Life In Cold Blood...Finally

Today, I received the DVD of David Attenborough's Life In Cold Blood, a phenomenal birthday gift no dobut.  Thank you!  It is one of those DVD's that you know will be a masterpiece before you even watch it.  I've been waiting for it for more than two years.

I did watch the first part of episode one, and it only takes 5-10 minutes into it you realize that, even if you never watched Sir David, you are listening to a master storyteller, and he hits you with one hell of a scene.  Now, some readers may remember that this blog has a fascination with evolutionarily more primitive animals eating more sophisticated ones.  I've featured an octopus eating a shark, a centipede eating a bat for example (one is a video).  Life in Cold Blood gives us another one and I have a feeling it's not going to be the only one.

David Attenborough shows in the first episode of Life in Cold Blood, a python eating a deer, a baby one but a deer nonetheless.  The python swallows it whole head first.  It is such a big digestive process that the snakes liver doubles in size in two days and its heart grows 40%.  It's entire body shows a vast increase in biochemical activity until the deer is fully digested.  Amazing.  After that, the snake doesn't have to eat for months, maybe a year.  That's the benefit of being cold blooded.  Warm blooded animals spend 80% of their energy on generating heat.

So there you go, have a deer for lunch, and don't eat anything for a year.  That's the diet I should be on.

Get this DVD here, and thank me for it later.

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[Baris Karadogan]

Episode 1 - Under The Skin...

"pygmy leaf chameleon"...unbelievable...