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National Geographic's Beauty and the Beasts: A Leopard's Story [VHS]

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Wow! Ever seen a male lion scale a tree to steal the just-killed impala from a leopard? It's here. Ever seen two male lions attack, kill, and eat a maimed, full-grown lioness? It's here too. Ever seen warthogs start munching on a dead wildebeest? Also here. This is Africa "in the raw." Exhilirating.

This is an excellent wildlife documentary, which offers great footage and great story about two different neighbors of South African bush, a leopard and a warthog. We see a leopard cub growing up in a difficult environment with many challenges to a young carnivore. Different challenges are imposed on a brood of young warthogs, which proves to be survivors in a dangerous place. The documentary is full of exceptional footage, which portrays every-day drama facing young leopard and warthogs. We see leopards being harassed by lions and hyenas, warthogs escaping predators and surviving the flood in their burrow. There are great moments and thrill of a leopard hunt, unique footage of lions climbing trees in the effort to get leopard's kill as well as a great escape footage of a warthog. Many episodes are shot at night, an active time for leopards. The drama of predator and prey envelops right in front of our eyes. The leopards are portrayed not only as predators but also as prey to lions and hyenas. The warthogs are portrayed as tough survivors in this harsh place. Great documentary!

When I watched this movie the first time was in my daughter's place in Sandpoint ID, I love it so much end up watch it over and over again and buy several of them as gifts for friends, the love and passion in wild world truly touch my heart, the suvivorship in wild animal kingdom make me cry.

Truly a beautiful female Leopard story everyone will enjoy it.

This was an excellent movie. You become very involved with the lives of the family of leopards and the family of warthogs. This is a very exciting video but not for the faint of heart! If you love African wildlife this is a must see! I only wish I saw action like this while I was at Mala Mala reserve. It must have taken them round the clock vigils to capture this enthralling footage! I give it 2 paws up!

Beauty and the Beasts is a must have for any nature enthusiasts collection. The Leopard is one of my most favorite big cats, I like the solitary lifestyle that the Leopard lives. I also like the unique coloration of the Leopards fur pattern. This movie is about a Leopard cub that grows up with his mother, and then becomes an adult that fends for himself. This documentary has very good footage as well.

Beauty and the Beasts is about a wart hog family, that grows up in the nearby vicinity, along sides the Leopard family that never cross paths until one night. The wart hog mother sends a rejection notice, to her grown piglets in the middle of the night, to go out into the world to fend for themselves, and they must find shelter in the African night, to avoid all kinds of hungry predators.

And that's where the Beauty encounters the Beast, the wart hog squeals like a rat caught in a rat trap, when the Leopard first attacks the wart hog to eat it. Along comes a young Hyena to compete, and fight with the Leopard for the right to eat the wart hog. The narration is excellently done by the departed James Coburn, star of the 1960's movies; Are Man Flint, and In like Flint. This documentary can be found on VHS, and DVD, but not on Blue-ray, but can be up-converted to look even better if put it into your Blue-ray player. I purchased this movie on VHS, before Blue-ray became a reality, and was some-what satisfied then. Now it can look even better with higher definition through up-conversion. Even I'm in the market to repurchase this documentary on DVD, VHS is not the way to go today.