Frozen Planet II Revisits The Arctic And Antarctic

Penguins，  polar bears  and  amazing  over-head photography can only mean one thing  thesecond season of BBC’s documentary FrozenPlanet is finally here！

In this follow-up to 2011’s Frozen Planet，the new six- part series called Frozen Planet IIrevisits the Arctic and Antarctic. It also gives aview  into the  secret wildlife  dramas that playout  in  all  the  world’s  coldest  areas，  such  ashigh mountains and frozen deserts.

It took the team over three years to makevideos  of  Siberian  tigers  in  Russia  walkingover great distances to hunt for black bears. InChina’s Wolong National Nature Reserve， theteam brought to light giant pandas doing hand-stands to mark their scent.

While there are lighter moments， the ever-changing frozen planet is a central theme of thedocumentary. Mark Brownlow， the series’exec-utive producer， points out that Frozen Planet IIis not just about capturing nice footage， but al-so “drawing  attention  to  changes  going  onnow”.

The  series  shows  the  great  challengescaused by climate change that many polar ani-mals now face. For example， pups of harp sealsin the Arctic Ocean rely on sea ice for the firstsix weeks of life. However， the sea ice of todaymelts and breaks up sooner in spring. As a re-sult， groups of seal pups fall off the ice into theocean before they have learned how to  swim.Meanwhile， chinstrap penguin chicks use their

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继2011年的《冰冻星球》之后，共六集的全新纪录片《冰冻星球 2》再次造访南北两极。（剩余971字）