A series of films from all over the world about our astonishing planet and the creatures that live on it.

The wildlife of Trinidad is as colourful and exciting as the calypso island itself. The Swedish film-maker Jan Lindblad spent over a year there filming quaint, gorgeous, and sinister creatures.

As well as the exotically plum-aged birds of the dense rain forest of the north, there are such attractive arboreal creatures as the tree porcupine and the silky ant eater. Danger threatens from the monsters in the marshes, the giant anacondas that lurk in the pools waiting to grab a victim and pull it-or him-underwater to drown. For light relief there are the fiddler crabs, dementedly waving their huge claws.

A great variety of birds breed in enormous colonies in the mangrove swamps. All are beautiful but none is as spectacular as the scarlet ibis, which, with its flame-coloured plumage, must rank as one of the seven wonders of the bird world.
Poachers after their feathers drove them out of haunts on the coasts of South America, and even in this refuge, the Trinidad Caroni swamp, they are not safe from the hunters' guns.
From the South and West
(Colour)