No Copyright Infringement Intended. BBC (David Attenborough) Life in the Undergrowth is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 23 November 2005. This series is about the Study of the evolution and habits of Invertebrates. Production of the series took around two years, during which time filming took place around the world, from the Amazonian Rainforest to Costa Rica, Australia, Malaysia, Hungary, Switzerland and many more locations, including the United Kingdom. Filming involved entering rough environments. To film the Giant Centipede, a team had to endure a dark cave whose floor was covered with Guano, Beetles and Cockroaches. Invertebrates had been largely ignored by filmmakers in the past, due to the difficulties in filming them, but advances in lens and camera technology gave the makers an opportunity to film the creatures at their level. The series features a balance of everyday European invertebrate! s such as the wolf spider and housefly and more exotic varieties such as the redback spider of Australia and venomous centipedes of the Amazon. This was the first time that such animals had been photographed at such a high level of detail for television (some sequences were filmed in high definition format), and provided not only casual viewers but also scientists with a new understanding of certain species' behaviour. "Invasion Of The Land" Episode. The first episode tells how invertebrates became the
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