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Stunning Images of Herds from Above #shareit - http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/feature...

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"Though the term “herd behaviour” today is most often used when talking about financial markets, it originally described individuals in a group acting together without direction – for example an animal herd fleeing from a predator. When seen from above, animal herds seem to follow intricate and intriguing patterns." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

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When we watch Planet Earth, I'm always amazed at the sheer numbers of herds. I like to think of herds as >1000 (is that less than?), but we saw one doc that showed something like 25K gazelles. Amazing. Or the one with the gigantic flock of birds. WOW. - Anika

Planet Earth is an amazing documentary. I guess Nature's Great Events are on their way to the US soon too. That's another great natural history doc from the BBC. - Kol Tregaskes

Yes, I've seen NGE, but seriously PE is infinitely better, visually speaking. The only thing that bugs me about PE is the constant, "Thanks to our brand-new, super-expensive technology we were able to be the first to capture this fish swimming." or whatever. Enough with the dick-stroking just give me facts. - Anika

Yeah but there isn't much of that to be fair and is completely overshadowed by the quality of the images and documentary. Both NGE and PE are excellent. We get so much of that from the BBC, it's great. - Kol Tregaskes

You don't think it's a lot? The other night we watched the PE marathon on Discovery. In each hour show, Weaver must have mentioned it 3 - 4 times. That's a lot to me. :) I can't wait to get both series in a boxset, but we agreed that we'll wait until we get a better TV. - Anika

Anyone know when the new Planet Earth is coming out, i heard they were filming it a long time ago but i know it takes years to make those? - SteVe "Beefy Miracle" C

Steve, I had no idea there was even a new one in the making. How exciting. - Anika

Steve, I just realized that the Planet Earth marathon I was watching was narrated by Sigourney Weaver, whereas the old ones were narrated by David Attenborough. Maybe these are the new ones, which explains why I was confused over some of the topics thinking, "Gosh I don't remember that one." - Anika

New Planet Earth? News to me. I think there is a "movie" coming out or even out but I've not heard of any new series. - Kol Tregaskes

In the U.S. Discovery cut the episodes and redid the narration with Sigourney. Same footage. - Stephen Mack

Ah you can't beat David Attenborough - who could ever replace him? - Kol Tregaskes

I'll have to look it up, but I thought it was in like Discovery magazine that they were making the next set of series. I was wrong once in like the second grade, so I guess it could happen again. - SteVe "Beefy Miracle" C

Seriously? I liked Attenborough's narration. - Anika

Anika. That's what I meant. There's no one better IMHO. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

David Attenborough is the king. Nobody else comes close. He's an incredible man- Parkinson did a great interview with him. - Bec Rowe @d0tski

And Attenborough says he has no plans to retire. Yippee for us. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Are those walrus? - LarchOye

Yep, them there walrus. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Funny; just ordered the Planet Earth Blu-ray set today. - Anthony Citrano from BuddyFeed

Anthony, well worth it! - Kol Tregaskes

I'm a cow, mooo. - Will Higgins™

Hehe, Will. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Bumping some old good posts. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

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