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Welcome to my Nightmares Of Nature! | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
I'm Naomi Wilkinson... | 0:00:07 | 0:00:09 | |
Oh, my goodness! | 0:00:09 | 0:00:10 | |
..and I'm coming face-to-face with | 0:00:10 | 0:00:12 | |
the nightmares of the animal world. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
Oh! | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
The ones that make your spine tingle... | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
Argh! | 0:00:19 | 0:00:20 | |
..your heart beat faster... | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
There it is, there it is! | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
..and your blood run cold. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
Are they truly terrifying? | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
Or is there a twist in the tail? | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
Come with me as I shine a light on wildlife's deepest, darkest secrets. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:40 | |
And see if you can guess which will be my Worst Nightmare. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
It's party time! | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
Because we are in...Rio de Janeiro! | 0:00:56 | 0:01:00 | |
One of the biggest... | 0:01:02 | 0:01:03 | |
..busiest... | 0:01:05 | 0:01:06 | |
..boldest cities | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
IN THE WORLD! | 0:01:10 | 0:01:11 | |
But don't be fooled, because, believe it or not, | 0:01:11 | 0:01:15 | |
we are also in the jungle. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:17 | |
No, not the urban jungle. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
The actual jungle! | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
Look! | 0:01:22 | 0:01:23 | |
Tucked into Brazil's south-east coast, | 0:01:23 | 0:01:27 | |
Rio is surrounded, | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
on one side by the sea | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
and on the other side by the rainforest. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
So, as the boundaries blur between jungle and city, | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
the six million people that live here | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
have learned to share their mighty metropolis | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
with some cheeky, | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
snappy, | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
nibbly | 0:01:49 | 0:01:50 | |
nightmares of nature. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
It seems nightmare encounters start in this city before your feet | 0:01:55 | 0:01:59 | |
even touch the ground. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
There's a big brute that is scaring pilots around here. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
Well, it's happening up there in the sky, | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
hence my binoculars. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:13 | |
I haven't become a secret avid plane spotter. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
No, today I am a loud, proud bird spotter, | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
because our culprit is a bird. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
A big, black beast of a bird. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
The American black vulture. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
Sounds like a nightmare! | 0:02:26 | 0:02:28 | |
These greedy guzzlers flock to the airport to feed on the soup | 0:02:28 | 0:02:33 | |
of floating rubbish that surrounds it. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
But I'm not here because of their questionable eating habits. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
They're a nightmare | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
because they often collide in mid-air with planes. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
It's called bird strike, | 0:02:45 | 0:02:47 | |
and it doesn't end well for bird or plane. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:50 | |
If the plane crashes, these strikes can be fatal to passengers. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:58 | |
But fear not, nervous flyers, | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
we all landed here just fine, because the airports have employed | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
some very special staff to tackle this big bird bother. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:16 | |
Meet Rio airport's anti-vulture dog squad. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
Athus! Athus is a bit naughty. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:25 | |
Athus just keeps running away. Come on, Athus! | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
Right, this is Athus and this is Othus. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
Can you believe I've come halfway around the world to Brazil | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
and the airport staff are from my homeland? | 0:03:33 | 0:03:35 | |
