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Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale

Locusts. The building heattriggers a mass hatching

Locusts. The building heat
triggers a mass hatching

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Locusts.
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The building heat triggers a mass hatching.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
21
Timestamp in Movie
00:43:37
Uploaded
May 06, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Freeborne Media,Wild Space Productions

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As the Kalahari Desert faces a worsening dry season, prides, packs and herds of all kinds must rely on the power of family to survive.
Ten million greedy mouths devour the drying vegetation. - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:06
Ten million greedy mouths devour the drying vegetation.
Ancient termite mounds seem to be the only things impervious - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:10
Ancient termite mounds seem to be the only things impervious
It's October. - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:12
It's October.
All the herds are searching for water - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:06
All the herds are searching for water
They are easy pickings for the two young males. - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:04
They are easy pickings for the two young males.
Who grow bigger and stronger every day. - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:04
Who grow bigger and stronger every day.
Tracking the same herds, - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:13
Tracking the same herds,
But taking on prey the size of a buffalo all by herself - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:07
But taking on prey the size of a buffalo all by herself
At best, she can pick up scraps left by the males, - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:10
At best, she can pick up scraps left by the males,
All the herds and their predators - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:13
All the herds and their predators
The calf and her herd - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:06
The calf and her herd
Their eyesight may be poor, but with highly attuned hearing and smell, - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:10
Their eyesight may be poor, but with highly attuned hearing...
Nile crocodiles. - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:09
Nile crocodiles.
But most are pretty small, only a meter or so. - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:05
But most are pretty small, only a meter or so.
The older elephants show the calf how to get to the water - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:08
The older elephants show the calf how to get to the water
And if you still haven't mastered the art of the trunk, - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:07
And if you still haven't mastered the art of the trunk,
The calf is learning… - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:07
The calf is learning…
Elephants also use it to protect their skin from the sun. - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:05
Elephants also use it to protect their skin from the sun.
The mud cools their overheated bodies as it evaporates. - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:05
The mud cools their overheated bodies as it evaporates.
And the dust settles in the cracks and crevices of their skin, - Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale 00:06
And the dust settles in the cracks and crevices of their ski...