Watch Life in the Undergrowth Season 1 Episode 5 Supersocieties

Life in the Undergrowth

Supersocieties

Season 1 Episode 5

Aired date: Dec 21, 2005

Plot: Invertebrates don't always operate alone. True society was the last feature to evolve in invertebrates, as recently as the time of Tyrannosaurus. In the last programme see the tensions below the surface in some of the great social structures built by insects, and witness the carnage when an ant colony and a termite colony wage war. MORE

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Life in the Undergrowth

Life in the Undergrowth

Release Date: 2005
Duration: 50 min
Invertebrates had been largely ignored by filmmakers in the past, due to the difficulties in filming them, but advances in lens...more