Amazing Animals - Animal Journeys [VHS]
Mice who elude snakes by crawling through cactus. Fish that can live on land for days. Gnus that travel in packs of up to a million strong. These are some of the intriguing tidbits in this engrossing video that lives up to its billing. It is an "amazing journey" that not only explains why animals travel--for food, water and to have babies--but it's practically a video-ized Trivial Pursuit game that dispenses a trove of intriguing "I never knew that" facts. The dangers of animal travel bring suspense to the story; pythons swallow bats whole and crocodiles stalk the wildebeest, or gnu, at water's edge. The wonder of the rhythm of nature is everywhere, from mommy green turtles who are driven to lay eggs on the very beaches they were born to daddy sand grouses who wallow in water to carry it back to drip on their young.--Valerie J. Nelson