Micro Monsters with David Attenborough — S01E05 — Family
2013 · 23 MIN · IMDB 8.4
Overview
While most of the series has focused on conflict, this episode is all about co-operation. The suitably named social spiders spin one enormous, 30m web for the whole colony, a queen bee rules her hive with a strict hierarchy and some green ants show great team spirit to help build a nest together. There are no broken societies here. David Attenborough shifts the focus to bugs that prefer cooperation rather than conflict. They include burrowing cockroaches, the suitably named social spiders - which share a 30-metre web.
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00:00:05 Our world is not always the same.
00:00:36 scorpions
00:01:07 the challenges they face
00:01:44 We'll meet ants that farm,
00:02:45 They become families.
00:03:37 This one is a female.
00:04:25 keeping them moist and warm under her shell.
00:05:47 This mass of white silk is home to a very unusual spider.
00:06:33 Once these eggs have hatched, she'll feed the spiderlings
00:07:54 that have died in the web.
00:08:48 Family members have begun to specialize.
00:10:07 and pull the leaves together.
00:11:18 Some workers pull the leaves into position...
00:12:21 Some look after their offspring, and stay together as families.
00:13:07 And shows that the queen is constantly under threat
00:13:54 And the queen constantly bullies her daughters
00:15:13 maintaining this uneasy truce.
00:16:29 Her swollen abdomen is full of eggs.
00:17:19 And build and repair the nest walls using wax.
00:18:29 But pheromones released by the queen
00:19:21 this is more than just a family. It's a colony.
00:20:04 guarding the nest,
00:21:02 to build huge constructions for their homes,
00:21:54 Together they form a single super-organism.
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Micro Monsters with David Attenborough, season 1, episode 5: Family.
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