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A peaceful valley with a river
covered by woods
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hadn't changed for thousands of years.
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But in an instant,
it was swallowed up by a town.
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And it keeps changing.
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{\an8}People built it here
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{\an8}as from a bygone age - they wish
to fix the world in their own way.
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{\an8}Although nature too has a place
in their adapted world.
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{\an8}But beware - it must be
a nature well-behaved,
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{\an8}obedient and tamed.
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People love animals.
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Above all, those who
don't take them by surprise.
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Best of all those who don't move much.
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And those who embellish.
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For example,
the oldest working clock in the world,
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Prague's Astronomical Clock.
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It enables them to seize the entire
universe and even to harness time.
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And that reassures them.
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But other animals also live in Prague.
And nobody invited them here.
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People don't tend to notice
these neighbours,
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{\an8}but they would also wish
to call the city their home.
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So they learn how to survive
in a diverse urban environment.
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Many a time cozy,
but sometimes also dangerous.
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What is Prague, actually?
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Can the animals and plants survive here?
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How does the city look through their eyes?
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How do they see people?
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THE HOME OF YOUR LIFE
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Let's go and see together
how they live in a place
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that people proudly call
the Mother of Cities.
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WILD PRAGUE
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{\an8}Sixty years ago, people introduced
mouflons to the outskirts of Prague.
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They probably wanted to turn
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Kunratice Forest
into an area of wild nature
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where they could visit and observe them.
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But they kept taking dogs along
and mouflons get startled by them.
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Wouldn't it be more safe beyond
the forest?
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So being guided by an experienced female,
they tried the other side of the fence.
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But to add some nutrients,
you have to keep looking for new sources.
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Mouflon used to be a domesticated sheep.
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Will his ancient past help him
to survive in the vicinity of humans?
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Winter is the time when Prague
shows its amiable face.
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The temperature is milder
than in the surrounding countryside.
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Food is more accessible.
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And most importantly, thanks to the dams
the river doesn't freeze anymore.
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And that is what has attracted
quite new inhabitants into the city.
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Isn't it a waste of time to fly south
for the winter to a warm climate?
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And so the common moorhen
tried living in the city.
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Would it be worth it?
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She has found a nice small pond
with bulrush vegetation
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and hid her nest over there.
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Her young birds are safe here.
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What a paradise.
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But what kind of paradise would it be
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if a snake didn't pop up?
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Or at least a coypu.
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Another new conqueror of the city.
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The moorhen doesn't like them.
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As if she sensed that they come
to spoil her family's happiness.
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Coypus originate from South America.
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They are here purely because of people
as they escaped the fur farms.
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Although coypus are herbivores,
they do find eggs tasty.
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And, above all, they take
what the moorhen needs most:
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vegetation alongside the banks.
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But what will the moorhen do now?
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The courtship of the common blackbird
starts early in the spring.
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The blackbird couple is often
connected for life.
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All blackbirds were originally
shy inhabitants of forests.
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Then some of them decided
for a life in towns.
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We don't know what made them do it.
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But we have been observing them here
for almost two centuries.
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But the city's environment changes
much quicker than the forest.
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In recent years magpies have also
started to penetrate into Prague.
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After many calm years, this is
an unexpected danger to the blackbird.
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And so the blackbirds
keep changing their behaviour.
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Now they carefully hide their nests.
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For example, in a thick thorny bush.
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Other blackbirds seek refuge
in close proximity to humans.
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They hope the magpie won't dare go there.
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An island in the middle
of the city's historical zone.
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Half park and half forest.
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That is the Petrin Hill in Prague.
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Its most mysterious inhabitant
is a shy edible dormouse.
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Most people don't even know
about their presence.
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And the dormouse
doesn't pay attention to them either.
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Although at times
they use some human amenities.
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The female has awaken
from a long winter sleep.
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She crawls through tree tops as
if she was diligently inspecting them.
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If there'll be an abundance of beechnuts
she can allow herself to produce young.
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But if there is a shortage of beechnuts
dormouse will prefer not to mate.
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And she must decide right now
in the spring.
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But on what basis?
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Yeah...
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She probably sees into the future.
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It seems that the beechnut yield
will be good this year
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because just now the dormouse
is choosing a safe birth centre.
