The INSIDER Summary:The final episode of BBC America's "Planet Earth II" airs on Saturday, March 25.It's about animals living in theworld's biggest cities.INSIDER got an exclusive look at the episode's sequence on starlings.They're birds who createbreathtaking formations as they fly.This Saturday, BBC America will air the final episode of the brand-new "Planet Earth II" 'a new-and-improved reboot of the 2006 original. The episode is all about the one place on earthyou'd least except to find wild animals: cities.When you think of "Planet Earth,"you probably imaginemajestic mountains, dense jungles, and remote islands where animals roam freewithout human intervention. But many of the world's animal specieslive in harmony with urban-dwelling humans.Noisy, crowded cities offer lots of opportunities for scrappycreatures trying to survive.The "Cities" episode is easily the series's most beautiful, and it hasa fascinating cast of characters: Peregrine falcons thatperch on New York City skyscrapers; hyenas thathang with locals in Harar, Ethiopia;and giant catfishthat hunt pigeonsin Albi, France.But the episode's most memorable moment featuresstarlings ' small black birds that flock to Rome, Italy on winter nights, taking advantage of the city's extra warmth.Upto a million of them gather in the sky, safety-in-numbers style, to avoid birds of prey. Once there, theyperform what looks like a coordinated dance, creatingundulating, wave-like formations known as murmurations.BBC America gave INSIDER an exclusive clip of these hypnotic movements. Watch it right here:var playerParam = { 'pcode': 'BhdmY6l9g002rBhQ6aEBZiheacDu', 'playerBrandingId': '6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e', 'skin': { 'config': '//player.ooyala.com/static/v4/stable/4.4.11/skin-plugin/skin.json' }};OO.ready(function() { window.pp = OO.Player.create('ooyala-post-container', '9kNGloYTE6GkiASqzD_uSIyG-53XiYxk', playerParam);});The craziest part: Scientists still don't know exactly how or why the starlings do this. They simply dance until, en masse, they fly down to roost in trees for the rest of the night.Watch the starlings and more urbananimals in the"Cities" episode of "Planet Earth II." It airs Saturday, March 25 at 9 p.m. on BBC America.Join the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: This kinetic sculpture moves like a flock of birds
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