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This is a planet on the move - animals in every landscape are embarking on epic migrations in search of food, shelter, and love. Humans may believe they are the world’s greatest explorers, but that is not the case. Every day, millions of animals migrate across the globe, following paths that have been used for centuries. They soar, fly, and swim—from Antarctica to the African savanna, and from the Pacific Ocean to Alaska. This series immerses viewers in these incredible animal journeys. Follow a devoted humpback whale mother caring for her calf, along with dung beetles, monarch butterflies, resilient barn swallows, and many other species. Throughout their lives, these intrepid travelers migrate thousands of miles, navigating by the Earth’s magnetic field, the stars, the moon, ocean currents, and their own innate senses of land and sea. Join Jeremy Renner as he narrates these most extreme adventures.
本集概览 :--
• 幕后花絮：本集将带观众深入幕后，揭示摄制组与科学家如何克服重重困难，记录下地球上最具挑战性的动物迁徙过程。
• 全球视野：制作历时三年多，足迹遍及全球七大洲的 20 个国家。
• 先进技术：摄制团队运用了多种专业设备——包括无人机、陀螺稳定摄像系统以及定制的追踪装置——成功拍摄了火烈鸟、被困住的座头鲸以及漂泊信天翁等物种。
• 聚焦保护：本集凸显了野生动物纪录片拍摄与科学研究之间的紧密联系，展示了通过记录这些迁徙路线，如何助力推动动物保护事业。
本集概览 :--
• 幕后花絮：本集将带观众深入幕后，揭示摄制组与科学家如何克服重重困难，记录下地球上最具挑战性的动物迁徙过程。
• 全球视野：制作历时三年多，足迹遍及全球七大洲的 20 个国家。
• 先进技术：摄制团队运用了多种专业设备——包括无人机、陀螺稳定摄像系统以及定制的追踪装置——成功拍摄了火烈鸟、被困住的座头鲸以及漂泊信天翁等物种。
• 聚焦保护：本集凸显了野生动物纪录片拍摄与科学研究之间的紧密联系，展示了通过记录这些迁徙路线，如何助力推动动物保护事业。
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00:28No one said
00:29it would be easy making a series about incredible animal journeys I don't
00:42think I've ever seen a humpback so skinny it didn't even look like a humpback
00:48whale anymore as part of the dive team it's hard to kind of watch events unfold
00:56and know that there's nothing you can do but as the film crew really what we were
01:01there to do is show people what's actually happening out there
01:09but nothing could prepare us for what we discovered along the way
01:24they say that every journey starts with the first step
01:32but actually it starts with much more
01:38our planet is on the moon millions of animals making millions of journeys and
01:46every one of them with the story to tell
01:54as we set out on a journey of our own
02:00okay that was really really good we learned how extraordinary oh there it is and how
02:07essential these wild travelers are for the health of our planet
02:17filmed over three years across all seven continents
02:24oh my god that was amazing
02:29we united the world's best filmmakers I love that feeling of seeing something that nobody
02:37else has ever seen having a moment like this is amazing and scientists oh that's it that's
02:43the more you know about a species the better you can conserve it discovering how technology can unlock their secrets
02:57now let's be honest the path wasn't always smooth
03:06but today it's the animals that face the biggest obstacles
03:17it's really heartbreaking
03:19this animal it may not survive
03:22oh my god that was so close it was so close
03:28we track these lifelines across the globe
03:32on a voyage of discovery
03:36and now we want to take you behind the journey
03:52in the warm waters of Hawaii we set out to follow one of the longest migrations of any mammal on
04:01earth
04:05our research began bright and early that day
04:11one of the questions I used to get asked quite frequently as a whale researcher is why whales
04:19my answer was always well why not whales have you seen them have you met a whale
04:27this area here the our channel it's just one of the most amazing places to work
04:34every year humpback whales travel 3,000 miles
04:40from Alaska to Hawaii to breed and give birth
04:45a whale
04:49whale
04:50thanks Tess thank you
04:55that's it
04:56working hand in hand with leading experts
04:59up up
05:00and away
05:01okay baby's coming up
05:03oh that's it that's yeah
05:05meant that our footage could directly support scientific research
05:18we've been out all day filming humpbacks
05:23mostly focusing on moms and calves
05:30but we were about to find out
05:33that not every traveler will reach their destination
05:44we heard on the radio that one of the whale watching boats here had come across an entangled whale
06:05this whale was probably only four or five years old
06:12when we see entangled whales here in Hawaii many of them have come all the way from Alaska with that
