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The Living Edens - Denali: Alaska's Great Wilderness [VHS]

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This video looks at Denali wildlife through four seasons, primarily focusing on how the animals struggle to adapt to extraordinarily difficult weather conditions, seasonally limited food supply, predators, and an annual brief period of voracious insect life at Denali National Park in Alaska. It illustrates the balance of nature vividly. I cannot imagine how the videographers themselves endured these severe conditions to obtain some of the incredible footage found in this tape. I have visited Denali in the summer and found this tape, which also looks at the other three seasons when Denali is largely devoid of human visitors, fascinating. Be warned that there is some animal-death footage (a moose calf is stalked and killed by wolves); I mention that only because some people don't want to see that kind of thing. Animal death occupies a very small part of the tape, however, and to omit it altogether would not do justice to a story about a place where animal lifespans are naturally short. There are very few "signs of man" in this video (no narrators strolling through the bush on camera). You get the feeling that you are there observing nature, alone.

A very up close and personal look at the seasonal struggles of moose, grizzlies, wolves and other animals in Alaska. I highly reccomend this whole "Living Edens" series, but especially this film. Narrated by Peter Coyote, 1 hour long.