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Planet Earth had the rain forest episode tonight and had a pretty good segment on Nepenthes and their symbiotes, the crab spider and the literal crabby crab. I think they did a good job and spent much more time than Expedition Borneo did. I want one of those crabs.
JLAP,
was that the one on jungles w/Sigourney Weaver?
if so it's on again later and I recording it.
glad to hear there is a nepenthes part in it.
peace,
Zero
I too was disappointed that Expedition Borneo didnt spend more time on the carnivorous plants. I missed the first run of Planet Earth tonight, I will definitely be catching the second run here in about half an hour. Thanks for the heads up JLaP.
Saw this last night. The in-pitcher cam was pretty darn cool. Never heard of the Nepenthes crabs before, I'll have to do some reading on that this week. haha Well truly, I hardly know anything about Neps....
I was disipointed that they didn't have the relation ship between Camponotus sp. that lives on N. bicalarata. It lives in the trendils of the plant and eats the prey the pitcher helps catch. I return the plant gets pretection from orbovores and omnivores. I was shocked to see a crab in one! I want the ant and plant one though.
I noticed some familiar shots too, mostly though the part where the man jumps into that huge cavern, which I had seen in Discovery Channel commercials for years, but never in a show. Although, even though this will eventually end up in one of the sections of this series, I still haven't seen it say what the heck he is doing. This thing took 5 years to film, so I'm sure they gave some of their footage to other programs.
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