24 Hours on Earth Page #3
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A waterproof makes it all
much more bearable.
Although...
this young orangutan
hasn't quite got the hang of
making his just yet.
But over drier parts of our planet,
all this pent-up heat energy
can spell disaster.
Turbulent air creates static charges.
Lightning.
Each strike five times hotter than
the surface of the sun.
Parched forests
take like tinder to a match.
The fire will eventually
burn itself out,
but the smoke lingers,
scattering all but the very longest
wavelengths of light -
reds and oranges.
While the Earth smoulders,
It takes, on average,
just two minutes
for the sun to sink
below the horizon.
Such a short time, in which
everything changes for life on Earth.
The sun's great energy,
its light and heat, is suddenly lost.
All over our planet, families regroup
and find the safety of their beds...
..as drowsy hormones
flood back into their bodies,
pulling them into sleep.
But not everyone's
quite ready to let the day go.
Above a limestone cave in Borneo,
a hawk, a day flyer,
has not yet flown to its roost.
What it's waiting for
is just beginning to stir.
Inside the cave, a storm is brewing.
of wrinkle-lipped bats.
They use sound
more than sight to navigate,
so leaving the cave before dark
won't help them find food.
But there's just so many of them
cut into valuable feeding time.
By pushing out into this last,
brief window of light,
they're taking a huge risk.
The hawk is just one of many
that's ready for them.
Our eyes would struggle
in this twilight.
But the hawk's eyes
can pick out fast-moving objects
in the faintest glimmer of light.
It's a twilight battle
of the senses -
sonar versus eyesight.
In the last moments before
complete blackness,
eyesight still wins.
As the very last of the sun's rays
are lost behind the horizon...
..for the first time,
the planet is in true darkness.
The night-time world.
The darkness holds allure for a whole
host of permanent night dwellers.
They've acquired
very different senses...
that don't rely on sunlight.
This scorpion has spent the daylight
hours hiding deep in crevices,
But when the sun is quite absent,
she becomes the predator.
Her small eyes are all but useless
in the darkness.
Instead, she senses prey
through vibrations.
VIBRATIONS PULSE
The movement of
gives her all the information
she needs to attack.
But just as she closes in on
her first meal of the night,
she freezes.
Sensing danger.
Even in the dead of night,
our sun is still not lost.
Its rays pass by the dark side
of the Earth...
..and reflect off its moon.
A ghost sun.
The full moon rises
high and bright...
..and the scorpion begins to glow.
fluorescent chemicals
in the scorpion's armour.
Her eyes can't see moonlight, but
her whole body is a warning system,
telling her that her cover is blown.
She needs to hide,
before a predator sees her.
So she uses the fluorescence
to her advantage...
..as a light sensor.
Any part of her armour in shadow
will stop glowing...
..telling her she's found safety.
The scorpion is not alone
in her fear of the moon.
Known as lunar phobia,
many nocturnal species
around the world will hide away...
..and choose to go hungry,
rather than risk coming out
under the reflected sunlight.
But to a hunter in Southeast Asia,
a bright-lit night
is an opportunity to be seized.
Every night, the rainforest's insect
from a palm-sized primate.
Don't let the wide eyes fool you,
this family of spectral tarsiers
are ruthless hunters.
With saucer-like eyes,
each as big as their brain,
this family use
the faintest of starlight
to see the forest
in incredible detail.
And when your eyes
are this sensitive,
all this reflected sunlight
is a gift.
The family aren't about
to miss a moment of
the best hunting night
of the month.
In the moonlit forest, the family
might triple their hunting success.
But it's all too easy for a tarsier
to have eyes bigger than its stomach.
In the early hours, full to bursting,
the family call it a night.
It's nearly morning.
The moon is hanging
just above the horizon.
Soon, it will be overwhelmed
But in the Arctic, the sun is casting
a new and different power over
the last few hours of darkness.
Particles thrown from the sun's
surface across 90 million miles
of empty space, to reach the Earth.
They are directed by the Earth's
magnetic field to the poles.
This cosmic storm
creates a magical aurora.
The spectacular Northern Lights.
But behind this beautiful
light show...
..is a sinister force...
..that impacts on whales, with
potentially lethal consequences.
The humpbacks have been relying
on the Earth's magnetic field
to chart their night-time course.
WHALE SONG:
But the Earth's magnetism
is becoming distorted
under this barrage of solar energy.
It's believed whales
can become disorientated.
Thrown off course.
They might even strand onto the land.
But soon, it will be morning,
and the sun compass
will bring them back on track.
Dawn.
The very first light of a new day.
The sun's power will soon be felt...
..and the world is waking...
..ready to begin
another ordinary day...
..on our extraordinary planet.
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