Remember to check out Sir David Attenborough’s Planet Earth II tonight on Channel 9 at 730pm! Called his defining masterpiece, Sir David is clearly not slowing down anytime soon, even though he’s in his 90s. Via the Daily Telegraph:
The six-episode series, which screens on Channel 9 from February 15, took three years to make across 40 countries and 117 filming trips but as these stunning pictures show, the result has been worth it.
The new series comes a decade after the ground-breaking original and features revolutionary new technology — including drones and miniature low-light cameras — to get viewers closer than ever before to the animals.
“What Planet Earth II is doing is saying ‘Let’s get ourselves into the lives of the animals, and see it from their perspectives,” executive producer Mike Gunton says.
The series is broken into six episodes covering islands, mountains, jungles, deserts, grasslands and, surprisingly, cities.
“The highest concentration of leopards in the world live in a city, Mumbai,” Gunton says.
“Why do these animals do so well?
“It’s because humans bring this incredibly intense concentration of resources, like food and energy. Animals suddenly have the opportunity to piggyback on that.”
The most spectacular scenes take place in the wild as cameras get up close to a lioness stalking her prey in Namibia, tree frogs in Costa Rica, pygmy sloths in Panama, and spider monkeys in Guatemala.