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The position of the sun in the sky affects the behaviour of animals and plants.

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Meerkat wakeup call

The rising sun is a wakeup call for a family of meerkats.

  • Bioluminescent shores
  • Night scenic
  • A ghost sun
  • Sunrise on the Masai Mara
  • A watchful cheetah
  • Halo
  • Twilight bats
  • Polar bears on the ice
  • A fluorescent scorpion
  • Night-time forest
  • Night-time predator
  • A great white shark
  • A male weedy sea dragon
  • Brown fur seals
  • Male Lion in infra red
  • Humpback whale
  • Meerkat wakeup call
  • Sunset in Africa
  • Sunrise over a grit stone edge
  • Sunset
  • Sunflowers

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  • 24 Hours on Earth

    How the position of the sun in the sky affects the behaviour of animals and plants.

    BBC One

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