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That's it. An empty birdhouse.
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It could be a good year.
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One of the biggest colonies
grey herons have established
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is within the capital city's boundaries.
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Why here?
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There are about 80 nests here.
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And gradually the young hatch.
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The entire colony daily needs two hundreds
of kilograms of fish to feed them.
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But where to find them?
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To feed pelicans in the city?
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That is clearly a human's idea.
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The herons don't seem to mind.
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Unlike people they've no idea
that stealing is a crime.
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It's probably no coincidence
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that grey herons have built
their nests here,
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in the ZOO.
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A park was created in the city by people.
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And gradually they are adapting so,
above all, it pleases them.
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And their dogs.
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If the moorhen was consulted on plans
for modifications of the city greenery
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there'd be more vegetation on banks and,
to the contrary, fewer annoying dogs.
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And coypus.
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But people don't take into account
the moorhen's needs when adapting parks.
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Spring has come.
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The moorhen has to nest.
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But where?
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This is an unexpected decision.
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If she doesn't find safety low down
she looks for it up above.
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But nature didn't fit her out
for such activities.
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Amongst the tangled water plants
her long claws come in handy.
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But in the branches of a tree
they are more of a hindrance.
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But eventually it works.
Eventually she manages it.
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What happens when the young hatch?
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There are not only houses
and parks in the city.
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There are many spaces
that people didn't even name.
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Bank martins dig their burrows
for their nests in vertical walls.
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They used to nest in steep river banks.
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But try to find
a natural river bank today.
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It's mostly concrete.
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They will more like find a pile of rubble.
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Bank martins do not care.
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They have found what they needed.
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And unlike the moorhen,
they haven't had to change their habits.
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They see the world in their own way.
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And the city as well.
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Let's hope the excavator won't be back
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before the bank martins
take their young out of the nests.
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About ten million people
live in our country.
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But also ten million blackbirds.
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Everybody knows blackbirds.
But not all are the same.
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What about this one?
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Here we see a little genetic aberration.
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With blackbirds it sometimes happens
that part of the body ends up white.
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This striking bird would have
no chance of survival in a forest.
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Most likely it would be hunted down
quickly by a predator.
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But this blackbird has lived in the city
for at least four years.
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Fewer predators here by far,
which improve its chances.
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In its long life it has gained
sufficient experience.
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For its nest it has chosen a perfect
hideaway which magpies won't disturb.
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Thanks to city advantages,
the mottled blackbird can keep hiding.
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Uniquely in the world,
the Astronomical Clock
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shows the ancient Babylonian time.
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According to it, when the sun
is above the horizon only lasts a day
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and this time changes during the year.
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People in the city do not care much.
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But plants and animals
still navigate mostly by the sun.
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Today is the summer solstice,
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the shortest night of the year.
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So whoever comes alive
only after the sun sets
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will have to get a move on.
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A human lives through some 30,000 days.
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But a grown stag beetle only
has only dozens of nights at his disposal.
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The biggest European beetle
isn't exactly a top-class flier,
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and also it gets confused
by lantern lights.
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Meanwhile, females wait quietly on trees.
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They are full of eggs
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so they find flying
even more difficult than the males.
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They usually manage to take off
only once in their lives.
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And even then don't get far.
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This female went in search of the light.
She ended up in the garden restaurant.
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There's no other option but to wait and
see whether a male will seek her out.
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Darkness falls and by the river as well
as here insects gather round the lights.
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By the water tens of thousands of night
spiders crawl from their hideaways,
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bridge spiders.
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They are exceptional eaters
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and so they must create webs double-quick
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so they can make full use
of the short night.
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For millions of years bridge spiders
have avoided light
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so they could shelter from their enemies.
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Then people invented artificial lighting,
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not only for themselves
but for bridge spiders too.
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Because they soon found out
that this light attracts their prey.
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So they make webs in a city
as close to street lamps as possible.
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The webs are finished
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and the bridge spiders
wait for their first catch.
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In the meantime, male stag beetles
on Petrin hill have settled down
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and with the use of antennae
try to pick up a female's scent.
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At last!
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Such an opportunity
might not come up again.
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The male sets off immediately
in search of his good fortune.
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But he's not alone.
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And the other one is capable
of doing anything for his victory.
