| Summary: | "We're trying to imagine what it was like to be the very first people to arrive on the continent almost 14,000 years ago," explains series producer, Miles Barton. This is the first attempt in television to discover the landscape and wildlife of America after the last Ice Age. The series features amazing re-animations of such animals as the sabre-toothed tiger and woolly mammoth and, using computer graphics, returns lions, cheetahs and zebras to North America where they lived thousands of years ago. This look at the past provides a unique perspective on North American wildlife of today, including those creatures who now depend upon people and cities for their survival. Discover the real Wild West as the first people would have found it. A land of extremes where 10-ton Columbian mammoths seek shelter from the intense heat deep in Grand Canyon caves, and cougar pursue bighorn sheep and mountain goats on the cliffs above. Where lumbering ground sloths graze succulent cactus fruits amidst a forest of Joshua trees. Giant condors soar high over Monument Valley on 3-metre wings, while down below the most fearsome of all the ice age killers - the sabre-toothed cat - stalks huge camels against the dramatic backdrop of the 'Canyon lands'. This new series reveals the spectacular wildlife of Ice Age North America, as the first people to enter this vast continent would have seen it. Evidence uncovered from today's landscapes is used to build a picture of the prehistoric past.
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