Within moments of emerging from the sand, the lizards had to head for the safety of the rocks, running the gauntlet between hundreds of lightning fast snakes, hungry for a meal In the footage, BBC cameraman Richard Wollocombe can be seen filming the moment a hatchling marine iguana dashes for its life just after emerging from the sand on Fernandina Island in the Galapagos
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The first episode of the new series mesmerised viewers with the island perils facing newly hatched iguanas. The footage on BBC1 showed some iguanas outrun the snakes to safety by the sea while others were caught before the snakes wrapped themselves around them. In the original footage, hatchlings could be seen emerging from the sand of the Galápagos island in the Pacific Ocean in June for what is the snakes’ best feeding opportunity of the year, and most were lucky enough to escape.
‘They aren’t working together,’ the BBC explains. In the footage, one of these snakes can be seen swallowing both a successful hunter and its partially eaten meal. ‘It’s every snake for itself’ It is a scene that had BBC viewers on the edge of their seats, as freshly hatched sea iguanas were picked off one by one by a knot of vigilant snakes as they attempted to race to safe ground According to the crew, this behaviour has never been caught on film before – and as the snakes swarmed in from all sides to hunt, a cameraman knelt just feet away from the action It's official: Women DO have better memories than men (in middle age, at least)Ībove, one of these snakes can be seen swallowing both a successful hunter and its partially eaten meal.Samsung to boost the screen size of its Galaxy S8 to appeal to Note owners: Handset could come in 5.5inch and 6.2inch sizes.Why seabirds eat plastic: Plankton that is attracted to the waste material fools the creatures into smelling food.Is your phone making you tired? Using devices with blue light before bed lowers our quality of sleep.Just one snake may be lucky enough to capture its fast-moving meal, and the predators will even eat each other amid the chaos. ‘This is the first time snakes have been filmed hunting en masse,’ the BBC reveals in the new footage.īut, don’t be fooled by what appears to be a cooperative tactic. Within seconds, racer snakes appear from every direction and pluck the baby iguana from the rocks, descending upon it in a constricting tangle. In the footage, BBC cameraman Richard Wollocombe can be seen filming the moment a hatchling marine iguana dashes for its life just after emerging from the sand on Fernandina Island in the Galapagos. This made it Britain's most watched natural history programme in more than 15 years - and it was more popular than the first series debut watched by 8.74million viewers.Īnd it has also been revealed that the series does not feature any penguin deaths because they look too much like humans, so it would upset viewers.
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According to the crew, this behaviour has never been caught on film before – and as the snakes swarmed in from all sides to hunt, a cameraman knelt just feet away.
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