When wolves sing

BBC Earth Podcast

Jenkins Laura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Tv & Film

4.6 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Discover the rituals performed in the animal kingdom for love, life and death. Did you know painted wolves sing to vote for the next alpha couple? Neither did we. This behaviour was documented for the first time ever by the crew working on BBC Earth’s latest landmark. We explore the weird, and occasionally dark, acts that characterise crow funerals, how birds brandish themselves to potential mates and the awe-inspiring tale of witnessing a mass-baptism at the Blue Nile – a river steeped in myth and legend

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0:00.0	This is a podcast from BBC Studios.
0:04.0	A commercial subsidiary of the BBC.
0:10.0	We were in Manipoles National Park in Zimbabwe on the southern bank of the Zambezi River.
0:23.6	Manor is the most beautiful place I've ever worked. It's almost like a paradise. It has so much variety of landscape. It's got the Zambian mountains behind. It's got the Zambezi River.
0:34.6	It's got these beautiful open flood plains and the piney forest and scrub
0:39.0	forest. So the diversity of animals there are just incredible. The painted wolf is a really
0:47.5	tough animal to follow and I think often people perceive them as brutal killers and they're
0:52.2	very far from that. They're one of the most family-oriented animals I've ever worked with.
0:57.7	They really care about each other.
1:03.2	On the seventh shoot, whilst we were filming,
1:06.1	we witnessed a very unusual behaviour, the singing behaviour,
1:11.7	and I think we were the first people to overwitness it.
1:17.1	Most of the time we saw them, they were just singing.
1:19.0	And each time we flew over in the helicopter, you'd see them out down on the ground.
1:22.3	Once you knew what to look for, you could tell they were singing as well.
1:24.7	And then it's like, what are they doing?
1:29.0	Welcome to the BBC Earth podcast, the podcast that's seeking out the secret meanings in the natural world around us.
1:36.5	This week, we're getting dressed up in our ceremonial roads.
1:40.5	We're learning the steps to ancient dances and memorising the words to sacred songs.
1:46.6	We're uncovering rituals in the animal kingdom and asking why animals do some of those mysterious things they do.
1:56.7	There's one thing I've learnt about these animals.
1:59.3	They are so variable from region to region.
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