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Make your bets,
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bout is about to begin.
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Pity that their strip is so similar.
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Either way, there are one too many here.
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Petrin belongs to lovers.
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The North Pole is beginning
to deviate from the sun.
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From this moment, days will be shorter
and winter will come ever nearer.
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A million people are asleep.
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Whereas five million sewer rats
are waking up.
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At last they've peace for their work.
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Like the dustmen have to clear away
the remains of the day gone by.
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In a city it's never completely dark.
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That confuses all animals,
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even birds who otherwise go by the sun.
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Blackbirds in a city start singing
long before it gets light.
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The spiders' hunt was successful
and before they hide
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the gobble up the most valuable
bits of their torn webs.
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Amino acids from the sticky fibres will
serve them again the following evening.
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The day arrives.
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New stories begin.
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Swallows entangled their lives
with humans.
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They wait for the first Metro train.
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The longest day of the year
is about to begin.
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Just because of such days the swallows
weighed up their trek from the Equator.
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There length of a day
is the same all year round.
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But in Prague they can hunt for food
for their young for the entire 16 hours.
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Magpie feels right at home
in the city. We know it,
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there is nothing it misses,
notices everything at once
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and wonders how it could prosper from it.
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Magpie has rifled through the waste bins
but keeps looking for a bite to eat.
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What an idea!
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In their fur mouflons
could after all have some titbits.
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Let's have a look.
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See, a tick!
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Yummy! Mouflon's tick tastes super.
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Although other magpies
have learnt it from it
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the patent is clearly held
by the bird you are looking at.
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Such rarities are to be seen only
in the city.
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Within a few days it seems that
here in Prague's Krc everyone is happy.
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Apart from the mouflon's tick.
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The dormouse gave birth to young ones
in the birdhouse.
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But how many?
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Usually there are about six.
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Another unique world occurrence perhaps?
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No way!
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00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,280
Here arrives another dormouse.
246
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:25,000
It's her daughter from last year and
this year shares the nest with her mother.
247
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,440
Mother and daughter can share
the care needs of the offspring.
248
00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:50,280
Dormouse grandmother's prophecy
has been fulfilled.
249
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,560
Beechnuts are ripening.
250
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:41,320
These very fruits have the highest
content of fats of all our plants.
251
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,520
Beechnuts are the main
food source for the young
252
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,840
who gather them by leaving
their birdhouse even in daylight.
253
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,720
They must hurry.
254
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,280
If they don't at least
triple their weight by October
255
00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:09,000
they've no chance of surviving winter.
256
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,280
Without beechnuts they won't manage it.
257
00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:19,480
For the barely weaned young'uns
a race against time has begun.
258
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:39,280
Don't you think the landscape
outside of the city is dull?
259
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,000
Monotonous?
260
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:52,520
This is how most of our
so-called nature looks like.
261
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,400
Isn't the city in the end
the most interesting part of nature
262
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:03,440
with it's diversity,
variety and unpredictability?
263
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,600
It keeps changing constantly.
264
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:20,960
Suddenly
we have a different view of Prague.
265
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:25,920
Shouldn't we call it a National Park?
266
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,280
It's strange but true.
267
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:42,200
If you want to know about nature,
you can start in the city.
268
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:48,760
Although we might have thought
there was no real nature at all.
269
00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:02,840
What is the real nature after all?
270
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:15,200
In a pile of rubble, bank martins
see a wall suitable for nesting.
271
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,760
But what brought here the green toad male?
272
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,480
This is what they have been waiting for.
273
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:54,840
All year they made do without water,
but now it's essential for them.
274
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,400
The rainfall is stronger in the city
than elsewhere.
275
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:23,840
But the rainwater
has no way of being retained.
276
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:32,000
In the landfill,
there is a chance of pools forming.
277
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:40,040
The green toad
must be on standby all the time
278
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,120
so it can make use
of the rare opportunity.
279
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,560
A concert for the females can,
280
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:56,840
in the evening's quiet,
be heard from afar.
281
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,480
They're coming!
282
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:31,400
The males settle on the females' backs.
283
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:36,440
Sometimes also on other males' backs.
284
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:41,080
In the chaos... they have very little time.
285
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,760
The toads' eggs are laid.
