消失的巨兽

消失的巨兽（Monsters We Met）是一个由BBC制作，于2003年在动物星球频道首播的纪录片（在动物星球播出时以Land of Lost Monsters为片名）。纪录片中也包括来自同样由BBC制作的与古兽同行、Walking with Cavemen片段。节目透过电脑成像还原最后一次冰河期的巨型动物群生态，并描述早期人类与牠们的遭遇，也将人类描述为这些巨型动物的灭绝主因。

**分集**

**第一集：永恒的边境（北美加拿大，1万1千年前）**
It starts with animals living during the Ice Age. It also shows how humans became top predators and started hunting mammoths on the continent with deadly spears. We also had to compete with other predators like the Short-faced Bear and the Saber-toothed cats. We destroyed them by depleting their food supply, and making them starve to death. Later after realizing what they done to the great beast's demise they hunted not all the time and then there were no more extinctions in the Americas. That wasn't until pioneers from Europe like 克里斯托弗·哥伦布, several 征服者 and lots of horses were brought by the Conquistadors arrived in North America. Howevever horses are returning to the land of which they evolved in. Also inventing the gun, which in North America, was used primarily for hunting big game animals like the bison. By 1893 only 500 wild buffalo remained, marking the end of the megafauna in the Americas.
注：此集中的大部分动物模型来自BBC的另一部纪录片Wild New World。- 真猛犸象- 美洲拟狮- 似剑齿虎- 斯剑虎- 副磨齿兽- 拟驼- 巨型短面熊- 美洲乳齿象- 西伯利亚野牛- Hagerman Horse- 北美猎豹- 狼- 美洲野牛- 野马- 马- 安地斯神鹰- 棕熊- 麝牛- 驯鹿- 高鼻羚羊- 加州神鹫- 白大角羊- 乌鸦- 白头海雕- 貂熊- 白靴兔- 白尾鹿- 雪鸮- 红鲑

**第二集：燃烧（澳洲，6万5千年前）**
本集展示的是人类是怎样进入澳洲。 We also hunted the native wildlife. We encountered the huge birds and the giant lizard, megalania. The reptiles kill two humans and they plan on burning the fields and vined forests to kill the giant lizard and other beasts to extinction. We then start to colonize other lands in the New World. While after burning the forests
most of the animal species survived the forest fires, also this changed the habitat of Australia as it is today. Marsupials, small lizards, birds and other animals are doing well than their counterparts who all died in the fire.
*牛顿巨鸟
*双门齿兽
*古巨蜥
*湾鳄
*红大袋鼠
*鸸鹋
*眼斑巨蜥
*伞蜥蜴
*棕树凤头鹦鹉
*拟眼镜蛇
*编织蚁

**第三集：告别伊甸园（新西兰，约公元1280年）**
It starts with humans populating New Zealand. We encounter the giant moa. We start to see it was harmless. We then discover Haast's eagle, which hunts moas and starts to target us. We then start to steal the moa's giant eggs and go after the adults for food. We then realize we brought a huge amount of animals to extinction. The program has a part with footage of most of the animals shown in the series and starts to ask the question that if we can't live with these monsters, are we not monsters ourselves. The program then ends on 复活节岛 about the aftermath of New Zealand's old world with the giant birds gone and forests as so did the early settlers of New Zealand.
注：此集中的许多画面来自先前的两部纪录片与兽同行和Wild New World。
*恐鸟
*哈斯特鹰
*宽吻海豚
*抹香鲸
*新西兰海狮
*鸥
*红尾黑凤头鹦鹉
*斯岛黄眉企鹅
*鸮鹦鹉
*Weta
*北岛褐奇异鸟
*喙头蜥
*波利尼西亚鼠
*犬
*苏门答腊犀牛
*大家鼠

**相关纪录片**
Paleoworld
*Dinosaur Planet (TV series)
*恐龙纪元
“消失的巨兽”是BBC系列纪录片的一部分，其中还包括:
*与恐龙共舞（1999年）
*与野兽共舞（2001年），描绘恐龙之后的生命。
*Walking with Cavemen (2003)
*与巨兽共舞（2005年），描绘恐龙之前的生命。
下面是“与…同行”系列:
*The Ballad of Big Al (2000)
*Chased By Dinosaurs (2002)
*海底霸王（2003年）
与之内容类似的纪录片，也是由BBC出品：
*Wild New World（2002年）

**外部链接**
  BBC official website date=20030618075537 -  Animal Planets Official website date=20040612223320