06:18debris attached to them it can be anything from crab pots to fishing nets to fishing lines
06:30when I really saw the condition of the whale when I got in the water
06:33I really wanted to do something to help
06:36and I think I even remember asking the producer at the time if we could just try something
06:46the protocol is to call it into the hotline and this alerts our entanglement team
06:55you know what's always going through your mind is like what are we going to have
06:58every disentanglement is different
07:03you have to have people that are trained experienced authorized to respond
07:09it's dangerous
07:11bring a 40 ton animal 45 feet long
07:14and it doesn't necessarily know you're there to help it
07:23we took advantage of Rachel's team and the film crew
07:27one aspect they had was drones
07:32the imagery was critical to getting that whale free
07:36there's a lot of loops in the water
07:39we saw that that line was too embedded
07:42it got to the back of the mouth and had gone in a couple inches
07:46so we weren't going to be able to pull that out that easily
07:49so now we had to trim
07:51just nice and slow
07:52can you let you have a little bit more slack
07:56yep
07:57okay got that
08:00and even his poor condition as this whale was
08:04I think at times it was doing six to eight knots
08:06first bundle
08:07that's pretty fast on the water when you're trying to cut the whale free
08:10yeah
08:11it's still around the tail
08:12keep a little slack now
08:15perfect
08:15perfect
08:17nicely done guys
08:20we did not want to do more harm to that animal
08:24it's just like frayed lines and everything
08:25can we try and grab those
08:27yep
08:32okay it's going underneath the boat
08:33coming right up under the boat
08:35oh something happened
08:39let's go where that line is
08:40I think we're caught
08:46I think we're caught on the motor
08:49sometimes we'll do this the whale headed under boat
08:51and the line got temporarily caught in one of the engines
08:57but it ended up breaking the line on the left flipper
09:01and it just came unraveled
09:06not a plan
09:07but it worked
09:08give me a line
09:09yeah
09:10have line
09:11get rid of that
09:12that hole
09:13empty that line
09:16the whale did make another approach to us
09:18and got right beside the boat
09:23then you really see the eyeball
09:26is tilting up a little bit
09:27it's looking at you
09:30it was like crap
09:31you know this whale is not in good shape now
09:34if only we had gotten to this whale three and a half weeks earlier
09:41we know as a team we're not going to be successful all the time
09:46but you do your best
09:51but the probability is this animal it may not survive
09:59these are whales that you get to know they come back every year
10:04this is without a doubt the saddest thing I've ever seen
10:11as that day ended we thought it would be the end for that young female
10:17but in fact the next day as we came out to continue our research we encountered her again
10:23but this time she wasn't alone
10:37unlike us wild travelers have no borders
10:45no boundaries
10:55to film these incredible animal journeys
10:59we had to make incredible journeys of our own
11:16so this is day one of looking for arctic foxes
11:24as you can see I'm fully cutted out here
11:26it's about minus 25 degrees
11:28it can get down to about minus 40 with wind chill
11:33we've got to watch out for having frostbite as well
11:39we've got two fox dens that we've found but no foxes so far
11:43it's kind of like a white needle in a very big white haystack at the moment
11:51Arctic foxes are nomadic
11:54Arctic foxes are nomadic
11:55in winter they can travel over 1,000 miles to find food
12:04with a range this big
12:06how do you find the Arctic's very own snow white
12:13fox dens are their best bet
12:16that's fine
12:18the team uses a motion triggered camera trap to check for activity
12:24we found both an entrance and an exit hole
12:27which is pretty good news as well
12:29yeah fingers crossed
12:38first light
12:40the team heads out to see what they've caught on camera
12:45the foxes have left a little gift
12:49well we weren't really sure if there was anything here but
12:53somebody's definitely marked their territory
12:56so this is our lovely camera trap as you can see
12:59there's lots of fox pee on it
13:00what's this?
