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Our planet is home to millions of different species.
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The big and the powerful capture our attention.
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But there is another story to tell.
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Beneath our feet are hidden - almost magical worlds teeming with
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extraordinary little creatures.
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BELLOWING
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The world looks very different to them.
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A falling acorn becomes a meteor.
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A tiny trickle, a tsunami.
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And every enemy, is a giant.
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Now, using the latest technology,
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we can recreate the world from their perspective -
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to experience it as they do.
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These are tales of life from the tropical jungle,
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and the northern forest
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in the Hidden Kingdoms.
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The ancient woods of North America.
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Hundred-year-old oaks cast their shadows over a hidden world.
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It's autumn.
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Time for the yearly fall of acorns.
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It's what every chipmunk in the forest has been waiting for.
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This youngster is only six weeks old,
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but will soon face the most important challenge of his life.
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For the smallest animals it's time to take cover.
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For chipmunks, it's time to get hoarding.
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Winter is on its way.
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A quick quality check, and the first nut goes in the bag.
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A chipmunk's tunnel may run for more than ten metres
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to keep its nuts safe.
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And they need a hoard of more than a hundred acorns to see them
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through the long winter ahead.
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For his first year, this youngster's done well.
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But a hoard is no use unless it's well hidden.
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He's being watched.
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This is an older chipmunk and sneakier too.
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Chipmunks are notorious thieves.
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After all, why work when you can steal from someone else?
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For the burglar it's a dash back to his burrow to stock his own hoard.
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Oblivious, the youngster gathers a last few "honest" nuts.
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The competition is about to get a whole lot bigger.
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A moose.
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It's hungry for nuts too.
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BELLOWING
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SQUEAKING
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This holdup is one he can't afford, especially
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when his store is being burgled.
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The young chipmunk is still held up.
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Every autumn a moose can eat enough acorns to put on 100 kilograms.
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Just what it needs to survive the harsh winter ahead.
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And that's the problem for small animals, they just can't
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store enough fat.
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It's why a larder of nuts is so important.
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He's about get a nasty surprise.
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His larder is now almost empty,
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and things are about to get worse.
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The burglar is back, and he's a seasoned fighter.
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An older, stronger chipmunk can kill a youngster.
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The youngster may have escaped,
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but no chipmunk can survive without a store of nuts.
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How will he make it through the coming winter?
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On the other side of the world is a forest where winter never comes.
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The steamy jungles of Borneo - a kingdom of perpetual heat.
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Concealed in the undergrowth are thousands of tiny creatures,
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more than anywhere else on earth.
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In this hidden kingdom competition is intense.
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So many different species battle for survival here.
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Each one must find its own place within this crowded world.
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Up in the canopy, lives one of the most curious creatures of them all.
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A tree shrew,
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a tiny mammal whose ancestors have lived in these jungles
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for more than 10 million years.
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BIRDS WHISTLE
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Nearby is a giant mangosteen tree
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that provides all the fruit she needs.
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Dinner is served, but it's a long way down.
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Luckily tree shrews are born acrobats.
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Tree shrews have the largest brain for their body size
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in the world and rarely make a mistake.
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They also have the most demanding metabolism -
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they need food every two hours.
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Even if it means leaving the safety of the treetops to find it.
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There's no one else around and she has the fruit all to herself.
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For now.
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Darkness brings a change to the forest.
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Only the toughest creatures venture out,
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with their very effective weapons.
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Thousands of vicious quills on a porcupine's back means he'll
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be left to eat in peace.
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At night, the best place for a tree shrew is safe up in the nest.
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Until now the forest has provided well.
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But she's yet to learn how fickle the rainforest can be.
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Morning, and like every tree shrew she wakes up hungry.
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Someone's up before her.
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And they're heading right for the great tree.
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Orang-utans are 500 times her size.
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They are fruit-eating machines and can strip a tree bare in no time.
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They're not the only ones attracted to fruit-bearing trees.
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The hungry will come from far and wide.
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GRUNTING
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If she's going to get her breakfast she'd better hurry.
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Forest giants have got there first.
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Weighing more than a man,
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these bearded pigs are as aggressive as they are greedy.
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Unluckily for the shrew,
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pigs have the most sensitive noses in the forest.
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Nothing escapes their attention.
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GRUNTING AND SNORTING
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SNORTING ECHOES
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Breakfast is disappearing.
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To eat again means finding another fruiting tree and fast.
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But in the rainforest,
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trees in fruit are actually few and far between.
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This young tree shrew must leave her home
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and search deep into the jungle.
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She will need all her wits to survive.
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In the hidden kingdom of the northern woods, it's leaves,
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not acorns, that are falling now.
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Winter is just a breath away.
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Small animals are already hunkering down for winter.
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A wood frog buries itself, soon to become a living block of ice.
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Once the freeze sets in,
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this chipmunk won't last long without a store of nuts.
