TUNE IN THIS WEEKEND: The Season Finale of BBC America's "Seven Worlds, One Planet" on AMC, SundanceTV, BBC America and IFC this Saturday, February 29!

 

 

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A PAIR OF CHEETAHS TEAM UP TO HUNT PREY TWICE THEIR SIZE, YOUNG CHIMPS LEARN HOW TO FIND FOOD USING NEW TOOLS, THE BROWN HYENA MAKES EPIC TREKS TO THE BEACH TO FEED HER YOUNG, AND SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH STANDS WITH THE WORLD’S LAST TWO LIVING WHITE RHINOCEROS IN “AFRICA”

 

THE FINALE OF BBC AMERICA’S NEW SERIES

SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29TH AT 9:00PM ET/PT

ON BBC AMERICA, AMC, IFC AND SUNDANCETV

 

-Named one of the best new series this year by TV Guide

“Stunning nature documentary footage from across the globe.” - Paste Magazine

Clockwise from left: A male western chimpanzee in the Tai National Park, Ivory Coast; Cheetahs in Kenya, Bull Elephant in Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe; The last two living Northern white rhinoceros on the planet in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya

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The season finale of Seven Worlds, One Planet airs on Saturday, February 29th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on BBC AMERICA, AMC, IFC and SundanceTV. Saturday’s season finale focuses on Africa, home to the greatest wildlife on Earth -- where chimps make tools, cheetah hunt prey twice their size, and in crystal clear freshwater lakes, devious imposters trick caring fish mothers.

Filming First:  In the final epic episode of Seven Worlds, One Planet, film crews capture Sir David Attenborough in Kenya with the last two northern white rhinos on earth.

 

Filming Locations and Species

• Ivory Coast – Western Chimpanzee
• Malawi – Cichlid
• Kenya – Cheetah
• Zambia – Oxpecker
• Namibia – Brown Hyenas
• South Africa – Aardvark & Temmincks Pangolin
• Zimbabwe – African Elephant
• Kenya - Northern White Rhino

 

Fun Facts:

• Brown hyenas are one of Africa’s rarest predators, in a single day they might walk over 20 miles a day.
• Oxpeckers also eat ear wax.
• Cheetahs are the fastest land animal in the world, it can reach 112km/h in just three seconds.
• The Pangolin, otherwise known as the scaly anteater, is the only mammal in the world to be covered from head to toe in keratin scales (the same as human finger nails).
• Chimpanzees use tools to help them get things done.
• Chimpanzees have been known to crack open nuts with rocks, fish out insects from nests and logs using sticks, and shelter from the rain by holding up leaves like umbrellas, use moss like sponges for drinking water.
• Aardvarks are known to eat around 50,000 ants and termites in one night.
• Some African elephant sounds are so low that they are below the range of human hearing, they can also recognize over 100 different friends from their calls alone.

 

Following Emmy award-winning series Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II, Seven Worlds, One Planet tells the story of earth’s seven spectacular continents and how they shape the extraordinary animal behavior and biodiversity we see today. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, and featuring a theme co-composed by Hans Zimmer and Jacob Shea, and series score by Jacob Shea for Bleeding Fingers Music, Seven Worlds, One Planet reveals how each distinct continent has shaped the unique animal life found there. The seven-part series marks the first time BBC Studio’s Natural History Unit has explored all the planet’s continents in a single series. Seven Worlds, One Planet is a BBC Studios Natural History Unit production, co-produced with BBC AMERICA, Tencent Penguin Pictures, ZDF, France Télévisions and China Media Group CCTV9.

TUNE IN THIS WEEKEND: BBC America's "Seven Worlds, One Planet" on AMC, SundanceTV, BBC America and IFC this Saturday, February 15

 

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EUROPE’S ONLY FREE-RANGING PRIMATE ROAMS THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR,

EUROPEAN HAMSTERS BRAWL OVER THE BEST PATCH OF GRAVEYARD FLOWERS,

LYNX LURK IN THE FORESTS OF SPAIN, AND THE ITALIAN MOUNTAIN VILLAGES HOWL AT NIGHTFALL WITH RARELY SEEN WOLVES IN THIS WEEK’S “EUROPE” EPISODE

 

BBC AMERICA’S NEW SERIES

“SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET” CONTINUES

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH AT 9:00PM ET/PT

ON BBC AMERICA, AMC, IFC AND SUNDANCETV

 

Watch a Clip from the “Europe” Episode Here

Clockwise from left: Barbary macaques, Europe’s only free ranging primate; European hamster in Vienna, Austria; Great white pelican in Danube Delta, Romania; Iberian lynx in Spain.

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This week’s all-new episode focuses on Europe, where wildlife survives alongside people. In Gibraltar, a baby monkey is kidnapped, while in the cemeteries of Vienna, grave-robbing wild hamsters fight. In this fairy tale continent, wolves roam at night, howling through the forests of Italy while dragons lurk Slovenian caves and baby bears wander the woods in Finland. Seven Worlds, One Planet continues on Saturday, February 15th at 9:00 pm ET/PT on BBC AMERICA, AMC, IFC and SundanceTV.

