Terra Mater

Brazil - A Natural History: Amazonas (5) (2014x19)

Fecha de emisión: Jun 04, 2014

The last episode of the series "Wild Brazil" leads to the largest rainforest in the world. The Amazon rainforest covers an area of nearly seven million square kilometers. Ten percent of all species existing in the world come in this tropical forest region before. Biodiversity is already unique, and still new animal and plant species are discovered. The Amazon rainforest of Brazil is a country of water and forest - and these two worlds struggle every year, driven by the seasonal flooding, for supremacy. The canopy is the unlimited realm of the Harpy. This eagle is one of the most powerful birds of prey worldwide. Its favorite prey are sloths and monkeys. Harpies breed only every two to three years. Accordingly caring they care for their young. Is the young once hatched, fresh meat must be flown daily to the nest to satisfy the ever-hungry chicks. Walde Some days go deeper the leaf-cutting ants similar work after. Are you looking for leaves, from which they cut easily portable, bite-sized pieces with their sharp mouthparts. Later, they feed them in their construction of a mushroom. The fungus in turn serves the ants as food. With the rainy season, the swelling floods transform the forests into a topsy-turvy world: once dry lying country is suddenly under water. Now there are the Pirarucu, one of the largest freshwater fish in the world, and the Frans turtle become hunters. During the more than two meters long Pirarucu roams in the stagnant waters between the trees that fringed turtle lurks motionless and camouflaged prey.