s01e08 — Cities - Surviving the Urban Jungle

In my opinion, all these "green cities" are just an expensive toy for sheikhs. And by the time they are completed, they will no longer be relevant...

I didn't really expect this from the series. I thought they would show how people survive in cities - poverty, unsanitary conditions, inhumane living conditions and human adaptability, the emphasis will be on this, not on coexistence with nature.
It's funny with pigeons. A person overcomes so many obstacles to build a skyscraper, but nature still threatens the very existence of this unnatural thing...a simple pigeon litter. It's such an irony of fate that a person doesn't think he's omnipotent)
The fight against rhesus monkeys seemed a bit staged. Why chase them away, drive them so far, if you know that you can't leave the counter, stand and overtake from all sides, don't let them come up and don't throw Oo
The fight against rats in New York was also amazing. First of all, why are the "fighters" without any uniforms? How do they take dead rats with their hands, even without gloves?! Do they throw them in a regular dumpster??!!! Yes, you just said and showed how rats manage in the trash, eat chicken bones, etc. Do you think they won't run to a dead rat? Oh, and it won't stink, nothing...? Why won't such a terrible institution close the sanitary and epidemiological station? Rats and cockroaches are right in the plates, people call specialists, pay them to remove the rats (they can't set mousetraps themselves, mdaaaaaaaa), but at the same time they throw unwashed plates with leftovers at night...Yeah, a shovel hunt for fleas wouldn't be worth showing this story at all.
And ticks, too, are such a mess, especially when you watch them roam freely around people...Brrrrrr, it makes me shudder;
The tannery looks fantastic.
It's painful to look at people prowling through a landfill (((
But I really liked the final message. We didn't just make a beautiful movie or picture, but also unobtrusively, very delicately, first we showed how incredibly beautiful and respectful the world around us deserves, how complex and beautiful it is, and then how in danger it is from our actions. And a very beautiful illustration with footage from the entire series, gorgeous.