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Fri, Jun 14, 2013
David Attenborough presents survival techniques used by arthropods, who comprise 80% of the animal kingdom, and are vital to ecosystems on all continents except the Atarctic: insects, spiders and scorpions. Rapid and boundless evolution continuously creates new species, adapting to conditions and often in a never-ending arms race between predators and prey. Poison and mimicry are taken to the extreme, but also macabre forms parasitism and other secretions, like hot liquid or deterrent odors.
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Fri, Jun 21, 2013
David Attenborough continues his bug-eyed view of the world of creepy-crawlies, revealing how predators defuse the defences of their prey. Highlights include the cockroach wasp, busy preparing a tasty - and very live - treat for its young, the whirligig beetle, which employs a water-based radar system, and the jumping Portia spider, which feeds on other arachnids.