The Hunt

Episode: Hide and Seek - Ep3
Broadcast Info: 2015 (58 mins)
Description: Hide and Seek follows tigers, harpy eagles, chimpanzees, army ants and other predators as they rise to the challenge of hunting within the forest - a dense, confusing, three-dimensional world, one in which, even finding prey is a maddening task. Once found, there are other problems to solve. There is no clean line of sight to be had. There is no space to pursue prey at speed, and there are innumerable escape routes off in all directions.
The prize for succeeding at Nature’s great game of hide and seek is one worth winning. Forests cover one third of the land surface, and concealed within, are over half of the species on Earth. Each type of forest hosts its own version of the game, and in each there are those that play it well.
The episode begins with the largest forest predator of all, the tiger, as it learns how to use the features of the forest to ambush deer. It continues by travelling to the frozen northern forest, to hunt through snow tunnels with the pine marten, to Europe’s deciduous forests, flying alongside sparrowhawks, and ultimately to the jungle, the most labyrinthine forest of all. There we find jumping spiders, tarsiers, eagles and chimps, each overcoming the difficulties of their surroundings with remarkable strategies.
Genre: Science; Research; Biology; Natural History; Climate

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