Earth: One Amazing Day Page #4

his glowing spots are designed

to impress and attract a mate.

And seeing the glow from this fungus,

he thinks he's found one...

hidden inside.

But the fungus is playing a trick on him.

The glow comes from the fungus itself.

[beetle pattering]

Puzzled, he searches everywhere.

And gets covered in fungal spores.

He'll spread them wherever he goes next.

Not reproducing himself,

but helping reproduce the fungus instead.

A light in the dark,

can also be a deadly trap.

In New Zealand,

glow-worms cling to the roof of a cave.

They shine out their strange lights

from within circles of hanging silk,

sticky with mucus.

Tiny flies are drawn

to the beautiful lights.

[fly buzzing]

Only to become glued

to the dangling strands and trapped.

Later, they'll be reeled in for supper.

And the night brings magic,

on a much grander scale.

The sky seems to come alive.

Even when the sun is out of sight,

it makes its presence felt.

Its electrical energy powers a firework

display that lights up the planet.

The Aurora.

And there is another light show on Earth.

One powered by us.

[talking over radio static, indistinct]

We no longer have to wait for sunrise.

We no longer

need to be afraid of the dark.

In our cities, we've created

an endless electrical daylight of our own.

We've broken away

from the rhythm of night and day.

As more and more of us live this way,

it's easy for us to forget

our connexion to the natural world.

[sirens in distance]

Even, when it's on our doorstep.

[Animal chittering]

[dog barking]

These raccoons in Toronto

seem just as home in the city, as we are.

[chittering continues]

'[Chittering]

[crickets chirping]

Not all creatures can adapt

so easily to our world.

But we humans can do something to help.

We have the ability to appreciate

what no other animal on Earth can.

If we open our eyes,

we can see the magic all around us.

The extraordinary in the everyday.

[insect wings humming]

We can see the fragile web

that connects us with all living things.

And understand that the future

of all life...

lies in our hands.

We have searched

the far reaches of space for wonders.

But instead, we found the most wonderful

things of all, back home.

Here, on our lucky planet.

Small and blue,

spinning in an ocean of stars.

In the whole universe, as far as we know,

there's nowhere else with life.

Nothing more extraordinary...

than planet Earth.

Nothing more important to protect

than our one and only home.

And nothing more amazing

than what happens here, day after day.

[chittering]

[penguins chattering]

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