All language subtitles for Parenthood 2025 S01 E04_track3_[eng]

CHIRPING

Deep underground,

Amazon turtle hatchlings are waiting
for rain.

THUNDER ROLLS

They need just the right amount to
soften the sand

to dig themselves free.

Their mothers are waiting nearby in
the river.

Too little rain, and they will be
trapped.

Too much, and they will drown.

Life cannot exist without water.

But too much or too little can be
disastrous.

And it can change in an instant.

If they are to succeed in spite of
fresh water's constant changes,

parents everywhere must adapt.

In the Amazon's dry season,

huge sandbanks appear.

In three months' time,

the annual rains will return and
submerge the banks once more.

Now is the giant Amazon river turtle's
opportunity to lay eggs.

But she must get the timing right.

Other turtle mothers are gathering,

waiting to lay their eggs.

This is the biggest gathering of
freshwater turtles on the planet.

The exposed banks remind the females

that now is the right time to nest.

When one finds a place that suits
her...

..she lays nearly 100 eggs a metre
beneath the surface.

She has made her best guess as to the
right time to nest this year.

Now she needs the rain to match her
predictions.

Six weeks pass.

The sun has baked the sand above the
eggs into a protective crust.

But the rain clouds arrive...early.

In two of the past five years,

early rain drowned most of the
hatchlings.

THUNDER CRASHES

This is not good.

As the rain falls, the river starts to
rise.

The babies have hatched,

but they can't yet dig themselves
free.

First, they must wait

while they absorb part of their yolk
sac.

The river continues to rise,

and before the eggs have all hatched,

some nests start to flood.

The sand is getting more and more
waterlogged.

They can't wait any longer.

Three days after hatching...

..the baby turtles see sunlight for
the first time.

But their mother's job is not done
yet.

Waiting offshore, they call.

TURTLES CALL

It seems as if the mother's song
guides the hatchlings to safety

amongst the adults.

This year, many mothers got their
timing right...

..and over two million hatchlings
emerge.

As the hatchlings join their mothers
in the water,

they add their voices to the chorus.

CHIRPING

When freshwater flows are reliable,

parents are able to give their young
an excellent start in life.

But even when water levels are stable,

there may still be dangers for young
animals.

CHIRPING CALL

In a steaming swamp in South Carolina,

hungry mouths gather...

..around the perfect home

for a family of swamp canaries.

These parents have chosen an excellent
site -

a slim tree surrounded by water.

Nests like these are difficult to
reach from land,

water or air for anything but a small
bird.

Useful to protect baby chicks.

Up to seven of them in a nest.

As well as feeding their young,

the parents keep their nests clean

by removing the chicks' droppings...

..in poo bags.

CHICK CALLS

Caring for as many chicks as this is a
two-bird job.

CHICK CALLS

A small nest may be safe,

but chicks can quickly grow too big
for it.

Leaving their tower

will require them to take their first
flight.

But the moat around their castle is
now a major obstacle.

Predators lurk, waiting for an easy
meal.

It is at least ten metres from the
nearest tree.

Ready or not,

time to leave the nest.

The first hatched are the strongest

and they lead the way.

Later-hatched chicks are smaller and
weaker.

The water is no place for a chick,

but there's nothing his parents can
do.

Although he's made it to the tree,
he's still in danger,

but now his parents can help...

..using rewards.

Bit by bit, they coax him higher.

Just a few more steps.

There now. He's out of immediate
danger.

His parents coax the rest of the
chicks to safe hiding places

all over the swamp.

They will continue to feed their
chicks for five more weeks.

Large expanses of fresh water can be
dangerous.

Small pools like this one away from

the main Amazon River are safer for
young animals.

The centre is open and clear,

and the edges provide plenty of hiding
places.

Excellent for a family of cichlids,

provided that the parents can work
together.

A carefully chosen rock in the centre
of the pool

camouflages the eggs.

They are starting to hatch.

Wriggling tails, however, could
attract attention.

But the mother gently picks them up

and puts them out of sight under a
leaf.

Father does his best to help...

..but he's getting in her way.

While mother is collecting more
eggs...

..she turns around to find that her
partner is at it again.

Caught in the act.

She clearly wants to finish the job
herself.

Working alone,

mother gets every last wriggler tucked
away safely.

But she will need Father's help

when their wrigglers become swimmers.

Now both parents must guide their
offspring to the edge of the pool,

where there's more cover.

First step -

navigate through a shoal of curimbata.

It's a job that requires two adults.

So now it's Father's chance to help.

They've made it.

All fry accounted for.

But they've hit yet another roadblock.

Cichlids are very territorial,

and this family has drifted

into someone else's patch.

Their neighbour has turned dark,

showing that he really wants them
gone.

Worse, he might also be hungry

and regard the fry as a welcome snack.