286
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:58,360
One string can be as long as five metres.
287
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,800
And each contains up to 10,000 eggs.
288
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,240
But the apparent wastage
has a good reason.
289
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:11,000
It's the only possibility
for how to pass on one's genes.
290
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:24,320
Folk don't have a clue of all the ways
they influence nature in the city.
291
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,800
Railways linked up the entire world
into a network
292
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,840
which is used even by those
who otherwise don't walk or fly.
293
00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:35,760
Plants love to travel by train.
294
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:41,000
At railway stations, some plants transfer
and some decide to stay.
295
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,400
But it's not a place for everyone.
296
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,360
Station plants don't have a year
measured only by alternating seasons,
297
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,440
but also by the alternation
of poisonous sprays.
298
00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:10,000
For a short time a barren land is created
and everything starts from scratch.
299
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:20,120
But these conditions suit many.
300
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:27,440
The most varied types of plants
are growing in Prague.
301
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:32,480
Many of them got here
from the other side of the world.
302
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,600
Looks like an alien.
303
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:55,640
And it is an alien.
304
00:43:56,320 --> 00:44:00,080
Octopus stinkhorn -
fungi from faraway Tasmania.
305
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,160
It got to Europe
a hundred years ago by boat.
306
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,640
But now it does not need people anymore.
307
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,160
The stinking fungus attracts flies
308
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,680
who spread their spores.
309
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:19,400
Traveling this way is slow but steady.
310
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:24,120
And so octopus stinkhorn has step-by-step
311
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,360
eventually reached Prague.
312
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:45,760
The shallow water warms up quickly
313
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:51,120
and so in only three days
tadpoles hatch from the eggs.
314
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:06,680
Temporary puddles benefit from no fish
or other predators living there.
315
00:45:07,240 --> 00:45:11,320
But the tadpoles face
another mortal danger here.
316
00:45:19,240 --> 00:45:21,720
In hot days,
puddles disappear before our eyes
317
00:45:21,720 --> 00:45:25,400
and with it more and more tadpoles.
318
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:30,840
In the deeper hollows
a little water has remained.
319
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,240
It's necessary to last
for at least a couple of weeks.
320
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,280
Water, that's a rare
commodity in the city.
321
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:17,400
The centre tends to be as parched
as a rocky desert.
322
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,160
Even birds have every source
perfectly mapped.
323
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,680
And even the smallest one
is extremely valuable.
324
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:45,880
For some heat presents mortal danger,
for others a blessing.
325
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,160
Hot summer holiday afternoon
on a housing estate.
326
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:58,840
Warmed surfaces attract insects.
327
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:02,640
A perfect idyll.
328
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:16,120
But the truth is that a robbery
is being planned,
329
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:20,200
a kidnapping and possibly a murder.
330
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,640
'Steppe' ants are busy working.
331
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:38,640
The real rulers of the anthill are
down there, in the dark and warmth.
332
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:44,040
Rusty Amazonians.
333
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:55,800
This ant species
has earned the name "slavers."
334
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:01,320
Warmth-loving Amazonians
do well in the hot city.
335
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:03,560
Now they're resting.
336
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:09,320
Only occasionally they accept food
from their slaves, 'steppe' ants.
337
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:12,320
Without them they'd starve.
338
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,480
These slavers are totally dependant.
339
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:19,120
They can't do anything.
340
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:22,280
Apart from one thing...
341
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:34,560
Just now two Amazonians are coming back.
342
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:39,720
They are scouts and bring exciting news.
343
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:46,640
The Amazonians come alive.
344
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:57,280
The army of slavers are ready to march.
345
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:08,480
Along the way they leave scent
markings to find their way back.
346
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:43,120
The colony of
the 'steppe' ants has no inkling
347
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:45,440
of the approaching calamity.
348
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:49,320
As always workers take care of the pupae.
349
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,240
This is an assault!
350
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:17,000
There below is hidden treasure
for which the Amazonians have come for.
351
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:23,880
In the nest they disperse an agent which
paralyses the 'steppe' ants for a while.
352
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:30,680
The ants under attack do not resist
353
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:34,840
and the slavers come to steal the pupae
354
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:39,080
out of which later more slaves will hatch.
