Documentary Description
The rainforest is home to more species of plants and animals than any
other habitat on the planet. But for humans, life there is not as easy
as it looks. Life in the trees requires great skill, ingenuity and sheer
bravery.
The Matis of Brazil carve 4-metre-long blow-pipes to hunt monkeys -
in near total silence. Deep in the Congo forests, Tete defies death by
scaling a giant tree using nothing more than a liana vine, and he must
then negotiate an angry swarm of bees - all to collect honey for his
family.
Three children from Venezuela's Piaroa tribe venture deep into the
jungle to hunt tarantulas - to toast for lunch! In West Papua the
Korowai tribe show-off their engineering skills by building a high-rise
home 35 metres up in the tree tops.
Most memorable of all, in Brazil we join a unique monitoring flight in search an un-contacted tribe...
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