13:03oh there it is
13:05you'll see its nose
13:07you'll see the black in its nose
13:09oh yeah
13:11nice
13:13badass
13:15that is good
13:17this smelly culling card
13:19confirms that the crew is in the right place
13:28the fox has just come out the den
13:31so we're just trying to stay really quiet
13:45but after a promising start
13:48we're still being
13:50outfoxed
13:52so it's been quite a few days for us now
13:55we've been looking everywhere for these foxes
14:00nearby is the settlement of Utkayagdik
14:03the northernmost city in the US
14:08fortunately for us we've got the local community
14:10and they said go and check out the local rubbish facility
14:13so we're here today to see if there's any action
14:20while the garbage dump might seem like the last place to look for wildlife
14:25animal journeys are coming into contact with human activities
14:29like never before
14:34i don't know if you can see below me but we've got some fox footprints here
14:38and they are fresh
14:40there are footprints everywhere
14:47where we see trash
14:49the fox sees treasure
14:56the garbage dump provides an easy food source
15:00the garbage dump provides an easy food source
15:01in the depths of winter
15:12foxes have been really difficult to film here
15:15so having a moment like this is amazing
15:18but it doesn't happen very often
15:21but i really don't know if that
15:44there was a pretty good one
15:44like you said
15:44a few months ago
15:48it's all over with you
15:50cutting-edge tech.
15:58But, hey, we can't get it right all the time.
16:03Aye, aye, aye. It looks like the gear's stripped.
16:08Oi!
16:11We love you all for these things, aren't we?
16:14Do you know nothing about camera work?
16:17You don't get this when you're working. Hi.
16:19The wind's definitely getting worse.
16:21Ah, look at that.
16:27Yeah, it was deeper than I was expecting.
16:30Not easy to make.
16:31Only a bit of, like, progress.
16:40What on earth have we got here?
16:43This is our pink flying drone.
16:46Wow.
16:46There's a little bit of science that says that flamingos recognise predators based on colour.
16:53Pretty and pink.
16:54A clever disguise, so we don't spook the birds.
16:58I can't believe I've come all the way here to fly a pink chicken.
17:13We're very, very, very hot today. I mean, it's baking hot, and we just can't get enough thrust out of
17:18it.
17:28Well, one thing's for sure.
17:30When an animal isn't on the move, it's a whole lot easier to film.
17:41wandering albatross spend nearly 90% of their life at sea
17:48when they do come to land it has to be for a very special reason
17:57or a very special somewhere
18:21but to film these long-distance lovers in their element
18:30the crew needs to buckle up and hold tight
18:37we made it out
19:07wanderer by name and by nature
19:10these big birds harness wind power from huge waves
19:18soaring across 8 million square miles of ocean
19:29and I've lost him
19:32how's he gone
19:33they're just Houdini's
19:36I don't know how they do it
19:39with only a rare glimpse
19:41hey we've got one off the stern of the boat
19:44they need to make the most
19:46of every opportunity with some highly specialized gear
19:53we've been using a gyro stabilized camera system which is amazing
19:57even in these rough conditions when the boat's been thrown around
20:01we're still getting really smooth shots of the albatross
20:17I mean that's nice
20:22you all right
20:24this is nice one
20:32but they don't just want to film the albatross
20:35they want us to be able to fly like one
20:39to mimic their flight
20:42we need to use a racing drone
20:45but in this much swell
20:47this boat's just not stable enough
20:50so I think
20:53we're gonna need a bigger boat
21:10good morning on board the explorer
21:12and greetings from the mine road
21:14they say that size doesn't matter
21:18take it off
21:19in 3, 2, 1
21:22here we go
21:27but in this case
21:29it kind of does
21:31one of the ways we're reducing risk
21:33when flying drones like this
21:35is to make sure we have a wide
21:37stable landing platform
21:39and that's why we're on this big boat right now
21:42big ship
21:44the captain's gonna kill me
21:50finish the land
21:58this 370 foot expedition ship
22:01is home for the next month
22:03how are you doing?
22:04yo
22:04because do you know how big they are?
