Autumnwatch 2020 episode 2

  • 4 years ago
Autumnwatch 2020 episode 2: Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan, Gillian Burke and Iolo Williams are live from the New Forest, Fife, Yorkshire and Powys. There is more drama from Michaela’s Scottish seal colony, and Chris reveals the latest antics of his multicoloured badger family. There is a magnificent film about Great Orme’s goat rut, and a blizzard of birds takes over the screen, thanks to a camera embedded in a huge flock of wild waders.
Last Nature posts on HDclump.com and ClumpHD.com:
https://clumphd.com/arctic-secrets-mackenzie-delta-wildlife/
https://clumphd.com/arctic-secrets-fall-on-the-tundra-nunavik/
https://clumphd.com/arctic-secrets-wild-seas-ninginganiq-episode-5/
https://hdclump.com/extinction-the-facts/
https://hdclump.com/the-end-of-the-line/
https://hdclump.com/springwatch-episode-4-2020/
https://hdclump.com/springwatch-episode-3-2020/
https://hdclump.com/springwatch-episode-2-2020/
Transcript
00:08Is hope, of new beginnings, a symbol
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00:56on the east coast of a fantastic
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undefined:undefinedbecause let's face it, everything in
01:20the natural world is wonderful, and
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undefined:undefinedmore wonderful than witnessing the
01:36birth of an animal? If you were
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01:59standing, the Isle of May. And let's
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02:25adorable, fluffy seals, you have got
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02:42start with some of the things that
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03:00spring and summer on the continent,
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undefined:undefinedit was pretty wonderful and pretty
03:18weird, so let's see what Iolo has
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undefined:undefinedgoing to be magnanimous with you,
03:39because I do like the hoopoe, with
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undefined:undefinedtumbling in slow motion, look at
04:00that! Isn't that magnificent? All
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undefined:undefinedbeats the hoopoe. Gillian, what do
04:23you think? Well, Iolo, Thursday
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04:48mussels, and they are spatti. This
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undefined:undefinedthe fish any harm, but they will
05:06stay in the winter, then they are
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undefined:undefinedmolluscs are one thing, but I think
05:25I can thrash you all when it comes
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undefined:undefinedHuman League?
05:52Do you know what? I have heard that
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undefined:undefinedChris! I have got to be honest with
06:24you, I had no idea, come on,
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undefined:undefinedidea! No, no Daleks, it is
06:44absolutely remarkable, look, here is
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07:08wood, and it is decomposing, and
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07:26a tiny electric field. Now, Michael
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undefined:undefinedthem. So that is not the sound at
07:49the mushrooms are actually making,
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undefined:undefinedMushrooms warbling in the dark, what
08:06about that? Truly wonderful, as well
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undefined:undefinednow, doing what they typically do,
08:29having a good old scratch. Now, in
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08:50this is in infrared, of course, it
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undefined:undefinedalso down at a feeding station that
09:09we have set up, and we can go live
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09:25can have a look at another live
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09:41the course of the day and most of
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09:58on bird feeders, goldfinches,
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10:14will concentrate on two different
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10:26evening. This is typical of these
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10:44of course, some of them may stay
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11:08one another, they are really tough
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undefined:undefinedwe have got a life badger. There we
11:26are, look at that, so this one has
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undefined:undefinedbehaviour we have been watching a
11:43lot of, which we have seen this
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undefined:undefinedthree! Of course, removing these
12:03parasites is something that you
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undefined:undefinedbasically where you shared the
12:19grooming duties with another, and
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12:36so long as the other budget
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undefined:undefinedlockdown, we saw changes in a lot of
12:55our wildlife behaviour. Well
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undefined:undefinedpromontory, but they took to the
13:11town,, you can see it performing
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13:27excellent job of social distancing!
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13:44animals being a little bit more
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undefined:undefinedNavigating the steep drops of their
14:15kingdom with sure-footed certainty.
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undefined:undefinedbattle ground. Mature males are easy
14:40to spot, and their horns tell a
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15:10pubs. Whilst the nannies and kids
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undefined:undefinedconduct no longer applies. Crowns
15:40now become weapons. -- Michael code
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undefined:undefinedbillies who stand the best chance of
16:06success.
16:14Considering the nannies and billies
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16:43unknowns over the roof of his mouth
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undefined:undefinedthe attention of a number of
17:11suitors, all jousting for a chance
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undefined:undefinedkicking is a sign of courtship and
17:59he is now her devoted defender.
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undefined:undefinedsilent. But the autumnal ritual, the
18:50clashing of crowns on the cliff side
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undefined:undefinedphone call from my very excited
19:19brother living out in America for 40
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19:40also from other countries in the
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undefined:undefinedit would be a great gift to give him
19:59two Kashmiri goats and he foolishly
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undefined:undefinedOrme where they have flourished ever
20:17since and of course they are not
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20:35would like to look at it again, some
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undefined:undefinedresponse, that is a German word for
20:52bearing your front tape. What is
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undefined:undefinedtechnique. Look at this. This is
21:14amazing. This is a goat skull, a
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undefined:undefinedits top lip, the Flehmen response,
21:37and at the same time it closes its
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undefined:undefinedHours of work have gone into this,
21:59this is a goat, breathing in now
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undefined:undefinedthe mouth and the half pallet here.