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Facing an empty larder this late in the season means a chipmunk
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is forced to forage in enemy territory.
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Spotted.
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No neighbour will tolerate an intruder.
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Not where nuts are concerned.
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CHIPMUNKS CHITTER
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THUD OF ACORN
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THUDDING
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That sound is irresistible.
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There's a reason why chipmunks don't gather nuts from here.
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This is the home of a silent killer.
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A horned owl.
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Owls sleep during the day, so he might just get away with it.
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So far, so good, but he still needs lots more nuts.
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The days are getting shorter and once it's dark,
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it's a very different proposition.
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CHIPMUNK SQUEAKS
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OWL HOOTS
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Owls have extremely sensitive hearing.
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Time to go.
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SQUEAKING
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Speed may have saved him, but his larder is still half empty.
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And even worse, the first frost of winter is upon him.
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Chipmunks can't survive outside in the cold.
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THUNDER RUMBLES
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Back in the rainforest,
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the tree-shrew's supply of fruit has run dry.
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She needs an alternative source of food...
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THUNDER CLAP
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And there's the daily shower to contend with.
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When you're this small, raindrops are like water bombs.
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BIRDS TWEET
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She must make up for lost time.
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Down on the forest floor,
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dangers lurk around every corner.
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Fire ants.
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They sting with acid.
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Not to be disturbed, unless you're armour plated.
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A pangolin has claws as strong as a bear's and eats fire ants for lunch.
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She's drawn by the scent of something tasty.
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Pitcher plants are carnivorous,
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known for luring insects to a watery grave.
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This one lures hungry tree shrews.
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The inside of the lid is covered in a sweet secretion.
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STOMACH RUMBLES
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But the liquid is a laxative,
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and a fast acting one.
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The pitcher was after nutrients in the tree shrew's dung.
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It means she is now running on empty.
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And worse, she's not alone.
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A reticulated python.
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Instinct sends her up to the canopy.
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No snake can climb as fast as this.
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But nightfall is approaching.
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Night is no time for a tree shrew to be up and about.
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You never know who you might bump into.
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Twice her size, flying foxes are the largest bats in the world.
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They're able to fly from one fruit tree to another.
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More than half the creatures of the jungle are nocturnal,
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but for a daytime creature, night in the rainforest is an alien world.
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Strange fungi light the way.
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Why they glow is one of nature's mysteries.
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Their light doesn't travel far.
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It's almost pitch dark.
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CHIRRUPING
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These tarsiers are only ten centimetres tall.
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They're hunting.
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Nothing escapes their huge eyes and acute hearing.
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Not even the stealthiest predator in the forest.
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This python is also an expert night hunter.
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It has heat-sensing pits on the side of its face and can follow
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the heat trail of a warm blooded mammal, even in the dark.
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In the wild woods, dawn melts away the first ground frost.
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But it was a warning.
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Finding his stolen nuts and getting them back
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is now the youngster's only chance.
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The nut thief is going out.
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The youngster will have to be quick.
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Caught in the act.
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It's flight or fight.
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He chooses fight
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SQUEAKING
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CHIPMUNK CHITTERS
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The youngster's won.
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He can reclaim his stolen nuts,
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while the thief nurses his wounded pride.
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The youngster had better hurry, winter is here.
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Back in the jungle, the young tree shrew is weak with hunger,
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and is being pursued by the most relentless predator in the forest.
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She's driven higher.
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Another snake.
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Cornered.
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There's only one way out...
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But it's further than she's ever jumped before.
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SNAKE HISSES
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Speed, distance, and timing must be judged to perfection.
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Safe.
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And, at last, a fruiting tree.
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For today, the adventure is over.
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But soon, her search will begin again.
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With each day that passes, this clever little creature will grow a
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little wiser and better able to cope with the danger that comes her way.
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In the Hidden Kingdom, life never slows down.
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Except perhaps in the temperate forest, when the big freeze sets in.
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Although for many animals this is a time of hardship,
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for a chipmunk, it's a chance to take a well-deserved rest.
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The start of six months of peaceful sleep.
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And when he gets hungry he'll wake, briefly and his nuts will be there.
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They'll last him all the way until spring,
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when he'll re-emerge, ready to begin again.
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Few little creatures survive their first months,
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but for those that do, what they have learned should make life become
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just that little bit easier, in the hidden kingdoms of the forests.
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Traditional natural history is
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filmed from a distance behind a telephoto lens.
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Hidden Kingdom is different.
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One of the biggest challenges filming Hidden Kingdom
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is trying to get down to the animal's eyeline and
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really portray the world that they see and the world that they live in.
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To see the world through the eyes of our tiny creatures
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meant getting our lenses as low to the ground as possible.
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Getting a camera to sit right on the forest floor
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at this sort of height is really tricky.
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Oops!
