Living Planet: A new, fully updated edition of David Attenborough’s seminal portrait of life on Earth

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Each of these physical changes, in sunshine and altitude, in rainfall and temperature, sifts existing variability in the communities of plants and animals undergoing it, gradually changing the shape of the population. In this new edition, the author, with the help of zoologist Matthew Cobb, has added all the most up-to-date discoveries of ecology and biology. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback in a fine unclipped dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures of the book are available upon request. Single species, and often whole communities, adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean and volcano. Basalt can be dated by chemical analysis and we now know that the farther away from the mid-ocean ridge a sample is taken, the older it is.

This is a UK first edition hardcover published by William Collins in 2021 AND HAND SIGNED BY SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH TO A CUSTOM DESIGNED FRONT END PAPER (NOT A BOOK PLATE).Attenborough observes albatrosses in South Georgia exploiting the air currents above cliffs to glide all day. In some cases, they did wipe them out (the dodo is probably the one that comes to mind for most people, named so because it was so trusting you could get close enough to hit it on the head). Large format paperback(two small scratches and nick on the edges of the cover and spine) in fine condition. Attenborough also highlights those species that have perfected the art of camouflage, including phasmids. Where waves meet rocks and cliffs, the bands between low and high tides are narrow, and creatures have developed according to their dietary and safety needs.

If the lava that erupts from the ground is basalt, black and heavy, then the area may have been continuously active for many centuries.Even now with the understanding of how important biodiversity is, how crucial it is to maintain the balance in ecosystems, there are still so many different species under extreme threat. Despite the fact that January is “Attenborough month” on Australia’s subscription cable/satellite TV and the fact that various other documentaries from Attenborough appear on various other platforms, I can’t find this one to watch which is a bit disappointing!

The series consists of twelve episodes which explain how the Earth works and how living organisms survive and thrive in different environments. Broadcast 1 March 1984, this episode deals with the air and those creatures that spend most of their lives in it. Only the very smallest plants and animals can defy gravity, but some seeds, such as those of the sycamore, cheat this by simulating the movement of a helicopter.When such pressure beneath the Earth shifts, it results in hot springs and caverns – which themselves support life. Today, their blood contains 30 per cent more corpuscles than that of people living at sea level and is in consequence able to carry more oxygen per litre. By the end of this book it is difficult to say which is the more astonishing the ingenuity with which individual species contrive a living, or the complexity of their interdependence on each other and on the habitations provided by our planet. A new fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, Living Planet .

Each of the twelve 55-minute episodes (one fewer than his previous series) featured a different environment. The difficulties are those that are encountered by the cameramen, directors and recordists, who actually have to get an animal doing something which perhaps nobody's ever even seen before. Green hardback (gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj (small crease and nick on the edges of the Dj cover), both in fine condition.This is used by some for drinking, or, as in the case of the poison dart frog, for depositing tadpoles.