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The Future is Wild
2010
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The Future is Wild Season 2 Full Episode Guide
The Great Plateau is the ninth episode in the documentary series The Future Is Wild. It is set in a lofty plateau created by the collision of Australia (who moved northward) against Japan and Kamchatka (the Asian tectonic plate), 100,000,000 years into the future. The episode focuses on three species. Silver Spider - a descendant of our spiders, the silver spiders live in huge colonies and have a caste system based on the size of the animal. They build massive webs across canyons. The queens can grow to the size of footballs. Poggle - the last species of mammal on Earth at this time. It is prey to silver spiders and looks much like a hamster. Great Blue Windrunner - a brilliant blue bird with wings on its legs which sees in ultraviolet and lives at the highest points on the plateau. This episode shows how this bizarre food chain works. The silver spiders build massive webs across canyons which catch seeds from grass trees. These are then harvested by the spiders and taken to an underground cavern. In here, the poggle hides and feeds on the seeds until they are killed and fed to the enormous queen. Great blue windrunners feed on the spiders that they pluck from the webs. At the end of the episode, we see the beginning of a mass extinction, which almost wipes the slate clean and allows evolution to start again.
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Tropical Antarctica is set in Antarctica, 100,000,000 years into the future. The episode focuses on five species. Roachcutter - a descendant of an undisclosed sea bird and one of the first species to colonise Antarctica. It feeds on the insects of the forest and flies incredibly fast and with brilliant agility. Spitfire Bird - a descendant of an undisclosed sea bird which collects chemicals from flowers of the Beech Burner which it then spits at enemies. Falconfly - a descendant of the wasp which feeds on birds Spitfire Beetle - a beetle that gathers in groups of four to take on the appearance of a Beech Burner flower. They then pounce when a spitfire bird gets close. False Spitfire Bird - a bird that looks almost identical to the spitfire bird but cannot fire chemicals. At this point in the future, Antarctica has moved so far north it is now on the equator and has grown a jungle. It shows how the seabirds have evolved to deal with the new dangers of the jungle. Oxygen levels have also allowed insects to grow big again.
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Flooded World is set in shallow seas of the world, 100,000,000 years into the future. The episode focusses on three species which all live together. Ocean Phantom - a type of Siphonophora that can grow to ten metres in diameter. Reef Glider - a descendant of the sea slug which hunts ocean phantoms. The young, however, are prey to the ocean phantom. Spindle Trooper - spider-like creatures that live in chambers on the ocean phantom and protect it from danger. The ocean phantom in return feeds it. This episode focusses on the extinction of the coral reefs and their replacement with red algae reefs. It shows how this food chain works and how the animals have evolved together. It also shows how ocean phantoms can be ripped apart by a severe storm but still carry on living.
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Waterland is set in the Bay of Bengal, 100,000,000 years into the future. The episode focusses on three species. Toraton - a descendant of the tortoise and the largest creature ever to walk the Earth. They can weigh up to 120 tonnes. Swampus - a descendant of the octopus which has become amphibious and formed a symbiotic relationship with a plant to house its young. They are very intelligent. Lurkfish - a fish that can fire up to 1000 volts to stun prey. They are fish and ambush predators. The episode shows that at this point of the future, volcanoes are belching out copious amounts of greenhouse gases causing the planet to overheat. It shows how swampus breed and how toraton have evolved to cope with their new size.
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