Planet Earth, Sunday 9pm on BBC1

[kyser_soze]

Top show, even tho it dwelled on the Panda (Most Useless Animal In the World(TM)) a fair bit.

My personal fave was the Golden Eagle footage - I love watching birds of prey anytime, but they were magnificent

 

[corporate whore]

Poor pandas. They have it so tough. Only eating bamboo, which doesn't do 'em much good.

Was good again, the perfect easy-watchin' show to end a weekend.

Liked the snow leopard, the migrating cranes and the stuff about Himalayan monsoon creation.

Didn't mind the diary stuff this week, after last-week's gung-ho helicopter action. One man, bored shitless, waiting for one of the world's rarest creatures. Must be such a buzz when he finally got the footage.

 

[Sedgley Warrior]

Superb programme but I still can't watch the killing or sad bits (like the baby elephant who got lost) without squinting through my fingers

 

[mentalchik]

There's a lot of people that absolutely hate Attenborough

Heard some people in the pub watching an Attenborough documentary once and saying that the programme would be alright if it wasn't for Attenborough

(faints in shock)

 

[kyser_soze]

Superb programme but I still can't watch the killing or sad bits (like the baby elephant who got lost) without squinting through my fingers

It's nature boy, face up to it

 

[girasol]

I fell asleep during the snow leopard bit, I was soooo tired!

Will watch again this weekend, on BBC2

 

[Sedgley Warrior]

It's nature boy, face up to it

I will not! All animals should live in harmony and only eat vegetation

 

[kyser_soze]

I will not! All animals should live in harmony and only eat vegetation

I really hope you're joking here...

 

[Sedgley Warrior]

I really hope you're joking here...

Here's a clue - I'm eating a ham sandwich

 

[lighterthief]

For me the footage of the snow leopards was the highlight of the series so far

Agreed. So remote, so rare, so hard to film - I'm finding it odd to reconcile the fact that this was the first time I'd ever seen footage of this animal.

 

[Louloubelle]

Agreed. So remote, so rare, so hard to film - I'm finding it odd to reconcile the fact that this was the first time I'd ever seen footage of this animal.

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also there was something about the cold, the grey, the miserable harsh landscape, the fact that the ground crumbled beneath the feet of every living creature except the leopard, sending even the mountain goats tumbling down the slopes... it was all very alien and could have been another planet to earth

I felt for the man staying on his own in the hut over christmas and new year, I could imagine that a kind of madness might descend on a person in a place like that

 

[treefrog]

Agreed. So remote, so rare, so hard to film - I'm finding it odd to reconcile the fact that this was the first time I'd ever seen footage of this animal.

It was very good footage, but my problem was that there's so much about big cats trying to eat things on the TV all the time that, even though I knew that this was "never seen before footage" it didn't look that different to any other big cat trying to eat things footage that I'd seen before. I know they're amazing animals but I think I'm starting to get BBC Bristol-induced Big Cat Looking Majestic Fatigue...

 

[Louloubelle]

It was very good footage, but my problem was that there's so much about big cats trying to eat things on the TV all the time that, even though I knew that this was "never seen before footage" it didn't look that different to any other big cat trying to eat things footage that I'd seen before. I know they're amazing animals but I think I'm starting to get BBC Bristol-induced Big Cat Looking Majestic Fatigue...

How can you say that?!

Firstly you can NEVER have too much footage of big cats trying to eat things

Secondly the snow leopards look very, very different to african leopards

OK they look vaguely like Amur leopards but you hardly ever see them on TV either do you? eh? eh?

Their fur and markings are different, their faces and eyes are very different and they have a kind of resigned, chilled out way of lounging around that speaks volumes about the fact that there are no lions or hyenas in tibet.

Also they have very long fluffy tails

 

[Louloubelle]

snow leopard .......................................................african leopard

very different animals

sorry to be pedantic, I just love big cats

 

[Louloubelle]

Amur Leopard

Clouded Leopard

 

[Louloubelle]

Leopard for sale on ebay



http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WILD-LEOPARD-...ryZ67212QQssPageNameZWD4VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[sparkling]

The snow leopard was very beautiful and all the more so for being so rare and endangered. I really wanted her to catch something and generally I am on the side of the poor other creature who is about to be eaten.

