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

Words to remember

Nouns

1) bowerbird

This great bowerbird has spent over a decade
2) langur

A gang of bachelor male langur
3) forefather

He and his forefather, going back five generations,
4) barbel

so they use their barbel to sense the movements of their victims.
5) tonn

ten tonn of its droppings rain down on the city.
6) treetop

and this mother raccoon has exchanged her native treetop for rooftops.
7) aerobatics

How, or indeed why, they perform these marvellous aerobatics,
8) satsuma

I've got this soft satsuma here,
9) macaque

I can't believe these macaque have left the peace and quiet
10) attenborough

ATTENBOROUGH: Along with the rest of the team,
11) inhabitant

The inhabitant of this town believe that hyenas
12) plumage

As the pigeons bathe, oil from their plumage flows downstream,
13) droppings

ten tonnes of its droppings rain down on the city.
14) carnivore

Carnivores,
15) burrow

Crabs now make their burrow directly beneath the beach lights
16) moped

Passed this moped, and we're not stopping.
17) cameraman

cameraman Gordon Buchanan will have to take on
18) bustle

to live in the hustle and bustle of the city.
19) raccoon

and this mother raccoon has exchanged her native treetops for rooftops.
20) cauliflower

LOUIS: We've got a lady with cauliflower
21) peregrine

replicates the conditions in which peregrine evolved.
22) hectare

This number of living trees would normally fill two hectare of woodland,
23) groin

- WOMAN: They did, as a matter of fact. - A cow in the groin?

Verbs

1) disorientate

are now disorientate by the lights of the town.
2) exterminate

Virtually exterminate the local fish stocks...
3) stabilise

Mark will be using a new rig that stabilise the camera
4) deflect

are deflect upwards and can help the birds gain height.
5) replenish

One that guarantee's them a constantly replenish source of food.
6) bathe

As the pigeons bathe, oil from their plumage flows downstream,
7) harass

but a splinter group has looped back and is harass his females.
8) haunt

Eating the bad spirits that haunt the streets.
9) embed

ATTENBOROUGH: They're now fully embed in the troop,
10) replicate

replicate the conditions in which peregrines evolved.
11) lure

lure by the prospect of plentiful unsuspecting prey
12) evolve

replicates the conditions in which peregrines evolve.
13) behave

they behave in a completely different way.
14) realise

MARK: I mean, coming to India, this is what you realise
15) disappear

disappear under a jungle of concrete.
16) fade

As daylight fade, the sky fills with a staggering one million starlings.
17) embrace

and you really embrace it, then this is the reward you get.
18) favour

favour the clever.
19) remind

It remind me of just how easy it is for us
20) predict

In this decade, the urban environment is predict to grow by nearly 30%.
21) retreat

the losers retreat
22) encounter

into the surprising wildlife encounter possible in the city.
23) trap

This one has fallen into a back alley and is trap.

Adverbs

1) demonstrably

Urban raccoons are now demonstrably better
2) vastly

Strange as it may seem, this vastly-altered landscape
3) inevitably

Sometimes, inevitably, there are traffic jams.
4) altogether

working in the urban environment was an altogether different experience.
5) virtually

Virtually exterminated the local fish stocks...
6) aside

- MARK: Just pull me aside. - On your left.
7) definitely

It definitely knows that I'm here.
8) carefully

These varied objects have been carefully chosen
9) eventually

Eventually, en masse, they brave the descent
10) smooth

and smooth-coated otters are coming back.
11) normally

for what is normally a bottom-dwelling fish.
12) forth

After three hours of posturing back and forth,
13) indeed

How, or indeed why, they perform these marvellous aerobatics,
14) nearly

In this decade, the urban environment is predicted to grow by nearly 30%.
15) exactly

And they know exactly how to get there.
16) perhaps

"Perhaps that would look a little better over there."
17) sometimes

Sometimes, inevitably, there are traffic jams.
18) finally

Finally, he manages to expel them all.
19) deep

emerge from the safety of their nest deep in the sand.
20) instead

Instead of going into town to collect new objects,
21) quite

Something is just not quite right here.
22) almost

Leopards have attacked almost 200 people here
23) kind

all this, kind of, human activity,

Adjectives

1) supe

is this grove of supe trees.
2) ceaseless

The ceaseless noise of the city plays to their advantage.
3) outermost

Creepers have been planted to grow over the outermost branches.
4) brazen

Being both intelligent and brazen
5) enterprising

One enterprising species of monkey
6) ferocious

These are wild and ferocious animals,
7) unsuspecting

lured by the prospect of plentiful unsuspecting prey
8) peregrine

And yet, this wild peregrine falcon looks out onto an ideal habitat.
9) prized

He spends two hours each day rearranging his prized objects.
10) monstrous

A monstrous Wels catfish.
11) unnatural

This densely built-up landscape is as unnatural as anywhere on Earth.
12) victorious

He returns home victorious,
13) inventive

And that calls for some inventive rigging.
14) plentiful

lured by the prospect of plentiful unsuspecting prey
15) terrifying

from a terrifying 30 feet up.
16) staggering

As daylight fades, the sky fills with a staggering one million starlings.
17) thriving

This is a thriving population.
18) frightened

They're not frightened of us.
19) risky

Too risky.
20) scarlet

A scarlet heart.
21) abundant

With abundant prey here all year round,
22) spotted

Spotted hyenas.
23) profound

And that has a profound effect on the activities of wildlife.

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