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starring: National Geographic
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304438121
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304438125
Label: Nat'l Geographic Vid
Manufacturer: Nat'l Geographic Vid
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Nat'l Geographic Vid
Release Date: May 13, 1997
Running Time: 60 minutes
Sales Rank: 18399
Studio: Nat'l Geographic Vid
Theatrical Release Date: 1997
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Description:
Predator versus prey in a deadly battle on the African plains. Leopard and warthog: Two unlikely creatures linked by fate on the African savanna. One is predator, the other, prey. This intimate film presents remarkable close-up footage of the leopard, perhaps the wildest of the great cats and its odd-looking neighbor, the warthog. Their parallel lives include age-old scenes of mating, birth, and raising young. But when these lives intersect, the outcome is always the same: The formidable leopard outranks the warthog on the food chain. The night is full of other killers on the African plains. Leopard and warthog are just players of an ongoing struggle to survive, played out at the Mala Mala Game Reserve in South Africa. One of nature's most magnificent natural settings sets the stage for the many dramas in BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS: A LEOPARD'S STORY.
Amazon.com:
The parallel stories of a mama leopard and her two cubs and a mother warthog and her brood are tracked in this 60-minute video safari in the Mala Mala Game Preserve in South Africa's Kruger National Park. It's a story of predator versus prey, 'lethal beauty' versus 'the most astonishing object to ever disgrace nature,' according to Academy Award-winning actor James Coburn's rugged narration. (Of course, a generation of kids have grown up with the lovable Pumbaa as their warthog role model, thanks to The Lion King. At the risk of spoiling the ending, parents can rest assured that, oddly, the warthogs all survive.) Cackling hyenas and marauding lions enter the fray and prove as dangerous to the mother leopard as she is to the warthog family. Viewers are not spared the brutality of this truly wild life, and so there are several vivid death scenes. Incongruously, one of them is probably the video's most breathtaking sequence, in which one of the leopard cubs grown up attacks an impala and the two cleave together spiraling through the air in a doomed dance. --Kimberly Heinrichs
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A wild animal lover
When I watched this movie the first time was in my daughter's place in Sandpoint ID, I love it so much end up watch it over and over again and buy several of them as gifts for friends, the love and passion in wild world truly touch my heart, the suvivorship in wild animal kingdom make me cry.
Truly a beautiful female Leopard story everyone will enjoy it.
Rating: - Great Wildlife Film!
This is an excellent wildlife documentary, which offers great footage and great story about two different neighbors of South African bush, a leopard and a warthog. We see a leopard cub growing up in a difficult environment with many challenges to a young carnivore. Different challenges are imposed on a brood of young warthogs, which proves to be survivors in a dangerous place. The documentary is full of exceptional footage, which portrays every-day drama facing young leopard and warthogs. We see ... Read More
Rating: - Wildlife Thriller!
This was an excellent movie. You become very involved with the lives of the family of leopards and the family of warthogs. This is a very exciting video but not for the faint of heart! If you love African wildlife this is a must see! I only wish I saw action like this while I was at Mala Mala reserve. It must have taken them round the clock vigils to capture this enthralling footage! I give it 2 paws up!
Rating: - Excellent video!
Wow! Ever seen a male lion scale a tree to steal the just-killed impala from a leopard? It's here. Ever seen two male lions attack, kill, and eat a maimed, full-grown lioness? It's here too. Ever seen warthogs start munching on a dead wildebeest? Also here. This is Africa "in the raw." Exhilirating.
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