Showing posts with label Wildlife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wildlife. Show all posts

Monday, 4 April 2011

A Tiger Called Broken Tail

tigerI have always loved big cats, especially tigers and love a nature documentary that tells a story. A Tiger Called Broken Tail is an educational and moving story of the eventful life of one of these powerful yet elegant animals which was sadly cut short...

Sunday, 7 March 2010

Darwin's Nightmare

"Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish multiplied so fast, that its white fillets are today exported all around the world. Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo… Kalashnikovs and ammunitions...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Meet the Foxes

Having had my own ups and downs with the town fox from seeing a young family of foxes grow up across from my home to my childhood pet rabbit "disappearing" I found this channel 4 documentary quite interesting.

"This modern day fairytale uses footage of dozens of foxes and archive film to reflect the typical experience of urban foxes in Britain and tell the story of a year in the life of a virtual fox family...

Saturday, 28 November 2009

Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification


"This groundbreaking NRDC documentary explores the startling phenomenon of ocean acidification, which may soon challenge marine life on a scale not seen for tens of millions of years. The film, featuring Sigourney Weaver, originally aired on Discovery Planet Green."

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Meerkat Manor - The Story Begins

The series Meerkat Manor is a legend of a programme, and here is the TV documentary film about these endearing animals. Enjoy.

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Natural World: Clever Monkeys

"David Attenborough's entertaining romp through the world of monkeys has a serious side: for when we look at monkeys we can see ourselves. From memory to morality, from 'crying wolf' to politics, monkeys are our basic blueprint.

Pygmy marmosets 'farm' tree sap; bearded capuchins in Brazil develop a production line for extracting palm nuts; white-faced capuchins in Costa Rica tenderly nurse the victims of battle; and in the Ethiopian highlands a deposed gelada baboon has got the blues."