English pointers! | 0:03:35 | 0:03:36 | |
At least you will understand me, eh? | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
Hello. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:40 | |
Ready? Ready to go, boys? | 0:03:40 | 0:03:41 | |
I think they said, | 0:03:41 | 0:03:42 | |
"Yes, we're ready for a productive day, Naomi, let's do this!" | 0:03:42 | 0:03:46 | |
Taking me through their paces today is Milena. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
Athus and Othus' job is to stop vultures entering the airport. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
They've got their work cut out! | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
Everywhere and you look around here there are vultures. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
They're flying, sitting on lampposts - they are everywhere! | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
-How many are there here? -Too many! -Yes! | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
The dogs don't harm the vultures, they're simply sniffing out | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
anything that could attract them to the airport - | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
animal carcasses or nests of live birds, because, yes, | 0:04:14 | 0:04:19 | |
vultures eat chicks too. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
So where do the birds go from the birds' nests that they find? | 0:04:21 | 0:04:25 | |
We send them to a park. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:27 | |
-You release them somewhere else? -Yes. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:29 | |
-Out of the way of aeroplanes? -Yes. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
Have you found anything yet? | 0:04:33 | 0:04:35 | |
If they find a nest, what will they do? | 0:04:36 | 0:04:38 | |
-How will they show you that they found something? -They point. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:41 | |
-They point? Like that? -They point like that! | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
What, they pull a face? A dog point! | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
-Just there. -Yes. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:48 | |
I am determined to see these dogs in action, | 0:04:48 | 0:04:52 | |
so I'm going to set them a little test. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
Here I have a sock full of bird feathers. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
I'm going to hide it in the long grass | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
and we'll see if they can sniff it out and point to it. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
I've got the thumbs up. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:09 | |
Here come the dogs. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
Where is my sock full of feathers? | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
It's coming straight over here. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
Where is it? Where is it? Find it! | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
Oh, yeah, heading straight to the spot. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:22 | |
He's done it! | 0:05:25 | 0:05:26 | |
Well done, well done! | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
You did it, you did it! Fantastic. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
Just imagine how many more vultures would be circling | 0:05:31 | 0:05:35 | |
if this duo weren't around to stop them. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:37 | |
Hang on a minute! | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
Excuse me, where did you get this from? | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
I know where you got this from. Yes, I do. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
Thank you very much. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
"Can you spot your food from the air?" | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
Now, as we know, there are two sides to every story. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:56 | |
True, vultures can be lethal to planes, | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
but when things like this happen, | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
it's certain death for the bird. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
But if they don't risk their lives in this deadly airspace, | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
they will starve. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:10 | |
Vultures have to brave Rio's dangerous skies | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
to spot their grub from the air. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:16 | |
And now, so do I. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:20 | |
Somewhere beneath that fog, the crew have hidden a picnic. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:24 | |
My mission is to fly like a vulture and locate my lunch. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:29 | |
Thankfully, I've got a flying companion, | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
hang-glider Ruy. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
