Films for the Humanities and Sciences - South America, Wild Kingdom

South America, Wild Kingdom

This program shows us South America when it was still an island, separated from the North by water: a peaceable kingdom of unique species found nowhere else, like the armadillo, the anteater, the sloth, and a host of creatures so little endangered by predators that they sported the bright and exotic colors and patterns typical of the South American jungle. Then the Isthmus of Panama appeared; South America ceased to be separate; and across the land-bridge came the much more rapacious animals of the North. The program shows us this land of superlatives and the successive invasions of predators—including the latest and most dangerous, humans. An RTVE production. (26 minutes)

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Item#: BVL5709
Copyright date: ©1996

Part of the Series : The Natural World of Latin America


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