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[walruses baying loudly outside]
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-The Night of the Living Dead.
-Yeah.
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Zombie attack. We're just trying
to zombie-proof our home.
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[baying continues]
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Yeah, you look over the top,
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you can see the zombie eyes.
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You can see them.
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They're right there.
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They're massive.
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Their head's about that big.
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[baying continues]
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Let the battle commence.
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Okay, I can see the bait.
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[David Attenborough] The team have come
to the remote islands of French Polynesia
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in the South Pacific.
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Here, sharks are fully protected.
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This is one of the few places left
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where they still thrive
in the numbers they once did.
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Good to go.
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Divers, divers, this is topside.
This is topside.
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Do you copy?
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[diver] Yeah, reading you loud and clear.
Can you hear me?
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I can hear you loud and clear,
loud and clear, over.
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Enjoy your dive,
and let's go find some sharks.
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[diver chuckles] Fingers crossed.
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Finding the sharks isn't a problem.
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[diver 1] Okay, here they are.
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Wow.
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[diver 2] Plenty of sharks.
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They're gathered in the main channel,
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hanging in the tidal current.
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But working against such a strong current
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is tough going for divers.
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To film the sharks hunting at night,
the crew need powerful underwater lights.
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They've mounted them onto a scooter
to help with the current.
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That's a motor underwater scooter,
DPV.
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Diver propulsion vehicle.
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Right here are the lights.
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They are attached to the front.
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On this side back here
you have the propeller.
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It's like a torpedo with lights.
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The rig is designed to light
a large enough area of reef
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to capture the full scale
of the spectacle.
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It's kind of spooky...
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to see shark eyes reflecting.
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The lights are working well,
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so the crew descend towards the channel.
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Unconcerned by the lights,
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the sharks begin to hunt.
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[diver 1] Wow. They're all here, right?
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The divers approach cautiously,
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keeping their distance from the sharks.
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[diver 2] Plenty of sharks,
and this is a different mood to daytime.
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Know what? These guys
are switched on, they're active.
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Be careful in there.
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Just as the action hots up,
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the lighting rig fails.
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Back to the boat.
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There are few species more elusive
than the Siberian tiger,
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and the Our Planet team has come up
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with a remarkable plan to film them.
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[man] We're gonna be going into the hides
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with the prospect
of doing approximately...
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800 hours...
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in a small, wooden box...
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by the end of the shoot.
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To have any chance of filming the tiger,
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they'll have to live inside the heart
of tiger territory themselves.
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They're using specially built hides
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just big enough for one person to live in.
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So it's a bit like caravanning, um,
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but sort of bizarre winter caravanning
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where you're looking for a place
with good views of tigers.
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The hides had to be placed precisely
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to afford the best view.
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[men speaking Russian]
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But perhaps some
are just a little too precise.
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-[man speaking Russian]
-Yes?
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Okay.
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[man speaking Russian]
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I don't know, it's kind of like
you've just moved into a new house,
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and you don't know where anything is.
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But the trouble is this house is...
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very, very small.
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And you've got a lot of stuff here.
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The camera team will live
inside these hides
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over the next two winters.
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-All right, see you later. Bye, Paul.
-Cheers. Okay, bye.
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Bye.
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For six days at a time,
they will never even open the door.
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No, I'm not staying in there.
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Siberian tigers have the largest
territories of any cat,
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and they are notoriously shy.
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So by living in these hides,
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they hope to stand a chance
of being there at the right moment
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without disturbing the tiger.
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While the others sit patiently
in their box,
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Kieran is using the knowledge
of local scientists
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to build a network of camera traps
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across the tiger landscape.
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The least comfortable thing
I've ever done.
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The slightest movement
will trigger these cameras,
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so he must return regularly
to check his catch.
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Initial signs are not very promising.
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I think it looks like more of nothing.
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Damn.
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An Our Planet team
are in the Canadian Arctic.
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They've heard reports
that at a few spots along the coast,
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and for just a couple of weeks a year,
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polar bears have learned
to do something extraordinary.
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At their base camp
on the Barnoin River in Quebec,
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bear guide Alain shows them
some tantalizing footage
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from the previous year.
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Forced ashore by the summer ice melt,
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the bears here have learned
to catch fish from the rivers.
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This brief feast provides them
with valuable energy
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in the increasingly long ice-free season.
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There's lots of fish over there,
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and something we even see the wolf
fishing with them.
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Good, expectations
are pretty low, actually.
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Yes, exactly, yeah.
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But there are only a few rivers
shallow enough
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for the bears to catch migrating fish.
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These are over a hundred kilometers
further north,
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and for the crew,
only accessible by small float plane.
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If you tell me
we're gonna have good weather,
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your chance of seeing polar bear
catching char in the next two weeks
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are just 90...
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95.
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-Perfect.
-No big deal.
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Not phased by a little drizzle,
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the team test their kit.
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They're hoping to capture
the first ever underwater footage
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of polar bears fishing
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and have built a special camera trap
for the job.
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Yeah.
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Horizon good?
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No, actually,
that's slightly off, I think.
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Once it's working...
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they get the rest of their cameras ready.
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All they need to do now
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is to get them in front of a polar bear.
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Extensive quarter-mile
to two-mile fog drizzle,
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so...
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non-fit weather for flying.
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I mean, you're gonna fly maybe one mile
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and you run into a fog bank,
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and...
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you've got no visibility, you're stuck.
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-Another day in camp.
-Yeah.
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We were thinking weighing ourselves
with all our kit. We started yesterday.
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Thirty-two pounds.
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The drone weighed, done.
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247, now there's 206.
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Oh dear, this is not good.
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I'm over weight capacity
and we're maxing out this bush plane,
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and it looks like since I am the fattest
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I'm getting left behind,
and I'm not happy about it.
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Okay, let's have a look at this.
What are we at?
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We're at 226.
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-What?
-I know!
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Too many pancakes have been eaten.
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My slight concern
is we've got another week.
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Absolutely.
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Weaher dictates everything
that we do, every day.
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In French Polynesia, good news.
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The lighting rig is back in action.
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To capture the ultimate sequence,
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the crew need to get right in
amongst the sharks,
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and for that they need extra protection:
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bite-proof chain mail suits.
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If you don't use it,
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you have a big chance,
I think, to be bitten.
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Everything is right here,
from a safety point of view.
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So it's no fear, it's just...
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intensity, excitement, exhilaration.
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Tonight the sharks are gathering
in even greater numbers.
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[Anderson]
Oh, that is a lot of sharks.
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Using all his experience,
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Doug carefully judges the moment
to move closer.
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They look all right tonight.
I'm gonna get in there.
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By remaining calm and moving slowly,
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the cameramen get right in the middle
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of the hunting sharks...
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[Anderson] That's a lot of sharks.
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...and managed to film hundreds
of top predators
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in a feeding frenzy...
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without becoming part of it.
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[Anderson] Really great action.
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Yep, wonderful.
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You're really in the middle
of a predation scene,
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and you feel very small at the end.
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Today such incredible scenes only occur
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in places like French Polynesia
where sharks are protected.
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And we could have so many sharks
hunting together
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and being so close to each other,
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it's like a river flow.
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It's really special.
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I really like-- I'm enjoying this spot.
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These top predators play a vital role
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in the health of our coastal seas.
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It's crucial that we protect sharks
in all our oceans
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so they can thrive once again.
