| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (58 min. 46 sec.) ; 355644432 bytes |
| Summary |
The last Ice Age was one of the most challenging times on Earth. Using the latest CGI, this 3-part series explores the lives and deaths of the remarkable creatures that inhabited the planet.In Land of the Cave Bear, Alice Roberts ventures to the parts of the northern hemisphere that were hit hardest by the cold - Europe and Siberia.High in the mountains of Transylvania, a cave, sealed for thousands of years, reveals grisly evidence for a fight to the death between two starving giants - a cave bear and a cave lion. These animals, which would dwarf their modern day relatives, were probably driven into conflict by the pressure on food supplies as the Ice Age gathered pace.But Alice also discovers that, for woolly rhinos and woolly mammoths, the Ice Age created a bounty. The Mammoth Steppe, a vast tract of land which went half way round the world, provided food all year round for those that liked the cold. It was these mammoths that Europe's most dangerous predators - Neanderthals and our own species, hunted for their survival.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Producer Paul Bradshaw (How Nature Works, The Incredible Human Journey, Egypt), Executive Producer Tim Martin Natural World, (How Nature Works). A BBC production |
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Broadcast 2014-03-30 at 19:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: G |
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Animals, Fossil.
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Cave paintings.
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Glacial epoch.
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Wildlife research.
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Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
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Europe.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Walker, Tim, director
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Roberts, Alice, host
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