BBC - Natures Great Events: The Great Salmon Run HDTV x264
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English | 00:49:18 | H264 | 1440x810 | 25.00fps 5387 Kbps | AC3 128
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Genre: Documentary Every year grizzly bear families in North America
depend for their survival on a spectacular natural event: the return
of hundreds of millions of salmon from the Pacific Ocean to the
mountain streams where they were born. The salmon travel thousands of
miles to spawn and then die. The great run not only provides food for
bears, but for killer whales, wolves, bald eagles, and even the forest
itself. The question is: will the salmon return in time to keep hungry
bears alive? A mother grizzly and her cubs emerge from their den high
in snowy Alaskan mountains. Filming from the air the team capture a TV
first, following the bears as they negotiate a near vertical slope on
their journey to the coast where they await the return of the salmon.
Meanwhile, the salmon are making their way to the to river mouths
where they must swim upstream and against the current. The programme
reveals how they tackle the torrents and leap over waterfalls, a feat
equivalent to a human jumping over a house. Dozens of hungry bears
eagerly await the salmon that make it up river. In another TV first,
underwater cameras record the ingenuity and fancy footwork they use to
collect dead salmon from the bottom of deep pools.
