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Western chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes verus
CR
Taï Forest National Park, Ivory Coast
Only a handful of chimpanzee communities have mastered tool use, and this troop is one of them. The elders know where to find the most nutritious food and how to extract it; for example using a stone to crack a nut. A five-year-old female chimp observes her mother do so and attempts to try for herself but struggled to identify the right type of tool. One thing she does know however, is how to strip a branch down to size and use it as a spoon to access parts of the inside of the nut that her fingers can't reach.
The location is inferred from the credits.
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Big-mouth hap
Tyrannochromis macrostoma
LC
Lake Malawi, Malawi
Like other mouth-brooding cichlids, a female big-mouth hap will allow her fry to enter her mouth, as a sort of mobile nursery, in order to keep them safe. When the coast is clear, she releases them.
For the longest time, I was led astray by a BBC article putting this entire sequence at Lake Tanganyika [1]. Then, I was informed by member on a Fish ID Facebook group that this is very likely a cichlid of the genus Tyrannochromis endemic to Lake Malawi. Note that the rocks shown with the mouthbrooding cichlid match those of Lake Malawi [2]. Indeed there is more evidence online that scenes of cichlids were filmed in Lake Malawi [3]. According to Cichlid forum species profile, T. macrostoma "differs slightly from T. nigriventer in that the bulge on its snout is closer to the eye than the snout, whereas in T. nigriventer, this bulge is at the midpoint." at a push I'd say the only discernable bulge on the female shown is closer to her eye, so I believe this is T. macrostoma.
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Cichlid
Simochromis diagramma
LC
2
Cuckoo catfish
Synodontis multipunctatus
LC
Lake Tanganyika,
3
Southeast African cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus jubatus
VU
Maasai Mara, Kenya
The location is inferred from the credits.
3
Topi
Damaliscus lunatus jimela
VU
Maasai Mara, Kenya
The location is inferred from the credits.
3
Grant's zebra
Equus quagga boehmi
NT
Maasai Mara, Kenya
The location is inferred from the credits. Species identified with Zebra ID reference guide [1]
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Thornicroft's giraffe
Giraffa tippelskirchi thornicrofti
VU
South Luangwa National Park, Zambia
According a production still caption, this was shot in Luangwa, Zambia: "The red-billed oxpecker finds food from an unusual source - a hippopotamus. The aggressive nature of hippos means cuts are common - giving an opportunistic oxpecker the chance to pick t its wounds for food. Luangwa, Zambia." [1]. Species identified with Giraffe ID reference guide [2]
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Red-billed oxpecker
Buphagus erythrorynchus
LC
South Luangwa National Park, Zambia
4
Cape hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius capensis
VU
South Luangwa National Park, Zambia
5
Brown hyena
Parahyaena brunnea
NT
Skeleton Coast, Namib Desert, Namibia
5
Cape fur seal
Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus
LC
Skeleton Coast, Namib Desert, Namibia
5
Cape black-backed jackal
Lupulella mesomelas mesomelas
LC
Skeleton Coast, Namib Desert, Namibia
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Ground pangolin
Smutsia temminckii
VU
Kalahari, Northern Cape, South Africa
An ant-eating chat (Myrmecocichla formicivora) is also shown observing where the pangolin has been digging in order to pick up some ants for itself.
6
Ant sp.
- ?
Kalahari, Northern Cape, South Africa
6
Aardvark
Orycteropus afer
LC
Kalahari, Northern Cape, South Africa
6
Termite sp.
- ?
Kalahari, Northern Cape, South Africa
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African bush elephant
Loxodonta africana
EN
Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe
Also shown are a troop of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus griseipes), which are presented as benefitting from the bull elephants' efforts to pull down or shake out the most protein-rich pods growing at the tops of the Apple-ring acacias.
8
Southern white rhinoceros
Ceratotherium simum simum
NT
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya
The first two individual animals on screen must be Southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum), given that the two last remaining indviduals of the Northern subspecies shown later are have distinct horn shapes.
8
Northern white rhinoceros
Ceratotherium simum cottoni
CR
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya
9
Mountain gorilla
Gorilla beringei beringei
EN
Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Western lowland gorilla
Gorilla gorilla gorilla
CR
Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Republic of the Congo
Footage was filmed of lowland gorillas and forest elephants but the shoot was cut short due to the threat of poachers in the area, as detailed in the behind-the-scenes segment. Location is the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, according to field crew member Julie Monière: "In 2017, I spent 4 weeks in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park filming Gorillas." [1]
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African forest elephant
Loxodonta cyclotis
CR
Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Republic of the Congo