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The Secret Lives of Big Cats

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2020
  • 3h 52m
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The Secret Lives of Big Cats (2020)
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Big cat populations are shrinking fast, but now we have the means to view them in more detail than ever.Big cat populations are shrinking fast, but now we have the means to view them in more detail than ever.Big cat populations are shrinking fast, but now we have the means to view them in more detail than ever.

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    Beautiful images, but...

    Beautifully filmed and tastefully edited sequences combined with informative comments about the biology and environmental context of this mighty cat. The technical tools deployed to get these images are top notch toys that delivered thanks to the patience and dedication of the filmmakers.

    Not a single tiger strike on a prey was actually captured at night, but overall, it's a delight to watch this hypnotic documentary from beginning to end.

    The only problem all along was for me, non-native English speaker, to fully understand the narrator, whose pronunciation, combined with poor sound mixing at time, was unfortunately not crisp enough to make it always intelligible over the background music or soundtrack.
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    Right up my alley as a huge fan of big cats...can't wait to see more.

    There can never be enough footage of big cats, in my opinion. This nature series focuses on capturing big cats in the wild and where it excels is in some rare footage using both moonlight and infrared cameras. The new technology does not mean that the camera crew wasn't met with challenges of their own, from large territories to tremendous speed to just sheer elusiveness, the big cats are always a challenge to capture in the wild. It was interesting to see how the industry of tourism and interaction with regular humans are impacting what we are now able to see and observe in the wild. The cats captured are tigers, snow leopards, lions, leopards, pumas, jaguars, and cheetahs.

    The series may be light on the science, focusing more on certain hunting techniques while ignoring others. There is some never before seen footage that make the series completely worthwhile, for example Jaguars hunting sea turtles on a Costa Rican beach, a death defying plummet of a snow leopard with an ibex for prey, seven pumas sharing a kill, the inner city antics of leopards in Mumbai, and a night time hunting technique by a pride of lions involving a chaser and multiple catchers.

    If you are a big cat fan like me, this series is not to be missed...so what if the narrator has difficulty pronouncing Montana. :)

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      • May 6, 2020 (United States)
    • Country of origin
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