{"id":25967,"date":"2025-11-05T17:41:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=25967"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:41:44","slug":"planet-earth-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/planet-earth-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Earth III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;The natural world is not just one vast medicine chest. It&#8217;s far more than that. It is our life support system, the fabric that holds our world together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Planet Earth III<\/strong>, aired in 2023<\/p>\n<p>Filming over 5 years in in 43 countries, the team found these amazing things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ostriches in the Namib desert abandon the eggs that haven&#8217;t hatched in order to lead their chicks to safety<\/li>\n<li>a leopard who hides in a tree waiting for prey to come to it and then jumps<\/li>\n<li>seals work together to drive away a great white shark<\/li>\n<li>right whales travel 5000 miles to a sheltered bay to give birth<\/li>\n<li>archerfish in Indonesia can spit water and knock bugs out of trees<\/li>\n<li>pearl octopus lay their eggs in a warm spot and sit on them for 2 years &#8212; and then when the eggs hatch they die<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>David Attenborough describes how animal habitats are disappearing and changing because of humans. He also shows heroes who are rescuing wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/planet-earth-ii\/\"><strong>Planet Earth II<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;The natural world is not just one vast medicine chest. It&#8217;s far more than that. It is our life support system, the fabric that holds our world together.&#8221; Planet Earth III, aired in 2023 Filming over 5 years in in 43 countries, the team found these amazing things: ostriches in the Namib desert abandon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[43,5,11],"class_list":["post-25967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-documentaries","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25967"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25986,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967\/revisions\/25986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}