Tonight 8pm: BBC Two 'Secrets of Our Living Planet' Vs BBC One 'England vs Italy'
OK, so you'll probably be watching the football like 90% of the English population but on the other side you can discover the wonders that make the Savannah tick. Check out the clips below from tonights episode of our series 'Secrets of Our Living Planet' - and then watch the episode on iPlayer.
In this episode, Chris reveals how the world's most spectacular grasslands flourish, despite being short of one essential nutrient - nitrogen. As it turns out, the secret lies with the animals. There are the white rhinos of Kenya that create nitrogen hotspots by trimming and fertilising the grass. They are drawn to these particular points by communal toilets or 'fecal facebooks', where they meet and greet each other.
Then there are the fruit-eating maned wolves in Brazil that garden the cerrado grassland; there are the bandicoots and rat kangaroos in Australia that manage the outback and then, across the world, there are the termites. There is not much that has more protein per gram than a termite.
In the whistling acacia grasslands of Kenya, Chris reveals the amazing relationships between termites, geckos, ants, monkeys and giraffes that make these places so rich in wildlife.
The Killer Moggy of Oz
The Giant Anteater and the Termites
