Micro Monsters with David Attenborough - Season 1 - Eps 6: Colony
Watching the fascinating display of leafcutter ants at the Natural History Museum in London is one of my favourite ways to while away a few hours, but David Attenborough is operating on a much grander scale here in the last in the series. In Argentina he observes some cousins of the leafcutters who are part of a community so vast it spans an entire continent. It’s one of the mandible-dropping facts in a look at one of the key inventions of arthropods: colonies. From termites and honey bees to the leafcutters, it seems that if you want to get ahead, you move to the big city.
About Micro Monsters with David Attenborough
Title: Micro Monsters with David Attenborough
First Air Date: 2013-06-15
Last Air Date: 2013-07-20
Status: Ended
Rating: 7/10 (from 10 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 2
Total Episodes: 6
Network: Sky 3D
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Colossus Productions, Sky 3D, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Synopsis
It s a small world after all. In this revolutionary new series, David Attenborough reveals the marvellous adaptability of the most successful group of animals on the planet. Using pioneering macroscopic filmmaking techniques, he explores in unparalleled detail the intricate, sophisticated behaviours of these fascinating creatures and the complexity of the environments they build and inhabit, in a world normally hidden from the human eye. From armies of killer ants to spiders weaving silken trap doors, ferocious scorpions with paralysing stings, beetles shooting boiling chemicals at their enemies, bees communicating with a waggle dance and assassin bugs that clothe themselves in their victims corpses; David Attenborough will as never before take viewers deep into the macroscopic world of bugs.
Cast
David Attenborough
Presenter
