消失的巨獸

消失的巨獸（Monsters We Met）是一個由BBC製作，於2003年在動物星球頻道首播的紀錄片（在動物星球播出時以Land of Lost Monsters為片名）。紀錄片中也包括來自同樣由BBC製作的與古獸同行、與遠古人同行片段。節目透過電腦成像還原最後一次冰河期的巨型動物群生態，並描述早期人類與牠們的遭遇，也將人類描述為這些巨型動物的滅絕主因。

## 分集

### 第一集：永恆的邊境（北美加拿大，1萬1千年前）

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 克里斯多福·哥倫布, 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.

註：此集中的大部分動物模型來自BBC的另一部紀錄片野性新世界。

- 真猛獁象
- 美洲擬獅
- 似劍齒虎
- 斯劍虎
- 副磨齒獸
- 擬駝
- 巨型短面熊
- 美洲乳齒象
- 西伯利亞野牛
- 哈格曼馬
- 北美獵豹
- 狼
- 美洲野牛
- 野馬
- 馬
- 安地斯神鷹
- 棕熊
- 麝牛
- 馴鹿
- 高鼻羚羊
- 加州神鷲
- 白大角羊
- 烏鴉
- 白頭海鵰
- 貂熊
- 白靴兔
- 白尾鹿
- 雪鴞
- 紅鮭

### 第二集：燃燒（澳洲，6萬5千年前）

本集展示的是澳洲史前史。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.

- 牛頓巨鳥
- 雙門齒獸
- 古巨蜥
- 灣鱷
- 紅大袋鼠
- 鴯鶓
- 眼斑巨蜥
- 傘蜥蜴
- 棕樹鳳頭鸚鵡
- 擬眼鏡蛇
- 編織蟻

### 第三集：告別伊甸園（紐西蘭，約公元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 復活節島 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.

註：此集中的許多畫面來自先前的兩部紀錄片與獸同行和野性新世界。

- 恐鳥
- 哈斯特鷹
- 寬吻海豚
- 抹香鯨
- 紐西蘭海獅
- 鷗
- 紅尾黑鳳頭鸚鵡
- 斯島黃眉企鵝
- 鴞鸚鵡
- 長鬚無翅大蝗
- 北島褐奇異鳥
- 喙頭蜥
- 玻里尼西亞鼠
- 犬
- 蘇門答臘犀牛
- 大家鼠

## 相關紀錄片

- 古世界
- 恐龍星球
- 恐龍紀元

「消失的巨獸」是BBC系列紀錄片的一部分，其中還包括:

- 與恐龍共舞（1999年）
- 與野獸共舞（2001年），描繪恐龍之後的生命。
- 與遠古人共舞 (2003)
- 與巨獸共舞（2005年），描繪恐龍之前的生命。

下面是「與…同行」系列:

- 「異特龍之謎」 (2000)
- 「與恐龍共舞特別篇」 (2002)
- 海底霸王（2003年）

與之內容類似的紀錄片，也是由BBC出品：

- 野性新世界（2002年）

## 外部連結

- BBC official website
- Animal Planets Official website

## 基本資料

- 系列：Monsters We Met、消失的巨獸
- 類型：紀錄片
- 旁白：伊恩·霍爾姆
- 國家：英國
- 頻道：動物星球頻道
- 季數：1
- 集數：3