2001 Walking With Beasts - Ep 3 Land Of Giants
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Walking with Beasts, marketed as Walking with Prehistoric Beasts in North America, is a 2001 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Science Unit, the Discovery Channel, ProSieben and TV Asahi. The sequel to the 1999 miniseries Walking with Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts explores the life in the Cenozoic era, after the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, particularly focusing on the rise of the mammals to dominance.
Land of Giants is the third episode of the Walking with Beasts series. It continues where Whale Killer had ended, further showing some of Cenozoic's mammalian mega-fauna. It is set at the end of the Oligocene - the start of the Miocene, in Mongolia. The third episode takes place in late Oligocene Mongolia, where seasonal rains are followed by long periods of drought. It follows a mother Indricotherium, an enormous hornless rhinoceros, and her young male calf. The mother struggles to raise her calf, fending off predators such as Hyaenodon and trying to teach the calf to survive on its own. The episode also follows other animals in the surroundings, including Hyaenodon, entelodonts and chalicotheres, and the hardships they endure as the drought drags on.
Land of Giants is the third episode of the Walking with Beasts series. It continues where Whale Killer had ended, further showing some of Cenozoic's mammalian mega-fauna. It is set at the end of the Oligocene - the start of the Miocene, in Mongolia. The third episode takes place in late Oligocene Mongolia, where seasonal rains are followed by long periods of drought. It follows a mother Indricotherium, an enormous hornless rhinoceros, and her young male calf. The mother struggles to raise her calf, fending off predators such as Hyaenodon and trying to teach the calf to survive on its own. The episode also follows other animals in the surroundings, including Hyaenodon, entelodonts and chalicotheres, and the hardships they endure as the drought drags on.