By coordinating their attack...

..they win the fight.

Finally united, they can continue to
their new home.

It's exactly what they need.

The fry can practise swimming in the
spring's bubbles,

and there are plenty of hiding places.

Together, the cichlids have made

the most of all this pool has to offer
their young family.

In a jungle, there are freshwater
pools everywhere...

..in the leaves, fronds

and holes in trees.

But pools can have problems.

Big ones are likely to attract
predators...

..and small ones are likely to dry
out.

Parents must find the pools that are
just right.

Meet tinctorius, a poison dart frog
carrying his tadpole.

He needs a pool for it.

And quickly.

This palm leaf may be convenient...

..but it's shallow and exposed...

..and could dry out before a tadpole
could develop.

So although he leaves one here,

he continues his search

for accommodation for his remaining
three.

They are waiting in a leaf

which will dry out if left here much
longer.

No time to waste.

One climbs immediately onto its
father's back.

To spread his bets, he needs a
different pool.

A hop,

skip and a jump...

..and he's found somewhere deeper, but
without much food.

He can still do better.

Night falls and he still needs to find
two more pools.

CROAKING

A call echoes through the jungle.

A milk frog with his tadpoles.

His loud calls are invitations to milk
frog females

to lay their eggs in his pool.

Scientists believe that when

a male tinctorius hears the calls of
milk frog fathers...

..he may decide that the milk frog's
pool would suit one of HIS tadpoles.

The next morning, he sets out again

with another tadpole on his back.

There's only one problem.

The milk frog's pool is 20 metres up.

Getting there with a tadpole on his
back will be a long climb.

Undeterred, he starts off again.

It's a huge effort for the sake of
just one tadpole.

Made it.

And he's not bothered by the milk
frog.

Not only will his offspring be safe
here,

it will also have plenty to eat,

because milk frog tadpoles

are good food for tinctorius tadpoles.

But he can't rest just yet.

He still has one last tadpole which
needs a pool.

This dad will go to extreme heights

to find the best pools for his
tadpoles.

Parents can afford the pursuit of
perfection

where fresh water is plentiful.

However, where fresh water is rare,

parents have fewer options.

The Namibian desert.

Here there is very little water for
miles around...

..except in the breast feathers of
this Namaqua sandgrouse.

They are specially adapted to absorb
up to 25ml of water...

..and that enables his family

to nest in remote corners of the
desert.

But the chicks must drink at least
once every day to survive.

So Father must fetch some for them.

Almost 20 miles from their nest,

a thin strip of green indicates
standing water.

The male sandgrouse flies

to this water hole every day.

Here, he joins a flock of other
thirsty sandgrouse.

But they all know better than to head
straight to the water.

First, they settle at a safe distance.

Hidden among the rocks,

the flock's many eyes scan for lurking
threats...

..because when fresh water is rare...

..it can be used by some as a trap.

A lanner falcon,

a booted eagle

and an African hawk eagle

have all taken up positions around the
water hole.

Despite the threats,

some sandgrouse decide to take their
chance.

Parents are vulnerable at the water.

They need at least five minutes in

a pond to saturate their feathers.

The more cautious birds wait to see

what happens to the first group.

The lanner picks a target.

She misses.

The booted eagle sees her chance.

Together, they keep the flock in the
air.

A spectacle visible from all around.

Especially to a male,

judging when it's safe to collect
water for his chicks.

Birds of prey seldom stop...

..until they make a catch.

Even now, going alone could be fatal.

He must stick with the group.

There's no-one left in the air.

If the predators are concentrating on
eating,

now could be the sandgrouses'
opportunity.

But they have overlooked someone.

The hawk eagle.

To soak their feathers,

parents must wade deeper into the
pool.

In their desperation for water...

..no-one notices the eagle's approach.

The father must hold his nerve.

He has not yet collected enough water.

Missed.

This father wings his way home,

breast feathers fully loaded with
water.

He will have to repeat this journey
every day

for the next eight weeks...

..until his chicks are ready to visit
the water hole for themselves.

For now, they can enjoy a good long
drink.

The water's presence here has enabled
these parents to succeed.

However, when fresh water isn't
reliable,

the journey to parenthood itself can
be laborious.

In the Caribbean,

five miles upstream lies a
near-perfect nursery pool.

Food here is plentiful,

and the water tumbling from the falls
above

keeps it clear and oxygenated.

After five months at sea,

a tri-tri goby has climbed 300 metres

to reach this pool and start a family.

His partner is ready to lay her eggs.

Pebbles arranged in the right way will
alter

the flow of the current, creating good
conditions for eggs.

His activities attract attention.

Rival males are eager to take over his
nest.

He will have to fight if he's to
become a father.

Good riddance.

But one thing he can't fight is the
weather.

