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Lying just off the coast of Africa, Madagascar is a land of misty mountains, tropical rainforests and spiny desert scrub - and home to strange wildlife, most of which is found nowhere else on earth. Madagascar explores this extraordinary wildlife and the dramatic landscapes of one of the world's most bizarre islands. Using the latest in filming technology, the BBC's Natural History Unit captures the diverse and rare wildlife that inhabits this incredible land, some filmed for the first time, and features surprising stories of the favourite and enduring symbol of the island, lemurs, as well as less familiar creatures. There are frogs that turn from brown to bright yellow; wasps that pluck tadpoles from tree-nests; fish that swim upside down and the romantic life of the world's tiniest chameleon. Narrated by David Attenborough, Madagascar is the BBC's ambitious and intimate portrait of a fascinating but perilously fragile island. (2 Entertain Video)
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Madagascar, the fourth largest island on our planet with unique flora and fauna where you won’t find about eighty percent of the species there anywhere else on the Earth. It’s a goldmine for any documentary and especially for David Attenborough and the BBC. It has one drawback; since it is only three episodes long, it never lingers over anything which, in view of how interesting everything filmed/said here, is a crying shame (this applies mainly for the episode Lost Worlds). Otherwise we get everything we are used to from BBC nature documentaries - breathtaking high definition, unique shots, diaries about the pitfalls of filming (which again are no less interesting that the “main feature") and... And I’m sure you’ve seen them before; the format has been the same for years. And it still works and amazes like nothing else, because I think it must be impossible to get tired of them.
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