Filming First: In the Europe episode, camera crews take audiences into the 12,000 limestone caves in Slovenia to capture a rare creature called the olm, which is a blind salamander that inhabits the area and can go without food for nearly a decade. Using drone technology, the film crew was able to get footage from underground inside the caves, which required expertise in freestyle drone flying to navigate the cave’s strong air currents when location accuracy tools didn’t work underground.

Filming Locations And Species

• Finland – Brown Bear
• Norway – Musk Ox
• Italy – Wolf
• Gibraltar – Barbary Macaque
• Austria – European Hamster
• Hungary – Mayflies
• Romania – Great White Pelican & Cormorant
• Slovenia – Olm
• Spain – Iberian Lynx

 

Fun Facts:

• An olm in Europe can go without a meal for a decade and live for a century.
• Wolves have about 200 million scent cells. Humans have only about five million.
• A hungry wolf can eat 20 pounds of meat in a single meal, which is akin to a human eating one hundred hamburgers.
• When a European hamster needs to swim it inflates its cheek pouches with air for increased buoyancy.
• Mayflies have been around for some 350 million years. This means that they existed even before the dinosaurs and survived the K-T Extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs.
• Iberian lynxes have amazing eyesight and can spot a mouse even from a distance of 250 feet.
• Europe is home to around 747 million people.
• Trillions of charged particles react with the Earth’s atmosphere to make the northern lights.
• Over 12,000 caves have been discovered in Slovenia’s Karst region alone.

 

Following Emmy^®-winning series Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II, Seven Worlds, One Planet tells the story of earth’s seven spectacular continents and how they shape the extraordinary animal behavior and biodiversity we see today. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, and featuring a theme co-composed by Hans Zimmer and Jacob Shea, and series score by Jacob Shea for Bleeding Fingers Music, Seven Worlds, One Planet reveals how each distinct continent has shaped the unique animal life found there. The seven-part series marks the first time BBC Studio’s Natural History Unit has explored all the planet’s continents in a single series. Seven Worlds, One Planet is a BBC Studios Natural History Unit production, co-produced with BBC AMERICA, Tencent Penguin Pictures, ZDF, France Télévisions and China Media Group CCTV9.

TUNE IN THIS WEEKEND: BBC America's "Seven Worlds, One Planet" on AMC, SundanceTV, BBC America and IFC this Saturday, February 8

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YETI-LIKE SNOW MONKEYS IN THE REMOTE FORESTS OF CHINA,

A CAMOUFLAGE PREDATOR LURKS IN THE DESERT OF IRAN

AND THE MOST ENDANGERED SPECIES OF RHINOCEROS, THE SUMATRAN RHINO

FEATURED IN THIS WEEK’S “ASIA” EPISODE

 

BBC AMERICA’S NEW SERIES

“SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET” CONTINUES

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH AT 9:00PM ET/PT

ON BBC AMERICA, AMC, IFC AND SUNDANCETV

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Clockwise from left: Whale Shark feeding; Snub Nosed Snow Monkeys in Shennongjia, China; A Sumatran rhino, one of the world’s rarest animals, surveys her forest home in Indonesia; A male Sarada lizard on India’s high plateaus displays in the hopes he will be noticed by a female.

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This week’s all-new episode focuses on Asia, the world’s largest continent. In the frozen north, walruses congregate in extraordinary numbers, bears gather inside volcanoes and yeti-like monkeys fight in the remote forests of China. In the tropical south - the last few Sumatran rhino roam and the world’s most bizarre predator lurks in Iran.  Seven Worlds, One Planet continues on Saturday, February 8th at 9:00 pm ET/PT on BBC AMERICA, AMC, IFC and SundanceTV.

Filming First: The highest mountain ranges in central China are remote, and to date, have been largely inaccessible to film crews. Yet for hundreds of years stories of the “Yeti,” a golden snub-nosed monkey, have emanated from this region. BBC captured footage for the first time of these incredible creatures with bright blue faces and golden coats who spend a lot of their time walking upright just like humans.  These monkeys are the “holy grail” for Sir David Attenborough who first learned about them in the 1960s.

Filming Locations and Species:

●  Russia – Pacific Walrus & Polar Bear

●  Russia – Kamchatka Brown Bear

●  China – Snub Nosed Snow Monkey

●  Iran – Spider Tailed Horned Viper

●  India – Sarada Lizard

●  Borneo, Indonesia – Orangutan

●  Sumatra, Indonesia – Sumatran Rhinoceros

●  Papua, Indonesia – Whale Shark

Fun Facts:

●  The blue-faced golden coated snub-nosed snow monkey has a coat that is 16cm long. To avoid freezing to death these monkeys huddle closely for warmth.