22:06they're like the Boeing 737 of the planet earth
22:09if you want to know how to fly like an albatross
22:12they have one very nice trick
22:14that will lock their wings
22:16ask an ornithologist
22:18so if you imitate me
22:20it's another foot
22:21it will be that big
22:23can you imagine a bird this size
22:25it's the biggest on the planet earth
22:27wow
22:30Javier has traveled the world
22:31studying birds
22:32oh my goodness
22:34but he's never flown like one
22:36let's go for it
22:37okay
22:39take it off
22:41alright
22:43there we go
22:46oh my
22:50he's like a star wars but nuts
22:55oh my
22:57I don't know how Rafa doesn't get seasick with this
23:01oh my
23:05that's spooky
23:09so how does that look to you?
23:11it looks good
23:11but the only one thing is that the wandering albatross are much, much bigger
23:16they go a bit slower when they do the turns
23:20you have to think like an albatross
23:22just think like an albatross
23:23feel the wind
23:24just feel the wind
23:26okay
23:26alright
23:26alright
23:31but to do that
23:33you need the right conditions
23:36come on
23:37just gonna see what the weather's doing
23:43and it's another
23:44very beautiful but flat calm day
23:47for the southern ocean
23:49no big waves
23:51not yet
23:54what we're really after is big wave
23:56giant swells
23:57so we can feel the power of the ocean
23:59and fly within it pretty much
24:07it's pretty calm again
24:14compared to most people on this ship
24:16we've got to be the only two
24:18wishing for bigger seas
24:33sometimes
24:34wishes too come true
24:41we just woke up to some
24:43rough seas
24:46which is
24:47what we want
24:48like look at that
24:49look at that
24:53it's gonna be great
24:57at last
24:59Rafa can flex his wings
25:06we're basically just practicing the moves
25:09filling out the waves
25:11wow
25:13and we can ride the wind
25:17like an albatross
25:39these aerial giants
25:41can travel 70,000 miles
25:44in a year
25:56but these days
25:58not everyone makes it back to land
26:04each year
26:06albatross are lured by the hooks
26:08and lines
26:08of industrial fishing
26:11the albatross will get a hold of the bait
26:14they get hooked
26:16and then they go down
26:18and they drown
26:20it makes me horribly sad
26:27it's now the single greatest threat
26:29to the species
26:33some lifelong soulmates
26:36never return
26:48when we set out to film this series
26:52we knew that we'd face some challenges
26:55along the way
27:00but nothing compares
27:02to what the wildlife
27:04is up against
27:06animal journeys
27:07formed over thousands of years
27:11are in real danger
27:17physical barriers
27:21disorientation
27:23habitat loss
27:26climate change
27:30making it harder than ever
27:31to get from A to B
27:44some animals are already being affected
27:48before we've even had a chance to learn more about them
28:03East Africa's Great Rift Valley
28:05is home to three quarters
28:08of the global population
28:10of lesser flamingos
28:14these pink carpets
28:16can number over a million birds
28:23constantly on the moon
28:26they can be tough to track down
28:30the flamingos
28:31they're quite mysterious creatures
28:36they come right across the rift valley
28:38looking for the right lake
28:39they just
28:40they do what they want really
28:43only by enlisting expert help
28:45did we have any hope
28:47of getting close
28:51scientist Timothy Munami
28:53has studied flamingos
28:55for the last 17 years
28:56in the last ticket
29:00flamingos have gone
29:02away from the normal
29:04pink carpet lakes
29:07and nobody up to this moment
29:10understands where they are
29:13finding and filming
29:16these unpredictable birds
29:18is going to be harder than ever
29:21this is
29:23while the crew sets out
29:25in search of the biggest flocks
29:30the science team
29:31is a bit more
29:32hands-on
29:39wow
29:40we've got a lot of flamingos
29:44the safety of flamingo
29:47comes priority number one
29:50we are heading now to process them
29:52at our ringing station
29:57Timothy's new project
29:58is using rings or bands
30:00to find out where the flamingos
30:03are going
30:04a tried and tested method
30:07used for more than a hundred years
30:09one, two, seven, five
30:11how it is fitted
30:13and these days
30:15we can all get involved
30:16in bird science
30:18even people at home
30:20can help us to monitor
30:21and conserve flamingo
30:23by reporting these two plastic rings
30:26the white one is kenya
30:27and this is lake bogoria
