Pantanal : prairie of great waters /
With the downpour of seasonal rains, the great Pantanal in southwestern Brazil is transformed from a vast, dry plain of grass and scrub to the world's largest wetlands area. The life cycles of every plant and animal must confrom to this annual rise and fall of the surrounding waters or perish....
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| Format: | Video VHS |
| Language: | English |
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Alexandria, Va. :
Time-Life Video,
[1990]
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| Series: | Nature video library.
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| Summary: | With the downpour of seasonal rains, the great Pantanal in southwestern Brazil is transformed from a vast, dry plain of grass and scrub to the world's largest wetlands area. The life cycles of every plant and animal must confrom to this annual rise and fall of the surrounding waters or perish. No other place on earth offers a more telling portrait of how quickly nature can reshape the environment and change the rules of survival for all. |
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| Item Description: | Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. Videocassette release of the program originally broadcast in 1986 on the PBS series Nature. "B229-21." Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videocassette (60 min) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. |
| Format: | VHS. |
| Production Credits: | Cinematography, Robert M. Baldwin, Jr. ; editor, Dave Dickie. |