355
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:53,240
The 'steppe' ants desperately defend
the nest entrance and their pupae.
356
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,800
This one manages save one pupa.
357
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:09,520
Others join forces
and keep one Amazonian in check.
358
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:20,920
But thousands of other Amazonians
keep plundering.
359
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,760
They carry off more and more pupae.
360
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:30,040
This is the only thing they are good at.
361
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,320
And they can do it perfectly.
362
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:39,680
They go back with them to their nest.
363
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:46,040
A new generation of slaves
will hatch soon.
364
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:52,960
They'll never know that their real home
365
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:57,840
is far, far away, beyond the car park.
366
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:03,120
All their lives they'll
attentively care for their masters.
367
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:05,520
Amazonian ants.
368
00:52:14,240 --> 00:52:21,320
Of the many thousands of eggs,
tadpoles rarely finish their development.
369
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:26,880
These small frogs were lucky.
370
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:30,880
And now they set off
towards an uncertain future.
371
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:41,000
Each year they will wait for the scent
of rain and seek out new puddles.
372
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:57,840
The common moorhen
has no idea which ancestor
373
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:00,880
decided to settle in the city.
374
00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:07,320
She has learnt to nest in trees.
375
00:53:07,720 --> 00:53:10,360
And she is trying it here
by the Vltava river.
376
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,840
Its young are safe high up.
377
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:24,560
They must leave their nest soon
but there is only one way out.
378
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,640
A decisive moment in their lives.
379
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:34,720
Parents are encouraging them from beneath.
380
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,960
This is no pond or a small lake in a park.
381
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:13,320
There is a strong current and the young
must immediately fight for their lives.
382
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:27,120
One has managed
to reach the embankment wall.
383
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,280
But another
young'un is carried by the river
384
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,280
in the other direction, to a weir,
385
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:36,960
and it has hardly any strength left.
386
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:43,200
The mother is calling out desperately,
but that's all she can do for it.
387
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:57,440
In the end,
she must leave it to its destiny.
388
00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:02,400
And tries at least to steer
the remaining two young ones to safety.
389
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:15,600
It came off. But here out in the open,
it's not safe either
390
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:20,520
and the little moorhens
can't return to their nest.
391
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:38,600
The mother attempts to construct
a temporary shelter for the young birds.
392
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:41,640
But there are no water plants here
393
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:45,440
and she has to make use
of everything the river brings.
394
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:57,960
But who is this?
395
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:01,480
It's the third youngster!
396
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:10,040
It actually managed to overcome
the current and reached the river bank.
397
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,960
A day full of mortal danger
comes to a close.
398
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:29,560
This time the risky operation came off.
399
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:34,480
Tenacious moorhen doesn't give up.
400
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:02,640
This is also Prague.
401
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:08,920
Every evening since the end of summer
hundred of thousands of birds fly here.
402
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:16,960
Reed beds by
the banks of a reservoir basin
403
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:22,960
is a safe place to spend the night
for starlings from all around Prague.
404
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:03,040
In a couple of weeks
they will fly to warmer climes.
405
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:29,960
In the autumn male mouflons
return to the herd
406
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:35,360
as for the next two months their interest
in the females has grown again.
407
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:57,960
Rams who from the spring had lived
408
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:00,720
in a matey atmosphere of
a gentleman's club
409
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:02,560
are now fighting for their favours.
410
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:22,480
Such blows can even cause concussion.
411
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:32,280
Fortunately, right now
they don't make much use of the brain.
412
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:57,480
An eight-year-old ram, the strongest
male in the herd, is the favourite.
413
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:01,800
He is trying to bring together
as many females as he can
414
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:04,960
and create his own harem.
415
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:24,880
A little inattentiveness and one
of the greenhorns tries to take advantage.
416
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:29,120
Usually his impudence
ends up being punished.
417
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:45,040
The old ram picks females
from his harem who are in a state of rut.
418
01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:49,520
He walks around his herd
and draws in the air.
419
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:20,000
The strongest and most experienced male
420
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:23,280
passes on his genes to many offspring.
421
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:38,240
Long ago, a calm green sea
flowed through Prague's basin.
422
01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:40,360
A forest.
423
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:44,840
Following a long evolution,
it reached perfection.
