Life: Hunters and Hunted
The Ecofilm on Friday, May 6th at 7 p.m. will be Episode No. 7 of BBC’s series Life: Hunters and Hunted.
Genre: Documentary, Produced by: BBC, 2009, 59 Minutes, English
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Mammals have adopted many strategies to hunt their prey and evade predators. In this chapter of the BBC Life series, we follow mammals from the ocean, land and sky as they search for and capture their prey. Slow motion footage reveals the fishing behavior of bulldog bats in Belize and brown bears at an Alaskan river mouth. The play-fighting of young stoats helps train them to chase prey such as rabbits, which are many times their own size. The alpha female of an Ethiopian wolf pack stays at the den to nurse her cubs while other adults hunt rats on the highland plateau. The extraordinary nose of a star-nosed mole enables it to hunt successfully underground and underwater. A tiger’s stealthy approach to a group of feeding deer is interrupted when a monkey, watching from above, raises the alarm. The final part shows a female killer whale taking elephant seal pups from their nursery pool in the Falkland Islands. This is a risky strategy as she could easily become beached in the shallow water. She is the only killer whale known to hunt this way, but her calf follows her moves, ensuring her knowledge will be passed on.