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  • Life Plants (Season 1, Episode 9)
  • TV-PG
    TV Episode | 61 min | Documentary, Family

Life

Plants (Season 1, Episode 9)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 61 min | Documentary, Family
Flora has evolved to live in extreme conditions and a wide variety of locations and seen as the eldest 'creatures' on the planet. Their struggle for life, like animals (only usually much slower), is about food (including parasitism and '...See moreFlora has evolved to live in extreme conditions and a wide variety of locations and seen as the eldest 'creatures' on the planet. Their struggle for life, like animals (only usually much slower), is about food (including parasitism and 'flesh-eating'). They strive to find water, to procreate: notably pollination-mostly by animals and semination - gliding or by weather conditions, or more primitive ways such as spores. They have a varied defense (thorns, spines, toxins etc.). Specific is the need for light, the fuel of photosynthesis, leading to a hierarchy of light-related levels, because not growing high enough in time can be lethal. Written by KGF Vissers See less
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Writer
Paul Spillenger (Discovery Channel)
Composers
The Band for Life | George Fenton | Richard Fiocca (version: U.S.) | Max Surla
Editors
Tim Coope | Martin Elsbury | Sharon Gillooly (Discovery Channel)
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Dec 7, 2009
Release date
Dec 7, 2009 (United Kingdom)
Awards
Series awards
Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award. Another 3 wins & 11 nominations

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