Africa

What a touching arch with turtles!

I also got emotional in the last few minutes with the rhinoceros. 🥲

Another documentary series dedicated to the nature of the continent, the least developed and studied of all inhabited. Amazing, previously unknown facts, unusual, first-time phenomena, and, finally, simply very high-quality and extremely spectacular footage from the lives of inhabitants of several geographical regions of Africa.

Over the course of 4 years, many film crews have been collecting unique video footage in 27 countries using more than 500 cameras, all kinds of innovative techniques and the most advanced shooting technologies, including an advanced night vision system, to show the wildlife of Africa in a way that the viewer has never seen before. (Nocturnal gatherings of black rhinoceroses, golden blind catfish in an amazing cave, creepy carnivorous grasshoppers, and more.) Extraordinary places, extraordinary events, and unexpected behaviors.

Excellent camerawork, unhurried and generous editing, not bad, not particularly deep or scientific, but quite informative comments. There were a lot of interesting, sometimes very emotional, funny or, conversely, sad scenes, and some caused real emotions, for example, a short heartbreaking story about an exhausted baby elephant. I liked the absence of tragic alarmism and despair of irreparable doom due to the imminent environmental disaster. Restrained optimism seems more constructive than hopeless pessimism.

It turned out to be a very good and rather fascinating series about wildlife, with interesting, often new, previously undocumented factual material captured in impressive footage collected from various parts of Africa.

Language. It seemed that flowery epithets and all sorts of bookish words were used much more than usual for Attenborough, I even thought that the text was not his, but they seemed to write that he was the author. Well, sincere, soft and natural intonations, voice and perfect pronunciation are definitely his, without any doubt))

This episode features rare footage of the life of the black rhino, which was officially recognized as an extinct species in 2023.

It's hard now to watch these shots and hear the hope in Attenborough's words to study these animals more…

Savannah is beautiful and cruel.
I like that in the last five minutes of the series they show a team of people working on the filming of these amazing shots