A week or two ago I mentioned the introductory episode of the new BBC nature documentary, Life, once more narrated by David Attenborough. The first proper episode concerns reptiles and amphibians. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the tiniest gecko walking on water without ever sinking; an inch-long pebble toad bouncing like a rubber ball off a rocky cliff when ambushed by a tarantula; a single South-African male bullfrogs digging a channel to save the entire tadpole population in the pool; a basilisk lizard skittering over the river water to avoid get caught by a buzzard; a female chameleon catching beetles with her tongue while looking for a mate in the Namib desert; thousands of male garter snakes competing over women; caimans trapped in pools of a vast Brazilian swamp. And when you’re talking about reptiles, you’re obviously going to talk about Komodo dragons – the largest reptiles in existence. Just how marvelous this show is we learn when we witness a group hunt of these dragons, felling a water buffalo with their venomous bite – a hunt never before captured on film. Need I urge you to check this out? No, I don’t.
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