Oh, why's it raining and foggy? | 0:06:35 | 0:06:37 | |
It's probably better when you can't see! | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
Eventually, the weather clears just enough for us to... | 0:06:41 | 0:06:45 | |
run into the sky! | 0:06:45 | 0:06:47 | |
-Are we going now? -Yes. Look to the island. Don't jump. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:52 | |
One, two, three, run! Fast! Go, go! | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
Here we go, here we go! | 0:06:55 | 0:06:57 | |
Ah! Wow! oh, my goodness. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:00 | |
-How was it? -It was amazing! | 0:07:00 | 0:07:02 | |
What a view! | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
'Don't get distracted, Naomi, remember why you're here.' | 0:07:04 | 0:07:08 | |
Right, I've got to search for my food. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:11 | |
It's so high! | 0:07:11 | 0:07:12 | |
I'm going to have trouble spotting a bus from up here, | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
let alone a sandwich! | 0:07:15 | 0:07:17 | |
-Do you see vultures up here? -Sometimes, yes. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:19 | |
They are good friends. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:20 | |
-Look, look! -There is one! | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
Look, one way below us, flapping its wings. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
It's holding its wings out horizontally in flight. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:28 | |
Right behind us, can you see the vulture? | 0:07:28 | 0:07:31 | |
This speciation doesn't have a very good sense of smell, | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
which is unusual for vultures. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
The crafty carnivores will keep their eyes peeled | 0:07:36 | 0:07:39 | |
for other vultures, ones that do have a better sense of smell, | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
and follow them down to the grub. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
The trouble is, there are no other species around to help me. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
'With my stomach rumbling and my eyes fixed firmly on the ground, | 0:07:50 | 0:07:54 | |
'I'm starting to see how these brave birds | 0:07:54 | 0:07:57 | |
'might miss a looming aircraft.' | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
I wouldn't want to come face-to-face with the plane right now. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
Right, looking for my food, where is that picnic? | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
-I think it's there. -Is it down there? | 0:08:07 | 0:08:09 | |
'Thankfully, Ruy has the eyes of a vulture.' | 0:08:09 | 0:08:13 | |
We might be able to see our crew and the sandwich! | 0:08:13 | 0:08:17 | |
Ha-ha! | 0:08:20 | 0:08:22 | |
Whoo! | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
'Unlike many vultures, I've made it to the ground in one piece.' | 0:08:25 | 0:08:30 | |
-Yeah! -Ha-ha! | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
I'm shaking like a leaf! | 0:08:33 | 0:08:35 | |
After that massive surge of adrenaline, | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
I've worked up an appetite. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:40 | |
I have more than earned this picnic! | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
Ha-ha! Grub is up. I'm starving! | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
-Where's the food? ALL: -Sorry. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
Oh, what?! | 0:08:49 | 0:08:51 | |
Well, this sums it up, doesn't it? | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
Vultures risking collisions with aircraft | 0:08:53 | 0:08:56 | |
just to land to horrible scraps of leftovers. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
Being a vulture is definitely a nightmare, | 0:09:01 | 0:09:03 | |
but so is being a pilot, having to fly alongside them. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:08 | |
This double-barrel business means that the American black vulture | 0:09:08 | 0:09:12 | |
could easily scavenge the title of Rio's right royal nightmare. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:17 | |
To get to my next nightmare, we thought we'd travel | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
like the locals - you know, avoid the traffic, | 0:09:24 | 0:09:27 | |
make the most of the glorious Brazilian summer! | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
BELL DINGS | 0:09:35 | 0:09:36 | |
"Bring the sun cream," they said. "It's always sunny in Rio." | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
'Anyway...' | 0:09:41 | 0:09:43 | |
I'm hoping to find some famous local residents that apparently have | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
a huge appetite. I've been told to hold tight to my food | 0:09:47 | 0:09:50 | |
in this city, otherwise it might get nicked. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:52 | |
I've already gone hungry once today. I'm not doing that again. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:58 | |
