BBC’sFrozen Planet IIwill presently make some of Earth ’s frostiest and most outside region approachable from your bread and butter room . The series returns with narrator Sir David Attenborough , who has worked intimately with the BBC ’s Natural History Unit to bring some of the most eye - open moments in wildlife filmmaking account to our television receiver screens ( think back the epiciguana hatchling vs. racer snakessequence ? ) .
It comes 11 twelvemonth afterFrozen Planetfirst aired , and as such , benefits from a leg up in both technology and scientific advances that have add us closer to understanding some of the most inaccessible habitats on the planet , from mountaintops to stock-still comeuppance and the iciest deepness of the sea . Here , producer Alex Lanchester give some insight as to the species and behaviors we can expect to see amidst the ice and snow ofFrozen Planet II .
What can people await from episode one , Frozen Worlds ?
To warm itself up after having to endure freezing night time temperatures, a high-casqued chamelon basks in the sun on the high slopes of Mount Kenya. Image credit: Freddie Claire, Frozen Planet II, BBC Studios
It ’s a journey from the bottom to the top of the planet . Along the way , we ’re revealing the incredible frozen worlds that exist all across it .
Any amusing consequence ?
The Pallas ’s cat . It ’s the fluffiest computerized axial tomography in the world and we have a funniness sequence about it trying to catch gerbille and mess it up . Its paws get so inhuman on the snowfall it has to flap them to get the blood circulate back again . This makes its front known before it can actually swoop .
As the dramatic sequence shows, ice islands can be shattered by orcas' synchronized hunts. Screen grab credt: Frozen Planet II, BBC Studios
Could n’t facilitate detect there ’s a chameleon among the images , what ’s pop off on there ?
We go to Mount Kenya in Africa [ in theFrozen Peaksepisode ] and do a story about a chameleon that can withstand its territory being frozen each night . It ’s actually a story about how they give parturition and we ’ve got very cute , defy baby chameleons that are carry up at 4,000 time , in this world of freeze - thawing that cycle between the two .
Any other telling behavior ?
The series includes footage of beluga whales trapped in an ice hole 20 miles from the next open water in Eastern Russia. Screen grab credit: BBC Studios
Killer whales “ wafture - washables ” … This is an unbelievable piece of behaviour where the killer whale issue forth together as a kinsfolk . Because the seals are hauled up on pieces of ice , they worked out a hunting scheme where they create a wave and rinse the seal off the ice .
It ’s one of the most sophisticated hunting techniques there is . They figure the phone number of seals there are , the sizing of the wave depending on how far off they are , the number of giant require to produce it , etc .
Not unalike to elephant , the knowledge of how to run and the safe places to hunt is stored in the matriarch who take to the woods the mob and can get to over 100 years quondam . She ’s utterly all-important to the whole pod ’s survival of the fittest . We follow her and see how the others must read from her .
Did someone mention twerking pandas ?
[ In Frozen Peaks ( instalment three ) ] we have a panda that seem clearly like it ’s twerking . [ Capturing ] that was a real crusade , you know , three years ’ camera give chase up in the mountains in [ Wolong National Nature Reserve ] in China .
The twerking doings is the male pandas . They care to odor mark off their territories for both other males and females . Each male tries to get their scent eminent and high-pitched up the trees . They ’re efficaciously having peeing contests , but they do it by doing a handstand and because the scent mark is on their bum ’ they ’re constantly wobble their tail higher and high . It looks like some kind of bizarre terpsichore craze .
You had us at twerking coon bear .
The serial publication includes many specie highlights , from the playful side of pivotal bears to an entrapment of beluga whales ( the ilk of which have n’t been caught on camera for over two decades ) and even some serial highlights we ’re not allowed to discuss just yet .
The incredible roster of beast and behaviors , as well as the poignant admonisher it bring about the importance of Earth ’s icy spaces – many of which are under threat from the climate crisis – perhaps explains why Sir David Attenborough himself reportedly discover the series as “ the most important affair ” he ’s been involved with .
Do n’t missFrozen satellite IIavailable on BBC One and iPlayer from September 11 .
