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The Tale of the Tapir

The Jungle is one of the most formidable environments known to man and the Malayan jungle is the oldest jungle on the planet. The diversity of species in its ecosystem is vast and exclusive to the area. Adam Thorn is an animal biologist and explorer who travels the world in search for the most dangerous and weirdest creatures on earth. In this documentary he’s in search of the Malayan tapir, one of his favorite animals that also happens to be the strangest he has ever seen. Many people confuse the tapir with the anteater. However these two animals aren’t even related. The tapir’s closest relative is the rhinoceros, yet it shares an ancestral lineage with modern day horses. There are five species of tapirs and they are all in danger due to deforestation. The Malayan tapir is the biggest of them all. The journey begins with a six-hour boat ride on the river because it’s the easiest way to get deep into the jungle. Then along with his team he treks as far away as possible from humans because this will give him the best chance of finding the tapir. He only has five days until the boatman comes back to pick him up where he left him. Along the way, Adam Thorne encounters many beautiful and exotic animals. The first thing he finds is snakeskin about a meter long that is still wet from molting. Nearly 300 different species of reptiles live in this rainforest. As he journeys on, Adam connects deeply with the life around him, yet he realizes that the tapir is a very shy creature and it wont be easy to find him in this enormous landscape. Still Adam heads deeper into the thick jungle with high hopes of completing his mission successfully. Because the rainy season is over, he is able to cross a river that would have been much deeper and wider a few months before. His main concern is walking into a crocodile, but he makes it safely to the other side. Just as he had suspected, the forest he now enters is harsher. But in a surprising twist, he encounters a beautiful frog species that he has never seen before, although he’s very familiar with the species in the area. By his last night, Adam’s morale is extremely low and he tries to come to terms with the fact that he just might never be able to find the tapir. Watch this documentary to find out more.

The Temple of the Viper

Malaysia is home to some of the most dangerous and treacherous jungles on the planet. These jungles are home to an impressive diversity of living things. However, due to the increase in population and the need for new living spaces, humans have been finding themselves more in contact with the creatures that were once only found deep in the jungle. In this documentary, Adam Thorne travels to Penang Island and heads deep into the rainforest in search for answers regarding a mysterious temple and its unusual inhabitants—venomous vipers. Some suggest that because of the incense that is constantly burning within the temple, the snakes are kept in a state of hypnosis. This makes them quite docile, although they continue to have venom glands filled with venom. Legend has it that the vipers come to the temple on their own accord and take up residency mostly in the garden and the temple itself. This has been so for the last 150 years. The vipers are breathtakingly beautiful yet highly temperamental snakes, so their behavior within the temple grounds is quite surprising. Thorn heads into the part of the jungle that has had the least human contact in the hopes of finding some of the same vipers in their natural habitat. His trek involves descending a steep hillside to get into a cave. Snakes love caves, especially if there are bats living in there. Next he heads to the top of the canopy because vipers are arboreal and hence able to spend their entire lives above the ground. He encounters some very territorial macaques that aren’t shy about letting him know that he’s not welcomed. Eventually he ends up tracking a water monitor into the mangroves. These lizards can grow up to two and a half meters long. Finally, Thorn and his team head back into the untouched and unprotected wilderness where walking is difficult because of the humidity and lack of breeze. They encounter many more exotic creatures as they search for the elusive vipers. Will he find out why the temple vipers are so docile? Watch this film now.

The Bearcat of Borneo

Borneo is the third largest island in the world and it contains the oldest rainforest on earth. It’s home to many species that can’t be found anywhere else. Many new species are discovered every year because Borneo contains some of the few remaining untouched and unexplored jungles on the planet Adam Thorn, animal biologist and expert, travels to Borneo in search for an animal that is so elusive and so bizarre that most people don’t even know that it exists. It’s a creature with the tail of a monkey, the claws of a cat, and the face of a bear. It’s called the bearcat or binturong. Making good use of the resources that are available, Adam and his team head into the water. This is the quickest and most efficient way to travel because of the density of the forest they want to explore. The rivers in Borneo are owned by saltwater crocodiles, which can exceed six meters in length. It’s an intimidating sensation to share territory with creatures that are so big. The team heads through a palm oil plantation for three hours and finally arrives at the jungle border. The plan is to hike south for two days into the jungle. They only have four days to find the bearcat and return to their rendezvous point. The recent rains offer the advantage of being able to see the tracks of the animals that have passed through the area. They find evidence that elephants are near and therefore, they need to be extremely careful. Even the plants in the jungle are well equipped with spikes, barbs, thorns, or a colony of ants. So this means that there are many setbacks when trying to make your way through the jungle. However, the rewards are many. Thorn gets to see a pair sun bears eating. These bears are native to the forests of Southeast Asia and are currently considered vulnerable species. On the second day of his exploration, Thorn runs into an Orangutan. These endangered animals are only found on two places on earth: Sumatra and Borneo. Although finding this animal is not the goal of this adventure, it’s a rare privilege. Will Adam Thorn be able to find the bearcat? Watch this film now.

