Terra Mater Orcas - Vorstoß in die Arktis (Season 1, Episode 138)
TV Episode | Documentary

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Terra Mater

Orcas - Vorstoß in die Arktis (Season 1, Episode 138)

TV Episode | Documentary

The Arctic is changing - rising temperatures are melting the supposedly "eternal ice" of the North Pole region. In view of global warming, it seems only a matter of time before the Arctic waters are completely free of ice. This change has ...See moreThe Arctic is changing - rising temperatures are melting the supposedly "eternal ice" of the North Pole region. In view of global warming, it seems only a matter of time before the Arctic waters are completely free of ice. This change has dramatic effects. The polar bear was for a long time the largest and most dangerous hunter in the Arctic. But now that the ice is increasingly disappearing and this loss is making life difficult for the polar bear, another is taking over the top of the food chain: the killer whale, or orca, better known - or rather infamous - as the "killer whale". The Terra Mater documentary "Orcas - Advance into the Arctic", which was produced as a co-production with Thirteen and NDR Naturfilm/Doclights, presents the massive changes taking place in the ecologically particularly sensitive polar region. The two main protagonists of the Arctic animal world on land and in the sea - the polar bear and the orca - serve as an impressive example. In addition to scientists who observe and study the increased appearance of orcas in the Arctic, the film team also relies on reports from the local population: experienced Inuit hunters tell of their encounters with the notorious "killer whales". The shrinking ice allows the orcas to advance further The reason for the more frequent appearance of the distinctive marine mammals is obvious: in summer, the ice in the Arctic has been retreating further and further for years - this opens the way for the orcas to new, previously inaccessible waters in the polar region. The killer whales owe their name to their towering dorsal fin: this prevents the animals from covering long distances under the ice cover - because of the fin they can hardly break through the ice when they have to surface to get some air. Given the shrinking ice areas, however, the orcas can now advance much further into the Arctic waters. During the filming of this documentary, a professional film crew was able to film orcas in the Arctic for the first time ever. A key scene is the collective, coordinated hunt of a group of orcas for narwhals - an astonishing behavior that even experts have never observed before. In the Arctic, however, polar bears are finding it increasingly difficult to catch their original main food: seals. The shrinking ice surfaces are increasingly preventing the bears from getting close enough to the seals on the ice to surprise and attack them. The "white giants" are forced to adapt In recent times, polar bears have been forced to increasingly use other sources of food when looking for food. Another scene, never filmed before, offers an unusual sight: in this case, it is not grizzly bears fishing for char in a Canadian river - but polar bears... However, the polar bears are still very clumsy due to a lack of experience. In order to survive in the long term, the "white giants" will have no choice but to adapt. In any case, the polar bear has already lost its position at the top of the Arctic food chain - to the orca, the new ruler of the Arctic Ocean. Written by ADR Das Erste See less

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Name	Known for
Otto Clemens Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Kotorski mornari (1980)
Victor Couzyn Self (voice) Self (voice) See fewer	The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
Peter Faerber Self (voice) Self (voice) See fewer	Schindler's List (1993)
Angelika Lang Self (voice) Self (voice) See fewer	Michael (II) (2011)
Steven Ferguson Self Self See fewer	Terra Mater (2011)

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