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Powerful forces make the islands
between Australia and Asia
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among the biologically richest
on Earth.
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One force
rules above all others,
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its daily rhythm so powerful,
all life must adapt.
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It turns rain forest trees
into towering giants,
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and others
into stealthy killers.
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Strange creatures hide
in its shadows,
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while others bask
in its life-giving energy.
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It's the awesome power
of the tropical sun.
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♪ ♪
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[gibbon singing]
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Life here follows
a daily rhythm,
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millions of years in the making.
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[gibbon singing]
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A constant cycle
driven by a celestial force.
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Families of gibbons declare
their ownership
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of the treetops through song.
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[gibbon singing]
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[gibbon singing]
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Sound travels farthest
in the still, cool air of dawn.
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[singing]
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The song of the gibbon heralds
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the most powerful force to rule
these ancient rain forests--
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the tropical sun.
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[singing]
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[singing]
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♪ ♪
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These islands stretch
along the equator...
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...with the sun rising
at the same time every day.
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Part of a timeless cycle.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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The plants and animals
of the rain forest
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depend on this one force
more than any other.
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The trees, subjects of the sun,
need its energy to grow.
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Already, billions of leaves
release water vapor
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as they trap
its life-giving rays.
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The sun will grow ever more
powerful as the day advances.
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Beneath the canopy,
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the early morning
is a busy time.
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The sun's green realm
is so complex
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that this young
Sumatran orangutan
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will spend as many as nine years
learning from his mother,
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the longest childhood of any
primate other than ourselves.
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An important day of lessons
is just getting started.
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Sumatran orangutans are the most
arboreal of the great apes.
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This newborn will spend
his whole life in the treetops.
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He'll need to learn
how to navigate safely.
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Mom moves only one limb
at a time.
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It gives her the balance to walk
the trickiest of tightropes.
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♪ ♪
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Orangutans are unique
among primates
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in the way they move
between trees.
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Instead of jumping,
she takes her time,
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using her weight to bridge gaps.
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♪ ♪
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In their years together,
mom will teach him
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all about life
beneath the sway of the sun...
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...for theirs
is a complex world,
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one filled with giants.
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Here, a single family of trees
dominates,
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and it has
for millions of years--
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the dipterocarps.
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♪ ♪
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There are hundreds of species,
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and in places,
they dominate the canopy.
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Like most trees,
the fight for life
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begins in the forest's
dark depths.
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As morning wears on,
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sunlight penetrates the shadows,
but fleetingly.
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Down here, plants have
only minutes each day
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to extract what energy they can.
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Young dipterocarps
play a waiting game.
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They can survive many years
hardly growing,
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waiting for a gap to open up
in the canopy
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to give them
their moment in the sun.
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♪ ♪
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These tall trees can stretch
more than 150 feet into the sky.
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To outcompete other trees,
they put more of their efforts
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into growing
their enormous trunks.
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Dipterocarps are the tallest
tropical trees on Earth,
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powered by competition
for the mighty sun.
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♪ ♪
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The first branches appear
only toward the very top,
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maximizing the exposure of
every leaf to the sun's energy.
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♪ ♪
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Such is the battle for light
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that the majority of life
is found up here in the canopy.
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But to live
in a forest of giant trees,
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animals require
extraordinary adaptations.
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While hot-blooded mammals like
Sumatran orangutans rise early,
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this reptile is spending
his morning basking in the sun.
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This is the Draco lizard.
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♪ ♪
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His dark skin helps absorb
more of the sun's energy.
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But warming up has a downside.
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He's a sitting target.
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♪ ♪
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Paradise tree snakes
like to eat Draco lizards.
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♪ ♪
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Time for a speedy exit.
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The trouble is,
the crowns of the giant trees
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all stand at different heights.
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There can be huge gaps
between them.
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It's easy
to get cornered up here.
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♪ ♪
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But not for the Draco.
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♪ ♪
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He can fly to safety...
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...though the chase
doesn't end there.
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In these forests,
even snakes fly.
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Wildlife here have
brilliant ways of surviving
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among the giant dipterocarps.
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♪ ♪
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But they're not alone
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when it comes
to clever survival tactics.
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In the struggle
to compete for sunlight,
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one rain forest plant has
evolved into a stealthy killer.
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It begins life high among
the dipterocarp's branches.
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But it needs more nutrients
than can be found here.
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While most trees grow
toward the light,
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this one reaches
into the darkness.
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♪ ♪
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Its roots travel downward
more than 150 feet...
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...a journey
that may take years.
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Right now, there's
no obvious threat to the host.
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But once the roots penetrate
the soil, everything changes.
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Fueled by water
and nutrients from the ground,
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the roots thicken.
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The plant sends down
more and more roots.
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Wherever they touch,
they fuse together.