THUNDER RUMBLES

A once-in-a-lifetime storm is brewing.

THUNDER CRASHES

Below the fall,

the increase in water has turned the
gentle flow into a whirlpool.

The torrent has flushed him miles back
downstream.

But he still has a chance to become a
father

IF he can manage to climb once again
to his nursery pool.

He hasn't done anything like this
since he was a young fish...

..and it shows.

He's a lot bulkier than when he was
younger.

Climbing 300 metres again won't be
easy in his current condition.

Juveniles with boundless energy dart
past him.

Other adults try...

..and fail.

He pushes on...

..but the closer he gets to his pool,
the stronger the current.

With one final push...

..he makes it.

But the pool is unrecognisable.

The storm has scattered all his
carefully selected pebbles...

..so he starts work to create another
nursery.

If he is to become a parent, however,

he will need stability.

When fresh water is not stable,

parents must quickly adapt to ensure a
future for their young.

Thailand.

These still waters should offer a
secure foundation

for the family of a lily-trotter.

Long toes spread his weight across the
lily pads as he searches

for insects amongst the greenery.

But he also has a special and urgent
job.

He's building a floating nest.

A messy pile of pond weeds will have
to do.

He must hurry back to his egg.

He misguidedly built his first nest

in the busiest part of the lake.

Boats come so close that his egg risks
being crushed.

He has decided to move to a quieter
neighbourhood.

Building a new nest was easy.

Moving an egg without hands was
significantly harder.

Other lily-trotters carry their eggs
with their beaks.

This one has adopted a different
method.

One that takes a lot longer.

At last.

Now he must settle his egg

into this perfect new home

in his perfect new neighbourhood.

But in trying to avoid one threat...

..he hasn't noticed another.

Caterpillars have invaded the
lake...almost overnight.

They don't have any predators here.

His precious chick has hatched into
devastation.

The insects that live amongst

the lilies are harder to find,

let alone catch.

And the caterpillars are completely
inedible.

His chick needs food.

Once again, he will have to find
somewhere better.

Lily-trotters aren't built for this.

But walking is their only option.

The chick can't yet fly.

These are the last remaining lilies in
the lake.

It's not perfect,

but there are plenty of insects for
his chick.

Here, it can thrive.

Lily-trotters are not the only parents
who must settle

for less than perfect in our changing
world.

In East Africa, as the climate heats,

rainfall is becoming less predictable.

DEEP RUMBLING

This elephant matriarch has kept her
family alive

throughout two years of drought.

She's leading them to the last flowing
water she knows of -

the Ewaso Nyiro River.

This is the only place for miles
around which still has any water

or food for grazing animals.

Until rain and good grazing return
elsewhere,

this is an oasis for the whole family.

ELEPHANTS TRUMPET

They haven't drunk for days.

This is a chance for a mother to
demonstrate good trunk technique.

Her calf certainly needs the tutorial.

Step one - get water into your trunk.

Step two - get water from your trunk
to your mouth.

Sometimes it's easier to take a more
direct route.

These days spent in the cool, calm
river are much-needed relief

for the whole elephant family.

But the elephants are not the only
travellers seeking refuge.

The elephant matriarch decides

that it's not safe enough for trunk
lessons to continue.

Wild elephants and human beings
usually avoid one another.

Each is too dangerous to the other.

In this drought, however, they have no
choice but to share

the river and the grass until rain
returns.

Weeks pass.

Herders and elephants crisscross the
river

in search of any grazing that remains.

So many mouths to feed takes a toll on
the land,

stripping it bare.

At last, the elephant matriarch senses
something

familiar on the horizon.

Rain is falling on the distant
mountains that feed the river.

This should be a good sign,

but the hotter the air, the more
moisture it stores.

THUNDER RUMBLES

So when, after a long, hot drought,
rain finally comes...

..there is much more of it.

The distant deluge runs off the
parched earth

and becomes a flash flood.

The herds have been caught out...

..split apart by the sudden flood.

The herders have no choice

but to cross and keep their livestock
together.

The elephant family has also been
caught out...

..trapped on the wrong side of the
river.

To follow the rain to fresh grazing,

the matriarch must find a way to cross

while keeping the youngest safe.

She tests the current with her trunk,

assessing whether or not the youngest
can manage the crossing.

The flow seems gentle enough on this
side...

..but the current runs swifter near
the opposite bank.

As the current gets faster,

the adults use their bodies to shield
the calves.

As the family enters the swiftest part
of the river...

..a calf loses its footing.

ELEPHANT ROARS

So far, the matriarch has kept her
family together.

But now she has a decision to make.

Press on towards fresh grazing...

..or turn back to keep her calves
safe.

She has decided.

The risks of crossing have become

greater than the pangs of hunger.

The matriarch has protected her
youngest from THIS flood...

