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The Danube Delta’s Fen Raft Spider

Season 1 Episode 4 | 2m 33s

Meet the fen raft spider. It can stay underwater for up to 30 minutes but surfaces when it’s time to hunt. It uses surface tension of the water to pick up vibrations to catch its dinner.

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Using frozen rivers for thousands of years, reindeer are facing extreme dangers now.
Three litters of Arctic fox pups are released into the wild.
Born just a few days too soon, a baby reindeer is abandoned by his mother.
Native Sami people and modern conservationists team up to save age-old reindeer migration.
Native Sami people and modern conservationists team up to save age-old reindeer migration.
The Danube delta is a treasure trove of biodiversity.
Meet the Delta’s largest pelican colony, made up of more than 18,500 birds.
The Danube is the largest preserved wetland on the continent.
With dikes removed, Ermakov Island comes back to life.
In Europe’s Carpathian mountains and beyond, the continent’s most iconic species thrive.
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