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Nature’s Most Ingenious Hunters With Sir David Attenborough In 4K | BBC Earth
Nature’s Most Ingenious Hunters With Sir David Attenborough In 4K | BBC Earth
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But leopards are the most versatile of
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all the big cats,
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adept at finding cover in the most
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unpromising places.
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The steep walls of the gully are now her
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cover
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for an ambush.
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The male puku is close enough, but he's
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too big to tackle.
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She needs to slip past him
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without being seen.
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If he spots her, he'll blow her cover.
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Slowly does it.
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To succeed here, she needs to find prey
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grazing close to the edge.
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Or better still, in the gully itself.
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>> Frustration.
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Success would have staved off hunger for
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a week.
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But while there's prey around, there's
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hope.
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Peeking over the top is a risk,
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but it's the quickest way to find a new
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target.
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>> [music]
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>> A burst of speed of 65 km an hour, and
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it's all over in less than 6 seconds.
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Except
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it isn't.
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Dazed and disorientated, the impala
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makes a miraculous escape.
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>> Northern Australia has the highest tides
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in the tropics, which expose vast areas
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of shoreline.
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And here lives a truly extraordinary
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species
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of octopus.
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>> [groaning]
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>> Octopuses are marine animals. They live
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and breathe underwater.
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At low tide, most octopuses will be
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imprisoned in their rocky pools.
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But this is no ordinary octopus.
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It's the only one specially adapted to
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walk on land.
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It pulls itself along using the hundreds
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of tiny suckers that line its arms.
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Hunting for crabs, it walks from pool to
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pool.
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Apart from a rather startled fish,
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this one is empty.
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So, the octopus moves on.
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A rock pool may seem like a safe refuge.
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But, the octopus's suckers enable it to
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move just [music] as stealthily in water
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as out of it.
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Nowhere is safe when this octopus is
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around.
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It's called
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bark spider and the female has a
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remarkable strategy.
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Like a real-life spider-woman,
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she sprays strands of silk in one long
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continuous flow.
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>> [music]
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>> The threads fan out like a sail and
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drift on air currents blowing across the
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water.
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Every few seconds, she crimps the
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strands together to stop them spreading
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too widely.
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The breeze will do the rest,
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blowing the threads into a single line
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and a 25-m bridge.
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Now, she must reinforce her bridge
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because her web will hang from it.
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But there's something bouncing the line
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[music] at the other end.
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Another Darwin spider is trying to take
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advantage of her hard work.
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She must deal with the intruder head-on.
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The cut line is an inconvenience, but no
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more than that.
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With hooks on the tips of each leg, she
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gathers in the thread.
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It won't go to waste as she'll eat it
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later.
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>> [music]
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>> When it's all reeled in, she sprays
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again.
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Out streams another 25 m bridging line.
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How a spider, no bigger than a
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thumbnail, can produce so much silk so
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quickly has baffled scientists.
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And it's no ordinary silk. It's the
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toughest natural fiber on the planet,
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tougher than steel.
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And it needs [music] to be tough to span
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the wide river.
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With the bridge taut and the ground
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anchor in place,
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it's time to construct her trap.
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These spiders [music] can build the
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world's largest orb webs, up to 2 m
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wide.
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A few hours from [music] the first spray
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of bridging line,
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the job is done.
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Now, her strategy is simple.
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Sit and wait.
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And there's one final bout of silk
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production.
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Shrink-wrapping her food for later.
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Hunting is only possible for 3 hours
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around low tide when the mud banks are
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exposed.
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Razor sharp oysters cover much of the
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shore.
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Beaching here could be lethal.
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The hunters need to find a stretch of
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shoreline with just the right slope.
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Too level and the dolphins risk
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stranding.
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Too steep and they can't force their
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prey from the water.
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Working as a team, the dolphins surround
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the fish driving them towards the shore.
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Attacking in perfect synchrony, the
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dolphins create a bow wave.
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>> [music]
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>> It carries their prey onto the muddy
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banks.
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>> Other fish eaters profit from their
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daring.
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Herons and gulls follow every hunt.
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To get to the fish first, the dolphins
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drive themselves high up the bank.
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But if they go too far, they risk the
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stranding.
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>> [music]
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>> To prevent fish escaping between them,
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the dolphins all beat themselves [music]
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on the same side.
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Always the right.
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But this has a cost. Each time they grab
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a fish, they also take in a mouthful of
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mud.
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The grit gradually wears down their
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teeth.
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But on one side only.
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In time, these teeth get so worn down
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that older dolphins can no longer hunt
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like this and must find other ways to
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catch fish.
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>> The army [clears throat] ant.
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>> This may look [music] like a ball of a
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million individuals, but make no
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mistake.
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The colony acts as one.
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A superorganism with a sensory system of
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2 million antennae.
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A skeleton made from the living bodies
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of workers.
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A defense system of soldier ants
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ready to act at any sign of danger.
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A digestive system processing piles of
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food deep inside.
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Even a coordinated [music] system for
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dealing with all the waste.
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These are insects that [music] by
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working together transcend individual
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size.
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The colony can search the [music] entire
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jungle
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and flush out its wildlife.
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Each day it sends [music] out a silent
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probe into the forest
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in quest of food.
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It doesn't use scouts like other ants.
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Instead, a vast search party pushes into
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virgin territory
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seeking out the signs of anything alive.
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They spread out along a 10-m front,
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sweeping across the forest floor.
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To find prey, the ants must first touch
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it.
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The irony is that this, the most
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successful hide-and-seek player in the
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forest, is almost [music] completely
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blind.
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It distinguishes the living only by
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their movement.
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As long as an animal remains still, it
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is safe.
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But the slightest twitch will give it
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away.
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>> [music]
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>> Within seconds, the prey is pinned down.
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Within minutes, it's torn apart at its
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joints.
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>> [music]
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>> The more the prey struggles, the more
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the ants engage.
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>> [music]
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>> Right across the raid front, prey of all
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sizes are driven from their hiding
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places.
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Even wasps must abandon their homes when
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the ants arrive.
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Everything alive in the path of the
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raiders
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overwhelmed
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by sheer numbers.
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Food is so hard to find this far north
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that a wolf pack must search hundreds of
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square kilometers if it's to be
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successful.
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And success means raising [music] the
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next generation.
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To do that here, the wolves must work
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together.
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So, the young are raised not only by
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their parents, but by their aunts and
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uncles as well.
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Together, they try to ensure that each
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pup reaches near adult size before the
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snow returns.
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A growing pup needs more than just a few
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lemmings.
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The wolves need bigger prey, and to
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catch that,
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they must hunt as a pack.
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>> [music]
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>> Adult hares may be easy to spot,
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but they're far from easy to catch.
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They run at 60 km an hour.
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To catch one, the wolves work as a team.
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>> One of them gets close enough to bite
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the hare's tail.
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>> [music]
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>> But a hare can change direction in an
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instant.
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If it can continue [music] to sidestep
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and it may ultimately outlast
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them.
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Finally, it gets away.
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For the next hare, the whole pack gives
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chase.
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Now, numbers count.
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The lead wolves keep up the pace. Others
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run on either side so the hare can't
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change [music] direction.
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A tiny meal for the whole pack.
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>> Mhm.
