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BBC Earth Podcast

Jenkins Laura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Tv & Film

4.6 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

While nature is full of beauty and wonder, it also has a deadly side. In this episode, we're getting a brush with death and exploring how nature can be both a source of comfort and a source of danger.

Prosanta Chakrabarty spends his time studying different species of fish in some of the world's most hostile spots. He leads us into a deep, dark cave in Madagascar where he and his team didn't just discover a new species, but also discovered a new illness.

We’ll be introduced to the unlikely ‘assassins of the sea’: cone snails. Mande Holford explains how these extraordinary creatures can both kill and cure us.

And finally, we hear how a lioness chose to share her most intimate moments of life and death with African wildlife expert, Gareth Patterson.

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0:00.0	This is a podcast from BBC Studios.
0:04.0	A commercial subsidiary of the BBC.
0:16.0	I knew very little about caves, almost nothing, until I went into my first one in Madagascar.
0:27.6	I'm not a great swimmer. I was even worse then, and I was scared.
0:35.6	But I absolutely fell in love with caves since then.
0:38.8	I love the darkness, even the claustrophobic feeling of being in small caves.
0:45.8	I find them just absolutely mysterious, breathtakingly beautiful, sometimes very uncomfortable.
0:53.1	But I don't know what it is about them.
0:55.4	They draw me in.
0:57.8	Welcome to the BBC Earth podcast, the podcast that understands that there's great beauty
1:02.8	in the natural world, but often also a touch of danger.
1:07.3	I'm Emily Knight.
1:09.4	This is an episode that might make you very glad to be listening at home with a warm blanket and a cup of tea.
1:15.6	In this episode, we're getting a brief brush with death.
1:19.6	There's all kinds of things that can happen in a cave.
1:22.6	You can get hypothermia because it's too cold, or you can overheat because it's too hot and that can happen in the same cave.
1:31.3	You can't use your phone because you're deep in karst, this limestone tomb basically and you don't know what could happen.
1:40.3	Yeah, it can be really sketchy.
1:43.3	But once you're in there, I feel quite calm.
1:46.0	I'm not sure exactly why.
1:48.0	Once I'm in and working, I don't think of the dangers anymore.
1:52.0	I try to enjoy the moment.
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