Series episodes
The Cold Blooded Truth - Cold blood is clearly no barrier to affection. In fact reptiles can conduct as complex and as sensitive a courtship as many a mammal.
Land Invaders - Kinds of small salamanders only a few inches long that has taken one further step away from the aquatic life. A form that is characteristic of amphibians.
Dragons Of The Dry - The cold-blooded perentie can even outrun a warm-blooded rabbit. So the lizards have colonized the world from swamps to rainforests from woodland to desert.
Sophisticated Serpents - Snakes being cold-blooded seem to relish the warmth of sun-baked roads and often bask on them. And as a result of course many get run over.
Armoured Giants - The way in which we get our energy from the environment and the wasteful way in which we use it maybe there are things that we can learn from life in cold blood.
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Life Quotes
"The ice melts around them and eventually within them. Slowly they begin to come to life."
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"But what's really special about this little lizard is its family life."
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"There are a whole lot of other warm-hearted truths to be discovered that give the phrase life in cold blood a completely new meaning."
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"After five to 10 minutes on the sea floor most iguanas have had enough and they return to the surface and the life-saving warmth of the rocky shore."
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"This is the jaw bone of a very large and very famous dinosaur. In life its head would have been 18 feet six metres above ground."
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"And below on the forest floor a five-lined skink is warming her cold-blooded body by basking in the sunshine so that she can do the same thing."
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"You might even say that it was grieving. On the other side of the world there are lizards with a very different lifestyle."
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"Filming venomous snakes presented a lot of special problems to the Life in Cold Blood team but the toughest was trying to film rattlesnake hunting in the wild."
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"We may call reptiles cold-blooded but they can show great tenderness. Reptiles and amphibians are full of surprises. They can look after their young with as much care as many a mammal."
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"In North America in the eastern half of the country there are many kinds of small salamanders only a few inches long that has taken one further step away from the aquatic life."
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"Although the adult marbled salamander lives entirely on land it nonetheless needed water at the very beginning of its life."
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"However this open plan way of life while it's clearly very successful nonetheless comes at a price."
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"They then experimented with a life-size plastic model complete with waving arm the sort of high-tech gear."
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