Name: Fresh Water
Released: 2017-03-10
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, David Attenborough

1) boto

These boto are huge - two and a half meters long.
2) amphipod

There are shrimp-like crustaceans - giant amphipod - as large as mice.
3) clime

In cooler clime, mud, laid down in estuaries,
4) spoonbill

The rose-eared spoonbill is just one of the 650 bird species found in the Pantanal.
5) unstuck

but if these become unstuck,
6) pickings

Pickings are usually thin for the salamanders,
7) wildebeest

Lines of wildebeest are on their march.
8) caiman

Spectacle caiman linger below,
9) downpour

There is a tropical downpour here almost every day of the year.
10) macaque

Crab-eating macaque are mangrove specials.
11) cichlid

There are 850 different cichlid alone,
12) crustacean

There are shrimp-like crustacean - giant amphipods - as large as mice.
13) plateaus

isolated mountain plateaus rising high above the jungle.
14) midge

the larvae of lake fly midge hide out away from predators.
15) prowl

Like packs of sharks, they're on the prowl for sleeping cichlids.
16) shoal

They work together to drive shoal of fish into the shallows.
17) larva

Black fly larva anchor themselves with the ring of hooks,
18) courtship

these bowls are courtship arenas.

1) colonize

is colonize by salt marsh grasses
2) teem

Its tropical waters teem with more fish species
3) condense

and as it cools, it condense into cloud and finally rain -
4) decompose

The water here is just too cold for the bacteria that normally decompose the dead.
5) flatten

The hellgrammite, its body flatten to reduce drag,
6) injure

ready to pick off any injure fish,
7) linger

Spectacle caiman linger below,
8) erode

erode from the Himalayas is delivered to the ocean.
9) flourish

and, despite the harsh conditions, life flourish here in isolation.
10) spoil

he's spoil for choice.
11) migrate

Each year nearly two million animals migrate across the Serengeti plains
12) isolate

isolate mountain plateaus rising high above the jungle.
13) flock

400,000 greater snow geese flock to the estuaries along the Atlantic coast of the United States
14) dominate

Invertebrates dominate these upper reaches.
15) evolve

all of which evolve from just one single ancestor
16) dwarf

but it's dwarf by the world's largest lake -
17) stain

that stain their waters brown.
18) overflow

the Parana river overflow its banks

1) eastwards

Rising in the Peruvian Andes, its main trunk flows eastwards across Brazil.
2) wearily

rivers broaden and flow wearily across their flat flood plains.
3) upwards

On reaching mountains, the moisture is forced upwards
4) wonderfully

Its waters are wonderfully rich.
5) exceptionally

These salamanders have an exceptionally slow metabolism.
6) collectively

Collectively they've worn down mountains
7) inland

is blown inland by wind.
8) nowhere

80 percent of its species are found nowhere else on Earth,
9) gradually

they gradually warm and begin to support more life.
10) actively

the otters will actively harass these great reptiles.
11) locally

known locally as the river tiger.
12) ultimately

All life on land is ultimately dependent upon fresh water.
13) eventually

Eventually, over 4,000 miles from its source,
14) tight

The crocodile's jaws snap tight like a steel trap -
15) smooth

smooth-coated otters form family groups up to 17 strong.
16) relatively

Although relatively lifeless,
17) normally

that normally struggle to support much life.
18) newly

Soon, millions upon millions of newly hatched lake flies

1) dexterous

Maybe each male is trying to show how strong and dexterous he is
2) erosive

they're the most erosive forces on the planet.
3) torrential

by battering wind and torrential rain.
4) indisputable

The planet's indisputable super-river is the Amazon.
5) bushy

has bushy gills to extract oxygen from the current.
6) lifeless

Although relatively lifeless,
7) bellied

Over 300 species breed here, including red-bellied piranha
8) eared

The rose-eared spoonbill is just one of the 650 bird species found in the Pantanal.
9) murky

In these murky waters they rely on sonar to navigate and hunt.
10) amphibious

In Indonesia these monkeys have adopted a unique amphibious lifestyle -
11) unbroken

Its waters drop unbroken for almost a thousand meters.
12) mangrove

Crab-eating macaques are mangrove specials.
13) predatory

After dark, predatory dolphin fish emerge from their daytime lairs among the rocks.
14) thirsty

For these thirsty herds
15) migratory

to rest and refuel on their long migratory journeys.
16) prehistoric

an imagined prehistoric land.
17) icy

They're the only large predator in these icy waters.
18) solitary

Most otters are solitary,

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