Cobra Gypsies

Musician and filmmaker Raphael Treza journeys into the heart of Northern India to spend three months living among one of the country’s nomadic tribes: the gypsies of Rajasthan called Kalbelia. This group is made up of dancers and musicians and their name means ‘those who love snakes’. Treza’s journey begins in Mumbai with a 15 hour train trip that takes him to the Thaar desert on the border of Pakistan. He sets up his base camp in Pushkar— a holy city with a hippie atmosphere that appeals to tourists. Travelers visit Pushkar to discover Indian culture and art like the Bollywood dance. The people of Kalbelia make their living as nomadic agricultural workers and shepherds. They were considered ‘untouchable’ until the discriminatory Hindu practice was abolished in 1950. Understandably some gypsies keep cobras as pets. When it’s handled, the cobra actually adopts a peaceful behavior. Usually its venom is extracted regularly, although its bite remains dangerous. Kalbelia gypsies have the cobras as a symbol and children learn to handle them as they dance from a very young age. Some sedentary Kalbelia catch cobras and sell them to neighboring villages to make some money. These men have a specific system for catching these venomous snakes, which includes poking a long stick into holes in the ground. These holes are the cobra nests. Potentially dangerous snakes often cross the villages at all hours of day and night and the Kalbelia seem to be on call to catch them. From making charcoal to camel rides, from music festivals dedicated to the god Krishna to hunting for lizards and snakes, this is a full adventure filled with flavors and colors. Spending three months living among a group of people that had never seen a foreigner before certainly has its perks. Watch this interesting film now.

The Cuckoo – Artur Homan

In the James Bond movie Spectre there’s a reference to the cuckoo bird in two scenes. The evil villain Spectre leers: “I see you! Cuckoo!” when he detects Bond in the classic evil assembly room scene. In the other scene towards the end of the movie Spectre reveals why he considers Bond as a cuckoo. In order to understand the reference we must know the biology of the Common cuckoo bird (Cuculus canorus). The European common cuckoo is a well studied nest parasite. Nest parasites instead of raising their offspring themselves they by-pass parental care duties by laying their eggs inside nests of another species. The behavior is also called brood parasitism. The famous population biologist Thomas R. Malthus observed that organisms produce more offspring than needed. This leads to increase in population size and more competition for resources. Competition can take place within and between species. The cuckoo egg hatches earlier and the chick grows faster than those of the host. The chick instinctively performs a behavioral adaptation: It expels all competitors out of the nest. The eggs and even the young of the host species can be thrown off the nest. This behavior maximizes the feeding efficiency. The cuckoo chick has an overwhelming begging display which forces its foster parents to feed it frantically. The cost of being parasitized by the cuckoo can be very high. On the flip side, parasitizing a nest is not an easy job. Female cuckoos have secretive and fast ovipositing behaviors to sneak their eggs into other birds’ nests. They may even have partners in crime: males have been shown to distract host adults away from their nests so that the female can find the window of opportunity to lay her egg in the nest. Before she oviposits she may eat the eggs of the host bird exterminating an entire clutch. Birds therefore frequently mob cuckoos to chase them out of their territories. Egg mimicry is another way cuckoos have adapted which helps their survival. If the parasitic egg looks very similar to those of the host then the survival chance increases. Some species of host birds can distinguish foreign eggs and eject them out of the nest. If the host bird species lack the ability to recognize eggs then the selection is relaxed and the cuckoo egg mimicry disappears. Would you expel an egg if you can’t be sure? What if accidentally you expel your own egg?

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THE KING CROCODILE ATTACKS - Crocodiles Hunting

The King Crocodile Attacks - Crocodiles Hunting [Animal Nature Documentary]Crocodiles (subfamily Crocodylinae) or true crocodiles are large aquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. Crocodylinae, all of whose members are considered true crocodiles, is classified as a biological subfamily. The King Crocodile Attacks - Crocodiles Hunting [Animal Nature Documentary] A broader sense of the term crocodile, Crocodylidae that includes Tomistoma, is not used in this article. The term crocodile here applies only to the species within the subfamily of Crocodylinae. The term is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes Tomistoma, the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), the gharials (family Gavialidae), and all other living and fossil Crocodylomorpha. The King Crocodile Attacks - Crocodiles Hunting [Animal Nature Documentary] Although they appear to be similar to the untrained eye, crocodiles, alligators and the gharial belong to separate biological families. The gharial having a narrow snout is easier to distinguish, while morphological differences are more difficult to spot in crocodiles and alligators. The most obvious external differences are visible in the head with crocodiles having narrower and longer heads, with a more V-shaped than a U-shaped snout compared to alligators and caimans. Another obvious trait is the upper and lower jaws of the crocodiles are the same width, and teeth in the lower jaw fall along the edge or outside the upper jaw when the mouth is closed; therefore all teeth are visible unlike an alligator; which possesses small depressions in the upper jaw where the lower teeth fit into. The King Crocodile Attacks - Crocodiles Hunting [Animal Nature Documentary] Also when the crocodile's mouth is closed, the large fourth tooth in the lower jaw fits into a constriction in the upper jaw. For hard-to-distinguish specimens, the protruding tooth is the most reliable feature to define the family that the species belongs to. Crocodiles have more webbing on the toes of the hind feet and can better tolerate saltwater due to specialized salt glands for filtering out salt, which are present but non-functioning in alligators. Another trait that separates crocodiles from other crocodilians is their much higher levels of aggression. The King Crocodile Attacks - Crocodiles Hunting [Animal Nature Documentary]

HIDDEN PREDATORS HUNTING - Sneakiest Animals On The Planet

Hidden Predators Hunting - Sneakiest Animals On The Planet [Animal Nature Documentary] Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia (also called Metazoa). All animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and independently, at some point in their lives. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their lives. All animals are heterotrophs: they must ingest other organisms or their products for sustenance. Hidden Predators Hunting - Sneakiest Animals On The Planet [Animal Nature Documentary] Most known animal phyla appeared in the fossil record as marine species during the Cambrian explosion, about 542 million years ago. Animals are divided into various sub-groups, some of which are: vertebrates (birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish); molluscs (clams, oysters, octopuses, squid, snails); arthropods (millipedes, centipedes, insects, spiders, scorpions, crabs, lobsters, shrimp); annelids (earthworms, leeches); sponges; and jellyfish. Hidden Predators Hunting - Sneakiest Animals On The Planet [Animal Nature Documentary]
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