72 Dangerous Animals: Latin America

This series is everything but educational with occasionally even misleading or wrong information

It's a primitive representation of these wonderful animals, they even devalue them as creatures and killers, with an aggressively speaking host and even more aggressive music the whole series through!

If you want to scare your children, please show them this dreadful nonsense

I've learned a lot about wildlife in other areas of the world. I don't always agree with their rankings, but the rankings aren't the point. The point is just seeing the different wildlife in the area and getting a snippet of that specific animal or insect in under an hour (seems most episodes are in the upper 40 minute range).

Looking at other reviews on this I'd have to say that maybe animal activists shouldn't watch this type of program, or basically any nature documentary on Discovery, Animal Planet, etc., as none of them are really designed to your agenda. I applaud the program for simply telling why people should stay away from dangerous animals. But I would like to point out that there have been several examples in the series where they play advocate to animal rights causes and discuss abuse or endangered aspects of animals. I'd also point out that no one on the series advocates harming any of the animals, even those who have been attacked.

Really didn't intend on watching 12 episodes of this, but I did. It is quite interesting as, for most of us, we see killers not in our everyday world. I say most because there ia couple that will be fairly close by to those not living in Latin America. Most, however, are indigenous to areas south of the equator..

The program is not what I'd call a documentary series. It is done in a style that is what I call educational entertainment, possibly with a hope that science classes will use it as well. It is obviously edited for cable TV and has recaps which actually serve to underscore the top 10 killers. By the time one goes through the series this will mean you might just remember these killers due to the recaps and the final episode's review of the worst of the worst.

If you are intrigued by some of the darker critters lurking on our earth this series will give you insights to several different continents most deadly animals. It will do so using knowledgeable talking heads and sometimes introducing us to surviving victims. The overall presentation is done with a degree of entertainment using it's methods of introduction and danger level countdowns per episode wrapping all episodes up in a final countdown. I found it quite worth the time needed to watch. I think if you're curious about the topic you will too.

Fairly decent but there is a certain amount of sensationalism to this show. Like putting so much emphasis on vampire bats which honestly aren't too big a threat. You can interact with those bats and not be bitten. And the claim that Chagas Disease isn't curable is wrong too.

I totally agree with the low raters. It's a pity, they couldn't make a real documentary about these beautiful, wonderful animals.

The original host as well as the german one speak like they would host a horror show or the like. It just sounds ridiculous. And the aggressive music throughout the whole show makes it worst.

On top of it there's barely useful information.