Battle for Territory Survival in a Shrinking Forest DOCUMENTARY

is an ultimate island: Nowhere else on earth exist so many weird animals at one place. For millions of years, this island lay isolated in the Indian Ocean. Far from the main continents a unique flora and fauna could evolve here. Like the lemurs, a group of prosimians that only live on Madagascar. There are about 100 known species of them – the largest is the Indri. Its home is the rainforest on Madagascars eastern side. The first episode “Forest of the Indri” shows the dramatic situation of an Indri-mother and her baby. Her small territory is taken over by another female. A true dilemma for the mother: She either drives the stranger away or lets her join and risks the life of her young. Because the space for her and her baby is getting smaller and smaller it is unsure, if the forest can provide for them all

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