Nature's Great Events
18th March 2009
The BBC's beautifully mastered series “Nature’s Great
Events" is bought to a dramatic close tonight, in their final
instalment entitled “The Great Feast”.
This remarkable series has revealed some the most breathtaking
wildlife spectacles on our planet and this evening’s episode will
follow whales and sea lions as they journey to feed on the annual
Alaskan plankton bloom, which forms a major part of the diet of
many fascinating fish and marine mammals.
During 2008 the BBC’s Natural History Unit visited PML to
obtain close-up footage of zooplankton that make up a large part of
this ecologically important bloom; a vast cloud of microscopic
plants and animals that provides a feast for a huge range of marine
creatures, many of which will not feed again to this extent until
the following year.
A PML spokesperson commented: “It was a pleasure and a privilege
to have been giving the opportunity to work with the BBC Natural
History Unit on this superb programme. As avid viewers of this
series, we anticipate another great show tonight.”