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The Private Life of Plants
(David Attenborough series)
DVD
292 minutes
1995
QH309 .D38 2003 pt.1
In The Private Life of Plants, David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no unaided eye could witness. He shows us the struggles of plants to survive in a story that is full of extraordinary drama and breath-taking beauty.
Each programme in this six-part series focuses on one of the crucial stages through which every plant must pass if it is to survive: - travelling, growing and flowering; struggling with one another; creating alliances with other organisms both plant and animal; and evolving complex ways of surviving in the earth's most ferociously hostile environments.
To make this series, Attenborough and his team travelled to all corners of the globe, from the tropical jungles of Borneo to the harsh deserts of Africa, from the high mountains to the thickest swamps. Using time-lapse photography and state-of-the-art techniques specially developed for the series, he shows us plant life in action as it has never been seen before.
Distributed by BBC-TV (www.bbc.co.uk/sn)
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