Name: Seasonal Forests
Released: 2017-03-10
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, David Attenborough

1) langur

Chital deer follow the langur monkeys
2) araucaria

araucaria trees or monkey puzzles are like the conifers of the Taiga.
3) crossbill

The crossbill's extraordinary beak
4) capercaillie

The capercaillie can also digest conifer needles
5) pudu

The pudu, the world's smallest deer feeds on the giant leaves of the gunnera plant.
6) bristlecone

Higher up in the nearby mountains, bristlecone pines, the oldest organisms on the planet.
7) pollinator

They kill it's pollinator and rob it of it's nectar
8) treetop

In the treetop, the broad leaves rapidly expand to their full size
9) glutton

and when even a glutton can't eat more
10) baobab

It's now that the baobab trees regrow their leaves
11) harshness

The harshness of the winter here hinders their increasing numbers.
12) vole

in years when the seasonal vole crop is big enough to support them.
13) taiga

not for one month as it does in the Taiga but for half the year.
14) cicada

The nymphs of the periodical cicada have been biding their time.
15) parakeet

Slender billed parakeet rather than crossbills, extract their seeds.
16) loner

There is a loner stocking his larder, who will be the easier target.
17) lemur

The mouse lemur have been hibernating throughout the dry season.
18) alternation

As the alternation of wet and dry seasons brings change to some tropical forests

1) regrow

It's now that the baobab trees regrow their leaves
2) scavenge

Black vultures scavenge from the carcass of a seeker deer
3) overwhelm

With the predators overwhelm the survivors can achieve their purpose.
4) injure

The injure loser may not survive.
5) ooze

Liquid ooze from the flower's center and trickles down the petals
6) trickle

Liquid oozes from the flower's center and trickle down the petals
7) wrestle

For, as the wrestle with the moths, their fur inevitably becomes dusted with pollen
8) overrun

After an absence of seventeen years, the forest is now overrun by cicadas.
9) rouse

and their warmth rouse plants from their winter sleep.
10) stun

Their sheer extent stun the imagination.
11) hinder

The harshness of the winter here hinder their increasing numbers.
12) invade

They invade the upper branches, where they climb out of their external skeletons
13) dictate

so the progression of summer to winter dictate life in more temperate regions.
14) penetrate

and only a few wheeling shafts of light penetrate the woodland.
15) broaden

It's bulk helps to conserve body heat and also broaden it's menu.
16) resemble

The forest resemble a European woodland in mid winter
17) thrive

They thrive here on the pine cones and although these are also seasonal
18) decorate

Their flowers decorate the forest floor

1) rightly

The prehistoric shape of these trees is rightly famous
2) inevitably

For, as the wrestle with the moths, their fur inevitably becomes dusted with pollen
3) permanently

But to live here permanently, the marten needs a more reliable food source.
4) overhead

With no leaves overhead, the rays of the sun strike the forest floor directly
5) surely

Surely among the most magnificent of all living things.
6) hardly

and her infants are hardly bigger than kittens.
7) virtually

The cicadas have no defenses and virtually offer themselves to their attackers.
8) merely

At first, there are merely thousands
9) rapidly

In the treetops, the broad leaves rapidly expand to their full size
10) entirely

and that makes the character of this forest entirely different.
11) underground

After seventeen years underground
12) twice

and may never visit the same patch of forest twice.
13) newly

as they advertise their sweet nectar to the newly emerged insects.
14) ahead

for the cold dark time ahead.
15) nearly

the long, cold wait is nearly over.
16) particularly

With so few prey animals here, life for a hunter is particularly hard.
17) perhaps

Sometimes perhaps, too many.
18) sometimes

Sometimes perhaps, too many.

1) gluttonous

Being gluttonous here is a very effective strategy.
2) inedible

These are as inedible as those in the Taiga
3) primeval

the days are beginning to shorten, and a primeval sound heralds the onset of autumn.
4) sugary

A drink of this sugary energy packed liquid
5) amorous

But, this time, the amorous couple is safe.
6) overpowering

but the heat is overpowering, and it's inhabitants, unfamiliar.
7) coniferous

The deciduous and coniferous woodlands that grow in the seasonal parts of our planet
8) shee

Their shee extent stuns the imagination.
9) leaved

Here, instead of conifers, there are broad leaved trees
10) deciduous

The deciduous and coniferous woodlands that grow in the seasonal parts of our planet
11) unrivaled

The monkeys welcome the deer, for deer are unrivaled at spotting predators.
12) clumsy

The adults are clumsy and very edible.
13) dormant

Dormant throughout the winter, they now undergo
14) barren

The barren snows of the Arctic.
15) relentless

The stream of insects is so relentless
16) temperate

so the progression of summer to winter dictates life in more temperate regions.
17) distracted

Good news for the hunter. A distracted squirrel, is a vulnerable squirrel.
18) irresistible

It's flowers are full of liquid making them irresistible.

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