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Garuma Gull

Garuma Gull

The garuma gull is a survivor in this land of extremes. With eggs adapted to withstand the baking hot days and freezing nights, the infants have some protection from the elements. But it’s after hatching, when the young demand constant feeding the parents must make the daily 200km commute to the Pacific Ocean in search of food.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Guanaco

Guanaco

Guanaco, the South American camel, are hard and efficient foragers. The tough, sparse vegetation of the Andes foothills provide little nourishment, but the guanaco’s evolved digestive system draws the last drop of goodness from each dry piece of matter. And this nutrition is vital, especially for guanaco females as they labour and give birth.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Rhea

Rhea

It is late spring and expectant rhea mothers gather around a communal nest waiting for their turn to lay. At the end of a week the nest bulges with over twenty eggs. But, in an unusual twist the females abandon the site. In the world of the rhea it is the role of the male to care for the eggs.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Seabird/Anchovy

Seabird/Anchovy

The intense equatorial sun beating down on the nutrient-rich Pacific Ocean creates ideal conditions for plankton; this in turn attracts shoals of anchovy. The Inca tern dives with pinpoint accuracy into the swirling mass to catch a single fish, while the pelican takes a ‘grab bag’ approach: filling its massive bill with the catch.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

America

America

Duration : 20m
Maturity Level : all

South America

South America

Duration : 29m
Maturity Level : all