●   The whale shark is almost 20m long – the largest fish in the world.

●  Polar bear fur is translucent, and only appears white because it reflects visible light. Beneath all that thick fur, their skin is jet black.

●  Male Kamchatka brown bears can reach a weight of 700 kilograms, and are among the largest bears in the world.

●  Orangutans have the ability to self-medicate.

●  Northern Asia has temperatures that can drop below minus sixty degrees Celsius.

●   Two million square miles of northern Russia are locked beneath ice.

●   Kamchatka has the highest density of active volcanoes on the planet.

●   The Himalayas are the tallest mountains on the planet.

●   The Lut Desert in Iran has temperatures that can reach 70 degrees Celsius.

Following Emmy^®-winning series Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II, Seven Worlds, One Planet tells the story of earth’s seven spectacular continents and how they shape the extraordinary animal behavior and biodiversity we see today. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, and featuring a theme co-composed by Hans Zimmer and Jacob Shea, and series score by Jacob Shea for Bleeding Fingers Music, Seven Worlds, One Planet reveals how each distinct continent has shaped the unique animal life found there. The seven-part series marks the first time BBC Studio’s Natural History Unit has explored all the planet’s continents in a single series. Seven Worlds, One Planet is a BBC Studios Natural History Unit production, co-produced with BBC AMERICA, Tencent Penguin Pictures, ZDF, France Télévisions and China Media Group CCTV9.

TUNE IN THIS WEEKEND: BBC America's "Seven Worlds, One Planet" on AMC, SundanceTV, BBC America and IFC this Saturday, February 1.

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GUANACOS IN THE ANDES, A FEMALE PUMA ON THE HUNT AND ONCE THOUGHT TO BE EXTINCT PINOCCHIO LIZARDS STAR IN THIS WEEK’S

 “SOUTH AMERICA” EPISODE

BBC AMERICA’S NEW SERIES “SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET” 

CONTINUES SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST AT 9:00PM ET/PT 

ON BBC AMERICA, AMC, IFC AND SUNDANCETV

Clockwise from left: Guanacos in The Andes, Chile; A pair of red and green macaws perch on a branch in the Amazon rainforest in Peru. Bonded for life a pair might stay together for up to 40 years; A female puma on the hunt in Torres del Paine, National Park, Chile; The aptly named Pinocchio lizard was lost to science for over 50 years and thought extinct. It has since been rediscovered in one tiny patch of cloud forest in Ecuador.

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This week’s all-new episode focuses on South America, the most species rich continent on Earth. In the Andes, pumas hunt guanaco while rarely seen bears search for mini avocados.  In the Amazon, poison dart frogs care for their babies, colorful macaws eat clay and birds make death-defying flights through a gigantic waterfall. Seven Worlds, One Planet continues on Saturday, February 1st at 9:00 pm ET/PT on BBC AMERICA, AMC, IFC and SundanceTV. 

Filming First: During the filming of South America, camera crews for the first time captured multiple Andean bears feeding in a single tree 90 feet high in the cloud forest.

Filming Locations and Species:

• Chile – Puma & Guanaco
• Peru – Humboldt Penguin & Sea Lion
• Ecuador – Andean Bear 
• Columbia – Cotton Topped Tamarin
• Brazil – Blue Manakin
• Peru – Poison Dart Frog
• Peru – Scarlet Macaw
• Brazil – Piraputanga, Brown Capuchin & Anaconda
• Brazil/Argentina – Swifts

Fun Facts:

• Poison dart frog adult males are no bigger than a human thumbnail.
• Scarlet macaw couples bond for life and may stick together for over 40 years.
• Anacondas are the largest of all snakes and grow over two hundred kilos.
• Pumas live further south than any other cat in the world and can run up to 80kmph.
• Guanacos can walk within five minutes of being born.
• Eyes and nostrils on the top part of an anacondas head allow them to remain almost fully submerged in the water and can remain submerged for up to ten minutes at a time.
• Patagonia to Venezuela is the world’s longest mountain range.
• Angel Falls is the highest waterfall in the world, almost a km from top to bottom.
• The Amazon carries more water than the world’s next seven biggest rivers combined.
• Up to 20 million litres of water tumble over the Iguazu falls every second.

Following Emmy^®-winning series Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II, Seven Worlds, One Planet tells the story of earth’s seven spectacular continents and how they shape the extraordinary animal behavior and biodiversity we see today. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, and featuring a theme co-composed by Hans Zimmer and Jacob Shea, and series score by Jacob Shea for Bleeding Fingers Music, Seven Worlds, One Planet reveals how each distinct continent has shaped the unique animal life found there. The seven-part series marks the first time BBC Studio’s Natural History Unit has explored all the planet’s continents in a single series. Seven Worlds, One Planet is a BBC Studios Natural History Unit production, co-produced with BBC AMERICA, Tencent Penguin Pictures, ZDF, France Télévisions and China Media Group CCTV9.