We join a female African social spider just days after her brood of 30 spiderlings have hatched in their nest in the Namibian desert. For a short spell, these tiny eight-eyed horrors live off liquid regurgitated by mum, drinking it directly from her mouth. Then the kids move onto solids – the insects caught in their nest. And then they eat their dear old mum – who has been weakening since giving birth – alive.
An African social spider mother sacrifices herself to her hungry and growing spiderlings in Namibia (Photo: BBC/Silverback Films/Tharina Bird)
And that’s not the worst of it: these little abominations hunt in packs. Hundreds of them (mum shared the nest with 50 sisters) go synchronised stalking, moving and freezing in unison – it’s the stuff of nightmares. And the sound! My God, the sound.
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Fortunately this episode, the first of five, has plenty of non-arachnid wildlife. We hang out with a Western lowland gorilla and her newborn in Gabon. There’s a beautiful shot of the hours-old infant, dozing against his mother’s chest as she cradles him, instinctively grabbing her fur and tightly closing his tiny fist.
A father lion patiently playing with his young cub (Photo: BBC/Silverback Films/Russ Maclaughlin)
Using footage from 58 shoots undertaken in 23 countries, the BBC says this is its first wildlife documentary focusing on parenthood and parenting behaviours rather than on animal young. If the script isn’t always the sharpest – “parenthood is a journey like no other,” Attenborough says at one point – it really doesn’t matter when the visuals are this good.
The Iberian lynx is the rarest of the animals shown in this series. These charming – unless you happen to be a rabbit – cats are doing better now but at the start of the 21st century there were precisely 94 of them. Ninety-four gorgeous Iberian lynx but countless gazillions of African social spiders. Where is the justice?
‘Parenthood’ continues next Sunday at 7.15pm on BBC One
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