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HE LAUGHS
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It's amazing what difference an inch makes.
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We headed to Quebec in Canada to film an animal
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that would hopefully allow us into its world.
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At a unique animal research station,
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chipmunks have been closely observed for over 20 years.
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Come on. You coming?
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Zoologist, Alessia Kockel, has a detailed knowledge of these animals.
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My favourite chip is this one, this is Beach Boy.
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Chipmunks can be nervous but Alessia is with them
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every day and knows which chip might best tolerate the filming.
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This a lot to ask for a chipmunk to put up with.
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After all, film crews aren't known for travelling light.
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OK, down.
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So the trick is to be set up and ready
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before the chippies get out of bed.
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Luckily for us, they're late starters.
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They choose to camp outside the burrow of a chipmunk called Simon.
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And they begin to wait...
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And wait.
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The second part of our film is set in the jungles
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of Borneo and involved filming a host of small animals.
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Getting up close and personal here would bring
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very different challenges.
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The jungle's most notorious creatures
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are easiest to find to find at night.
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I mean, really, they will kill anything that can't get away.
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Fire ants.
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Yeah, they're in here and here. The line is still going this way.
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They're right in here as well.
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SHE YELPS
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Just over a centimetre long, to do them justice, we would
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either have to shrink down our film crew...
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Or build some tiny lenses.
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These lenses are powerful enough to take us
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straight into the ants' world.
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Just let it go.
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All we had to do now was avoid the stings.
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SHE YELPS IN PAIN
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Back in Canada, Simon the chipmunk is getting used to the crew
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and gaining in confidence.
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Well. Hello, there he is. So this is Simon.
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Oh! This is Simon and he is so beautiful.
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Soon he is so focused on his nuts, he stops noticing us at all.
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It's time to get ambitious.
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We wanted to track along-side a running chipmunk
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and that meant a bit of make-shift engineering.
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Well, we've just set up this long track on quite
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uneven ground and we've got this broken tree
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that our chipmunks are running up and down.
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So we're setting up for a tracking shot.
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If they behave.
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OK, running, running, we're running.
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Oh!
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It's all happening now.
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Cut. Well done.
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Just as chipmunks and crew are getting the hang of it,
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the weather takes a turn for the worse.
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The storm has brought down trees all around the chipmunks' burrows,
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and, worryingly, there's no sign of Simon.
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In Borneo, the team is getting grips with the jungle.
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And cameraman Mat Thompson is about to take on
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another notorious rainforest creature, but this time a giant.
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Bearded pigs are dangerous,
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they are huge and have sharp 15 centimetre tusks.
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Unfortunately for Mat, to reveal what a pig looks like when
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you're only ten centimetres tall, means getting the camera very close.
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So it makes sense to start with the piglets.
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You really have to start thinking like the animal that
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you're filming, more so than usual.
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Almost to the point where you have to start acting like the animal.
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But piglets would never be a threat to a tree shrew,
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for that we need a big, dribbling tusker.
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We know there's one around here, he's been seen.
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He's big, he's orc-ish, you know, he really, he slathers.
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That's the character we're after.
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Mat has found just the pig.
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But the adults don't like the limelight.
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Whoa.
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PIG SQUEALS
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That's what happens when you get too close.
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OK. More than a lens cloth to clean that one, I think.
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Keeping a wary eye out, Mat manages to get the shots he needs.
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Go on. Look, there's more.
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We got some lovely shots, big, teeth, beard, dribbly,
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the perfect orc for Hidden Kingdoms.
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Back in the chipmunk's forest, the crew assess the damage.
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That is destruction.
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Our best talent, Simon the chipmunk,
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this tree has just missed his hole by, literally, a couple of feet.
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Luckily, it hasn't put him off his nut-collecting.
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Or his inclination to become more territorial.
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You tell, you know, he's just got so much attitude, this is his manor
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and anyone who comes near him, chased off, it's unbelievable.
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We have another chipmunk.
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We could see this was building to a big fight.
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But knowing how fast chipmunks can move
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we'd need a very special camera to film it.
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OK, this could be it, this could be the moment.
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One that records at 40 times normal speed.
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- Arm me up as soon as you can.
- Yep.
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It's over in a flash.
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Do you want to look?
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Only when they play it back can they see what really happens.
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- Whoa!
- Ow, he did it.
- Oh, my God!
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Whoa! That is amazing.
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Witnessing the extraordinary challenges
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chipmunks face to prepare for the winter could only bring
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admiration for these tiny heroes.
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With filming over, there was just one thing left to do.
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Hey, Simon, so we're done now.
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Here's a little something so see you through the winter.
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See you, mate.
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In the next episode, we enter the hidden kingdoms of the urban jungle.
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Experience the colour and the commotion of Rio.
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And the futuristic metropolis of Tokyo.
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How will our little heroes survive the hazards of city life?
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