22:22That has super sensory cells here
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undefined:undefinedis mating. So what is going on, the
22:42pheromones are coming in here, they
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23:04and eventually to mate. The
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23:26it's harem are coming into season or
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undefined:undefinedbasically picking up molecules and
23:51that forked tongue fit perfectly
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undefined:undefinedfrog or a toad for that snake to
24:09eat. Would you believe it? We humans
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undefined:undefinedcan categorically tell you now, that
24:40Michaela is ready and waiting for us
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undefined:undefinedexcited to see a seal pup that was
25:05just a couple of minutes old but
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undefined:undefinedis a first, look at theirs. The
25:26female gives absolutely no sign she
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25:48mum immediately turns around and
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undefined:undefinedthe development of a seal pup. Look
26:07at that, you can see the seal pup is
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26:28and that is to put on weight and
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undefined:undefinedthat and if you compare that to cows
26:50milk that is only 3%, you can see
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undefined:undefinedweight. But how big is a new seal
27:12pup? I have got a little model here.
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undefined:undefinedprobably the weight of the
27:32three-year-old. If you think about
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undefined:undefinedmother into the sea to hunt and find
27:54fish. Off she goes, she leaves that
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28:12roughly 24 days. Of course been left
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undefined:undefinedremarkable because all of that
28:31growth and change is done within two
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undefined:undefinedfor us humans! That is something
28:53wonderful, let us go to Gillian who
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undefined:undefinedgoing to get a little bit weird.
29:15Look at this. Isn't this the most
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29:42being made by a different species,
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undefined:undefinedstrategy that there are 1300 species
30:02of gall wasps around the world, 90
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undefined:undefinedare related to these wasps and they
30:25do not inject venom, they inject the
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undefined:undefinedspeeded things up and you can see
30:44how the structures form. They erupt
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undefined:undefinedthere is a chemical trigger that
31:03induces the plant to grow the
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undefined:undefinedlarvae will share the plant food
31:27with the original occupants, but
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undefined:undefinedlarvae, seeking out the nursery. So
31:47the female uses a highly modified
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32:08start the whole cycle again. So it
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32:31parasite, inside this one, eating
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undefined:undefinedgreat nursery, but you know what?
32:56The story doesn't end there, it is
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undefined:undefinedacquired a taste for these
33:16particular galls, spotted spangle
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33:36worlds all around us that we can
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33:56Celtic rainforest as captured by
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36:06it does tremendous things for our
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undefined:undefinedmagnificent piece of architecture,
36:28sabertooth cats, 25 million years
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undefined:undefinedaround 25 million years ago! You
36:47have painted this gold! You are all
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37:10the New Forest, and another in
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37:32remained the -- remained visually
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37:54at some of the adaptations. Now, if
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38:09can see the undulating gales that
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38:28they have to reach sexual maturity
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undefined:undefinedrainfall comes, and the cycle starts
38:46again.
38:48rainfall comes, and the cycle starts
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39:02when it dries up. They can't even be
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39:21there because the tadpole don't get
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39:38every individual has both male and
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39:57refrained from an active sex life,
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40:15up, because we don't want to getting
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40:38because you are my stepdaughter!
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40:55them down to the southern regions.
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41:14the eggs on their feet, and in the
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41:31absolutely is. It is much easier to
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41:49are walking past a kind of white-dry
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42:06Europe. That might be the case, more
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42:25behaviour in recent times, since we
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42:53When the lights go off and we sleep
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43:21highways of our homes. House mice
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43:43openings the size of a thimble while
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44:23World beneath our floorboards is a
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undefined:undefinedthere is no time like the present.
44:49He has some extraordinary tricks up
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undefined:undefinedany good romance, this is also a
45:16weepie. His tears, infused with an
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undefined:undefinedthe better of the restless pups.
45:55While still largely blind, strain
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undefined:undefinedwandering toddlers is quite the
46:21handful, especially for an expectant
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undefined:undefinedreach enormous numbers.
46:52Concealed beneath our feet, the
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47:21See, I've got a sort of a mixed
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undefined:undefinedremember last night I said I would
47:38be doing some testing of the mice
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47:55low does it have to be before the
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48:14floor it can be before the mouse
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48:37say probably about eight
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48:51there. So, you can see that we set
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49:14traits, something valuable at this
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49:38your screens see it. Just to the
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49:59rubbish food. I think what they need
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50:24them intense. We thought we would
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50:43the animals in and gives them
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undefined:undefinedsardines. Let us have a look at our
51:03live camera and see if there is any
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undefined:undefinedcamera up until 11 o'clock and we
51:21will continue to watch and update
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undefined:undefinednot going as well as they hoped. Let
51:44us go straight to our live camera on
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undefined:undefinedThey are all sleeping, exactly what
52:07you would expect them to be doing
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undefined:undefinedthat. That tiny little seal pup.
52:28That has got to be, a minute, hours
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undefined:undefinedthe island, some of it cute, the sum
52:50of that weird and some of it is
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undefined:undefinedon another male, but a seal pup!
53:14Look at this! It is bullying the
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undefined:undefinedClearly the seal pup is distress, it
53:38calls out, Mum heads over and
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undefined:undefinedis time to sit back and relax and
54:02watch something that is very
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undefined:undefinedbeauty of shovelling fish.
55:54Isn't that beautiful, a moment of
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undefined:undefinedI think we have just about got time
56:10for a couple more weird things and
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undefined:undefinedskeleton is strong but it does not
56:28expand and when the spider gets to
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undefined:undefinedat some badgers, we are in the live
56:46cameras in Chris's garden and here
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undefined:undefinedChris? We will be keeping our eye on
57:06the badgers, but also I will be
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undefined:undefinedEngland. And I will be delving
57:29deeper into the amazing story of the
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undefined:undefinedof May, that are battling for the
57:54right to mate. So that is all coming
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undefined:undefinedof those baby seals, if you're
58:15feeling stressed, I definitely
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undefined:undefinedthen, goodbye. -- on Autumnwatch.