I don't know about you, but I think we should ditch the bike, eh? | 0:09:58 | 0:10:02 | |
-Yeah. -Yeah? Yeah. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:04 | |
Oh. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:06 | |
'Back on two feet, it doesn't take us long for us to track down | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
'the food thieves.' | 0:10:12 | 0:10:14 | |
They're all on the roof. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:17 | |
Suddenly feeling very aware that I have bananas in my pocket. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:24 | |
As this vast city sprawled into the surrounding rainforest, | 0:10:27 | 0:10:30 | |
these marmoset and capuchin monkeys stood their ground. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:35 | |
Monkeys are renowned for causing mischief... | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
SHE SQUEALS | 0:10:39 | 0:10:40 | |
..boldly stealing from unsuspecting victims. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:44 | |
In the wild, they'll eat fruit, insects and small reptiles. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
In the city, these jungle jokers will have anything going. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:53 | |
They've got that perfect curl in their tail, | 0:10:56 | 0:10:58 | |
just like in the children's picture books. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
A very useful tail that they use as an extra limb, | 0:11:01 | 0:11:04 | |
help them with all their balancing and swinging. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:06 | |
'But these suburban swingers | 0:11:06 | 0:11:08 | |
'don't seem to be causing too much bother.' | 0:11:08 | 0:11:10 | |
They look quite sweet - quite fun having monkeys in your garden. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:14 | |
CLATTERING | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
'OK, I take that back.' | 0:11:18 | 0:11:20 | |
(What did they do?) | 0:11:21 | 0:11:23 | |
'Hmm. Not impressed. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:25 | |
'Um, anyone got the number of a good tiler in Rio?' | 0:11:26 | 0:11:30 | |
CLATTERING | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
'And it seems they're up to no good next door, too!' | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
Look at them all over the side of this building. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:39 | |
I can see them scheming, calculating, seeing if | 0:11:39 | 0:11:41 | |
they can figure out how to get in. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
There's like a whole family of them all together... | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
..just creating havoc! | 0:11:49 | 0:11:50 | |
SHE GASPS | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
I'm getting out of here. They're throwing things at me! | 0:11:55 | 0:11:58 | |
SHE GASPS | 0:11:58 | 0:12:00 | |
See?! | 0:12:00 | 0:12:01 | |
They're throwing the fruit from the trees at us... | 0:12:01 | 0:12:04 | |
with force, saying, "Go away." | 0:12:04 | 0:12:06 | |
Cheeky monkeys. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
'OK, OK, we get the message. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:12 | |
'We're off to see what the neighbours make of them. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:15 | |
'Right behind these houses is the jungle - | 0:12:17 | 0:12:19 | |
'the monkeys' natural home. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
'So local residents, like Lucas, have had to get used to | 0:12:22 | 0:12:26 | |
'brazen break-ins.' | 0:12:26 | 0:12:28 | |
They've actually been in your apartment? | 0:12:28 | 0:12:30 | |
Yes. Once. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:32 | |
-We left that small window... -Uh-oh. -..open. -Uh-oh. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:38 | |
My wife was working and when she got in at the end of the day, | 0:12:38 | 0:12:42 | |
she saw all the papayas, bananas, spread around here. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:47 | |
'He's also caught them in the act of raiding his neighbour's house.' | 0:12:47 | 0:12:50 | |
-Has it just come out the house with a banana? -Exactly. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:54 | |
-SHE GASPS -See how big he is. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:56 | |
Even the bars across the window don't stop them. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
-Smart, aren't they? -They are. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:02 | |
Next door lives Cecilia. As the building's manager, | 0:13:05 | 0:13:09 | |
she gets to hear all the stories. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
But to understand them, I'm going to need some help | 0:13:12 | 0:13:14 | |
from our top-notch translator, Roberta. | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
OK, so what is the best story you've heard? | 0:13:18 | 0:13:21 | |
SHE SPEAKS PORTUGUESE | 0:13:21 | 0:13:25 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:13:35 | 0:13:37 | |
I didn't understand a word of that, but that was | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
the best story I've ever heard. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:45 | |
