Roadrunner's Race Against Time | 4K UD | Seven Worlds One Planet | BBC Earth

Living in the dessert is not easy, by 11 am temperatures are already a scorching 40 degrees celsius and by that time, most prey are hiding from the sun. Can this roadrunner find something to eat before it's too late?

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Seven Worlds One Planet (2019)
Millions of years ago incredible forces ripped apart the Earth's crust creating seven extraordinary continents. One Planet: Seven Worlds, presented by Sir David Attenborough, will reveal how each distinct continent has shaped the unique animal life found there.

Welcome to BBC EARTH! The world is an amazing place full of stories, beauty and natural wonder. Here you'll find 50 years worth of entertaining and thought-provoking natural history content. Dramatic, rare, and exclusive, nature doesn't get more exciting than this.

[KingMori]

Props to BBC for not only having the greatest narrator but apparently also the most talented nature filmmakers. The quality is unbelievable.

[wolfpackflt]

Video: Shows a road runner hunting

My brain: meep meep

[RJMay]

Roadrunners are your friend if like me, you live in the Sonoran desert. They hunt and eat rattlesnakes and wood scorpions. They patrol side and front yards in many portions of the plentiful HOAs near
Phoenix.
They're a shy bird that needs to be admired from a distance.

[gertrudewest]

Rescued two abandoned roadrunner eggs. They both hatched! Best joy of my life. Remarkable birds!

[catherinehubbard]

I grew up in Texas and roadrunners were a fairly common sight but always a treat to watch. They can fly but strongly prefer to run, and they are good at it. Birds are, as he said, descendants of dinosaurs, but certain species make it easy to imagine those dinosaurian ancestors moving about their living world before the end-Cretaceous extinction. Cassowaries, with their size and killing claws, and roadrunners, with their effortless running pace, alert search for prey, graceful leaps, and that long, balancing tail.

[CIBERXGAMING]

so cool there's still little dinosaurs roaming around

[cardboardbox]

The Roadrunner is such an amazing animal it's a true force of nature.

[MrBoDiggety]

One time, as a spoof, they should film the photographers getting these fantastic shots. David can narrate that too. They deserve recognition for the hard work they do.

[wanimalus]

The Roadrunner is a fascinating bird known for its incredible speed and agility. Watching it race against time is truly mesmerizing, and it serves as a reminder of the beauty and grace of the natural world.

[Kwaj]

I can't tell you how disappointed I was as a kid when I found out roadrunners weren't blue, 6 feet tall, or fast enough to lift up the pavement when they ran.

[Dave....]

Oh wow that 4 minutes and 20 seconds breezed by so fast. I was so entertained by the legend David Attenborough. I need at least an hour segment of this.

[Max_m]

Hard to imagine learning about nature without David’s iconic voice

[AngieJames]

I live in SE Oklahoma, not the Desert, and we have Roadrunners. Love them :)

[michaeljames]

Not only in deserts. Texas hill country, around DFW. We used to see them all the time.

[jtr]

this bird has the exact same attitude of the cartoon roadrunner, pretty cool.

[sonofGOD]

Roadrunner is the State bird of New Mexico and I have one that lives in the neighborhood he comes around the backyard 😁 his so cool 😎

[pedrord]

RoadRunners are mesmerizinglly spectacular Birds !!!
Hope one day BBC Will make a full series or special about them !!

[wildlifewarrior]

I live in Tucson Arizona I see them all the time

[allanbrogdon]

In a park across the river from Ozark Arkansas I watched a mother teaching her two young to hunt. She took one while the other stayed with dad in taller grass, watching. Mom caught a grasshopper and crushed it enough to make it easy to catch but still moving. Then they switched over to the other baby and repeat. Never witness anything like that.

[KMDragonS]

Well a Roadrunners a carnivore. I did not know that. You learn something new everyday