..but as the world gets hotter,

droughts and floods are becoming more
intense...

..destabilising life for parents
everywhere.

Already, we are adapting to changing
freshwater patterns.

But we CAN choose to give the next
generation a better future.

A world with more reliable fresh
water.

What a gift.

As the climate heats, rainfall is
becoming less reliable everywhere.

There is often too much or too little

and at the wrong time...

..a significant challenge for the
Parenthood crews

while filming the series.

- We've got all kinds of flooding
going on here in Paradise Valley.

Unprecedented flooding,

like 100 years since we've had water
levels this high.

- There's been a drought here since
December,

and we're now in April.

- And it's unusual, different than any
other year I have seen.

- Sounds like the water levels are
rising quicker than anyone expected.

- Every day it's incrementally getting
hotter and hotter.

We haven't had rain in the park for
about a week,

and there's no sign of it on the
horizon.

And we're actually in the middle of
our rainy season.

- Yeah, this is a lot of rain, even
for Amazonian standards.

It's beyond anything I've seen at this
time of the year.

- It's a bit worrying, really.

The monsoon isn't actually meant to
start for another month.

- In northern Kenya, the rain was
especially hard to predict.

The crew were hoping to film elephants

in the height of the wet season.

But when they arrived, the rains had
not yet come.

East Africa was in the grip of a
historic drought...

..and the consequences for both
wildlife and people became clear.

- Right, so we've just been filming

a group of elephants

that were approaching the river,

and they just ran into

a big herd of cattle,

and quite literally,

the cows were blocking the elephants

from even crossing the river.

So the elephants have all just turned
back.

- The reality now of filming is one of

watching thousands of cattle coming

through an area where elephants

should be. How do you deal with 10,000
cattle, as an elephant?

It's a whole level of parenting skills

that they're not equipped to deal
with.

- These herders, these pastoral
people, although they're not allowed

to be in the park, they just have no
choice.

They're all competing for that little
resource.

It's a very difficult time.

- Everybody is looking forward for
green grass and good food

for the animals and water.

So everybody here is trying maybe to
look for ways of surviving.

- The lack of fresh water and grass
has put both people

and elephants under immense pressure.

- In the past, you know, there was a
big threat,

which was elephants being killed for
their ivory.

But today we see things shifting into

the competition of space

and resources being the biggest
challenge.

It's a conflict that results into
elephants being wounded

or elephants wounding people or even
killing people.

And hence, you know, that also causing

a lot of tension between the two
species.

- So we've got a dead elephant here.

We don't know the cause of death yet.

He was fine literally an hour ago, and
then he's just collapsed.

But very, very sad to see an elephant
go like this,

especially a bull who's not even that
old.

He was just coming into his prime.

It's very sad.

- Elephants are astonishingly social.

A death in the community can have a
big impact.

- They just seem to be trying to scent

and see what happened yesterday.

They're trying to understand the
situation.

- The elephants returned day after day
to visit the body

until it was time to move on.

Drought and conflict are now leaving
many young elephants

without families.

Families who would normally provide
them with protection

and important lessons.

So in their absence...

..the community is stepping in to
parent orphaned elephants.

- A lot of babies that have fallen
into wells

because of searching for that precious
resource,

you know, the water.

- This baby here, she's called Milgis.

And she came here as

a result of falling into a well.

When it is dry season,

sometimes they don't come back for
their babies.

So her mother didn't come back.

And that's why we got this little baby
here.

When baby elephants are in the bush,

they learn so many things from their
mothers, from the family.

So, as keepers, we are also teaching
them some things.

- They teach them which leaves are
good to eat...

..make sure they get enough to
drink...

..and help them to have a good old
dust bath,

just as their mothers would have done.

- They move into our family. What I
like most is staying with babies

who are stressed because I know how to
calm them down.

Baby elephants like singing. They like
music.

Also, they like pop music so much.

- KEEPERS SING

- Reteti started 2016, August.

Since the beginning, we have released
ten baby elephants

back to the wild.

The staff that we have here, it's 91
of them,

and all of them are from the local
community around.

- Elephants have changed the life

of my community through employment,

through education,

through women empowerment.

As they grow with your friendship,
they never forget that.

Even when they are big, when they hear
you, when they see you,

they give you some nice kisses,
holding you like their own family.

I'm very privileged to say I love
elephants

and I wish to support them.

- Reteti Elephant Sanctuary has
demonstrated

what great benefits can come from
protecting wildlife.

While the climate changes and
resources dwindle...

..every community can find ways to
support the natural world.

Next time...

Jungles.

- # Go steady Take your time

# You're ready

# I'll be fine

# And whatever you face

# There's a part you can't break

# Cos I'll love you

# That'll never change

# That'll never change

# That'll never change

# That'll never change... #