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A month into filming the tigers,
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and the unremarkable days
are passing slowly.
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Not much else to do
apart from give you a tour of the hide.
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So let's be quick about it and very quiet.
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So, here we go.
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This is my big knife,
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thermometer,
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box of nuts,
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satellite communication device,
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tea, coffee,
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toilet paper,
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flare for, uh, frightening the tiger off,
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if it decides to eat me.
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Fat chance.
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These are down booties
to keep my feet warm,
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kettle, cooker,
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all my gas stuff,
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bottle for peeing in.
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That's the toilet there.
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I sit on that about once a day
just to give myself a treat.
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Even I'm bored now.
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Two months in, and Kieran's routine checks
are well under way.
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Well, it seems like the camera
is still working.
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There's a lot of footage on this...
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card.
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Question is, footage of what?
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Lots of tiger food.
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But still no tiger.
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Cool.
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We've got a... lynx.
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First time we've got something
like that here.
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You know, it's not a tiger
but it's a pretty cool animal.
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But not what they're looking for.
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That evening, though,
Paul receives a visitor.
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Well, I appear to have been surrounded
by maybe two tigers.
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I don't know if you can still hear that,
but it's still...
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still roaring out up the track,
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-and it seems to be...
-[tiger roaring]
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...that there's another tiger
also calling back.
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So...
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-I'm clearly in the right place.
-[tiger yowling]
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I just have to hope
that they're still around by morning.
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That is an incredible sound.
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Sadly, the two tigers are not
still around the following morning.
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Wow, it's beautiful.
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But the scientists' camera traps
confirm Paul's nighttime visitors.
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[man] No snoring tonight, Paul.
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[Paul] No, well, draw them in.
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-Stunning, eh? I like to see those.
-Yeah, it's great.
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Fingers crossed.
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So we should see this... this tiger.
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Frustratingly close,
and yet still not filmable.
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It's their second year of filming,
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and the camera trap team
finds some promising signs
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on their way to the ridge.
261
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The-- Stop.
262
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It's very fresh.
263
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And it's heading in the right direction.
264
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Kind of kept coming down the trail a bit
and then it turns up into this area
265
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where there's no snow.
266
00:19:44,183 --> 00:19:47,645
But it looks like the tiger continued up
the ridge to where our camera traps are.
267
00:19:48,813 --> 00:19:51,774
By now the team has learned
through trial and error
268
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the most likely tiger routes
through the forest.
269
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But Kieran knows through experience
270
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that the cats are still highly sensitive
to any signs of humans in their domain.
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To succeed, one needs a lots of luck.
272
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[chuckles]
273
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[quietly] Yes!
274
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Finally, the camera traps
are beginning to pay off.
275
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Oh, man, I can't believe it.
276
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This is, like-- this is two years of work.
277
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Like two years of work for, like,
278
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just minutes of footage,
279
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and, uh...
280
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you see a shot like this
and it's just all worth it.
281
00:21:02,595 --> 00:21:04,972
I mean, it's like the perfect setting,
this ridge,
282
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where you've got the mountains
in the background, you've got nice light,
283
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and flare going on in the lens,
you have this incredible animal...
284
00:21:11,937 --> 00:21:14,148
Just, I don't know, I mean, it's...
285
00:21:16,233 --> 00:21:18,277
Yeah, it's incredible.
286
00:21:22,114 --> 00:21:25,284
There is no guarantee
of success in hide work.
287
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A tiger must present itself to you,
288
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which makes the two winters endured
by the hide teams
289
00:21:31,582 --> 00:21:34,376
a remarkable feat of determination.
290
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Yet thanks to the collective efforts
of all involved,
291
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we now have just a few precious images
292
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of the remaining Siberian tigers
on our planet.
293
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Let the battle commence.
294
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Working in a hot, steamy,
mosquito-infested jungle
295
00:22:07,409 --> 00:22:09,453
is testing for anyone.
296
00:22:09,537 --> 00:22:11,205
It went deep there.
297
00:22:11,288 --> 00:22:13,165
That's pretty deep.
I think that's pretty deep.
298
00:22:13,707 --> 00:22:15,000
That's what we call a hole.
299
00:22:15,084 --> 00:22:16,919
But from a filming perspective,
300
00:22:17,002 --> 00:22:19,713
this particular patch of rain forest
301
00:22:19,797 --> 00:22:21,298
really is hell.
302
00:22:22,258 --> 00:22:24,677
This is ridiculous. This is ridiculous.
303
00:22:27,805 --> 00:22:30,266
But for those willing
to take on the swamp,
304
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the Suaq Reserve in Sumatra
305
00:22:32,434 --> 00:22:35,145
is home to some unique animal behavior.
306
00:22:36,772 --> 00:22:40,985
The orangutans that live here
have learned to make and use tools,
307
00:22:41,068 --> 00:22:44,238
the only wild members
of their species known to do so.
308
00:22:54,373 --> 00:22:58,419
Truly pristine orangutan habitat
is not easy to find.
309
00:22:59,587 --> 00:23:02,047
And after three exhausting days of travel,
310
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they get their first taste
of the challenges ahead.
311
00:23:07,344 --> 00:23:11,223
It sort of feels
as if the whole forest floor
312
00:23:11,307 --> 00:23:12,766
is knitted together.
313
00:23:12,850 --> 00:23:15,311
Sometimes I think
I can pick up a vine here.
314
00:23:15,394 --> 00:23:19,523
If I gave it a yank, somebody would
trip up, you know, 50 meters that way.
315
00:23:19,607 --> 00:23:22,526
One of the things you see everywhere
are these roots,
316
00:23:22,610 --> 00:23:23,944
these aerial root.
317
00:23:24,028 --> 00:23:27,406
They're like croquet hoops, and they
are literally all over this forest.
318
00:23:27,489 --> 00:23:29,116
So you're walking along,
319
00:23:29,199 --> 00:23:32,286
get your foot caught in one of those,
and you're on your face pretty quickly.
320
00:23:37,374 --> 00:23:41,211
It's not even 6:30
and I'm completely soaked.
321
00:23:41,712 --> 00:23:42,671
All fun.
322
00:23:43,297 --> 00:23:45,007
All part of humor of the wood.
323
00:23:50,721 --> 00:23:51,722
You all right?
324
00:23:53,432 --> 00:23:56,810
The orangutans spend all of their time
up in the canopy,
325
00:23:56,894 --> 00:24:00,272
never coming to the ground,
and are constantly on the move.
326
00:24:02,191 --> 00:24:04,985
So the big problem
will be keeping up with them...
327
00:24:06,070 --> 00:24:09,031
and getting a clean shot
through all the foliage.
328
00:24:15,579 --> 00:24:18,415
Oblivious of the struggles
going on down below,
329
00:24:18,499 --> 00:24:20,626
the orangutans are in their element.
330
00:24:24,213 --> 00:24:26,507
We've been charging
through the understory
331
00:24:26,590 --> 00:24:30,594
trying to get shots
of an orang with her baby,
332
00:24:30,678 --> 00:24:32,972
and she always seems to be
ten seconds in front of us.
333
00:24:33,055 --> 00:24:35,307
I mean, we're always playing with seconds.
334
00:24:35,391 --> 00:24:38,936
You set up the camera, you've got
a few seconds to get the camera ready,
335
00:24:39,019 --> 00:24:40,521
focused, fired,
336
00:24:40,604 --> 00:24:43,190
but in that time,
very often she's just moved off,
337
00:24:43,273 --> 00:24:44,358
so you get nothing.