So she said she had a very little dog | 0:13:45 | 0:13:47 | |
and her main nightmare was that they would enter | 0:13:47 | 0:13:51 | |
-and then just grab the dog... -Take the dog. -..and take the dog away. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:55 | |
And all the windows she would look at, there were monkeys around. | 0:13:56 | 0:14:00 | |
She's like, "What's going on? What's going on?" | 0:14:00 | 0:14:02 | |
So she shouted to one of them, "You're not coming in!" | 0:14:02 | 0:14:04 | |
And she left. When she came back, there was poo all over the place. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:08 | |
-Poo? -All over her clothes and... | 0:14:08 | 0:14:12 | |
So they're quite aggressive? | 0:14:12 | 0:14:14 | |
So does she think they are a nightmare, or does she love them? | 0:14:14 | 0:14:18 | |
SHE SPEAKS PORTUGUESE | 0:14:18 | 0:14:20 | |
She thinks they're a very serious problem. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:24 | |
As do many people. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:27 | |
Cheeky monkeys! | 0:14:27 | 0:14:29 | |
They're on the bed. This is serious business. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:33 | |
Monkeys in your kitchen sounds quite funny at first, | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
but after everything I've just heard, I would not | 0:14:35 | 0:14:38 | |
fancy coming home to primate pandemonium every day. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:41 | |
I think if they could get their hands on it, | 0:14:41 | 0:14:43 | |
these mischievous monkeys would probably steal | 0:14:43 | 0:14:45 | |
my Worst Nightmare trophy. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:47 | |
I know Rio is technically in the jungle, | 0:14:53 | 0:14:55 | |
but it's also a city, isn't it? And what I love about being in the city | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
is you don't have to deal with all that hardcore jungle stuff. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:01 | |
You know, worrying about stepping on a snake, | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
big spider falling on your head from the canopy, | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
big old insects... VOICE SPEEDS UP: ..buzzing around | 0:15:07 | 0:15:09 | |
your head all the time mosquito flying up your nose, | 0:15:09 | 0:15:11 | |
leeches landing on your leg, anything could be under | 0:15:11 | 0:15:13 | |
the toilet seat, it's always dark and there could be a snake... | 0:15:13 | 0:15:17 | |
I mean, it's not like you're going to get eaten by a crocodile | 0:15:17 | 0:15:19 | |
in the middle of the city. | 0:15:19 | 0:15:21 | |
What are you looking at? | 0:15:21 | 0:15:22 | |
Steve? Woohoo! | 0:15:22 | 0:15:23 | |
What are you looking at? | 0:15:23 | 0:15:25 | |
SHE GASPS | 0:15:27 | 0:15:28 | |
'So it turns out that this densely populated neighbourhood | 0:15:28 | 0:15:33 | |
'is home to 6,000 wild caiman. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
'They can grow to twice as long as I am tall, | 0:15:37 | 0:15:41 | |
'track down their prey with super sharp senses | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
'and their jaws are crammed full of over 70 razor-sharp fangs. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:50 | |
'In other words, they're definitely capable of doing damage | 0:15:51 | 0:15:55 | |
'to Rio's residents. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:56 | |
'Nightmare!' | 0:15:57 | 0:15:58 | |
They're everywhere. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:02 | |
Roberta, what are they doing here? | 0:16:02 | 0:16:04 | |
Well, they actually live here and they were here much before | 0:16:04 | 0:16:08 | |
all these people came to live here. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
So that's actually their natural habitat. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:14 | |
Basically what happens here is that people feed them with bread. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:17 | |
-That's a bit different to feeding the ducks, isn't it? -Yes! | 0:16:17 | 0:16:21 | |
Add a little bit of tension to your Sunday afternoon walk. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
'Not that I'd choose to stroll round this lagoon.' | 0:16:25 | 0:16:29 | |
-It absolutely stinks on this bridge, doesn't it? -Yeah. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:31 | |
It's quite overwhelming. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
-It's sewage. -It's sewage, is it? -It's sewage. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
And they're living in it. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:38 | |
Sewage and caiman. Double nightmare. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
'I'm out of here! | 0:16:44 | 0:16:46 | |
'I've heard that occasionally these lagoon lovelies | 0:16:46 | 0:16:49 | |
'go a wandering around town. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
'Once captured, they're brought to this local park. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:55 | |
'Denise has offered to introduce me to some residents, | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
'starting with the teenagers.' | 0:16:58 | 0:17:01 | |
