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Supporting Content

• Secretly sociable rhinos — Kalahari

  Duration: 1:26

• Shoebill selective parental care — Savannah

  Duration: 0:34

• Filming rhinos at night — Kalahari

  Duration: 1:07

• Death of a calf — Savannah

  Duration: 1:32
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• In pictures: The Future — The Future

• In pictures: Sahara — Sahara

• In pictures: Cape — Cape

• In pictures: Congo — Congo
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• Africa on the radio

  Director Felicity Egerton, producer听Simon Blakeney听and camera operators听Alex Lanchester and听Justine Evans have all been interviewed for 大象传媒 radio.
  
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• Recording the Africa soundtrack

  The听music for Africa was recorded using a live orchestra.

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• Bioluminescence: lighting up the natural world

  A luminous fungus that illuminates the forest floor has been filmed for the first time, but why does nature put on this light show?

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• 'Monster' bird reveals dark side

  'Prehistoric-looking' shoebill chicks demonstrate aggressive sibling behaviour for the first time on film.

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• Getting the perfect wildlife shot

  "Remotely operated HD cameras can go where we cannot. We used them with lions in the Serengeti, with shoebills in Zambia and with a massive five metre long python in Uganda."
  
  

  

• African wildlife on 大象传媒 Nature

  Africa straddles the equator which bestows a rich diversity of wildlife and landscapes on the world's second largest continent. Large predators roam the sweeping savannas among huge herds of grazing herbivores, while apes, monkeys and snakes inhabit its dark, dense forests.