Did you know that animal behavior in one part of the world can affect the weather an ocean away? The new Netflix series, "Our Living World," dives into those connections.
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00:00 The biggest story that we're telling in this series is about how life on our planet and the
00:06 planet's physical systems are connected. So obviously we know that the environments in
00:12 which animals live, those environments have an effect on how those animals behave and how they've
00:16 evolved and so on and so forth, but what the more surprising story is that actually what those
00:21 animals are doing also has an effect on the environments in which they live. A forest
00:26 elephant doing what a forest elephant does in the forests in Gabon can help the trees grow larger in
00:33 that forest which can help them capture more carbon than a forest without forest elephants.
00:38 Wolves chasing reindeer across the Arctic can actually, through a knock-on effect,
00:43 change the weather systems much further south over the Atlantic Ocean for instance, or how fires
00:50 in on the on the savannas of Africa can release nutrients which blow across in weather systems
00:57 across the Atlantic. So we're connecting weather systems to animal behavior in a holistic story
01:04 that hasn't necessarily been told before and you know those moments of revelation in the series
01:09 where we start with an animal, an intimate moment, and we break out to this bigger picture revelation
01:14 about the planet, those are my key, you know, my favorite moments and the kind of key bits in the
01:19 stories that we're telling. So no species can live and no species do live in isolation,
01:25 we're all connected and that includes us as well.
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