338
00:24:46,485 --> 00:24:47,695
Nothing.
339
00:24:48,362 --> 00:24:49,822
It's pretty much impossible.
340
00:24:50,698 --> 00:24:52,408
Well, not impossible, surely.
341
00:24:53,450 --> 00:24:55,035
Shall we just call it difficult?
342
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:55,953
Difficult.
343
00:24:56,370 --> 00:24:57,579
Very difficult.
344
00:25:03,419 --> 00:25:05,504
Matt, I've got
an important question for you.
345
00:25:06,255 --> 00:25:08,549
Yeah, what's the important question, Huw?
346
00:25:08,632 --> 00:25:11,510
[Huw] So what do you think our shot
per setup ratio is?
347
00:25:12,261 --> 00:25:13,303
Twenty-five to one.
348
00:25:13,387 --> 00:25:14,805
[Huw] So 25 times--
349
00:25:14,888 --> 00:25:16,640
Twenty-five times camera on, camera off--
350
00:25:16,724 --> 00:25:18,892
Hauling the camera and tripod
through the jungle.
351
00:25:18,976 --> 00:25:20,519
Hauling, yeah,
352
00:25:20,602 --> 00:25:22,271
scratching shins...
353
00:25:23,689 --> 00:25:25,774
going up to my waist in water.
354
00:25:25,858 --> 00:25:27,860
[Huw] After all that,
we end up with just--
355
00:25:27,943 --> 00:25:30,571
Nothing. We end up with just nothing.
356
00:25:37,369 --> 00:25:38,871
As the days turn to weeks...
357
00:25:39,455 --> 00:25:43,000
jungle living is beginning
to take its toll on Matt,
358
00:25:43,083 --> 00:25:46,378
and he's forced
to take some unscheduled time off.
359
00:25:46,462 --> 00:25:48,756
It's an enforced break.
360
00:25:48,839 --> 00:25:49,923
I've got this...
361
00:25:50,632 --> 00:25:53,802
It's a plant allergy, it's an allergy
to a plant like a poison ivy
362
00:25:53,886 --> 00:25:55,220
or a poison oak.
363
00:25:55,304 --> 00:25:58,474
And unfortunately, it's hit
the whole entire back of my legs.
364
00:25:59,266 --> 00:26:01,810
I'm trying to give it some sun
to try and dry it out out.
365
00:26:01,894 --> 00:26:04,354
I'm not really one for sunbathing,
but, you know...
366
00:26:05,314 --> 00:26:08,192
certain situations demand it,
and this is one of them.
367
00:26:14,698 --> 00:26:18,702
Finally, we have the weather
to go and film polar bears.
368
00:26:18,786 --> 00:26:22,164
We've been sitting here,
seems like forever, maybe ten days.
369
00:26:22,915 --> 00:26:23,832
But...
370
00:26:24,958 --> 00:26:25,793
today's the day.
371
00:26:27,795 --> 00:26:31,840
At last, the rain has let up enough
for the team to head north.
372
00:26:41,016 --> 00:26:43,018
Up in the air for the first time,
373
00:26:43,102 --> 00:26:46,355
it becomes clear
that all this rain has had an impact.
374
00:26:47,940 --> 00:26:51,026
There's much more water everywhere
than normal.
375
00:26:54,947 --> 00:26:56,615
Some in that area, maybe.
376
00:26:58,909 --> 00:27:01,995
[woman] Bear to the left.
Bear to the left.
377
00:27:06,250 --> 00:27:09,253
Finally the crew spot a bear.
378
00:27:14,091 --> 00:27:16,051
They make their approach on foot,
379
00:27:16,135 --> 00:27:18,762
hoping at last to film their sequence.
380
00:27:25,561 --> 00:27:27,271
But as they get closer,
381
00:27:27,354 --> 00:27:29,940
they see all is not as it should be.
382
00:27:33,902 --> 00:27:37,656
Though there are bears here,
there are no signs of fishing.
383
00:27:48,667 --> 00:27:50,460
[bear snarls]
384
00:27:58,510 --> 00:28:01,513
It seems that all of this rain
has filled the rivers
385
00:28:01,597 --> 00:28:03,682
to levels much higher than normal,
386
00:28:03,765 --> 00:28:06,810
allowing the fish to run
straight upstream to the lakes
387
00:28:06,894 --> 00:28:09,938
without becoming trapped in pools
along the way.
388
00:28:12,191 --> 00:28:15,027
Perhaps this is why
the bears aren't fishing.
389
00:28:17,821 --> 00:28:21,825
Underwater, the team's fears
are confirmed.
390
00:28:21,909 --> 00:28:25,829
At this time of year,
the river should be crammed full of fish.
391
00:28:25,913 --> 00:28:28,749
But there's nothing here
for the bears to eat.
392
00:28:30,375 --> 00:28:34,630
The team must finally admit
that they've been defeated by the weather,
393
00:28:34,713 --> 00:28:37,257
and return home empty-handed.
394
00:28:39,426 --> 00:28:43,513
The whole point of our freshwater film
is to demonstrate how important it is
395
00:28:43,597 --> 00:28:47,601
that the right amount of water
hits these systems at the right time.
396
00:28:47,684 --> 00:28:51,104
So this kind of demonstrates
that perfectly
397
00:28:51,188 --> 00:28:54,024
in that the wrong amount of water
has hit the system
398
00:28:54,107 --> 00:28:57,736
and the behavior
that we wanted to film can't happen.
399
00:28:59,196 --> 00:29:02,991
It's good for the fish but obviously bad
for the bears and bad for us.
400
00:29:03,951 --> 00:29:06,787
We don't have a sequence,
I think, for the simple reason
401
00:29:06,870 --> 00:29:09,081
that the water levels are too high.
402
00:29:09,164 --> 00:29:11,500
The fish aren't trapped,
the bears can't feed.
403
00:29:12,042 --> 00:29:14,169
Um, we can't film what's not happening.
404
00:29:14,628 --> 00:29:19,633
Very frustrating. I think everybody feels
like we failed somehow.
405
00:29:20,259 --> 00:29:22,803
But it's nature.
You don't win them all with nature.
406
00:29:22,886 --> 00:29:26,640
It's been going on here for 20 years
for Alain, but this year, no.
407
00:29:27,140 --> 00:29:30,185
Weather over the years in the Arctic
has just been getting really weird,
408
00:29:30,269 --> 00:29:34,523
and this summer has just been
the worse weather in the last 15 years.
409
00:29:34,606 --> 00:29:37,276
It just basically rained all summer,
you know, cloudy,
410
00:29:37,359 --> 00:29:41,029
high water levels so the fish
weren't able to get up to the...
411
00:29:41,113 --> 00:29:42,781
were able to get up to the lakes
too quickly
412
00:29:42,864 --> 00:29:44,199
and the bears aren't able to fish.
413
00:29:44,283 --> 00:29:45,117
So it's...
414
00:29:45,701 --> 00:29:49,371
weird environmental
climate change factors that are...
415
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:51,957
really hitting the Arctic hard and...
416
00:29:52,499 --> 00:29:54,459
this is a classic example of it.
417
00:29:55,711 --> 00:29:58,505
As the climate changes,
the planet's weather
418
00:29:58,588 --> 00:30:00,382
and the flow of its freshwater
419
00:30:00,465 --> 00:30:02,634
are becoming much harder to predict.
