Last year, the documentary "Little World" from Apple TV stunned the entire network after it went online.
With breathtaking photography techniques, the cinematographer takes the audience deep into nature from a different perspective, exploring the tenacious vitality of various small creatures and witnessing the wonderful stories behind these little-known little heroes.
Thousands of calls, its second season is back —
The second season of "A Small World"
Tiny World Season 2
When the first season was broadcast, many viewers lamented that its production was well-made, the picture was beautiful, and the narrative angle was novel, which was unprecedented.
And the large number of slow motion, and the ubiquitous main shot, are even more eye-catching.
The protagonists in the film are generally smaller, some are only the size of a thumb, or the size of a grain of rice, and some can pass directly through the pinhole.
The audience wondered what these little creatures were doing, because they were so realistic that they even wondered if they were made of CG animation, and had to admire the photography team behind the scenes.
In the first season, there were a lot of touching images —
The magical dance that peacock spiders dance in order to mate;
The goby, which is smaller than a teaspoon, lasts for several days to reproduce, and swims up the 350-meter waterfall;
Two slugs dancing upside down on a branch with slime;
Father Frog protects frog eggs and fights to the death and so on.
Cooperation, competition, courtship, foraging, it turns out that this tiny world is as colorful as our human society.
The second season, like the first season, is 6 episodes, each episode has a theme.
In a meadow in Europe, home to millions of small creatures, it is one of the scarcest habitats on Earth, but is the ideal home for harvesting rats.
This small thing as a wine cork, with a body length of only 6 to 7.5 centimeters, is the smallest rodent in Europe.
The nest of harvesting rats is piled up with grass, which is the size of a tennis ball.
The mother rat has no extra time to sleep, she is responsible for supporting her family, and must complete the task before the hay field is harvested.
Don't look at its small size, the appetite is not small, in the early spring, the supply of seeds and berries is not enough, plus there are competitors, the mother rat can only find exclusive food.
The harvesting rat's claws and tail are good at grasping, and can climb on the wheat stalks like a small monkey, and when the wind blows, it also dances the "pole dance".
Dangling on the thinnest branches of grass, it can reach places that other rats can't reach.
But sometimes climbing too high, you will unconsciously expose yourself, at this time, as long as you are completely stationary, you will not become the belly of birds.
Last year's seeds have been eaten, and the hungry harvesting rats can only go underground to forage for food, fortunately, the voles have left a lot of seeds, and finally can eat a full meal.
Life is tough, but everything is good for the harvester.
The same encounters with the harvesting rats are the small skunks.
This little guy is the smallest mammal in the world, and sadly the little skunk has poor eyesight and travels through the jungle by touch.
The little skunk does not have high requirements for the place of residence, any hole in the ground can be, but the nest is a big project, after all, the eyes are not good, so there is a cute scene -
The mother of the little skunk walked in the front, biting the tail of another cub all the way to the new home like a train.
The new home was only the size of a matchbox, but it was enough for them.
The little skunk also has a big appetite and has to eat almost every hour, otherwise it may starve to death.
Don't look at it as only the size of an almond, but you have to consume 6 times your own weight every day, and when you eat all the food in one place, the little skunk mother begins to move again.
Soon, the pasture will be harvested, and the human beings will drive the lawn mower to raze the home of the harvesting rats to the ground.
At this time, you will see the mother rat use her weak body to transport the cubs to safety one by one, going back and forth a dozen times.
At the moment of a thousand gunshots, the mother rat was transported, and it was really a pinch of sweat.
In the documentary, although there are countless warm and beautiful pictures, the survival law of nature and the predators of the biological world cannot be avoided.
Compared with the small creatures in the drafting field, the squirrels living in Mexico are worried about it almost every day.
The mother squirrel settles her child in the cactus bush of the desert, where the living conditions are harsh, and all animals either have sharp claws, sharp thorns, or venom.
It would be nice to survive.
The first lesson in learning survival skills begins with understanding the living environment.
Cactus bush is a good choice, up to 12 meters high, each cactus contains a lot of water in the body, known as the "desert water reservoir".
Squirrels can eat cactus, but be vigilant at all times.
The mother squirrel found a rattlesnake not far away, immediately shook her tail to sound the alarm, and the baby squirrel saw that the momentum was not right, grabbed the food and quickly slipped.
At night, nocturnal animals are not idle.
The owls are the smallest owls in the world, and they are used to nesting in tall cacti, and their nests are as cool as if they were air conditioning turned on on hot days.
In the evening, the chicken owl's parents came out to feed, and they hunted more than 80 prey in one night, and before the baby could become a bird, they had to feed wildly, every night.
Before long, baby squirrels had grown to 8 months old and began to know where to find food, such as cactus nectar.
They also began to know how to hide themselves, such as chewing the skin of the rattlesnake and applying it to the hair to make their body odor closer to the snake.
Baby squirrels are getting better by imitating their mother's behavior.
Courtship, mating, reproduction, are the daily and natural nature of animals.
When the ice and snow melt and early spring falls, the Mirror Crown Autumn Sand Duck dances a gorgeous courtship dance.
42–50 cm long, the Autumn Sand Duck is the smallest water duck in North America, hermaphroditic and male, and the male is quite handsome with a reddish-brown crown.
They fall in love and get married in the water, but their nests are not in the water.
In an abandoned woodpecker hole, the mother duck gave birth to eight babies.
Babies must follow their mother to the pond to forage for food, watching their mother fly out of the tree hole, and the babies also jump out.
The Autumn Sand Duck has a pair of flexible bones, coupled with a light body, even if it falls from a high place, it will not fall to death.
When they reach the ground, they bounce up like ping-pong balls.
Don't think that everything will be fine when you get to the ground, from the woods to the pond, there is a busy road in the middle, crossing the road, there are no traffic lights or zebra crossings, and your life is in danger at any time.
This is one of the compulsory courses of survival, the baby duck only has the courage to go forward, a car gallops over, the wind blows the babies over a few heels, standing unsteadily, staggering.
The survival rate of the Autumn Sand Duck is not high, only one in ten survives to adulthood, but they can still survive by instinct, tenacity and luck.
At three months old, they are already expert swimmers, and they have to learn to fly quickly to prepare for winter migration.
When a large flock of autumn sand ducks leaves the pond and flies south, it means that winter is coming again.
Ted Ginger has a saying in Breathe: "Even if the lifespan of the universe can be predicted, the diversity of life in the universe cannot be counted." ”
Yes, surviving on such a colorful planet is a miracle in itself.