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Baobab
S4 • E27 Oct 11, 1970
A film portrait of an African 'upside-down tree' and its wildlife.
The ancient baobab, growing in dry bush country, provides shade, food, and shelter for everything from elephants to bushbabies, honey-guides to fruit bats. It is the hornbills, however, that use the tree in the most remarkable way: the female cements herself inside the nest-hole to rear her young.
This unique film reveals some of the innermost secrets of one of the most fascinating life-cycles in the bird world.
The ancient baobab, growing in dry bush country, provides shade, food, and shelter for everything from elephants to bushbabies, honey-guides to fruit bats. It is the hornbills, however, that use the tree in the most remarkable way: the female cements herself inside the nest-hole to rear her young.
This unique film reveals some of the innermost secrets of one of the most fascinating life-cycles in the bird world.