30:30once these rings
30:32have been photographed
30:33by tourists
30:34be it on facebook
30:35be it on twitter
30:37or any other media
30:38we can easily tell
30:40where they were ringed
30:46across the lake
30:47much as luck
30:50the crew gets word
30:51that larger numbers
30:53are starting to gather
31:00oh there's a bigger group
31:01way big grouping
31:02on the right
31:04yeah lots and lots
31:05coming in just now
31:07this is
31:07yeah this is pretty cool
31:08yeah
31:09and i'm right in amongst them all
31:13flamingos all over the place
31:25but timothy worries
31:27that a flock this size
31:28could soon become
31:30a thing of the past
31:32human activities
31:34are coming up
31:36at a very rapid rate
31:39i can tell
31:41the changes
31:41are not sustainable
31:45it is going to be
31:47very sad
31:48for our grandchildren
31:50not to find
31:53flamingos
31:55this is the saddest moment
31:59projects like this
32:01are the key
32:02to better understanding
32:04and protection
32:09how i wish
32:10i could have wings
32:13i would have already
32:14joined them
32:36so we're currently about 75 miles offshore
32:42and sometimes i worry a little bit
32:44that i'm going to get seasick
32:45because it's a tragedy
32:46of a marine scientist
32:47that gets seasick
32:49oh yeah
32:50that's cool
32:53it's a bit of an expedition
32:54it's an adventure
32:55and we never know
32:56what we're going to find
32:56when we come out here
32:58the mission today
33:00is to find
33:02and film
33:03a pocket-sized swimmer
33:05who spends up to 30 years
33:08in the open ocean
33:14green sea turtles
33:19for the series
33:20we filmed
33:21the terrifying start
33:23of hatchling life
33:37to their miraculous return
33:42to nest
33:43at the exact same beach
33:47when they're all grown up
33:53but when it comes to their teenage years
33:58little is known about where the young turtles go
34:01or what they do
34:04we have to find them out here
34:06this is a huge vast area
34:08and so it can be very difficult
34:10we may get skunked
34:14our search
34:15isn't a total drop in the ocean
34:18we head for a juvenile turtle's
34:21favorite place to hang out
34:24golden wraps
34:26of sargassum
34:29it's a floating algae
34:31in a way it acts as an oasis
34:34in the middle of the ocean
34:35where a lot of these little
34:37creatures
34:39have a little bit of safety
34:42when it pushes together like this
34:44it reminds me of the yellow brick road
34:45in the wizard of oz
34:50ryan
34:51do you all see that
34:52ryan do you see this
34:58good catch
35:01unfortunately it was our first catch of the day
35:03and it was a party balloon
35:06the turtles are normally incredibly camouflaged
35:09so it's hard for us to spot them
35:11and it's very easy for us to get distracted
35:13by floating coconuts or flip-flops
35:15that kind of look like a turtle
35:17or pieces of junk and plastic
35:19marine debris that ends up out here
35:22coconut
35:22yeah
35:24we're really good at spotting coconuts
35:30oh ryan what's up
35:34uh
35:35yeah
35:35what is a turtle
35:37turtle
35:37turtle
35:38very cool
35:39got eyes on it
35:41sort of
35:42i don't see it but i remember the patch
35:43i do too
35:44straight back
35:47right there at five o'clock
35:49five o'clock
35:49yep
35:50still see it
35:52swimming just below the surface
35:54took a breath
36:05and it's out of range
36:08there we go
36:10go billy
36:13oh right here
36:14nope it's moving like a little porsche in the water
36:17it's going fast
36:30nice
36:32good job ryan
36:34good job aj
36:34that's exciting
36:35it's a green turtle
36:38to find out more about these wayward teens
36:42kate is using tiny satellite tags
36:45these are really small
36:48they're about the size of maybe a little piece of chocolate
36:50or some party cheese
36:53little cubes of party cheese
36:56the work that we do is very quick
36:59and we try to minimize our handling time for these animals so we minimize the stress
37:06so anybody have a time
37:08if we're able to study and monitor these animals over the long term we can better understand
37:16how our ecosystems may also be changing with time
37:22these animals can be a bit of a canary in a coal mine
37:31fitted with her tracker backpack
37:34she's ready to hit the waves and face whatever challenges lie ahead
37:40we're so fixed in our own human world
37:43we need technology to better understand what is the world to them
37:50good luck little buddy
37:55this tiny traveler is now joining the ranks of a very important scientific community
