Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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This video explores how rainforest life is shaped by predator prey relationships, camouflage, chemical defenses, seed dispersal, and evolution. Small insects can have a greater impact than large predators, while plants and animals continuously adapt to one another in a delicate ecological balance. Subscribe to Our World: bit.ly/3xnPuGL

This film discovers the Central American Rainforest which contains some of the most exciting spieces of wild animal. This is now a world under threat from man.

This film was first broadcast: 19 Nov 1983

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