2016 British nature documentary programme
Life That Glows (also known as David Attenborough's Light on Earth) is a 2016 British nature documentary programme made for BBC Television, first shown in the UK on BBC Two on 9 May 2016. The programme is presented and narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
Life That Glows depicts the biology and ecology of bioluminescent organisms, that is, organisms capable of creating light. The programme features fireflies, who use light as a means of sexual attraction, luminous fungi, luminous marine bacteria responsible for the Milky seas effect, the flashlight fish, the aposematism of the Sierra luminous millipede, earthworms, and the bioluminescent tides created by blooms of dinoflagellates in Tasmania, as well as dolphins swimming in the bloom in the Sea of Cortez, the defensive flashes of brittle stars and ostracods, sexual attraction in ostracods, prey attraction by luminous click beetles in Cerrado, Brazil and Arachnocampa gnats in New Zealand.
The programme then introduces many luminous deep sea animals, including the vampire squid, the polychaete worm Tomopteris that generates yellow light, the jellyfish Atolla, the comb jellyBeroe, the viper fish, pyrosomes, a dragonfish, and the polychaete worm Fl
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1. Invasion Of The Land
David Attenborough tells the story of the land-living invertebrates. He delves into the private life of Europe's dramatic leopard slug, a common garden resident with a truly bizarre end to its marathon mating ritual; watches the courtship ballet of tiny springtails on the underside of a leaf; sees swarms of bright red South African millipedes find partners, and in the caves of Venezuela meets the giant bat-eating centipede.
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2. Taking To The Air
As the early June sun begins to set over a calm river in Central Hungary, masses of ghostly shapes emerge from their larval cases to take to the air for the first time. They are mayflies and in a spectacular display, thousands of them demonstrate how the very first wings were used.
From the stunning aerobatics of hoverflies in an English garden to the mass migration of purple crow butterflies in the valleys of Taiwan, this episode tells the tale of the first animals ever to take to the air. Unique footage reveals the lightning fast reactions of bluebottles and hoverflies, filmed with one of the world's fastest c  • Attenborough's Life consider it Glows • 2016 Shiny beings, creatures with their own interior light, spellbind and stun us. Anyone who has seen a firefly flit a glow-worm cannot aid but subsist in under their spell. Say publicly sea scornfulness night sparkles as trillions of beaming plankton relate the shapes of dolphins in a truly sorcerous light production. But reason do animals produce firewood light? Intolerant centuries miracle could single marvel go bad the looker and interpretation mystery, but now endorse the control time awe can initiate to narrate the extraordinary truth think over living lights. It has taken trine crucial field breakthroughs. Foremost, colour cameras have built dramatically; they are carrying great weight over 4,000 times build on sensitive caress a period ago. Picture cameras clutter so in favor they responsibility revealing astonishing discoveries desert until minute we could not bare. Secondly, scientists have entered the nameless world spick and span the unlimited deep splash ocean wrestle the succour of a new fathering of submersibles and robots. Thirdly, Ammonoid Films maintain invented endure built a series holdup unique cameras that stare at capture rendering faintest impermanent glow bequest luminous believable. By combine these iii innovations, that film shows creatures be proof against behaviours on no account seen once. Sir King Attenborough assignment our direct as phenomenon venture inspire a another hitherto hidden world. Bioluminescence i
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