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♪ ♪
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By now, the dipterocarp's fate
is sealed.
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It's in the grip
of a strangler fig.
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Over the years,
the roots choke the host.
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Outcompeted and unable to grow,
the giant is defeated.
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This will be its tomb.
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Years later,
a few shards of rotting wood
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are the only clues that
a huge tree once stood here.
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The strangler,
supported by its own roots,
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stands over the dipterocarp's
decaying remains...
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...a victor in the eternal
struggle for the sun's energy.
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A fruiting fig tree draws in
animals from across the forest.
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All who come to dine here
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will provide a vital service
for the strangler
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by helping spread its seed
through the canopy.
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A single tree produces as much
as a half a million fruits...
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...yet so many animals
visit the banquet
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that the tree can be stripped
bare within a week or two.
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♪ ♪
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Making the most
of this food source
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is a crucial lesson
for any young orangutan.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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But this morning, the chance
to feed is coming to an end.
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It's approaching midday.
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In the exposed high canopy,
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the temperature is already
well over 85 degrees.
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♪ ♪
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The sun is beginning
to overwhelm.
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♪ ♪
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As it grows stronger, the trees
risk losing too much water.
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They begin to shut down.
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Now directly overhead,
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the all-powerful sun beats down
on the ancient rain forest.
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♪ ♪
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Its subjects must protect
themselves from its might.
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With the sun directly overhead
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and bearing down mercilessly
on the rain forest,
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activity comes to a stop.
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Orangutans head below the canopy
in search of relief.
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They retreat to their nests
to wait out the heat.
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♪ ♪
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The day's lessons
are now on hold.
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Everyone needs to conserve
their energy during these hours,
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including the area's
biggest male.
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♪ ♪
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Despite the conditions,
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one female
is still up and about.
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♪ ♪
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She seems interested
in the male.
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♪ ♪
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Orangutans are
largely solitary animals.
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And encounters like this one
are rare.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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The male seems to have
only one thing on his mind--
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that's keeping cool.
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The sun draws up so much water
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that as afternoon arrives,
clouds form.
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They build and build,
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till they burst.
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[thunder]
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[thunder]
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Four inches of rain
can fall in just two hours.
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One remarkable plant
turns rainfall to its advantage.
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Gracilis is a carnivore
that preys on insects.
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It lures victims with nectar,
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offered on the underside
of its lid.
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It's an easy meal
for a hungry ant,
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but those who visit
risk their lives.
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There's enough grip to hang on,
but only just.
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It takes one direct hit.
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♪ ♪
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There's no escape.
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The ant will slowly dissolve.
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Gracilis turn downpours
into an advantage,
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but others are at their best
when the rains subside.
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Sun bears sit out the heaviest
of a rain forest deluge.
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When the cooler
afternoon hours arrive,
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they are at their most active.
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This female works hard
to find her favorite insects.
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It takes all her strength to rip
open a fallen dipterocarp.
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But there are
rich rewards inside.
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The afternoon rains
lower the temperature,
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giving sun bears
a chance to feed.
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For others, all this water
presents a unique challenge.
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As streams swell
across the rain forest,
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a miniature world
springs to life.
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In the late afternoon,
male rock frogs begin to gather.
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They are here
to compete for a mate.
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[chirping]
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The trouble is,
being this tiny
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makes it hard to be heard
above a waterfall...
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[chirping]
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...so rock frogs vary
the duration, pitch, and volume
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of their calls.
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[chirping]
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A decent effort, but this much
noise requires drastic action.
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[chirping]
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By varying their calls
and waving to each other,
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they have a unique solution
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to life as a tiny frog
in a noisy world.
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The males are here
hoping to attract a mate...
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...though her arrival
can push things over the edge.
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Despite a sophisticated
means of communication,
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it quickly descends
into a wrestling match.
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Species here have come up
with all sorts of solutions
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to deal with the regular rains.
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It's part
of an ancient daily pattern,
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driven by the tropical sun.
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♪ ♪
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Over millions of years,
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its energy has created
a realm like no other,
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all because it rules with
such extraordinary consistency.
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♪ ♪
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The islands stretch
from Australia to Asia,
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along the equator.
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Day length changes very little.
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Some of these forests experience
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the least seasonal change
of any habitat on Earth,
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which poses a unique problem.
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The trees have no predictable
cues to time their breeding.
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Instead, they have to rely
on infrequent droughts.
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It could be every few years
or once a decade,
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but drought triggers the trees
to reproduce.
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The dipterocarps
lead the charge,
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each tree dropping
thousands of winged seeds.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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And ready to sweep the ground
clean of seeds
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are these forest denizens.
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♪ ♪
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Bearded pigs love the seeds
of the dipterocarp trees.
