Most interesting BBC 'Walking With...' programme?

Kinzdone · 01-11-2008

Out of all the documentaries out there, nature or otherwise, 'Walking With Dinosaurs' is still the most successful in TV history.
But, which 'Walking With...' series was most interesting, informative and exciting? Hard to answer, I know, but whilst I have my favourites I'm curious to know what other people think.
Sure, each is handled differently, drawn from available evidence and the combined fossil record and research complimenting them, especially 'Beasts' (which is the most accurate of the shows as these creatures/species for the most part still exist in some form today), everyone will have their favourites for different reasons.
They all interlock with each other so well and even if they are 'best guesses' they are a remarkable insight into life on this planet.

**PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS THREAD TO DEBATE MYTH, RELIGION AND SCIENCE (CREATIONISM AND EVOLUTION). THIS IS FOR THE APPRECIATION OF THE PROGRAMMES - THANKYOU**

Kinzdone · 01-30-2008

Wow. I can see I struck a nerve here - these are obviously popular programs here...not.

Cryxellis · 02-18-2008

I vote for the cavemen, though I didn't seen any of it, I find it interesting
after dinosaurs.

Rin · 02-18-2008

I like the subject of earth creation and evolution. I think it's very wonderful to watch how a planet comes out, and creates a really complicated process and system to create a life inside it (which we don't find it happens in other planets). Sometimes, you will be amazed to think about how great the evolution creates human with high intelligence from just an amoeba or things like that.

I like watching documentary histories like this. I watch National Geographic a lot.

Kinzdone · 02-20-2008

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Originally Posted by Rin

I like the subject of earth creation and evolution. I think it's very wonderful to watch how a planet comes out, and creates a really complicated process and system to create a life inside it (which we don't find it happens in other planets). Sometimes, you will be amazed to think about how great the evolution creates human with high intelligence from just an amoeba or things like that.

I like watching documentary histories like this. I watch National Geographic a lot.

Its also intersting to see the evolutionary 'dead ends' or 'experiments' species went through.
Some creatures, even today, are not strictly one species or another, like the Platypus, but a hybrid side effect of evolution. The Crab Spider is another example, an obvious mix of undersea arthropod and their modern arachnid relatives.
I think some people take evolution as being some sort of ordained event or a phenomenon, when its really only a collective term for various species adapting to life in new environments caused by oxygen content, atmosphere and planetary conditions.
For most people when you explain it that way, they understand it better.

Flame · 03-11-2008

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Originally Posted by Kinzdone

Its also intersting to see the evolutionary 'dead ends' or 'experiments' species went through.
Some creatures, even today, are not strictly one species or another, like the Platypus, but a hybrid side effect of evolution.

Not sure I understand your point here

Platypus and Echidna are monotremes (egg laying mammals) which then led to marsupials (pouched mammals) and resuled in placental mammals. The fact that there are only 2 examples of monotremes existing doesn't imply that they are an 'experiment' or 'deadend' ... it shows that Australia was cutoff from the placental mammal migration due to geographic processes and were safe from being out competed by them.

On Topic ... the lack of votes and response lead me to believe that the US didn't have these programmes broadcast ... am I correct?

I voted ... Dinosaurs ... some of which was filmed in Tassie

It was surreal watching large dinosaurs lumbering across a landscape I not only recognised but had hiked through.