I can already see about five faces looking eagerly at us. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:05 | |
NAOMI SQUEAKS | 0:17:05 | 0:17:06 | |
Oh, my goodness, please stay still. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:09 | |
-You can go. -Yep. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
NAOMI GASPS | 0:17:13 | 0:17:15 | |
That made us jump! | 0:17:15 | 0:17:16 | |
That's the thing that frightens me about crocodiles in general, | 0:17:18 | 0:17:21 | |
is that they can stay very still and then, all of a sudden, | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
out of nowhere, they spring into action. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
DENISE SPEAKS PORTUGUESE | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
The animals, they stay alert, checking out what's going on. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:34 | |
They do get scared, that's why they move fast. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:37 | |
'Scared of me? I'm scared of them! | 0:17:39 | 0:17:41 | |
'But I've heard that the park has a new arrival | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
'and, apparently, it's cute.' | 0:17:47 | 0:17:49 | |
Here to greet him are Helena | 0:17:49 | 0:17:51 | |
and a welcoming party of local kids. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
Where's this one come from? | 0:17:55 | 0:17:57 | |
-It came from a building. -A building? -Yes. | 0:17:57 | 0:18:00 | |
This was in someone's house? | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 | |
Where else have they been found? | 0:18:03 | 0:18:04 | |
SPEAKS PORTUGUESE | 0:18:04 | 0:18:09 | |
OK, I think she said schools, swimming pools and shops. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:14 | |
-Is that what she said? -And car parks. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:16 | |
And car parks?! | 0:18:16 | 0:18:18 | |
My goodness me, that must be a bit of | 0:18:19 | 0:18:21 | |
a shock if you go to pick up your car from the car park | 0:18:21 | 0:18:24 | |
and encounter a caiman. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:27 | |
Even a small one like this. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:28 | |
He is going to be a new resident of the park. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:32 | |
He is not big enough to be released. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:34 | |
I will invite you to name him. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:36 | |
-Is it a male or female? -Male. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:39 | |
What do we think, team? | 0:18:39 | 0:18:40 | |
-John? -You think John? Just John? John the caiman! | 0:18:40 | 0:18:45 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:18:45 | 0:18:47 | |
-I bet you're the first caiman ever... -Hi, John! | 0:18:47 | 0:18:49 | |
..to be called John. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:52 | |
New resident settled in, the kids have invited me to join their | 0:18:52 | 0:18:55 | |
caiman awareness class with these lively eight-month-old specimens. | 0:18:55 | 0:19:00 | |
Ooh! | 0:19:01 | 0:19:03 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:19:03 | 0:19:04 | |
Oh, my goodness! | 0:19:04 | 0:19:06 | |
CAIMAN GRUNTS | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
SPEAKS PORTUGUESE What's that sound they are making? | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
SPEAKS PORTUGUESE | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
-TRANSLATION: -Even when they are inside the eggs, | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
they call their mothers like that, to let them know they are ready. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:21 | |
In the wild, babies like this could get gobbled up | 0:19:22 | 0:19:27 | |
by lizards and adult caiman. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:29 | |
But that doesn't make them any less terrifying. | 0:19:29 | 0:19:32 | |
Oh, my goodness. No, thanks. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:34 | |
Even that small, that is quite a feisty little animal, isn't it? | 0:19:37 | 0:19:41 | |
My classmates are clearly braver than me. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:46 | |
'Time to get hands-on...' | 0:19:46 | 0:19:48 | |
We'll do it together. One, two, three... | 0:19:48 | 0:19:51 | |
'..and see if these little residents have grown.' | 0:19:52 | 0:19:56 | |
34.5. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
In three years, these tiny terrors will be full size. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:03 | |
But Helena's main lesson today is environmental. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:06 | |
We are the invaders. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
The growing town is encroaching on their territory, | 0:20:08 | 0:20:12 | |
which is why they are turning up in parking lots and houses. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
And the pollution in the stinky lagoon means the city snappers | 0:20:16 | 0:20:20 | |
could soon be extinct. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:22 | |
Your first instincts, when you hear of wild city crocs is, | 0:20:24 | 0:20:28 | |