420
00:30:04,761 --> 00:30:07,347
For a film crew, this is frustrating,
421
00:30:07,431 --> 00:30:10,684
but for wildlife,
this rapidly changing world
422
00:30:10,767 --> 00:30:13,603
now threatens their very survival.
423
00:30:19,151 --> 00:30:24,656
In Sumatra, the weight of expectation
is still on Matt's shoulders.
424
00:30:29,244 --> 00:30:33,707
He must press on with the search
to find orangutans using tools.
425
00:30:37,627 --> 00:30:40,797
Progress has been painfully slow so far,
426
00:30:40,881 --> 00:30:43,675
but often, a month-long shoot
can boil down
427
00:30:43,759 --> 00:30:45,886
to just a few minutes of action.
428
00:30:48,055 --> 00:30:51,099
Huw and Matt are hanging in there,
429
00:30:51,183 --> 00:30:53,560
knowing their luck can change
in an instant.
430
00:31:05,322 --> 00:31:07,366
Ah, good, good.
431
00:31:07,449 --> 00:31:08,575
Yeah, good.
432
00:31:08,658 --> 00:31:10,243
[leaves rustling]
433
00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:15,082
Whenever you hear that chucking noise...
434
00:31:15,165 --> 00:31:16,333
[clicks tongue]
435
00:31:16,416 --> 00:31:18,293
...that's them eating ants.
436
00:31:18,377 --> 00:31:20,754
So you can hear it from some distance.
437
00:31:20,837 --> 00:31:23,590
[orangutan clicking tongue]
438
00:31:23,673 --> 00:31:27,511
Orangutans often use tools
when foraging for ants.
439
00:31:29,054 --> 00:31:32,140
This could be the moment
the crew have been waiting for.
440
00:31:34,684 --> 00:31:37,437
Only through a small window
in the foliage,
441
00:31:37,521 --> 00:31:40,774
they catch their first glimpse
of what they came for.
442
00:31:42,734 --> 00:31:46,196
A female orangutan is using a stick tool
443
00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:48,323
to dig out ants from their nest.
444
00:31:58,083 --> 00:32:00,502
Tool use by animals is extremely rare,
445
00:32:00,585 --> 00:32:02,963
even amongst our closest relatives.
446
00:32:03,547 --> 00:32:06,383
This is a groundbreaking moment
for the team.
447
00:32:07,008 --> 00:32:09,803
[Matt] It's an incredible thing to see
and witness.
448
00:32:10,846 --> 00:32:14,933
I'm pretty blown away by the fact
that we've actually got this, you know?
449
00:32:15,517 --> 00:32:17,602
It's been a slog, but it's been worth it.
450
00:32:21,898 --> 00:32:25,569
The swampy conditions
that made life very difficult for the crew
451
00:32:25,652 --> 00:32:29,573
are also the very thing that has protected
this small patch of rain forest
452
00:32:29,656 --> 00:32:31,324
from exploitation.
453
00:32:33,201 --> 00:32:36,371
Today, this area supports
the highest density
454
00:32:36,455 --> 00:32:38,999
of Sumatran orangutans
anywhere in the world,
455
00:32:39,082 --> 00:32:43,003
and it's thought to be
the only viable population that's left.
456
00:32:45,714 --> 00:32:47,632
In just a few decades,
457
00:32:47,716 --> 00:32:51,636
well over 50% of Sumatra's rain forest
has been lost.
458
00:32:53,763 --> 00:32:55,474
What remains could be gone
459
00:32:55,557 --> 00:32:58,393
within the lifetime of these individuals.
460
00:33:16,495 --> 00:33:18,997
The Store Glacier in Greenland,
461
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,376
the location of Our Planet's
most nerve-wracking shoot...
462
00:33:27,797 --> 00:33:31,801
The ice face stands 100 meters
above the ocean's surface
463
00:33:32,385 --> 00:33:35,222
and extends 400 meters below it.
464
00:33:36,765 --> 00:33:40,894
In summer,
skyscraper-size blocks break off,
465
00:33:40,977 --> 00:33:44,689
and all that submerged ice
comes racing to the surface.
466
00:33:47,067 --> 00:33:50,862
In the three-week filming window,
this might only happen once.
467
00:33:53,156 --> 00:33:56,660
But these ice falls mean
the glacier is shifting,
468
00:33:56,743 --> 00:33:58,870
and may calve very soon.
469
00:34:01,581 --> 00:34:05,377
A transport helicopter has delivered
the land-based team.
470
00:34:06,419 --> 00:34:10,507
But the aerial's team
in another helicopter are delayed.
471
00:34:11,383 --> 00:34:13,843
All they can do is set up camp and wait.
472
00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:19,808
With 24-hour daylight,
473
00:34:19,891 --> 00:34:23,937
a calving event is filmable
anytime day or night.
474
00:34:27,107 --> 00:34:30,151
[glacier rumbling]
475
00:34:30,235 --> 00:34:31,236
[Sophie] More bits, just.
476
00:34:32,612 --> 00:34:34,322
Yeah, and down over there too.
477
00:34:36,157 --> 00:34:37,659
It's got to go.
478
00:34:37,742 --> 00:34:38,702
Yeah.
479
00:34:46,876 --> 00:34:49,879
[rumbling, crashing]
480
00:34:52,799 --> 00:34:54,551
[Sophie] So it's now nearly midnight.
481
00:34:55,135 --> 00:34:56,636
It's still bright daylight.
482
00:34:57,512 --> 00:34:59,889
And if the light wasn't enough
to keep you awake,
483
00:35:00,473 --> 00:35:02,183
you just hear all these sounds,
484
00:35:02,267 --> 00:35:05,020
and I think they sound even louder
when you're in your tent.
485
00:35:06,229 --> 00:35:09,899
Dash outside and everything goes quiet.
As soon as you come back in the tent...
486
00:35:09,983 --> 00:35:11,568
-Like that.
-[glacier rumbling]
487
00:35:18,158 --> 00:35:20,368
They're seeing more and more ice falls.
488
00:35:21,077 --> 00:35:23,663
But the aerial team still haven't arrived.
489
00:35:26,207 --> 00:35:29,252
But today the sun's out
and the glacier has woken up.
490
00:35:30,337 --> 00:35:34,299
So we've been waiting on tenterhooks a bit
in case it calves before they get here.
491
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:37,636
It's building up.
492
00:35:56,446 --> 00:36:00,575
Helicopters aren't always needed
to get a camera in the air.
493
00:36:00,659 --> 00:36:04,788
The teams turn to a different solution
on the high seas.
494
00:36:04,871 --> 00:36:06,081
Thank you.
495
00:36:06,164 --> 00:36:08,708
Yeah, that's it, the bait.
496
00:36:08,792 --> 00:36:10,627
Okay, I can see the bait, you're good.
497
00:36:10,710 --> 00:36:11,711
Exposure looks good.
498
00:36:11,795 --> 00:36:13,755
Moving now. Keep the bait. There they go.
499
00:36:14,339 --> 00:36:15,632
[man] Okay, dropping it.
500
00:36:17,842 --> 00:36:21,471
Wildlife spectacles
in the open ocean are unpredictable
501
00:36:21,554 --> 00:36:23,390
and very short-lived.
