David Attenborough’s – Life of Mammals 2 Insect Hunters

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Shrews have to maintain body heat at night so they’re always up to something but for that they need to eat continuously. Wow for small harmless looking rats their fights sure are ferocious… and he’s no different while courting the female. HAH after she’s given birth and they’ve grown up she has to wean them off her titties so she leads them outside right. They look so fit all in a line biting each others a55es/tails so they don’t get lost. That was too funny.

Over to the desert to the sand-swimmer/golden mole. I thought God forgot to throw in the eyes but dudes eyes are covered with hairy skin man. Now it’s not totally underground so I cant say it makes tunnels as the sand collapses anyway… my point is… dude leaves a wicked trail behind. Over to some icy place in America to the digger/star nosed mole. More like scary-starfish-looking-suction-device nosed mole.

East Africa is next… Hey he’s using portable monitors I used for VTR. Anyway he’s using them to survey the sengi/elephant shrew. Apparently this one is very fastidious when it comes to his ‘lanes’. Lol David purposely left a camera and some mess on the poor things trail. Damn its fast… no wonder it needs the trails clear. Even this one needs constant fuel. The mothers nipples are near the shoulders. Question: Don’t use deo then ay? Hmmm wonder what we’re doing at Big Ben and all the other buildings in London City. Aha… David’s feeding a hedgehog in his back yard. Damn man when courting a female the male has to chase her around first… then to excite her he noses her spines, LMAOOOOO dude’s trying hard enough to penetrate ‘with great care’ and sista be walking off… lol poor guy was dragging ahead in the end.

Over to America and the 9 banded armadillo… does not have much protection against smaller insects… while the pangolin in Africa is ARMOURED like a motha! Cant believe that armour is really modified hair. Dude swallows stones to help grind up the ants. The eyes are equipped with thick lids while the ears and nostrils have valves to keep the insects out. Dude got the longest tongue and stickiest saliva… wicked shot of dude giving oral to an anthill and how far/fast his tongue goes. How’s that Pussy Cat Doll’s song… Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me? How about a version from Pangolin ‘Action Figures’!

Ok ok… over to Brazil and the giant ant eater. Poor eyesight, acute sense of smell, sleeps for like 15 hours to conserve energy (ants aint nutritious… so who told me they’re the best source of protein back in my workout days?). Oh and to reduce heat loss to a minimum dude covers himself with its bushy tail. Hahaha David says its brain don’t work very fast… if you see it, it looks pretty lazy and dumba55. No he aint talking about me! Wicked shot of countless termite mounds. Man these things virtually drink termites. It is ‘said’ that a carcass of a jaguar was found after meeting one of these. David then takes us to some research place to talk about a fossil of some tree anteater and the first known pangolin back in the millennia. Why they haven’t evolved much for 50 million years? He blames the queen of the termite colony back in those days again. If the termites aint changed why should the perfect eaters right?

Next up we got bats. Apparently they evolved from shrews. What you trying to say… Batman’s great great gramps was Shrewman? Wow slow motion shots of how they bats catch the insects with the membrane on their feet and pass it over to their mouths. Moths evolved also to recognise bats sonar and get out of the way so one bat changed techniques… the long eared bat! So fit… long eared and they got a miniature version sprouting inside them. Check this out… first filters out sound to focus on the moth flapping, then uses sonar to find its way till it gets closer and goes on stealth mode. GANGSTA! Hahahahaaaaa OOPS! Dude nearly got the moth on a leaf… only he was on the wrong side of the leaf, but there’s still hope… gangsta circles around and he’s waiting in the air with his silent flapping till moth budges a lil and TADOW… munch time. Wicked highspeed shot of spider knitting his web, then batman comes along and grabs spiderman without getting stuck in his web. Spidy sucks!

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David checks out a batcave to see what they feed on and where they find it. Wicked shot of thousands of bats all over the place. So he takes a hotairballoon to the skies as pilots reported bats at such high altitudes. Radar shows several storms brewing but its bats! Each ‘storm’ with around 20 million of these blind funkers. Turns out moths go that high to feed. Then he explores bats in winter and how they survive. Amazing thermal shots of bats hibernating so they’re totally environmental temperature (everythings blue)… then as they wake up to have a drink you see them slowly warming up to purple, red, then yellow and finally white in the inside. Wait… this one didn’t wake up for a drink… dude wants a quickie with a few ‘coldies’ first.

The bats of New Zealand are kinda different as in they do fly but also crawl and hunt as a pack foraging through grounds just like shrews. Group tug-of-war over a worm. They even evolved to drink the nectar of the hades plant after their meal. Man whetter/giant cricket is something else… imagine a bat trying to grab it and the cricket got such strong legs it actually flings the bat… plus once they overcome the legs they gotta deal with crickets gangsta jaws.

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4. Chisellers | 5. Meat Eaters | 6. The Opportunists
7. Return to the Water | 8. Life in the Trees | 9. The Social Climbers
10. Food for Thought