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Self is a real person portrayed by Doug Allan in the TV series Planet Earth (based on a true story).
They appear in 2 episodes out of a total of 11 aired
Self is also portrayed by Michael Kelem, Simon King, Peter Scoones, Rick Rosenthal, Doug Anderson, Jonathan Keeling, Mark Linfield, Paul Stewart, Tania Jenkins and Mike Holding.

Self

by Doug Allan

character

Episodes2

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    Mountains
    episode S1.E2 march 2007
    Mountains are the most prominent products of the immense forces which shape the living planet: tectonic drift, volcanic activity and erosion by wind, water, frost and precipitation. We see how wildlife adapts to the harsh, often extreme conditions in various types of mountain ranges, such as Gelada baboons on a suddenly volcano-pushed Ethiopian peek, pumas in the Andes, grizzly bears in the Rockies, snow leopards in the Himalaya.
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    Ice Worlds
    episode S1.E6 april 2007
    The polar caps have the most extreme seasonal contrasts, growing and melting vast ice masses, so wildlife adapts by annual migrations. The majority of Antartica is a vast barren permafrost. Only 3% of the coast and peninsular peaks are where life migrates to in the spring, for a short fertile summer, attracted by rich supplies of krill and fish. Only the Emperor penguin males breed 4 months in winter 100 miles inland. The Arctic has a more complete fauna which migrates back North from the continent. Here, the Polar bear is threatened because global warming defrosts its seal hunt platform ice too fast.