Life Force (2010–2014)

1. S01E01New ZealandDecember 4, 2010—New Zealand is a fairytale archipelago with a turbulent geological past. A land with astonishing creatures: flightless birds, night dwellers
2. S01E02AustraliaJanuary 4, 2011—Australia is a floating laboratory whose ancient geological past and changing climate have triggered mutations in the animals here, culminat
3. S01E03Brazil's CerradoJanuary 11, 2011—On Brazil's ancient Cerrado grassland a community of eccentric creatures are all inter-dependent, and all life revolves around the landscape
4. S01E04Africa's Rift Valley LakesJanuary 18, 2011—Africa's freshwater Great Lakes are the birthplace of the biggest, fastest, and perhaps the strangest mutation of any vertebrate on Earth. C
5. S01E05MadagascarJanuary 25, 2011—The land of lemurs, an ancient primate family that evolved from only one small group which arrived on the island more than 60 million years
6. S01E06JapanFebruary 8, 2011—Isolated from the Asian mainland, Japan's animals have been forced to endure the most violently active islands on earth in a climate of extr

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1. S02E01Africa's Albertine RiftJuly 7, 2014—Africa's Albertine Rift immense geological forces have created a huge variety of landscapes and transformed the climate. The unique resident
2. S02E02Borneo's Tropical RainforestJuly 14, 2014—Borneo: a strange place of mutant creatures and plants seen nowhere else on Earth. Pygmy forest mammals, weird co-evolved partnerships betwe
3. S02E03India's Western GhatsJuly 28, 2014—India's Western Ghats are a lush, jungle refuge in an otherwise parched landscape. They intercept most of the summer monsoon rain, creating
4. S02E04The Arid NamibAugust 4, 2014—An amazing array of plants and animals survives in the Namib, the world's oldest desert. They've had fifty million years to evolve cunning w
5. S02E05Costa Rica's Tropical ForestsAugust 11, 2014—Costa Rica is the most biodiverse country in the world for its size. It is a great evolutionary melting pot resulting from the migration of
6. S02E06China: Roof of the WorldAugust 18, 2014—A titanic collision between India and Asia created the tallest mountain range on earth and forced up the vast Tibetan plateau -- often descr

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