502
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,978
Filming these from the air
has always been a challenge
503
00:36:29,062 --> 00:36:32,148
because helicopters can't venture
far from land.
504
00:36:32,232 --> 00:36:33,650
[man] Keep up with the bait.
505
00:36:33,733 --> 00:36:35,985
Hold it there.
I'm gonna come back towards the boat.
506
00:36:36,069 --> 00:36:38,363
-Yeah, it's going up top, isn't it?
-Yeah.
507
00:36:38,446 --> 00:36:41,324
Now, with the very latest drones...
508
00:36:41,408 --> 00:36:43,076
-Drop in a bit more.
-Nice?
509
00:36:43,159 --> 00:36:44,285
Looks amazing.
510
00:36:44,369 --> 00:36:46,788
...we can at last
get an aerial perspective
511
00:36:46,871 --> 00:36:48,331
on these fleeting events
512
00:36:48,415 --> 00:36:50,375
out on the high seas.
513
00:37:01,428 --> 00:37:04,055
So it's the first time we've got a drone
that's fast enough
514
00:37:04,305 --> 00:37:06,725
and small enough and practical
to launch from a boat.
515
00:37:06,808 --> 00:37:09,728
So when we're out here
miles and miles offshore,
516
00:37:09,811 --> 00:37:12,731
it really is opening up
a whole host of opportunities for us,
517
00:37:12,814 --> 00:37:14,190
which is really exciting.
518
00:37:16,901 --> 00:37:20,280
The team have come
to Mexico's Gulf of California,
519
00:37:20,363 --> 00:37:24,159
one of the best places in the world
to see blue whales.
520
00:37:32,459 --> 00:37:33,585
A blue whale.
521
00:37:33,668 --> 00:37:35,420
It's our first blue whale. We've just...
522
00:37:36,087 --> 00:37:38,631
We spotted it a second ago.
It's absolutely enormous.
523
00:37:40,049 --> 00:37:42,469
That's quite an obvious thing to say
about a blue whale, but...
524
00:37:42,552 --> 00:37:45,346
it is a huge, huge whale.
525
00:37:46,097 --> 00:37:47,348
Whoa.
526
00:37:49,601 --> 00:37:50,477
Whoa.
527
00:37:53,271 --> 00:37:55,273
Oh, my God!
528
00:37:56,024 --> 00:37:57,275
There it is, it's up.
529
00:37:58,777 --> 00:38:02,322
It's a good start,
but the crew have a more ambitious goal:
530
00:38:02,781 --> 00:38:06,367
to film a blue whale mother
and her calf from the air.
531
00:38:06,451 --> 00:38:07,535
Drone's ready, let's go.
532
00:38:16,211 --> 00:38:18,797
Filming is a two-man operation.
533
00:38:19,380 --> 00:38:22,926
Hector flies the drone
and Olly operates the camera.
534
00:38:25,929 --> 00:38:27,847
They have to get the drone in position
535
00:38:27,931 --> 00:38:31,726
then work out the best altitude
and orientation for the shot.
536
00:38:32,894 --> 00:38:33,853
[Olly] Hold it there.
537
00:38:35,522 --> 00:38:38,858
Blue whales only surface
for two to three minutes at the time
538
00:38:38,942 --> 00:38:41,736
before diving for up to 15 minutes.
539
00:38:42,904 --> 00:38:46,199
It's a narrow window
for everything to come together.
540
00:38:48,284 --> 00:38:49,160
-Can't see it.
-There.
541
00:38:51,538 --> 00:38:53,581
[Olly] Don't twist too much into the sun.
542
00:38:53,665 --> 00:38:54,707
The light's so bright.
543
00:38:55,792 --> 00:38:57,585
Too much. Okay, let's start again.
544
00:39:00,255 --> 00:39:01,589
[Hector] Ah, she's diving.
545
00:39:04,050 --> 00:39:05,093
So fast.
546
00:39:07,846 --> 00:39:08,805
She's gone.
547
00:39:16,855 --> 00:39:18,398
[Jamie] This is the little room.
548
00:39:19,524 --> 00:39:21,651
Cold store, makeshift filming,
549
00:39:21,734 --> 00:39:23,194
and a bucket...
550
00:39:26,823 --> 00:39:28,074
We poo in a bucket.
551
00:39:28,950 --> 00:39:30,243
It's the glamour.
552
00:39:30,326 --> 00:39:32,704
That's Hector, Patrick,
553
00:39:32,787 --> 00:39:34,914
Anatoly, Evgeny, Max...
554
00:39:35,582 --> 00:39:37,083
This is where we eat, sleep,
555
00:39:37,792 --> 00:39:39,752
dry things, get warm.
556
00:39:39,836 --> 00:39:41,212
This is where everyone sleeps.
557
00:39:42,046 --> 00:39:44,173
One, two, three people sleep in there.
558
00:39:44,257 --> 00:39:45,466
It's luxurious.
559
00:39:47,093 --> 00:39:49,053
[Sophie] Is that it? Is that the tour?
560
00:39:49,137 --> 00:39:51,055
That's the tour, yeah.
There's nothing else.
561
00:39:51,139 --> 00:39:53,516
Then there's outside.
There's a lot more outside.
562
00:40:02,609 --> 00:40:04,611
[walruses baying outside]
563
00:40:08,072 --> 00:40:09,949
The Night of the Living Dead.
564
00:40:10,033 --> 00:40:10,909
Yeah.
565
00:40:11,659 --> 00:40:14,537
Zombie attack.
We just started to zombie-proof our home.
566
00:40:17,665 --> 00:40:18,708
[Jamie] Zombies.
567
00:40:18,791 --> 00:40:20,793
[walrus bellowing]
568
00:40:22,378 --> 00:40:25,340
[Jamie] It's the middle of the night
and we've just been woken up by...
569
00:40:26,174 --> 00:40:28,718
The hut has been absolutely
surrounded by walrus.
570
00:40:28,801 --> 00:40:31,387
Every little hole you can look out of,
where the generator goes out,
571
00:40:31,471 --> 00:40:32,764
the crack in the door,
572
00:40:32,847 --> 00:40:34,265
there's another hole out that way,
573
00:40:34,766 --> 00:40:37,018
we're completely surrounded by walrus.
It's amazing.
574
00:40:37,101 --> 00:40:40,021
You hear banging against the sides
of the hut. Hut feels like it's shaking.
575
00:40:40,104 --> 00:40:41,898
You can hear their tusks on the wall.
576
00:40:43,733 --> 00:40:44,651
It's quite amazing.
577
00:40:44,734 --> 00:40:47,445
It's really exciting
because we wanted them to come.
578
00:40:47,528 --> 00:40:49,280
So yeah, it's brilliant.
579
00:40:49,364 --> 00:40:52,241
It's like being surrounded
by 50,000 Wookiees.
580
00:40:54,702 --> 00:40:57,163
If we didn't know what they were
that would be really scary.
581
00:41:00,249 --> 00:41:02,251
[walrus baying]
582
00:41:04,837 --> 00:41:06,422
When the team came to Russia
583
00:41:06,506 --> 00:41:09,550
to film the largest gathering
of walrus on the planet,
584
00:41:09,634 --> 00:41:13,137
theyt never expected them
to come knocking on their door.
585
00:41:14,973 --> 00:41:17,392
The beach is absolutely jam packed full.
586
00:41:18,017 --> 00:41:21,646
The problem with that is that the cabin
is completely surrounded.
