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'NATURE: Animals With Cameras'
(DVD / G / 2018 / PBS)

Overview: Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan and animal behaviorists join forces to explore stories of animal lives "told" by the animals themselves.

DVD Verdict: The highly ingenious new PBS documentary, 'NATURE: Animals With Cameras' explores the secret side of the animal kingdom where human cameramen can't go, and camera-wearing animals film their own stories!

Here we sprint across the savannah with a cheetah, plunge into the ocean with a seal, and swing through the trees with a chimp, amongst other things. Directed by the quartet of Anne Sommerfield, Hannah Ward, Clare Dornan, and Matthew Andrews, and hosted by Gordon Buchanan, 'NATURE: Animals With Cameras' showcases a side of the animal kingdom where human's, let alone cameraman, daren't ever go.

Using the specially-designed cameras, we get to sprint across the savannah with a cheetah, plunge into the ocean with a seal, and swing through the trees with a chimpanzee. It really is a quite magnificent documentary, well thought out and highly inventive.

Showing us how they actually get the cameras on the dangerous animal's' heads in the first place, which of course they are sedated for, but nonetheless I'd rather not be taking part in, we then get to see the so-called "secret lives" of these magnificent beasts.

There are three (3) episodes, each one features three different species, and the series, as a whole, visits eight different countries.

Episode 1: The astonishing collar-camera footage reveals newborn Kalahari Meerkats below ground for the first time, unveils the hunting skills of Magellanic penguins in Argentina, and follows the treetop progress of an orphaned chimp in Cameroon.

Episode 2: The cameras capture young cheetahs learning to hunt in Namibia, reveal how fur seals of an Australian island evade the Great white sharks offshore, and help solve a conflict between South African farmers and Chacma baboons.

Episode 3: We deep-dive with Chilean devil rays in the Azores, track Brown bears' diet in Turkey, and follow dogs protecting flocks of sheep from gray wolves in Southern France.

This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.78:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

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