A Perfect Planet

Straw-coloured fruit bat

Eidolon helvum

Kasanka National Park, Zambia

Tropical fire ant

Solenopsis geminata

Tapiche River, Peru

I reached out to Tapiche Reserve [1], who confirmed to me that the species filmed was Solenopsis geminata
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Pond skater sp.

[family Gerridae]

Tapiche River, Peru

Arrau turtle

Podocnemis expansa

Guaporé River, Brazil

This sequence was filmed on the banks of the Guaporé River according to the "A Perfect Planet" book. The IUCN Conservation Status is "Lower Risk / Conservation Dependent" but I've opted to slot this is as "Near Threatened" on the scale I've been using.

Desert rain frog

Breviceps macrops

Namaqualand, South Africa

Assistant Producer Sarah-Jane Walsh confirmed that the species of desert rain frog shown here is Breviceps macrops [1]. However, the coastal range of that species is inconsistent with the Namaqualand filming location.
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Termite sp.

Namaqualand, South Africa

Wild Bactrian camel

Camelus ferus

Great Gobi National Park, Gobi Desert, Mongolia

The Gobi Desert is one of the driest deserts in the world. Here, during the winter, temperatures can reach -40°C - too cold for liquid water to exist. This poses a critical challenge for the 1,000 or so wild Bactrian camels that live here. These camels, however, have an acute sense of smell and are able to detect moisture from 30 miles away. A lead bull drives his herd towards an area of the desert where wind has blown in snow from Siberia, joining with other herds along the way. When they finally reach it, they begin to eat the snow to quench their thirst.

Christmas Island red crab

Gecarcoidea natalis

Christmas Island, Australia

Christmas Island red crabs depend entirely on the seasonal monsoons to time the spawning of their eggs. Each November, the first storms bring rain to the dry forest interior of the island, triggering the emergence of around 50 million crabs that have spent the past four months sheltering in damp burrows (the crabs' gills require moisture to function). The crabs begin a mass migration to the coast where, despite their inability to swim, readily plunge themselves into the ocean at high tide to release their eggs. A month later, trillions of baby crabs, having hatched out at sea, have returned to the same shores where they were spawned. The sheer abundance of animals coats the beaches bright red. Before the wet season ends, these tiny crabs must venture back into the forest to find shelters as their parents did to await the next monsoon.

Red-billed quelea

Quelea quelea lathamii