I’ve been watching the David Attenborough series Life in the Undergrowth, which is all about the fascinating diversity of insects and arachnids (spiders and scorpions) and the evolutionary adaptations that they have developed in order to master all the world – wings, silk, armour, breathing without being in water, breeding without water.
It really is pretty cool the various things they have done in order to fill all the millions of little ecological niches that they occupy.
The whole thing takes me back to my childhood, where we used to watch nature documentaries all the time, which was always a strangely enjoyable family activity, despite the fact that it made me vastly geeky (and by extension in primary school, unpopular).
I had to watch the one he did on Rainforests three times at high school, for geography, adn twice in various years of science. I am not a fan at all!
That said I don’t mind the national geographic channel at Mum and Dads.