Frozen Planet II 4K UHD

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The series will feature remarkable, new animal behavior from all the continents including the baking plains of Africa and the frozen waters off Antarctica. In Asia, the biggest of all continents, we will showcase life at the extremes, while in Europe we will reveal surprising wildlife dramas hidden right alongside us. The series will celebrate the diversity of life on each of these continents, but also the many challenges faced by animals in a modern world dominated by humanity. Epic landscapes and intimate behavior have been filmed using the very latest techniques, allowing audiences to experience each continent like never before. Rapid ice loss is also happening across the high mountains of the planet’s continents. Glaciologist Hamish Pritchard uses a sophisticated helicopter-strung radar system to try to quantify how much ice is left in the previously uncharted glaciers of the Himalayas. It’s important as, downstream, some 1.2 billion people rely on glacial meltwater as their primary source of fresh water. GPS-programmed drones were used to fly specific routes multiple times to capture changes in the landscape over time, even years, and reveal seasonal changes on the sea ice; Getting to Antarctica is logistically difficult and the Frozen Planet II team economised by keeping crew on the ground longer to cover multiple sequences. The longest filming trip of all was undertaken by Assistant Producer, Yolly Bosiger, who spent three months on location in McMurdo to cover multiple stories. Filming Locations Quirky skeleton shrimp live across the Arctic. This is a species not filmed for television previously.

Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. We meet lonely albatross forming unexpected male-male pairs as there are no longer enough females to bond with, before journeying across the Southern Ocean to meet the largest animal on earth - giant Antarctic blue whales. These are seldom seen, let alone filmed. Under the sea ice we meet a mother Weddell seal who must defend her pup from the attractions of an amorous male Summer is a time of plenty in the Arctic Ocean as plankton blooms feed millions of tiny mouths, such as bizarre skeleton shrimps, as well as the biggest: bowhead whales. These ancient and long-lived whales arrive en masse every year at secret locations known as whale spas. But today, with the loss of summer sea ice, their peace is shattered by orcas from the south. These daring predators are bold enough to take on the much larger bowheads, targeting their vulnerable calves. In extremely remote regions such as the Southern Ocean the light-weight drone was also key to success in capturing cinematic imagery of Antarctic blue whales, made possible only by the support of an Australian Antarctic Division scientific expedition to study these seldom-seen animals. Frozen Planet S2,18-09-2022,Frozen Ocean,2,Crested auklets line up on boulders in St Lawrence Island, Alaska …during early summer hoping to find a potential mate.,BBC Studios,Screen GrabOur hope is that we can show people that the diversity of frozen habitats is huge. There's a frozen habitat on every continent on Earth and we literally cover all the continents in this series. Hopefully people realise that they're much closer to these places than they might think and that there's a greater diversity of life and animals that relies on and lives in these worlds. As a side, hopefully, that will encourage people to keep protecting them. Because climate change doesn't just affect the poles, it also affects all these other frozen worlds around the world. They're all at risk.

With as few as 120 individuals in the wild, the Amur leopard is the rarest big cat in nature. Thanks to the dedication of scientists and rangers in Russia’s Far East, the populations have almost tripled in the last ten years. Cubs are reported each year and there is hope for the recovery of the species. Amur leopards have rarely been filmed in the wild previously.

Episode 1 - Frozen Worlds

The waters surrounding Antarctica may be the richest of all, but they are also home to an exceptionally sophisticated predator, the killer whale. To reach their favoured prey, the Weddell seal, a family of killer whales have learnt to generate their own waves, washing the seals off their ice floes. It’s a technique that has been passed down over generations and is coordinated by the family matriarch, who can be over 100 years old. Caribou, known as reindeer in Northern Europe, are the most widespread terrestrial herbivores in the Arctic and they can live in herds 200,000 strong. Caribou undertake one of the longest land migrations of any mammal, migrating between their winter feeding and summer calving grounds. Over the past two decades overall abundance of reindeer and caribou has declined 56 percent, from a total estimated population of 4.7 million individuals to about 2.1 million individuals. Frozen Planet II has been licensed worldwide by various broadcasters including BBC America in North America, ZDF in Germany, France Télévisions in France, Migu Video in China, NHK in Japan, Friday! in Russia, [6] Mediaset in Italy, [7] KBS in South Korea, [8] and the Nine Network in Australia. [9] A polar bear pouncing to catch her seal prey, hidden under several feet of snow and sea ice (BBC Studios) Leaving Antarctica and travelling north, we discover frozen habitats that are created by altitude. The greatest of these is the Himalayas, the tallest mountain range on earth, which contains so much ice and snow it is known as the third pole. In the shadow of the Himalaya lies a vast frozen grassy plain that is home to the fluffiest cat in the world, Pallas’s cat. It may have extremely dense fur, but if it’s to survive the Mongolian winter, it needs to catch lots of gerbils and voles. Easier said than done when you only have short legs and paws that are sensitive to the cold.