Predators: The Ultimate Killing Machines

Life-and-death contests between hunter and hunted have been filmed for BBC television in an entirely new way. Predators, a series of six half-hour films uses miniaturised cameras mounted on the hunters themselves to show the chase from their perspective. The series also uses action replays and computer animations, allowing it to analyse the tactics of predator and prey from every angle. It shows that both are often evenly matched, with no room on either side for the slightest mistake.

"In a standard natural history series, we take the life cycle of an animal or a place and beam the viewer there. We give them something like binoculars so that they can see it in a very classical, real way. "What we're trying to do in Predators is to take a tiny moment in time, the moment when a predator detects, identifies, approaches and grabs its prey.

"We try to explode that very short moment and open it up so that the viewer can see what is going on. These are really important moments for understanding how animals work. Their senses, their bodies, their behaviours are all designed for these moments.",/p>

Excerpt from BBC Nature Documentary
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