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Frozen Planet represents the most extensive filming of the Antarctic interior ever attempted. Series Producer Vanessa Berlowitz explains how this was done from a twin engine airplane.
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In Arctic Canada, hundreds of beluga whales gather to shed their skin at the end of summer. Assistant Producer Elizabeth White sets up an underwater microphone to hear their squeaks and whistles.
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Belugas: Canaries of the Sea
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Frozen Planet series producer Vanessa Berlowitz explains how the amazing brinicle, or "icy finger of death," was filmed using time-lapse photography.
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Caribou Fights Like a Boss
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The Arctic's woolly bear caterpillar freezes solid every winter, the natural antifreeze in its body keeping it from dying. It takes 14 years before it has eaten enough to become a moth.
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Caterpillar Survives Frozen Death
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The Chukchi, natives of the Arctic, risk life and limb to collect guillemot eggs from the side of a sheer cliff in the Arctic. Over the years, many men have fallen to their deaths doing this.
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Cliffside Egg Collecting
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A large wolf comes trotting across kilometers of tundra to come face to face with a Frozen Planet cameraman. The wolf gets to within 10 meters, and the cameraman captures the encounter with a point-and-shoot.
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Close Encounter With a Wolf
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Sealing in South Georgia Island nearly wiped out the Antarctic fur seal population, but today they are recovering. A researcher takes stock of how many fur seals there are in and around the island.
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Counting Antarctic Fur Seals
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An Adelie penguin turns to a life of crime to build the perfect nest on Antarctica's Cape Crozier.
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Criminal Penguin
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Adelie penguins live their whole lives near ice. Warming temperatures have meant less sea ice, and Adelie penguin numbers are in decline at their traditional colonies.
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Disappearing Penguins
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A Frozen Planet researcher discusses the life cycle of the Canadian Arctic's woolly bear caterpillar, which freezes solid every year for 14 years until it has enough energy to transform into a moth.
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Woolly Bear Caterpillars
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Growing up polar bear isn't all fun and games (although, that's part of it too). Polar bear cubs are forced to face some pretty big shocks in their first year in order to survive.
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A cameraman explains an Antarctic fur seal colony. The females have arrived here to give birth to their pups, while the males battle for breeding rights, creating a dangerous situation.
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Very Happy Polar Bears
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Filming the Caribou Battle
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While filming belugas moulting in the Canadian Arctic, the Frozen Planet film crew discovers a stranded beluga whale. They can't interfere for a number of reasons, so decided to keep the beluga wet until the tide returns.
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Saving a Beached Beluga
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Belugas: Canaries of the Sea
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A Frozen Planet cameraman shares his surprising discovery about polar bears on the southern shores of Hudson Bay. Though mainly carnivores, the polar bears here also eat berries and grass.
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Vegetarian Polar Bears
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Frozen Planet's First Shoot
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Cameraman Mark Smith films a 20-foot polar bear right outside his front door. The polar bear more or less falls asleep in the front garden during a blizzard.
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Let Sleeping Polar Bears Lie
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Filming the Frozen Caterpillar
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