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Arabia: Sand, Sea & Sky, 1986-1990 HD | Documentary film | Geography, Nature
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Red Sea Rift
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Thousands of miles of coral walls, atolls, fringing reefs and sheltered lagoons give the Red Sea some of the most spectacular underwater landscapes on earth. The film emphasises marine behaviour characteristic of each zone starting in the plankton-rich southern waters around the Farasan Islands. Tiny filter-feeding organisms, trigger fish, goat fish, gobies and prawns up through vast schools of jacks and barracuda preyed upon by sharks are all part of the remarkable chain of life.
At the edge of the deep coral canyons of the central Red Sea, schools of giant manta rays gather to feed on reef-generated plankton. Their extraordinary aggregate feeding behaviour has never been filmed before, nor has the life-cycle of the recently discovered Midas blenny, so successful was it’s disguise among the red anthias.
On the sandy-bottomed reef shelf in the north, garden eels anchor in the deep sand and many endemic creatures adopt astonishing disguises in order to survive.
The Mountain Barrier
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Much of Arabia’s wildlife is concentrated in the high Sarawat mountains of Western Arabia. Rising to 13,000 feet the mountains extend for 1,000 miles along the entire length of the Red Sea. High juniper forests are fed by moisture rising from the Red Sea and support large troops of Hamadryas baboons. Exotic African birds, hornbill and Abyssinian roller share this isolated region with endemic wildlife including the yellow cobra, Agamid lizards and 13 species of bird found nowhere else in the world.
Wildlife has also moved into the abandoned mountain village of al-Fawqa. Fruit bats, sunbirds and weaver birds flourish, but behind the mountain wall in the vast volcanic moonscape of ancient lava flows, this barren landscape explodes with spring growth and provides a nursery for millions of migrating birds.
Preserved in the mountain barrier is the living memory of an ancient time when much of Arabia was teeming with wildlife.
Eye of Camel
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The immense sand desert in Southern Arabia is known as the Rub al-Khali, the Empty Quarter, because for six months of the year it is empty of people. No one dares enter its burning sands.
In this film we journey with a Bedouin family on their winter migration into this desolate landscape and investigate the extraordinary strategies of survival adopted by the desert animals and plants. Camels, gazelle, oryx, plants, insects and the astonishing desert shrimp are all uniquely adapted for coping with extreme heat and the absence of water.
We learn much of the husbandry of camels and the old method of hunting with Saluki dogs and observe the wildlife of the ancient al-Hasa Oasis.
However, the prosperity of the modern age has profound implications for all wildlife and the ecology of the central Arabian deserts is undergoing rapid change.
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