The giant panda got to me though that beautiful little film of her nursing her infant made me cry...I do hope that baby was one of the rare ones which make it through...why do panda's look so sad?

 

[Crispy]

The giant panda got to me though that beautiful little film of her nursing her infant made me cry...I do hope that baby was one of the rare ones which make it through...why do panda's look so sad?

Cos they got it so....hfff.....snff....hf....baaaad... *uncontrollable sobs*

 

[kyser_soze]

The giant panda got to me though that beautiful little film of her nursing her infant made me cry...I do hope that baby was one of the rare ones which make it through...why do panda's look so sad?

Because it's starting to dawn on them that they've evolved into a useless species - can only eat one thing which gives almost zero nutrition, hardly ever breed, high likelihood of infant mortality...

 

[treefrog]

Because it's starting to dawn on them that they've evolved into a useless species - can only eat one thing which gives almost zero nutrition, hardly ever breed, high likelihood of infant mortality...

they really are evolution's D- student, aren't they?

 

[treefrog]

How can you say that?!

Firstly you can NEVER have too much footage of big cats trying to eat things

Secondly the snow leopards look very, very different to african leopards

OK they look vaguely like Amur leopards but you hardly ever see them on TV either do you? eh? eh?

Their fur and markings are different, their faces and eyes are very different and they have a kind of resigned, chilled out way of lounging around that speaks volumes about the fact that there are no lions or hyenas in tibet.

Also they have very long fluffy tails

Yeah, they might be a bit fluffier but they're still big cats eating things, fighting each other and lounging about the place waiting for Simon King to come along and cream himself in excitement.

I am, and will never be, a cat person.

 

[Louloubelle]

Because it's starting to dawn on them that they've evolved into a useless species - can only eat one thing which gives almost zero nutrition, hardly ever breed, high likelihood of infant mortality...

bit like koalas


only eat eucalyptus which is being destroyed at a phenomenal rate
they're complete wusses and get attacked and killed by domestic dogs all the time
and their numbers are being depleted by a species specific fatal sexually transmitted disease

and let's not forget the flightless parrot the kakapo
very cute, walks very slowly along the ground and is a sitting duck for any passing domestic cat

 

[Louloubelle]

anyway

back to leopards

rare photo of Arabian leopards, critically endangered, only 15 - 20 left in the wild.

Barbary Leopard (I think eating yage) also critically endangered

 

[Louloubelle]

Persian Leopard
critically endangered

Anatolian Leopard nearly extinct

Sri Lankan Leopard
Nearly extinct, insufficient animals survive to create viable gene pool

 

[DexterTCN]

Pandas fuckin annoy me.

Stupid fat bastards sittin on their arses all day eating (panda) chocolate. Now they've lost all their skills and have doomed themselves to extinction.

Snow leopards are chill.

 

[sparkling]

Pandas fuckin annoy me.

Stupid fat bastards sittin on their arses all day eating (panda) chocolate. Now they've lost all their skills and have doomed themselves to extinction.

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Aahh I don't suppose they did it deliberately...you know got up one day and said thats it 'I'm not going to diversify, I am not going to learn how to adapt. Instead I'll sit here where its cold and there aint much food and starve myself out of existence just to piss off that old Dexter.'

You make them sound like some stroppy outreach of Unison.

 

[treefrog]

is it me or this turning into a (big) kitten thread?

 

[Orang Utan]

LaSt night's was ace wasn't it?
Those plucky little otters....

 

[Crispy]

Buggery ballsacks! Missed it last night!

*Goes to huint down the torrent*

 

[souljacker]

LaSt night's was ace wasn't it?
Those plucky little otters....

Who'd of thought that Otter Vs Crocodile would see a win by submission for the otters, eh? I'd have backed the croc every time.