587
00:41:21,729 --> 00:41:23,231
There's just walrus everywhere.
588
00:41:23,731 --> 00:41:25,900
[grunting, bellowing]
589
00:41:30,822 --> 00:41:33,366
With walrus blocking all exits,
590
00:41:33,449 --> 00:41:36,077
there was only one place suitable
for filming.
591
00:41:39,372 --> 00:41:42,166
The cabin's surrounded
so we have to film on the roof.
592
00:41:43,001 --> 00:41:47,171
We had every form of weather
from sunshine to snow to hail.
593
00:41:49,090 --> 00:41:50,883
Seen all weather in a day here.
594
00:41:52,385 --> 00:41:56,180
Rooftop filming in bad weather
has its limitations.
595
00:41:56,264 --> 00:41:57,974
What the team was really waiting for
596
00:41:58,057 --> 00:42:01,561
was an opportunity
to get the drone in the air.
597
00:42:04,355 --> 00:42:06,899
We've got a break in the weather
and there's walrus everywhere
598
00:42:06,983 --> 00:42:08,818
and a gap, a break in the walrus as well.
599
00:42:08,901 --> 00:42:11,487
We're gonna try to get the drone
in the air and show the spectacle.
600
00:42:28,755 --> 00:42:30,590
Yeah, straight along the shoreline.
601
00:42:31,924 --> 00:42:34,343
Numbers are unbelievable.
602
00:42:34,886 --> 00:42:37,055
Tens of thousands of walrus,
as far as you can see.
603
00:42:37,138 --> 00:42:39,140
The whole beach is full,
the cliffs are full.
604
00:42:39,265 --> 00:42:40,892
There's thousands in the water.
605
00:42:43,728 --> 00:42:48,274
It's only from the air that you can
truly see the scale of this spectacle.
606
00:42:51,027 --> 00:42:55,323
Over 100,000 individuals
hauled out on one beach.
607
00:43:36,489 --> 00:43:37,782
There's no walrus left.
608
00:43:37,865 --> 00:43:39,617
Overnight they've all gone.
609
00:43:41,119 --> 00:43:43,246
I can't believe it goes
from 80,000 walrus,
610
00:43:43,329 --> 00:43:45,748
every single inch of beach
has been covered,
611
00:43:45,832 --> 00:43:47,375
to just empty.
612
00:43:48,334 --> 00:43:49,836
In one night. Amazing.
613
00:44:01,139 --> 00:44:02,014
Oh, there he is.
614
00:44:02,849 --> 00:44:04,183
He's up, yeah.
615
00:44:04,267 --> 00:44:05,393
-You taking off?
-That's us.
616
00:44:08,980 --> 00:44:10,731
Okay, forward.
617
00:44:13,151 --> 00:44:14,443
There he is.
618
00:44:14,527 --> 00:44:17,780
-Okay, go hard left.
-Hard left.
619
00:44:17,864 --> 00:44:19,615
Hard left.
620
00:44:20,783 --> 00:44:22,785
In these ideal conditions,
621
00:44:22,869 --> 00:44:26,372
and with the whales unconcerned
by our drone,
622
00:44:26,455 --> 00:44:30,084
the crew are able to capture
intimate close-up images.
623
00:44:30,751 --> 00:44:32,587
-Yeah, rolling. Move right.
-Move right.
624
00:44:32,670 --> 00:44:34,338
Yeah, hold it.
625
00:44:34,422 --> 00:44:37,258
They even managed
to film a blue whale feeding...
626
00:44:42,722 --> 00:44:46,434
...its extended throat
full of water and krill.
627
00:44:46,517 --> 00:44:48,394
He is feeding there.
628
00:44:50,521 --> 00:44:52,690
-Forward a bit.
-Slow.
629
00:44:52,773 --> 00:44:54,775
[whale exhaling air loudly
630
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,237
Sounds like he's quite close.
631
00:45:01,574 --> 00:45:02,658
Wow.
632
00:45:10,374 --> 00:45:12,960
Just got a big wide of a feeding whale.
633
00:45:13,586 --> 00:45:15,504
Whoa. Let's go.
634
00:45:16,380 --> 00:45:18,257
Keep rolling. It's good.
635
00:45:18,341 --> 00:45:19,467
Yeah.
636
00:45:20,801 --> 00:45:22,887
Mom and calf, mom and calf,
let's go. Let's go.
637
00:45:22,970 --> 00:45:24,555
-Yeah.
-Ready?
638
00:45:24,639 --> 00:45:25,681
Yeah.
639
00:45:27,350 --> 00:45:28,726
That's it. Come up, move left.
640
00:45:29,310 --> 00:45:30,603
-Left.
-Nice.
641
00:45:30,686 --> 00:45:32,188
Don't twist.
642
00:45:32,730 --> 00:45:33,773
Keep going forward.
643
00:45:34,565 --> 00:45:36,317
Yeah, keep to the left.
644
00:45:37,652 --> 00:45:38,945
Okay. Oh, beautiful.
645
00:45:40,613 --> 00:45:42,823
I'm gonna hold the shot there. Gonna hold.
646
00:45:46,118 --> 00:45:47,245
Okay, holding.
647
00:45:47,328 --> 00:45:49,247
Yeah, that's nice, it's beautiful.
648
00:45:52,458 --> 00:45:55,920
Let's just keep gently into him.
Just keep, this is the shot, don't worry.
649
00:45:56,003 --> 00:45:58,381
Coming back.
Coming back just real gently with him.
650
00:45:58,464 --> 00:46:00,091
Beautiful. That's the one.
651
00:46:15,147 --> 00:46:17,566
She's coming straight at the drone.
Let's get lined up on her.
652
00:46:20,111 --> 00:46:21,404
You can see its face.
653
00:46:23,781 --> 00:46:26,617
Whoa. That's lovely.
654
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,840
Seeing some of the calf,
and seeing its face
655
00:46:40,923 --> 00:46:43,676
and seeing it dip under Mom
and come back out
656
00:46:43,759 --> 00:46:45,636
and that sort of behavior was...
657
00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:48,597
yeah, I think that's definitely
the winner.
658
00:46:48,681 --> 00:46:50,558
Yeah, that was pretty special.
659
00:46:54,770 --> 00:46:57,440
With their innovative use of drones,
660
00:46:57,523 --> 00:47:01,319
the team were able to capture
these rare intimate moments...
661
00:47:02,987 --> 00:47:05,489
revealing a new tender side
662
00:47:05,573 --> 00:47:08,826
to the largest animal that has ever lived.
663
00:47:17,001 --> 00:47:21,297
At the glacier,
the sound everyone has been waiting for.
664
00:47:21,380 --> 00:47:24,133
[helicopter blades whirring]
665
00:47:24,216 --> 00:47:26,093
And not a moment too soon.
666
00:47:48,282 --> 00:47:49,700
Hello, Jamie. How are you?
667
00:47:50,284 --> 00:47:51,327
Welcome to Store.
668
00:47:51,410 --> 00:47:52,411
[Jamie] Yeah, beautiful.
669
00:47:52,995 --> 00:47:55,664
But with the aerial team finally in place,
670
00:47:55,748 --> 00:47:58,584
the glacier's activity drops
without warning.
671
00:48:02,463 --> 00:48:04,048
All they can do is wait,
672
00:48:04,131 --> 00:48:07,635
and hope it calves
before their time runs out.