38:04without them we could have never made this series
38:10we can now follow animal journeys like never before
38:15thanks to an explosion in tracking technology
38:21creatures large and small
38:26fitted with specially designed tags
38:33scientists are calling them bio loggers
38:36a world wildlife web
38:43recording
38:44and sending information
38:46from places that humans can never reach
38:50you can see a green turtle is following this current
38:58so in a few weeks several thousands of kilometers
39:03welcome to the data center for the biggest satellite based animal tracking system on the planet
39:20all these technology in this room all these sophisticated electronic tags all these satellites 800 kilometers above our heads
39:31all this for what to serve the planet
39:38and this network is about to get a turbo boost
39:47launching a new constellation of satellites
39:51launching a new constellation of satellites
40:05where they go where they breed where they feed
40:12and we need all this knowledge to better protect
40:17to establish marine protected areas for instance national parks regional parks migration corridors
40:26we need to know to better protect
40:39we still have much to learn about our planet on the move
40:46but one thing we do
40:50every journey
40:54is a matter of life
40:59and death
41:15the first time we encountered the entangled whale
41:18she was alone and she was dragging line
41:23it was clear that it was kind of its last days
41:27it was really heartbreaking
41:32entanglements
41:33lead to mortality through starvation
41:38you see whales go to the very end of their energy reserves
41:42before they actually succumb to these injuries
41:49it's a very very painful thing to watch
41:56there were sharks starting to follow that animal
41:59which is a bad sign
42:04the tiger sharks are getting kind of brazen
42:08and there are some really large ones as well
42:12it's just about making sure that they know that you're not a snake
42:24but just when we think this journey is coming to an end
42:29so a lot of times we'll use underwater cameras
42:32that will help us get the visual assessment of the animal
42:37we were looking at that footage
42:39we were also listening to it
42:40we noticed calls
42:44and it really struck us
42:45we were wondering
42:46are they calling other whales
42:53then
42:55something
42:57extraordinary
43:03to our surprise
43:04the second whale came in
43:18first thing we could see him do in the water
43:21so he moved all those tiger sharks
43:22off with a big swish of his fluke
43:28it's weird how the humpbacks kind of accepted us as safe
43:33but knew that the tiger sharks weren't safe
43:36and i think that really points to some sort of higher level of intelligence
43:46it was a real feeling that not only was he giving her physical support
43:50but also there was some emotional support
44:00it's something we haven't seen before
44:04it's something we've heard of from whaling days
44:07when one whale would help out another whale
44:09it was caught by whalers
44:10another whale would stand by
44:12and do anything it could
44:13even at the risk of being caught itself
44:16and to see that behavior play out
44:19was absolutely remarkable
44:27one of the things the companion whale did
44:29is raise her up slightly
44:31just so that she could breathe easier
44:40it's so sweet
44:41all that moment
44:43where it kind of holds her up
44:46that was really touching
44:52what was particularly striking here
44:54he was prepared to stay with this
44:57entangled and distressed whale
45:00as that distressed whale faced the end
45:06there was no chance that the favor would be returned in kind
45:11and so it really does seem to be a moment of compassion
45:18it really felt like
45:21a loved one coming in
45:23to hold someone's hand
45:25during their last moments
45:35it really felt like
45:44in a rapidly changing world
45:49animals are struggling to keep up
45:54and ancient migration routes
45:56are at risk
46:01the challenges that we face are immense
46:04and they can seem insurmountable
46:05but every journey begins with one small step
46:11to protect these incredible animal journeys
46:15we still have a long way to go
46:19it counts what we do in our daily lives
46:23we can make choices that make a difference
46:28animals have made these journeys for generations
46:35now
46:36their future
46:38is in our hands
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