Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: DK VIDEO
• VHS Release Date: October 1, 1997
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• ASIN: 0789421623
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #287,189 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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In this installment of Dorling Kindersley's Amazing Animals series, Henry the animated lizard must run for his life to escape the birds of prey. These birds, though beautiful, are hunters who must kill to eat. Their eyes can spot a target up to a mile away, and they are experts at flying who can dive at over 100 miles per hour. Vultures can soar for hours, and one has even been known to collide with an airplane at 37,000 feet. While it discusses birds of all sizes, this 24-minute video pays special attention to the vultures, who can pick an antelope clean in 20 minutes.

So-called garbage men, vultures are believed to eat as much meat as all mammalian meat eaters of the savanna combined. In one scene, a vulture who has eaten too much hops along the ground trying in vain to take flight. We also watch in gruesome fascination as several hundred vultures swoop down on a carcass. For this reason, Birds of Prey may be disturbing for younger viewers. --David Horiuchi

Product Description

Broadcast nationally on The Disney Channel, Amazing Animals has quickly won children's hearts around the nation. Featuring the lovable Henry the Lizard as the inquisitive object of the narrator's clever questions and insights, each is a riot of humor, live-action footage, animation and information. Children cannot help but have fun as they learn. #1 rated non-Disney program on The Disney Channel(tm) "Fun facts, folklore and animal behavior are rolled into one gorgeous-and entertaining-science lesson."-Publishers Weekly Disney Channel ratings increased 31% for the Amazing Animals broadcast time slot! Amazing Animals: Armored Animals reached #38 on Billboard's Video Retail Charts.