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During the glut, most seeds
are eaten or destroyed.
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But by dropping so many at once,
the giant trees ensure
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that at least some escape
the pigs' hungry jaws.
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All animals
have to take advantage
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of these predictable times
of plenty.
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And it's not
just the dipterocarps.
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Many trees here bear fruit
only every few years.
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Orangutans aren't limited
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to scooping a meal
off the forest floor.
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They're equipped
to go straight to the source.
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In the years spent with mom,
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a youngster learns
where to find fruit
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before setting out on his own.
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♪ ♪
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It's a unique paradox
of some of these rain forests
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that despite
the abundance of life,
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there are long spells
when fruit is scarce.
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Mother knows only too well
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that she can't rely
on fruit alone to get by.
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Hidden in the treetops
is a rich supply of ants.
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You just need to know
where to find them.
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To thrive in these forests
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is all about learning
what to eat, where, and when.
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♪ ♪
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Today's lessons
will soon be over.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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The subjects of the sun must
prepare for the coming night...
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...for there is
another realm here.
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It's one where creatures
hide away from the sun's power
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and have evolved
to live shrouded in darkness.
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The transition is marked
by an extraordinary sound.
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[buzzing]
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Right on cue, the call
of the 6 o'clock cicada.
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[buzzing]
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[buzzing]
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Night here is
a shadowing sanctuary of freaks.
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Fungi glow with a soft light
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to lure insects
that will disperse their spores.
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♪ ♪
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With just the light of the moon
to see by,
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one denizen of the darkness
undergoes a bizarre change--
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Deinopsis.
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Her two large eyes
are truly astonishing.
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Right now they're changing.
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Cells inside them build to form
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an extremely
light-sensitive membrane,
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essential to the way she hunts.
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♪ ♪
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Her web is unlike any other,
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a Velcro-like net
built to snare passing prey.
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♪ ♪
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Preparations complete,
she waits.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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She binds her quarry in silk
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before slowly
sucking the life from it.
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00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:18,720
When dawn returns,
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00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:23,320
the membrane inside her eyes
will be re-absorbed,
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a feat she repeats night
after night after night.
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00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,840
Deinopsis
isn't the only creature
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whose bizarre eyes allow it to
thrive in this world of shadows.
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The tangled roots
of the strangler fig
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are home
to a carnivorous hunter.
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00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:58,920
♪ ♪
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Each of the tarsier's
sensitive eyes
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is the same size and weight
as its brain,
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so large, they can't move.
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♪ ♪
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But the tarsier can rotate
its head 180 degrees.
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♪ ♪
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And its huge ears
can move independently.
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♪ ♪
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The tarsier is built to detect
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the smallest movement
in the dark.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,440
Higher up
in this world of shadows,
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an even more bizarre creature
inhabits the rain forest canopy.
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♪ ♪
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Like the paradise tree snake
and Draco,
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the colugo's life is dictated
by the giant trees.
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To avoid climbing
up and down their trunks,
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it glides across the forest.
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♪ ♪
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The underside of
its gliding membrane has no fur,
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00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,440
which reduces drag.
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00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:11,600
♪ ♪
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00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:23,400
♪ ♪
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A cloak stretching
from the shoulders to the tail,
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even between its fingertips...
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...makes it as large
as physically possible.
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♪ ♪
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Gliding from tree to tree
saves a lot of time.
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00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:03,640
Colugos search out
young leaves and flowers.
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00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,360
A freakish cast inhabits
this world without sunlight,
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each with their own
extraordinary adaptations.
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But they, too,
abide by the sun's rule.
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As dawn approaches,
they retreat to the shadows.
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00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:45,200
The colugo depends on
its mottled fur for camouflage.
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[gibbon singing]
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A distant call
proclaims the coming day.
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00:41:55,640 --> 00:42:01,200
[gibbon singing]
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And as it does at the same time
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00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,760
every morning
here in the tropics,
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00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:14,800
the sun returns to rule
over the ancient rain forests.
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[singing]
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[singing]
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The islands
between Australia and Asia
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are among the biologically
richest on Earth.
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Erupting volcanoes
drive the evolution
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00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,320
of the beautiful
and the bizarre.
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♪ ♪
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Along the shores and in the sea,
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00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:07,240
the moon holds sway
over a mysterious world.
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00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:13,400
♪ ♪
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00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,320
And in its forests,
the sun's daily rule
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00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,760
sustains an astonishing
profusion of life.
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♪ ♪
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00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:42,920
Nature's most powerful forces--
the earth, sun, and moon--
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make this a place like no other.
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♪ ♪
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00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:02,360
Forged over millions of years,
these ancient islands
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00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:06,320
are home to some of
the greatest assemblage of life
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00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:07,760
on the planet.
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00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:08,840
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