National Geographic's Really Wild Animals: Totally Tropical Rain Forest [VHS]

National Geographic's Really Wild Animals: Totally Tropical Rain Forest [VHS] Overview

Take a totally tropical trip to the rain forest with Spin, National Geographic's animated globe-on-the-go! Explore the life-filled rain forest, where there's a greater variety of plants and animals than anywhere else on earth. In the tropical forests of Central and South America, you'll meet spotted jaguars, colorful poison-arrow frogs, slow-moving sloths, and loud-mouthed howler monkeys - all captured by the world's finest filmmakers. Exciting music videos celebrate the wonderfully weird creatures that live from the shady forest floor to the sunny treetop canopy. So get ready for a journey to the wildest place in the world...the TOTALLY TROPICAL RAIN FOREST! It's just one of many Really Wild Animals adventures in this series.

National Geographic's Really Wild Animals: Totally Tropical Rain Forest [VHS] Specifications

There's a plug for environmental causes (song lyric: "If there's a place worth saving, this must be the place"), a Darwinian crack aimed at parents, and faux news broadcasts to keep things moving. But most of all there are animals, animals, animals in this 37-minute National Geographic video. If a trip to the South American rain forest isn't part of the vacation plans, this video tour aimed at kids from preschool through grade school will more than suffice. Comparing the forest layers to an apartment building, animated planet guide Spin (Dudley Moore) steps onto an elevator to explore the forest floor on up to the canopy level--meeting tapirs, jaguars, bats, and spider monkeys along the way. Meanwhile kids become familiar with concepts such as echolocation, camouflage, and the equator. Now that's infotainment! --Kimberly Heinrichs

Customer Reviews

I have three years, loves the video that we borrowed from the local library. He knows a rainforest and the layers of some animals in each layer. I am very aware of a degree in elementary education and the importance of positive exposure to new things for the children. He is angry at the part where they show the cutting of trees and said the man who will pick them up again! Hello! You need more than a suggestion? Videos like these are truly beneficial for children.

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