424
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:48,920
Here, everyone had his place
425
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:51,880
and nothing ever changed.
426
01:01:56,200 --> 01:01:59,280
A forest was similar to a museum.
427
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:03,080
But a city is a laboratory.
428
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:10,880
A stormy sea where many creatures
look for islands of green patches.
429
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:26,280
In such a place one can easily
spend one's entire life.
430
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:31,200
Even so someone now and then
sails through a sea of houses
431
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:34,960
and tries to discover a new green island.
432
01:02:52,560 --> 01:02:57,040
At the New Jewish Cemetery
lives a male wood mouse.
433
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:10,560
Surroundings appeal to him, but lately
it's been somewhat "overmiced."
434
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:23,640
Too many neighbours, too little food.
435
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:35,720
But the wood mouse senses
that not far away
436
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:39,920
could be another perhaps bigger island.
437
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:47,640
And so at night he sets off
on an adventurous journey.
438
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:32,360
His gamble pays off.
439
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:37,000
This island is much bigger.
440
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:40,320
Will he find here all he needs?
441
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:55,840
The young dormice in Petrin
left their native birdhouse
442
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:58,560
and must take care of themselves.
443
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:05,360
Facing them now
is their most difficult task in life.
444
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:09,760
Gain sufficient weight
to survive their first winter.
445
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:18,080
Is there something to eat
in the surrounding sea of houses?
446
01:05:30,160 --> 01:05:33,040
Quite a lot of interesting things here
447
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:38,200
but unluckily for the dormouse
all are hidden.
448
01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:40,600
He will try his luck in the pantry.
449
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:10,400
Dormice do not dare to venture
further than the neigbours' house.
450
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:14,520
The city poses to dormice
insurmountable difficulties.
451
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:32,040
How did dormice get to Petrin hill?
452
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:37,280
Similarly to this inconspicuous
453
01:06:37,280 --> 01:06:39,720
little beetle barely
half-a-centimetre big.
454
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:46,560
He can't fly and so cannot move
to new places like the dormouse.
455
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:53,080
Weevil only lives
in thousands years old woods.
456
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:57,160
Together with the dormouse
he provides proof
457
01:06:57,520 --> 01:07:02,960
that at least part of Petrin hill
has always been covered by a wood.
458
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:09,520
Ages before people built a town around it.
459
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:20,960
Olsany Cemeteries,
460
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:26,000
the home for two million deceased
but also many still living.
461
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:32,600
Within a couple of days the wood mouse
realised he made a sound choice.
462
01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:39,520
Here many more tenants will make a living.
463
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:42,880
Particularly now, it's All Souls' Day.
464
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:11,440
At his former home only small stones
lay on top of the gravestones.
465
01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:16,520
But the Christian hospitality
pleased the mouse no end.
466
01:08:31,720 --> 01:08:34,200
He is glad he converted.
467
01:08:46,439 --> 01:08:50,240
Young dormouse has prepared
himself well for the winter.
468
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:54,560
He now weighs 150 times more
than when he was born.
469
01:08:55,359 --> 01:09:00,080
Just remains for him to find
a safe place where he won't freeze.
470
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:10,040
But where has he found himself?
471
01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:14,920
The dormouse knows what he wants.
472
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:18,319
A peaceful spot with a constant
temperature where he could spend
473
01:09:18,319 --> 01:09:20,560
the coming freezing months.
474
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:27,200
Which way now?
475
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:43,080
The dormouse managed his task.
476
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:47,399
In the tricky labyrinth he didn't
lose his way and reached his goal.
477
01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:59,960
Here is his time machine
in which he'll travel into the spring.
478
01:10:25,480 --> 01:10:28,120
The shortest days of the year are coming.
479
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:35,760
But even now in Prague it is warmer
than in the open countryside.
480
01:10:36,480 --> 01:10:38,520
And the river doesn't freeze up.
481
01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:49,120
Every evening thousands of gulls fly in.
482
01:10:49,480 --> 01:10:54,200
Here in the middle of the current
they can fall asleep safe from enemies.
483
01:10:58,520 --> 01:11:02,920
The temperature drops down to -20°C.
484
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:24,080
Such frost comes to Prague
only once every few years
485
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:27,160
but then lives are at stake.
