Photographed and directed by Robin Lehman

In the heat of an African dawn, the animals, birds and insects start their daily ritual of life and death.

A gaudily-coloured chameleon stalks its prey-a grasshopper. A hippo wallows in a mud-bath. A battalion of ants attack and devour a fiddler crab. Lion cubs play while a pair of cheetahs hunt for food and a maribou stork duels with a scorpion.

This brilliantly-photographed film has just won the 1976 Academy Award for the Best Short Documentary.