Planet Earth, the groundbreaking series that has taken the world by storm, celebrates earth as never before. With an unprecedented production budget, the BBC Natural History Unit traveled to over 200 locations around the world armed with revolutionary high-definition cameras and captured animal behavior never filmed before. This Emmy® award-winning production, narrated by David Attenborough, took over five years to make, and is truly the most spectacular portrait of our planet.
'A tour de force...a masterpiece' - The New York Times
'Simply radiant' - Entertainment Weekly
'Breathtaking' - Time Magazine
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From space they appear lifeless, yet a closer look reveals a very different picture: deserts, in fact, are surprisingly varied... Meet the wild bactrian camels that eat snow, and the guanacos that lick dew off cacti in the deserts of Chile.
The Cave of Swallows in Mexico is a 400-meter vertical shaft. It's deep enough to engulf the Empire State Building yet few people even know of its existence...
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