“There’s nowhere else on earth with so many untold tales,” says Planet Earth: Asia host and famend naturalist David Attenborough, introducing his landmark six-part documentary about Asia’s pure wonders, together with lion cubs in India’s Thar Desert. Producer Matthew Wright shares 5 wild moments from the present.
1. Sharks searching a college of Moorish idols within the Western Pacific.
“It’s one of many biggest wildlife spectacles I’ve ever seen,” Wright says of the sequence within the premiere episode, “Beneath the Waves.” The college of fish’s tight formation deters sharks, who nonetheless determinedly choose them off for hours. Solely the wiliest survive. It was too harmful for divers to movie, so crews used drones and a digital camera bolted to a ship hull.
2. Markhor goats flirting in northern Pakistan.
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In a distant spot close to Afghanistan’s border seldom visited by movie crews, Wright says they captured “memorable battles between markhor goats and surprising moments of comedy when males waggle their tongues to draw females” for the second episode, “Above the Clouds,” airing February 1.
3. Birds consuming icicles in Japan.
“The photographs are of such beautiful magnificence,” Wright marvels, describing the breathtaking scenes in February 8’s “The Frozen North.” With wintertime meals in brief provide, birds get nourishment from tree sap captured in icicles. A high-speed digital camera caught the footage.
4. A tiger stalking prey in Nepal.
Uncommon permission to make use of drones meant, Wright reveals, “we may showcase tigers mating, bathing, taking part in and even searching from above.” These segments are within the mesmerizing “Tangled Worlds,” February 15.
5. The uncommon Gobi bear thriving in Mongolia.
“It’s an amazing portrait of one in all [the world’s] rarest creatures,” Wright says a couple of transferring scene from March 1’s finale, “The Arid Coronary heart.” The huge Gobi Desert was peppered with cameras to seize footage of the less than 40 bears. “They even managed to movie a cub, which represents hope for this species.”
Planet Earth: Asia, Sequence Premiere Saturday, January 25, 8/7c, BBC America