how can that possibly not be a nightmare? | 0:20:28 | 0:20:32 | |
But when you find out about the spread of the city squeezing them | 0:20:32 | 0:20:35 | |
out of their homes, you do feel pretty sorry for them. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:38 | |
So will caiman munch their way to the top of my nightmare list? | 0:20:38 | 0:20:42 | |
YOU probably won't. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
But your big brother still might. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
My final contender is a gnawing nightmare that can be found | 0:20:48 | 0:20:52 | |
in any city and in any weather. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
Rodents. | 0:20:56 | 0:20:58 | |
Famous for having sharp teeth and spreading disease. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:01 | |
As far as I'm concerned, | 0:21:01 | 0:21:02 | |
any size of rodent could be considered a nightmare. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:05 | |
But Rio's rodents come in an assortment of different sizes. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:10 | |
Size small. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
Like any city, Rio has its fair share of fat rats. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:18 | |
Vermin that live in the sewers, feeding on our waste and | 0:21:18 | 0:21:22 | |
transmitting parasites to the city's unsuspecting occupants. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:27 | |
For most cities, it ends there. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:31 | |
But here, apparently, they come in sizes medium and large, too. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:36 | |
So large, in fact, that somewhere roaming Rio is nothing less | 0:21:36 | 0:21:40 | |
than the world's biggest rodent. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
So, naturally, I'm going to go and try and find it! | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
Does anybody know where we are going? | 0:21:52 | 0:21:54 | |
Hello. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:57 | |
Do you know where a very large, ugly rat lives? | 0:21:57 | 0:22:01 | |
I don't speak English. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:03 | |
You don't speak English? Oh, no worries. Thank you. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
Hmm... I think I'm going to have to perfect my Portuguese. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:09 | |
SPEAKS ALONG WITH RECORDING: Rato grande feio. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:12 | |
Rato grande feio. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:14 | |
Nailed it. Like a Brazilian! | 0:22:14 | 0:22:18 | |
Rato muito grande? | 0:22:18 | 0:22:20 | |
Onde? | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
Don't know? | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
HE SPEAKS PORTUGUESE Obrigado! | 0:22:26 | 0:22:27 | |
Yes. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:30 | |
This is embarrassing. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:32 | |
THEY SPEAK PORTUGUESE | 0:22:32 | 0:22:34 | |
Rato grande feio. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:38 | |
Onde? | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
HE SPEAKS PORTUGUESE | 0:22:40 | 0:22:42 | |
Oh, I know where that is. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:44 | |
-Follow me. -Yes! | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
Obrigado! | 0:22:46 | 0:22:47 | |
Thank you, Roberta. | 0:22:47 | 0:22:48 | |
And here they are. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
Hmm. Not yet the biggest rat in Rio. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
These are the ones in the middle. | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
Size medium. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:01 | |
Otherwise known as agoutis. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:02 | |
Benjamin gives these ones food twice a day | 0:23:04 | 0:23:06 | |
and I'm going to give him a hand. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:08 | |
Grub's up! | 0:23:09 | 0:23:10 | |
Come on, little ratties. TAPS BOWL | 0:23:13 | 0:23:14 | |
Come and get it! | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
Come on! | 0:23:18 | 0:23:20 | |
It's totally opposite to what you do at home, | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
putting out food to attract rodents! | 0:23:23 | 0:23:25 | |
So, these wild animals? | 0:23:27 | 0:23:29 | |
SPEAKS PORTUGUESE | 0:23:29 | 0:23:31 | |
No, they are not wild, but they also | 0:23:31 | 0:23:33 | |
cannot be considered like sweet animals. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
If you try to touch them, they are definitely going to bite. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
They would definitely bite me? | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
Their teeth are razor sharp. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:46 | |
Here, they may be chomping on vegetables... | 0:23:46 | 0:23:48 | |
..but in the wild, these rodent rascals will gnaw their way | 0:23:50 | 0:23:53 | |
through tough-shelled nuts like coconuts and brazil nuts, | 0:23:53 | 0:23:57 | |
which, actually, is quite handy, because we've been trying and | 0:23:57 | 0:24:01 | |