673
00:48:36,205 --> 00:48:38,916
[man] Everything's gonna come together.
Sun's gonna come out,
674
00:48:38,999 --> 00:48:42,086
the ice is gonna calve,
and we're gonna capture it all on film.
675
00:48:43,796 --> 00:48:44,797
On the last day.
676
00:48:46,090 --> 00:48:47,425
It's usually what happens.
677
00:48:49,093 --> 00:48:49,927
Mmm.
678
00:48:58,519 --> 00:49:00,354
[glacier rumbling]
679
00:49:01,814 --> 00:49:04,483
Yep, that's another bit coming up
from the bottom.
680
00:49:10,614 --> 00:49:11,907
[Sophie] More to the right.
681
00:49:11,991 --> 00:49:14,535
-Where?
-Right, to the right of that bit.
682
00:49:15,411 --> 00:49:17,246
-We've got bits on the--
-Oh, look. That bit.
683
00:49:17,830 --> 00:49:19,748
I'd get on the wide, if I were you.
684
00:49:23,627 --> 00:49:24,962
[man] Wow! Look at that one.
685
00:49:25,546 --> 00:49:27,006
Rising up, that pillar.
686
00:49:28,757 --> 00:49:30,092
Okay, we're good to go.
687
00:49:35,097 --> 00:49:37,349
[man] Okay, Mateo,
let us know what you see.
688
00:49:38,142 --> 00:49:41,270
Okay, we'll let you know
if there's any activity on the nose. Over.
689
00:49:42,313 --> 00:49:44,482
Okay, I'm going in for details.
Are you on the wide?
690
00:49:51,238 --> 00:49:52,698
Okay, just go straight ahead.
691
00:49:52,781 --> 00:49:55,284
Does it look like that bit
above the arch is gonna go?
692
00:49:56,577 --> 00:49:58,579
They must get close to film.
693
00:50:00,498 --> 00:50:02,291
I don't wanna be this close
to the wall ahead.
694
00:50:03,751 --> 00:50:06,504
But how close is too close?
695
00:50:24,605 --> 00:50:26,232
Okay, let's try and get above this now.
696
00:50:29,693 --> 00:50:31,278
[man] Let's just get a bit higher.
697
00:50:49,046 --> 00:50:52,091
With the pilot dodging
truck-sized ice blocks,
698
00:50:52,174 --> 00:50:55,261
it's clear something much bigger
is about to happen.
699
00:50:57,513 --> 00:50:59,139
[man] Jamie, camera left.
700
00:50:59,765 --> 00:51:01,517
The whole face is going.
701
00:51:02,101 --> 00:51:04,562
A kilometer of ice breaks off the front.
702
00:51:08,023 --> 00:51:10,859
And half a kilometer of underwater ice
703
00:51:10,943 --> 00:51:13,279
starts rushing to the surface.
704
00:51:32,214 --> 00:51:35,259
[man] Jean Michel, get us in as close
as you think you can.
705
00:51:37,177 --> 00:51:40,180
[Jamie] Okay, hold this line,
as steady as you can go.
706
00:51:45,185 --> 00:51:46,729
That's great.
707
00:51:47,938 --> 00:51:49,273
Can we get a little bit lower?
708
00:51:51,233 --> 00:51:52,359
Yeah, that's really good.
709
00:52:00,075 --> 00:52:02,870
[man] Jean Michel, pull up. Up! Up!
710
00:52:03,787 --> 00:52:08,042
The pilot must navigate
around 75 million tons of ice
711
00:52:08,125 --> 00:52:09,627
crashing about the bay.
712
00:52:10,669 --> 00:52:13,130
[man] Wider, wider, wider.
713
00:52:14,506 --> 00:52:16,008
[Jamie] Yeah, that's really good.
714
00:52:18,260 --> 00:52:20,179
Okay, let's try
and get around this if we can.
715
00:52:28,812 --> 00:52:31,273
[Jamie] Can we slide left from this?
716
00:52:37,613 --> 00:52:38,697
Looks amazing.
717
00:52:43,327 --> 00:52:46,330
Unbelievable.
I've never seen anything like it.
718
00:52:57,383 --> 00:52:59,843
[man]
We're just gonna work around the icebergs.
719
00:52:59,927 --> 00:53:03,222
We need you to let us know
if there's more calving.
720
00:53:03,847 --> 00:53:06,433
Yeah, we will do but... [bleep] hell.
721
00:53:07,309 --> 00:53:08,977
That was unbelievable.
722
00:53:09,061 --> 00:53:10,771
How was it from the helicopter?
723
00:53:12,356 --> 00:53:15,025
[laughs] Oh, [bleep] amazing.
724
00:53:15,109 --> 00:53:16,860
It was like a video game, honestly.
725
00:53:16,944 --> 00:53:20,072
It was just like around that bit there
and there was like a whole mountain
726
00:53:20,155 --> 00:53:23,200
rising out of the sea
and then flipping over and then turning.
727
00:53:23,283 --> 00:53:25,994
Did you see, we went high, it's calved?
728
00:53:26,078 --> 00:53:27,663
-We get the plan view.
-Yeah.
729
00:53:27,746 --> 00:53:29,832
-And we were looking in...
-And then we saw--
730
00:53:29,915 --> 00:53:32,876
...something came,
it was just a whole face was collapsing.
731
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:34,837
We just came in on absolute--
732
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,464
-[Sophie] I saw that, yeah.
-That second calving was just immense.
733
00:53:37,548 --> 00:53:39,967
And it just came up to the left
of the helicopter.
734
00:53:40,050 --> 00:53:42,761
-[Jamie] I forgot about that, yeah.
-And he was going, "Wider!"
735
00:53:43,470 --> 00:53:45,431
[man] Were you pulling back,
or what, at the time?
736
00:53:45,514 --> 00:53:50,519
At some point I needed to because I saw,
actually, an iceberg in the mirror.
737
00:53:50,602 --> 00:53:53,021
And then he said,
"Pull up! Pull up! Pull up! Whoa!"
738
00:53:53,105 --> 00:53:56,358
I could just hear Adam,
"Come here, okay, camera left, no!"
739
00:53:56,984 --> 00:54:00,904
Jamie in the back, "Oh, my God!
This is...! Oh, my God!
740
00:54:02,865 --> 00:54:05,367
The most amazing thing I've ever seen,
let alone filmed.
741
00:54:05,451 --> 00:54:06,410
Yeah, it's worth it.
742
00:54:06,493 --> 00:54:08,245
-Absolutely fantastic.
-Yeah.
743
00:54:08,954 --> 00:54:10,456
Oh, boy.
744
00:54:10,539 --> 00:54:11,915
Right, kettle's on.
745
00:54:11,999 --> 00:54:13,167
Oh, boy.
746
00:54:32,603 --> 00:54:33,979
On the Russian coast,
747
00:54:34,813 --> 00:54:37,107
the polar celebrities have turned up.
748
00:54:41,445 --> 00:54:43,530
This, polar bear country.
749
00:54:45,282 --> 00:54:49,328
Luckily, Russian walrus biologist
Anatoly Kochnev
750
00:54:49,411 --> 00:54:52,873
is no novice when it comes
to fending off polar bears...
751
00:54:54,416 --> 00:54:57,836
and has developed his own unique way
of dealing with them:
752
00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:58,921
a long stick.
