Natural History and Wildlife

Once Upon a Time in Tsavo

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In arid regions across Africa, a remarkable relationship between elephants and termites creates a waterhole – a green oasis which is central to every animal’s life.

This story follows an extraordinary community of creatures, that call the waterhole ‘home’ over a season in their lives. They range from a family of elephants to a pair of hornbills (aka ‘Zazu’ of The Lion King) alongside dung-beetles, chameleons, bullfrogs, geese and killifish. Their Tsavo waterhole home exists for just a few months each year. One moment it’s a dusty depression in a parched landscape, the next a bustling oasis.

The elephant family provides the background. They are the ‘architects’ and heavy lifters, but the intriguing narrative centres on the characters that live alongside them – at elephant toe-nail height. The behaviours and interactions are new and exciting, many have never been filmed before and some even new to science...

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Programme Details

DURATION
1 x 60' / 2 x 60'
BROADCASTERS
Servus TV
WNET
NHK
AVAILABLE IN
4K / HD
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE
English