failing to open some Brazil nuts ever since we got here! | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
There we go. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:17 | |
Do you think the agouti could demonstrate | 0:24:17 | 0:24:20 | |
how to get into one of these? | 0:24:20 | 0:24:22 | |
SPEAKS PORTUGUESE | 0:24:22 | 0:24:23 | |
You think yes? Shall we try? | 0:24:23 | 0:24:25 | |
Oh, yes, yes. He's taken it. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:32 | |
We need someone to stick around and demonstrate. You? | 0:24:32 | 0:24:35 | |
How sweet. That looks like a squirrel. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:41 | |
You can hear it, actually. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:45 | |
MAKES CRACKING NOISE | 0:24:45 | 0:24:47 | |
Aw... | 0:24:49 | 0:24:51 | |
Perfect illustration of how to open a Brazil nut. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:54 | |
Thank you very much, agouti. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:56 | |
Size medium, check. | 0:24:56 | 0:24:58 | |
But what about size large? | 0:24:58 | 0:25:00 | |
-TRANSLATION: -The largest ones in Brazil, | 0:25:00 | 0:25:02 | |
you're going to find around the lagoons, | 0:25:02 | 0:25:04 | |
in places where there is water about. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
I know where that is. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:09 | |
Thank you. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:10 | |
Stinky, sewage-filled water. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
I might have guessed that is where a big, fat rat would hang out. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
That's what we are looking for. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:21 | |
There it is. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:24 | |
There it is. | 0:25:24 | 0:25:27 | |
Right down there | 0:25:27 | 0:25:28 | |
we have the largest rodent in the world. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:31 | |
The capybara. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:33 | |
Can you believe that is a rodent? | 0:25:35 | 0:25:37 | |
They can grow over one metre long and weigh more than me! | 0:25:38 | 0:25:43 | |
They are distantly related to guinea pigs and you can see | 0:25:43 | 0:25:47 | |
the family resemblance. | 0:25:47 | 0:25:48 | |
Doesn't look very scary, does it? | 0:25:48 | 0:25:51 | |
Look at the teeth! | 0:25:51 | 0:25:53 | |
Just changed my mind. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:54 | |
Capybara have lovely eating habits. | 0:25:57 | 0:26:00 | |
They regurgitate their food, so they bring it back up | 0:26:00 | 0:26:03 | |
after swallowing and eat it for a second time. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:06 | |
And then once they poo out that food, they eat their own faeces. | 0:26:08 | 0:26:11 | |
It sounds disgusting, | 0:26:11 | 0:26:14 | |
but it means they get the maximum nutrients out of their grub. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:18 | |
Probably need a breath freshener, though! | 0:26:18 | 0:26:20 | |
SHE MAKES RETCHING SOUND | 0:26:20 | 0:26:22 | |
Their webbed front toes make them excellent swimmers. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:26 | |
You can see its ears, eyes and nose are all positioned on the top | 0:26:28 | 0:26:32 | |
of its head, so when it's in the water, | 0:26:32 | 0:26:34 | |
it can still breathe while it keeps a constant lookout for predators. | 0:26:34 | 0:26:38 | |
I've actually grown quite fond of this giant rat. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:45 | |
When I set out to find Rio's really big rodents, | 0:26:45 | 0:26:49 | |
I didn't expect to find them cute. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
So, a nightmare? | 0:26:51 | 0:26:53 | |
Well, if you can excuse the terrifyingly tough teeth and | 0:26:53 | 0:26:56 | |
the quite frankly disgusting eating habits, I think they are more | 0:26:56 | 0:27:01 | |
chubby chompers than vicious vermin, don't you? | 0:27:01 | 0:27:05 | |
My whistle-stop tour of the highlights of Rio's townie terrors | 0:27:08 | 0:27:12 | |
is over, so I've got to pick out my Worst Nightmare. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:15 | |
Can I say the weather? | 0:27:15 | 0:27:16 | |
-Why? Why not? -Because it's the rules! | 0:27:17 | 0:27:20 | |
All right, well we had Rio's rodent rascals. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:24 | |
You liked them, didn't you, Steve? | 0:27:24 | 0:27:26 | |
The monkeys were just little minxes, once they? | 0:27:28 | 0:27:33 | |
The caiman were probably more sweet than snappy. | 0:27:33 | 0:27:37 | |
So that leaves the vultures. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:39 | |
A nightmare for frequent flyers and they are having to risk their lives | 0:27:39 | 0:27:43 | |
in deadly airspace just to pick out the leftovers from our rubbish. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:47 | |
Surely, that has got to be Rio's Worst Nightmare. | 0:27:47 | 0:27:50 | |
Groovy Gary and his groovy moves. | 0:27:54 | 0:27:56 | |
Shimmy, Gary! | 0:28:02 | 0:28:03 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:28:07 | 0:28:09 |