The Big Five of Asia

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"Big Five Asien" in its original german version, is a production of the german-french TV channel "arte". It contains 5 episodes including tigers, asian lions, rhinos, elephants and komodo dragons. Dont know which criteria were considered to call komodo monitors and asian lions (i would've prefered Gaur, saltwater crocodiles or even kamchatka brown bears) as part of asias big five, but its nonethless a fine production with stunning footage! To be honest, i liked the episode of komodo lizards the most, even a bit more than the one about amur tigers^^

Unfortunately, i couldnt found english dubbed versions and even english subtitles are scarce. Anyway, there is a lot of awesome footage to watch! However, list of the episodes with english titles can be found here: https://www.globalscreen.de/television.d...how/686175

And some youtube links of the original versions:

amur tiger - english subs available (even if its only automatically generated crap version)

komodo dragons - ger dub

Asian Rhinos - ger dub

Asian elephants - ger dub

Gir lions - english sub (automatically generated)

Some interesting (and funny) information according to the narration:

- Even amur tigers drag their kill to safe places
- Harsh conditions in the russian far east also have some inconspicuous advantages: snow keeps the meat fresh!
- some amur tigers seem to be man haters (not eaters) - they destroy camera traps and other human related material... they like to keep the environment clean, i guess haha
- komodo dragons are sometimes in disput with wild boars over carcasses - with latters dominating in lenghty confrontations
- the episode about rhinos also contains video material about the rare javan rhinos, but mostly plays in kaziranga
- episode about elephants shows a wandering elephant herd in borneo
- Gir lions don't live in prides like their african counterparts (due to prey size/environment), but still form small sex related hunting coalitions
- Adult sambars are ideal prey for 3-4 lions Reply