Life in Cold Blood (2008)
S01E04 Sophisticated Serpents
Episode Overview
In the fourth episode, the spotlight is on snakes, the most advanced reptiles, examining their remarkable adaptations that allow them to thrive despite their slender forms. Attenborough narrates their transition from burrowing creatures to agile hunters, shedding their limbs along the way. Using infrared cameras, viewers witness a timber rattlesnake poised for a mouse, keenly tracking its movements before striking. The snake's flickering tongue plays a crucial role in sampling its environment. Attenborough also visits Carnac Island to observe blind tiger snakes preying on gull chicks and encounters a Mozambique spitting cobra that sprays venom onto his protective visor. The episode highlights the color similarities between the non-venomous kingsnake and the dangerous coral snake. It features the Queen snake, which specializes in hunting freshly molted crayfish, and showcases a clash between two male King cobras. Viewers see newborn cobras hatching, possessing venom as potent as their parents. In Argentina, a yellow anaconda cleverly navigates past
