Name: Jungles
Released: 2017-03-13
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, David Attenborough

1) indri

indri have to find their own way to survive
2) sandspit

ATTENBOROUGH: Leaving Michael and his drone on the sandspit,
3) trespasser

Trespassers won't be tolerated.
4) attenborough

ATTENBOROUGH: A resid ent rat.
5) fingernail

A male, and tiny, no bigger than your fingernail,
6) lifeblood

Rain is the lifeblood of every jungle.
7) tadpole

It's noticed the wriggling tadpole at the bottom of the leaf.
8) beak

Sword-billeds are the only bird with a beak longer than their body.
9) spore

Each releases millions of microscopic spore
10) drone

Michael Sanderson is a drone operator.
11) hectare

one million hectare of the rainforest have been destroyed
12) rodent

Capybara, the biggest rodent in the world.
13) nectar

The top of this flower where the sweet nectar is produced.
14) gecko

A leaf-tailed gecko masquerading as lichen.
15) sonar

carefully using their sonar to scan the forest floor for fish.
16) camouflage

Some animals take camouflage a stage further still.
17) wasp

This wasp is a specialist hunter of frog's eggs.
18) fungus

Fungi, unlike plants,
19) otter

Giant otter, the size of a man.
20) practise

Playing on a practise tree with her older brother and sister,
21) fern

These particular fern, figs and orchids
22) caterpillar

but a poisonous, caterpillar-like beetle.
23) lizard

Only in the jungle do you find lizard that can soar like dragons.

1) drench

The kit is getting drench,
2) tangle

could be anywhere in 1 50,000 square miles of tangle tree tops.
3) soak

and I'm soak through the skin.
4) absorb

and, every day since, it has absorb the water and sunshine it needed
5) breathe

It's as if the trees breathe out clouds.
6) interrupt

Especially when feeding times are only too frequently interrupt by storms.
7) warn

The yellow lights warn other creatures to keep out of its way.
8) adapt

Indri are so closely adapt to living here,
9) reproduce

with which they reproduce.
10) burst

...they burst.
11) knock

JP MAGNAN: If we knock into them,
12) trap

and Michael is trap somewhere down river.
13) succeed

It has succeed in doing what every tree must do to survive.
14) attract

Like a beacon, the light attract insects...
15) gather

They gather over the forest, until, finally...
16) reveal

he reveal a display for her eyes only.
17) destroy

one million hectares of the rainforest have been destroy
18) flood

At the shallow margins of the flood jungle,
19) repeat

Throughout the forest, this story is repeat endless times.
20) catch

Her tail has caught her.
21) push

A land of extremes, that push life to the limit.
22) draw

draw here from the surrounding forest.
23) seek

He seek a different prey.

1) frustratingly

And frustratingly, it can pop up anywhere without warning.
2) invisibly

that drift invisibly away.
3) brightly

He's brightly coloured,
4) incredibly

Incredibly, the un-hatched tadpoles can sense danger,
5) nowhere

found nowhere else on Earth.
6) barely

are barely a day old.
7) literally

The dolphin literally just came up parallel to it.
8) meanwhile

Meanwhile, some of her family have moved on
9) virtually

is virtually invisible.
10) somewhere

and Michael is trapped somewhere down river.
11) carefully

carefully using their sonar to scan the forest floor for fish.
12) eventually

ATTENBOROUGH: Eventually, the dolphin
13) normally

And although storms normally pass quickly,
14) absolutely

His best chance is to stay absolutely still,
15) certainly

Certainly.
16) frequently

Especially when feeding times are only too frequently interrupted by storms.
17) alone

Here they are a hundred species of hummingbirds alone.
18) perhaps

Perhaps he's just a little too keen.
19) finally

But, finally, their luck is in,
20) quite

But now she doesn't seem quite so sure.
21) especially

Especially when feeding times are only too frequently interrupted by storms.
22) recently

and those at the top, the most recently laid,
23) almost

it rains so much that, part of the year, the trees are almost totally submerged.

1) murk

and kind of seen the bodies kind of appear out of the murk
2) unrefined

It's a little unrefined,
3) iridescent

he is a dazzling blaze of iridescent green.
4) artful

But there are more artful hunters
5) feeble

to catch any feeble current there might be
6) elongated

And some flowers are too elongated
7) intimidating

The owner's not only intimidating,
8) irresistible

and the temptation to join the others is irresistible.
9) staggering

a staggering variety of species and countless individuals
10) dazzling

he is a dazzling blaze of iridescent green.
11) elusive

what this elusive animal is really doing.
12) microscopic

Each releases millions of microscopic spores
13) helpless

But these tadpoles are not as helpless as they might appear.
14) lush

Tangled, three-dimensional worlds created by lush tropical vegetation.
15) crowded

Paradise is crowded.
16) stealth

So, to them, the railroad worm in stealth mode
17) abundant

Here, food is so abundant, it supports giants.
18) shallow

At the shallow margins of the flooded jungle,
19) dense

Hunters living in the dense understorey of the jungle
20) waterproof

Waterproof microphones allow the crew to eavesdrop on the dolphins
21) keen

She's keen to join in the game,
22) distant

These forests in Madagascar are home to one of our distant cousins.
23) epic

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