Analysis of a Documentary Planet Earth: Jungles
Dexter Patrick S. Baltazar
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Planet Earth-Jungles
Last meeting, we viewed a documentary entitled Jungles (Planet Earth Diaries episode) that focused mainly on the ecosystem and different factors involved in tropical rainforests. The emphasis mainly developed around the idea of biodiversity. It is quite interesting that these environments only consist three percent of the total land in the entirety of the world but is a standing habitat to most of living organisms (50%) of different kingdoms.
Speaking of biodiversity, the video displayed the unusual mating of birds of paradise in New Guinea. These birds are in all forms, very creative; from the styles and colors of their feathers to the elaborate moves that they flaunt to woo their females. Another thing signified in the film was the sunlight. Given rich soil, it is just a matter of which grows faster and which gets left behind and suffers light deprivation. Therefore, sunlight is enshrined and prized. Moreover, Fig trees (Ficus sycomorus) is a popular source of food (figs) for birds and monkeys like Mcdo LB being a widespread source of French fries.
As a food chain would follow, forests would not be utterly existing in the absence of decomposers. This is my favorite part of the whole show. Cordyceps, which is a body-stealing parasite that turns its victims in a psychotic state and eventually kills them alive, caught my attention. The actual footage of it escaping and fruiting outward from an ant’s head was breathtaking. Unlike this what seemed predation, the mutual relationship between the pitcher plant and the red crab spider also proved that no extraordinary characteristic possessed by a species in the jungle is unsurmountable by another one. Furthermore, the roaming of elephants in Congo was also shown in the biopic as well as their frantic desire to taste a special kind of clay minerals compacted deeply beneath the surface. In the final scene, chimpanzees, which are one of the few jungle animals able
NASC 10/
Planet Earth-Jungles
Last meeting, we viewed a documentary entitled Jungles (Planet Earth Diaries episode) that focused mainly on the ecosystem and different factors involved in tropical rainforests. The emphasis mainly developed around the idea of biodiversity. It is quite interesting that these environments only consist three percent of the total land in the entirety of the world but is a standing habitat to most of living organisms (50%) of different kingdoms.
Speaking of biodiversity, the video displayed the unusual mating of birds of paradise in New Guinea. These birds are in all forms, very creative; from the styles and colors of their feathers to the elaborate moves that they flaunt to woo their females. Another thing signified in the film was the sunlight. Given rich soil, it is just a matter of which grows faster and which gets left behind and suffers light deprivation. Therefore, sunlight is enshrined and prized. Moreover, Fig trees (Ficus sycomorus) is a popular source of food (figs) for birds and monkeys like Mcdo LB being a widespread source of French fries.
As a food chain would follow, forests would not be utterly existing in the absence of decomposers. This is my favorite part of the whole show. Cordyceps, which is a body-stealing parasite that turns its victims in a psychotic state and eventually kills them alive, caught my attention. The actual footage of it escaping and fruiting outward from an ant’s head was breathtaking. Unlike this what seemed predation, the mutual relationship between the pitcher plant and the red crab spider also proved that no extraordinary characteristic possessed by a species in the jungle is unsurmountable by another one. Furthermore, the roaming of elephants in Congo was also shown in the biopic as well as their frantic desire to taste a special kind of clay minerals compacted deeply beneath the surface. In the final scene, chimpanzees, which are one of the few jungle animals able