Secrets of Our Living Planet
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- Episode
- Ep2 - The Secret of the Savannah
- Broadcast Info
- 2012 (59 mins)
- Description
- A groundbreaking, global nature series with Chris Packham. Each week Chris visits some of our planet’s most vital and most spectacular habitats and dissects them, to reveal the secrets of how the natural world works together. Chris shows us why the real beauty in nature is not just in the wonder of individual animals, but in the amazing, even bizarre, connections between species: Relationships that we’d never imagine, but without which, life couldn’t survive. Like why a tiger needs a crab; or why a gecko needs a giraffe. In The Secret of the Savannah, Chris travels to some of the planet’s greatest grasslands: Places which flourish, despite a shortage of one particular vital nutrient - nitrogen. Without it, nothing can live or grow, yet grasslands are home to the most spectacular land animals on the planet. Travelling to the savannah of East Africa, the Cerrado of Brazil and the grasslands of Eastern Australia, Chris reveals how animals do it. There is the wolf that does its own gardening, the gecko that depends on a giraffe... and the rhino’s answer to Facebook. And then there is the big secret - hiding underground.
- Genre
- Natural History
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The Open University, "Secrets of Our Living Planet". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/82995 (Accessed 19 Aug 2026)