486
01:11:36,440 --> 01:11:38,400
Worst off are the birds.
487
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:44,120
Every flight saps their strength which
they then miss when fighting the cold.
488
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:04,240
At the last moment
some of them are saved by people.
489
01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:09,200
Today each morsel can be
the difference between life and death.
490
01:12:20,440 --> 01:12:24,560
In Stromovka park birds have been left
with just one area of ice-free water.
491
01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:30,560
The moorhen curses her ancestors
492
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:34,040
who once decided they wouldn't fly south.
493
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:37,120
She was born in Prague.
494
01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:41,120
She has no idea
that there is something on the outside.
495
01:12:46,240 --> 01:12:48,640
She is a bit trapped in Prague.
496
01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:57,960
Gulls aren't kept captive by Prague.
497
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:09,800
Today they'll fly out
to a tip beyond the city.
498
01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:13,760
Only yesterday some of them were in Vienna
499
01:13:13,880 --> 01:13:17,800
and tomorrow they could
be looking for food in Berlin.
500
01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:32,560
City blackbirds will never again meet
their relatives from the forests.
501
01:13:33,240 --> 01:13:35,000
Each leads a different life
502
01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:37,680
and they're becoming
more and more distinct.
503
01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:43,160
Blackbirds in their new habitat lost
the instinct to migrate in the autumn.
504
01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:46,200
Hormones which manage
the onset of breeding
505
01:13:46,400 --> 01:13:49,640
come to the fore some weeks earlier.
506
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:54,880
While their forest brethren are
still somewhere in the Mediterranean
507
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:58,040
in Prague they are already
feeding their young.
508
01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:02,920
Their body changes too.
509
01:14:03,320 --> 01:14:08,960
Wings become shorter, perhaps so they can
manoeuvre better in the city's traffic.
510
01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:15,360
And all these changes are hereditary.
511
01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:22,600
Before our eyes one of the greatest
of miracles occurs - evolution.
512
01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:28,680
If the city blackbirds have enough time
513
01:14:28,960 --> 01:14:32,880
perhaps one day they'll develop
into a new bird species.
514
01:14:34,040 --> 01:14:37,120
And who knows? Maybe they'll be pied.
515
01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:53,280
Even in the unpredictable city
environment a few certainties exist.
516
01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:56,800
For example,
that winter will come to an end.
517
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:02,360
Even though here the differences
in seasonal cycles aren't so marked
518
01:15:02,480 --> 01:15:05,840
spring will affect everyone.
519
01:15:08,520 --> 01:15:14,480
Krc hospital's old ram watches with
the serenity of an even-toed ungulate.
520
01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:16,720
He has seen it happening.
521
01:15:17,400 --> 01:15:20,640
The gentleman's club
has renewed its activities.
522
01:15:22,280 --> 01:15:25,040
Concussed brains have been cured,
523
01:15:25,240 --> 01:15:28,800
old passions have dozed off
for some months.
524
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:44,480
But at the maternity unit
it's the peak season.
525
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:54,840
After five months of pregnancy
one birth follows another.
526
01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:28,000
Somewhere in the mouflon is still hidden
a ten thousand year old sheep.
527
01:16:28,680 --> 01:16:33,600
But in that sheep is still hidden
the original undomesticated animal.
528
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,000
What exactly is the mouflon?
529
01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:40,000
Well, what suits at a given moment.
530
01:16:40,280 --> 01:16:45,160
Makes use of humans now and then,
but also makes do quite well without him.
531
01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:13,200
The city keeps surprising its inhabitants.
532
01:17:20,160 --> 01:17:21,440
Sometimes unpleasantly.
533
01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:24,920
Sometimes delightfully.
534
01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:32,880
The city is an opportunity.
535
01:18:03,640 --> 01:18:10,920
People would like to control not just
their surroundings but the whole world,
536
01:18:12,640 --> 01:18:15,800
but nature keeps doing its own thing.
537
01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:22,120
And its effort, unlike the human one,
never lets up.
538
01:18:34,040 --> 01:18:41,200
All our endeavours, our cities,
our struggle which we cannot win.
539
01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:48,360
What if it all is just an episode
of a much bigger and longer story?
540
01:19:28,360 --> 01:19:32,440
Well, what will this year be like?
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