This Monday, April 22nd, Celebrate Earth Day with Nat Geo’s Hostile Planet Ep 4: Jungles!
Watch part four of the six-part series, on April 22 titled JUNGLES which spotlights the fiercest jungle species both obvious and unassuming, including jaguars, caimans, lars gibbons, orangutans, spectral tarsiers, and hummingbirds, among others. Given the rise of deforestation and increasingly unpredictable rains in our jungles, survival of the fittest amid this crowded and competitive world has never been more apparent in our jungles.
In celebration of Earth Day ?, thought you might be interested in also running a HOSTILE PLANET clip showing one of our most spectacular species: spectral tarsiers. Did you know nocturnal spectral tarsiers’ eyes are bigger than their brains?
Watch these tiny primates play their roles of both predator and prey
Hostile Planet airs Mondays at 9/8c on National Geographic
About Hostile Planet
Hostile Planet is a six-part series from executive producer and Academy Award-winning cinematographer and director Guillermo Navarro (“Pan’s Labyrinth”), Emmy Award-nominated producer Martha Holmes (“The Blue Planet”) and Emmy Award-winning Tom Hugh-Jones (“Planet Earth II”), draws attention to the most extraordinary — almost supernatural — accounts of animals that have adapted to the cruelest evolutionary curveballs. Hosted by survivalist and adventurer Bear Grylls, Hostile Planet zooms in on the world’s most extreme environments to reveal the animal kingdom’s most epic stories of survival on this fast and continuously changing planet. This is a drama told in an intimate manner with innovative camera technology and a lens that captures several first-ever behaviors. Each titular episode spotlights a unique environment – mountains, oceans, grasslands, jungles, deserts and polar – to navigate the brutal conditions endured by some of the most complex, unrelenting and awe-inspiring species on the planet. Facing an overwhelming host of challenges including punishing weather, an intense competition for resources and a constant predator-vs.-prey conflict, each animal’s mission is simple: adapt or die.
