Watch David Attenborough’s first appearance in Life on Earth as series celebrates 45th anniversary

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This was David Attenborough's first appearance in Life on Earth as the series celebrates its 45th anniversary.Source: Life on Earth: A Natural History, BBC

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00:00 [BIRDS CHIRPING]

00:03 The South American rainforest, the richest and most varied

00:11 assemblage of life in the world.

00:14 Those are howler monkeys up there.

00:16 There are around 50 different kinds

00:18 of monkeys in these forests.

00:21 Some of the most beautiful creatures here are hummingbirds.

00:23 54 different kinds have been found within a few miles

00:27 of where I'm standing.

00:28 And over 300 have been found in South America as a whole.

00:33 In fact, nobody knows exactly how many different kinds

00:36 of animals there are here.

00:37 Wherever you look, there's life.

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