorn, the narwhal.
For polar bears, however, it is the toughest time of
year. Why? How will they survive?
A mother polar bear and her cub make their first
journey together onto the sea ice. They are looking for
ringed seals, their favourite prey. It is a serious
business but the cub just wants to play. The melting
ice makes it harder for them to hunt and threatens
their survival.
In a unique aerial sequence, the migration of narwhal
with their distinctive unicorn-like tusks is filmed for
the first time. The whales' journey is risky as they
travel along giant cracks in the ice. If the ice were
to close above them, they would drown.
Hundreds of beluga whales gather in the river shallows.
They rub themselves on smooth pebbles in one of the
most bizarre summer spectacles.
Guillemot chicks take their first flights from
precipitous sea cliff nests to the sea 300 metres below
They attempt to glide to safety but many miss their
target. Their loss is a bonus for the hungry Arctic fox
family waiting below.
As the melt comes to an end the bears gather, waiting
for the sea to freeze again. Two 400kg males square up
to each other to spar.
In the final ten-minute diary, Quest for Ice Whales,
the crew show how they managed to capture footage of
the elusive narwhal on their annual journey through the
ice.
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