Who are these ferocious predators of the Antarctic continent that kill each year thousands of penguins and leave some injured birds behind to the scavengers of the ice? To find out, come and follow Göran Ehlmé, an experienced underwater cinematographer and expert of the cold seas, in his quest to uncover the fascinating behavior of the secretive… Leopard Seals. Amidst the pristine but freezing waters surrounding the white continent, the audience will be given a unique insight into the mysterious daily lives of Leopard Seals and discover some never-before-filmed behaviors of these highly intelligent predators. ” Killer seals” will reveal how Leopard Seals hunt penguins underwater or on land, charging unwary trespassers on the ice, be they penguin or human! Thanks to Göran Ehlmé’s close and emotional relationship with Leopard Seals, the public will be astonished to discover that each animal has – like human beings – its own distinctive character and moods. Göran is one of the rare divers in the world who dares to defy the deadly jaws of this predator in order to gain its trust and solve the mystery of its natural but puzzling aggressive temper.
Subjects: Life Science
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Le Léopard de Mer, Seigneur des Glaces
Voici l’histoire de Göran Ehlmé, un homme hanté par le souvenir d’une terrible rencontre avec un prédateur encore méconnu, un phoque aux allures d’ogre : le léopard de mer. Un phoque géant qui vit aux confins de la planête dans l’endroit le plus inhospitalier qui soit : l’Antarctique, un monde de glace et de roche. Göran, à la fois naturaliste et spécialiste de la plongée en eaux froides, repart à la rencontre de ce super prédateur pour percer quelques-uns de ses secrets… il assiste à un dramatique face à face entre plusieurs léopards de mer et une colonie de manchots, une occasion unique de voir et de filmer des comportements de chasse inédits. Venez frissonner à ses côtés dans des eaux glacées pour faire face aux léviathans des glaces.
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Conflicts Around a Pond
This is the unusual story of a little-known insect : the water beetle. Having spent the winter beneath the ice, the water beetle which can walk, swim, and fly, stirs with the first signs of spring. Its habitat : a small pond. Its neighbors : dragonflies, frogs and newts. Its daily life : survival. Between two skirmishes, it gives birth to some twenty larvae of varying kinds…only the most voracious will make it to adulthood before the pond dries out.
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Conflicts in a River
At the foot of Uganda’s roaring Murchison falls live two eternal enemies: the monitor and the Nile crocodile. Despite the crocodile’s reign of terror within the river, the stealthy monitor is master of the banks where it steals and devours their vulnerable eggs. The first days of the young Nile crocodile are a series of nightmares : if it survives the monitor’s attacks, it must avoid the swooping attacks of perch and eagles. Once adult, it becomes the undisputed master of the river and seeks to devour its erstwhile enemies one by one.
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Conflicts in the Jungle
In the Amazon jungle of French Guyana, a young jaguar is preparing to become master of the forest. His reign over the territory, however, is contested by creatures fiercer than he. These six-legged beasts are none other than the fearsome warrior ants. Over several days we will follow the nomadic pursuits of this ant colony who will eventually cross paths with the young jaguar in his life-learning adventures. These ants uproot their home every single day, travelling by night in groups one-million strong. With an instinct for solidarity, they work as a cohesive group. Despite their unity, we will witness the subtle struggle for power between the Queen and a pretender. Little by little, we begin to understand these peculiar ants who, like the jaguar, do not go unnoticed by the other inhabitants of the forest.
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Conflicts Around a Tree
The plains of the Masaï Mara in Kenya, a dominant male, twenty submissive females, two warring brothers, a tree of forbidden fruit, a snake : this is the olive baboon version of Genesis. Effortlessly combining scientific rigor, objectivity and humor, this documentary spends eight months around a “dormitory-tree” in the intimacy of a troop of baboons caught up in hierarchical conflicts. They have to put up with anything : floods, rivalries, alliances, parasites, and even cheetah attacks. Only a unified troop could possibly overcome these ordeals…
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Wild Kisses
You have probably never noticed, but animals give each other secret smack behind the bushes. For the first time ever, this program reveals never before seen shots of this cute behaviour in nature. A must-see for children before bed-time.