Even drinking can be a dangerous activity for wildebeest, when a hungry crocodile is ready to attack.
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Trek: Spy On The Wildebeest
The famous spy-cams turn their attention to nature's most awe-inspiring event - the great wildebeest migration. Trek features a cast of literally thousands, as countless wildebeest, zebra and antelope are joined by the hyena, leopard, jackal, cheetah and crocodile that prey on them. To personalise this story, remote cameras follow the fortunes of a baby wildebeest and a young zebra. Each has a very different story to tell. From their perspective, viewers experience all the significant events of the 3000 kilometre year-long circular journey. This epic story combines natural humour with high-octane drama. But the bouldercams, dungcams and invisiblecams of past productions have grown into an army of over twenty mobile and remote cameras, giving saturation coverage.
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[Music] if undisturbed wildebeest can drink eight liters in a single session as his confidence builds he is oblivious to what lurks beneath the surface [Applause] [Music] the herd is bewildered some have never seen a crocodile before [Music] even as the full horror unfurls there is great confusion about just what is going on and that was just the first attack 300 hungry crocodiles live in the grumeti river wildebeest react differently to crocodiles and other predators even the adults seem unsure
of just how much danger they're in the cast's desire to quench his thirst overcomes any fear he may have the crocodiles maneuver around them with surprising ease they are intelligent hunters plotting their attack with precision a strike can happen at any time [Applause] despite the carnage the mother and calf survive they stampede back onto the plains for the baboons it's more like a spectator sport they might as well settle down a single croc can take some time to overpower its victim but croc
odiles are cooperative fields they work together the death roll breaks the prey into bite-sized chunks but aggression can spill over you
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