Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6726 in VHS
• Released on: 2001-11-01
• Rating: Unrated
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: NTSC

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These wild horses of Africa make a 300-mile migration every year, braving a host of predators from lions to hyenas to gun-toting humans. It's no wonder narrator Brian Dennehy describes this journey as a "gauntlet of death" in this 50-minute installment of the famed National Geographic series. Beautifully shot in Botswana by husband and wife team Dereck and Beverly Joubert, the documentary focuses on zebra family life--which centers around strictly organized kinship groups--and some of the unique ways this animal copes with the constant threat to life. For example, given a warning call from Dad, Mom can delay giving birth for hours. From floodplain to forest, the cameras follow these striped creatures during day and night, birth and death, wrapping up with a chilling statistic that reminds us how humans can be the most lethal predators of all. --Kimberly Heinrichs

Video Details
Come to the windswept plains of Africa for one of the Earth's most ancient and beautiful spectacles, the great zebra migration to Botswana. You'll travel ancient trails with thousands of these wild striped horses who share vast grasslands with wildebeests, elephants, and their deadly enemy - the lion. On this three-hundred mile journey you'll see the tender first moments of a young foal's life as she instinctively studies and memorizes her mother's stripe pattern so she'll never get lost in the herd. You'll witness how zebra family groups are rigidly organized for protection and the consequence of not following the rules - strict punishment from dominant zebras or worse, death from predators. Join National Geographic and learn the secrets behind Africa's graceful ZEBRA: PATTERNS IN THE GRASS.