753
00:55:00,756 --> 00:55:04,384
I stick and he staying in...
754
00:55:04,468 --> 00:55:05,719
around stick.
755
00:55:06,887 --> 00:55:07,721
Yeah.
756
00:55:08,764 --> 00:55:10,849
Yes. See, and...
757
00:55:11,391 --> 00:55:12,935
I'm the polar bear.
758
00:55:13,268 --> 00:55:14,561
[growls] Then...
759
00:55:16,522 --> 00:55:17,689
Yeah.
760
00:55:18,941 --> 00:55:21,944
A little bit worried that all we've got
is a stick when there's 12 bears
761
00:55:22,736 --> 00:55:23,946
that you can see from here.
762
00:55:25,823 --> 00:55:26,949
But I trust Anatoly.
763
00:55:27,491 --> 00:55:28,867
My trust in science.
764
00:55:31,578 --> 00:55:32,663
Let's go.
765
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:34,706
[Sophie]
So I'm not sure I wanna go now.
766
00:55:48,470 --> 00:55:50,514
Anatoly's stick technique,
767
00:55:50,597 --> 00:55:54,184
combined with years
of experience reading bears,
768
00:55:54,268 --> 00:55:56,311
appears to be keeping them at bay.
769
00:56:00,482 --> 00:56:01,984
[Jamie] They're all fat and happy so...
770
00:56:02,943 --> 00:56:05,445
we haven't had any bears here
that aren't really chilled out,
771
00:56:05,529 --> 00:56:08,031
and they just walk straight past you,
totally ignore us.
772
00:56:08,615 --> 00:56:11,368
If anything, when they get a scent of you,
they tend to move away a bit,
773
00:56:11,451 --> 00:56:13,996
give you a bit of distance
but, no, they're really chilled out.
774
00:56:17,875 --> 00:56:21,962
With the bears relaxed, the team
could turn their attention to the walrus
775
00:56:22,045 --> 00:56:23,922
that had started to come ashore.
776
00:56:26,049 --> 00:56:28,594
But they never expected
what was to follow.
777
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:37,269
Walrus climbing
to the very top of the cliffs
778
00:56:37,352 --> 00:56:39,313
to get away from the crush below.
779
00:56:39,521 --> 00:56:40,355
[grunts]
780
00:56:54,453 --> 00:56:56,413
I don't understand.
Why are they going up there?
781
00:56:56,997 --> 00:56:57,831
Like...
782
00:56:59,583 --> 00:57:02,336
literally to the top
of the rockiest part of the cliff.
783
00:57:04,379 --> 00:57:07,883
Once at the top
of the 80-meter cliffs they rest,
784
00:57:07,966 --> 00:57:11,762
until it's time to return
to the sea in search of food.
785
00:57:16,516 --> 00:57:20,145
[Sophie] That last little section
is the steep bit, and they all just...
786
00:57:20,228 --> 00:57:22,940
It's really steep. That bit.
787
00:57:29,279 --> 00:57:30,155
Oh, God.
788
00:57:31,281 --> 00:57:32,574
Gently.
789
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:39,206
[Jamie] One's gonna go.
790
00:57:39,957 --> 00:57:41,291
There's one right on the edge.
791
00:58:13,657 --> 00:58:17,494
It's the worst thing I've ever filmed.
They're not designed to climb cliffs.
792
00:58:17,577 --> 00:58:20,872
It's the least evolutionary
stable strategy I've ever seen.
793
00:58:22,416 --> 00:58:23,709
I don't understand it at all.
794
00:58:52,362 --> 00:58:53,947
It's just so horrible.
795
00:58:54,031 --> 00:58:55,323
It's just un...
796
00:58:55,407 --> 00:58:57,409
You can't fathom why, how...
797
00:58:57,492 --> 00:59:00,704
It can see the walrus out at sea
and it just wants to go straight to them.
798
00:59:00,787 --> 00:59:03,123
And it has no concept of...
799
00:59:03,206 --> 00:59:04,958
falling, I think, I don't know what it is.
800
00:59:05,542 --> 00:59:07,878
Still really depressing,
but today, I'm just really annoyed
801
00:59:07,961 --> 00:59:10,213
at how ridiculous it is that they just--
802
00:59:10,297 --> 00:59:14,092
They're not being pushed, there's no
stampede. It calmly walked off a cliff.
803
00:59:25,103 --> 00:59:27,314
[Jamie] There's probably two
or three hundred dead walrus
804
00:59:27,397 --> 00:59:29,649
on, like, a half mile
stretch of beach here.
805
00:59:30,567 --> 00:59:32,819
They're exhausted 'cause
they're having to swim 100 miles
806
00:59:32,903 --> 00:59:35,655
to get food and then come back here
'cause it's the only place to sleep.
807
00:59:35,739 --> 00:59:39,534
They used to sleep on the ice, dive down,
eat the food, sleep on the ice, easy.
808
00:59:39,618 --> 00:59:42,537
Now they're swimming a hundred miles,
coming to this place, climbing cliffs,
809
00:59:42,621 --> 00:59:44,581
and they're exhausted
and falling down and...
810
00:59:45,290 --> 00:59:47,834
are either being killed falling
or just crushing each other
811
00:59:47,918 --> 00:59:51,379
'cause there's several thousand
crammed onto little tiny bits of beaches,
812
00:59:51,838 --> 00:59:53,632
and then polar bears
just have a field day.
813
00:59:54,716 --> 00:59:57,844
They're not being attacked by polar bears.
They just fall to their death.
814
00:59:57,928 --> 01:00:00,597
Completely on their own now
'cause they can't get down the cliffs.
815
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:03,600
They're clearly not designed
to climb cliffs.
816
01:00:27,374 --> 01:00:29,584
[Sophie] This is the sad reality
of climate change.
817
01:00:30,961 --> 01:00:33,421
They'd be on the ice right now
if they could be.
818
01:00:33,964 --> 01:00:35,799
But there's no option but to come to land.
819
01:00:37,050 --> 01:00:38,885
And they're just a danger to themselves.
820
01:00:41,054 --> 01:00:43,557
It's really hard to watch
and witness this.
821
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:44,641
It's just...
822
01:00:52,607 --> 01:00:54,484
Thing is, it's not like a...
823
01:00:55,527 --> 01:00:57,362
a quick death, they just, like, tumble...
824
01:00:58,155 --> 01:01:01,158
and they get internal injuries
and they just lie here.
825
01:01:07,247 --> 01:01:08,957
It's just so heart-breaking.
826
01:01:11,585 --> 01:01:12,961
Really sad.
827
01:01:34,024 --> 01:01:36,568
Please visit ourplanet.com
828
01:01:36,651 --> 01:01:39,613
to discover how our planet
can thrive again.
829
01:01:43,241 --> 01:01:49,289
♪ I can hear the whole world
Singing together ♪
830
01:01:51,791 --> 01:01:57,672
♪ I can hear the whole world
Say it's now or never ♪
831
01:02:00,467 --> 01:02:04,846
♪ 'Cause it's not too late
If we change our ways ♪
832
01:02:04,930 --> 01:02:08,683
♪ We can make a start on our problems ♪
833
01:02:08,767 --> 01:02:14,689
♪ I can hear the whole world
We're in this together ♪
834
01:02:14,773 --> 01:02:16,900
♪ We're in this together ♪
835
01:02:17,275 --> 01:02:23,365
[vocalizing]