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How Do Kangaroos Survive Extreme Heat? | 20 Years of Planet Earth | BBC Earth

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In Australia’s extreme heat, thermal imaging shows how red kangaroos regulate their body temperature to survive the midday sun. #PlanetEarth #DavidAttenborough #PE20 Subscribe: http://bit.ly/BBCEarthSub Sign up to our newsletter for the latest news, updates and exclusives from BBC Earth https://www.bbcearth.com/newsletter Watch more: Best of BBC Earth 🌍 https://bit.ly/BestOfBBCEarth Best Animal Fights 🥊 https://bit.ly/BestAnimalFights Videos over 10 minutes ⏰ https://bit.ly/3SHJCEJ Planet Earth III 🌍 https://bit.ly/PlanetEarthIIIPlaylist Frozen Planet II ❄️ https:/bit.ly/FrozenPlanetIIPlaylist Blue Planet II in 4K 🌊 https://bit.ly/BluePlanetII4kPlaylist Welcome to BBC EARTH! The world is an amazing place full of stories, beauty and natural wonder. Here you'll find 50 years worth of entertaining and thought-provoking natural history content. Dramatic, rare, and exclusive, nature doesn't get more exciting than this. This is a commercial page from BBC Studios. Service information and feedback: http://bbcworldwide.com/vod-feedback--contact-details.aspx

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pietrawhisper21 4 weeks ago

Australia is like an open oven, already deadly even besides the dangerous creatures 😂

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rodneyserene4 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Imagine if people licked themselves to keep cool 🤣🤣🤣

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maríadelcarmenuribe801 4 weeks, 1 day ago

The aussie instruments go hard in the score tho dun

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elaine_fry 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Kangaroos can lick their arms to cool down and it's fascinating, but when I do it, it's "unhygienic" and "makes people uncomfortable." (This is a joke btw)

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aprilclark960 4 weeks, 1 day ago

HOW MANY OF YOU GUYS ARE BOTS?

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pietrawhisper21 4 weeks, 2 days ago

good

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liabeier261 4 weeks, 2 days ago

What a world~

judithdrift46
judithdrift46 4 weeks, 2 days ago

Seeing wild animals survive deadly temperatures makes me question if humans are really the smartest species.

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william_grant 4 weeks, 2 days ago

Kangaroos are fascinating because they survive extreme Australian heat using behavioral adaptation, shade timing, and evaporative cooling through licking their forearms.

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john.jensen 4 weeks, 2 days ago

毎日寝ながらみて、聞いています。

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pedrolucas.abreu 4 weeks, 2 days ago

I knew Australia was harsh, but seeing how the kangaroos survive that kind of heat really put things into perspective for me. The part showing the ground reaching 70 degrees was honestly shocking because I can barely handle walking outside on a hot summer day here. Watching them lick their forearms to cool their blood was such a fascinating example of how animals adapt to extreme environments. I also thought the thermal imaging was incredible because it made the science behind their survival feel so real and easy to understand. It’s amazing how these animals have evolved such specific behaviors just to make it through a normal afternoon. Nature can be absolutely brutal, but at the same time incredibly intelligent. Does anyone else feel like documentaries like this make you appreciate wildlife on a completely different level?

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stéphane_lagarde 4 weeks, 2 days ago

Interessant. Gruß Jürgen 🤠

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naksh_chaudhry 4 weeks, 2 days ago

Magnificent

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suzannelloyd476 4 weeks, 2 days ago

The way kangaroos survive extreme heat is truly impressive nature always finds a way for life to endure even in the harshest conditions.

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aimée.foucher 4 weeks, 2 days ago

The way kangaroos lick their arms to cool down is honestly one of the coolest animal survival tricks I’ve learned 🦘💧

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jamesstream97 4 weeks, 2 days ago

In nature survival is not always about fighting sometimes it is about enduring what others cannot Beautiful storytelling by BBC Earth

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aliciabloom16 4 weeks, 2 days ago

Twenty years of absolute perfection. BBC Earth always captures the raw survival of these animals in ways that blow my mind!

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rael.novaes 4 weeks, 2 days ago

The sun might be a killer, but kangaroos have clearly mastered the art of survival under fire.

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christopherharper955 4 weeks, 2 days ago

Wow, nature’s survival tactics never cease to amaze me—licking their arms to cool down is genius! Kangaroos truly are masters of the desert heat.

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trinidad_apodaca 4 weeks, 2 days ago

ugghh ... that buzz of flies. Fantastic creatures these Kangaroos. The thermal imaging was a brilliant way to explain