BBC - Life Disc 1: Reptiles and Amphibians (2010)

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Amphibians and reptiles are masters of survival because they’ve devised extraordinary tricks and strategies. A pebble toad escapes a tarantula by curling into a ball and bouncing down a rock face; the basilisk lizard literally runs on water; and a highly venomous sea snake lays its eggs in a safe air-filled cavern underwater. Extreme slow-motion photography reveals an astonishing image of a chameleon snatching insect prey with its extendible, muscle-propelled tongue. In a television first, the episode reveals the savage hunting techniques of the largest lizard on earth, the nine-foot Komodo dragon.
Peter's DVD rating: 4.0 stars
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QH 501.L544 2010
1:10 Komodo Dragon males 9 feet long (Komodo, Indonesia) 4:40 Waterfall Toad free falls from danger. (Brazil and Venezuela) 6:00 Pebble Toad falls and bounces away from Toad Eating Tarantula
9:45 Spectacled Caiman wait for fish (Brazil's Patanal) 12:20 Common Basilisk 13:10 Turkey Vulture
15:15 Brazilian Pygmy Gecko has hydrophobic skin, unsinkable 17:15 Panther Chameleon grabs prey with tongue (Madagascar) 19:50 Namaqua Chameleon female is dark on side facing the sun, mates with male (Namib Desert)
23:50 Red-sided Garter Snake males drink from melting snow and compete to mate with female 26:00 Trickster male gives off female scent to steal heat from other males (Canada) 28:00 Collared Iguana lays batch of eggs in ground, dug up by Malagasy Giant Hognose Snake (Madagascar)
30:20 Horned Lizard female fights off Western Patchnosed Snake from her eggs, plays dead against Coachwhip Snake (Sonoran Desert, Arizona) 33:20 Niue Sea Krait mating then lays eggs in air pocket under tunnel (Pacific island of Niue) 37:30 African Bullfrog digs trench for tadpoles
41:30 Komodo Dragon hunts Water Buffalo      
Varanus komodoensis
1:10 Komodo Dragon males		 Oreophrynella macconnelli
4:40 Waterfall Toad 		Oreophrynella nigra
6:00 Pebble Toad
Tarantula
6:00 Toad Eating Tarantula 		Caiman crocodilus
9:45 Spectacled Caiman 		Basiliscus basiliscus
12:20 Common Basilisk
Cathartes aura
13:10 Turkey Vulture 		Coleodactylus
15:15 Brazilian Pygmy Gecko 		Furcifer pardalis
17:15 Panther Chameleon
Chamaeleo namaquensis
19:50 Namaqua Chameleon 		Thamnophis sirtalis
23:50 Red-sided Garter Snake males		 Garters
26:00 Trickster male
Oplurus cuvieri
28:00 Collared Iguana 		Leioheterodon madagascariensis
28:00 Malagasy Giant Hognose Snake 		Phrynosoma
30:20 Horned Lizard
Salvadora hexalepis
30:20 Western Patchnosed Snake 		Masticophis flagellum
30:20 Coachwhip Snake 		Laticauda schistorhynchus
33:20 Niue Sea Krait mating
Pyxicephalus adspersus
37:30 African Bullfrog 		Varanus komodoensis
41:30 Komodo Dragon 		Bubalus bubalis
41:30 Water Buffalo

Index Feb 19, 2011 CC BY 4.0 Peter Chen 2.0