SHAME ON YOU BBC !!!
To call this a DocuDrama is ludicrous !!! Fawlty Towers has nothing over this mini series.
I must admit it is an excellent lesson for children. It teaches them:
1. It is okay to go blundering into a strange place with little or no preparation.
2. Don't study an animal and it's habitat and diet beforehand. Just go catch something and try to figure out what you did wrong later.
3. Don't bring the right equipment with you. It's perfectly ok to catch an animal by throwing your jacket over it.
4. Hire your friends. Doesn't matter how incompetent they are
5. Wear shorts and tee shirts into a tropical jungle. The unknown insect life and reptiles won't bother you.
6. Camp out and bring any food and leave it in the tent. Don't bother with just canned rations it doesn't matter if a wild animal rips up your tent looking....
The mammoth was the most glaring example: Instead of going to a period where the mammoth thrived and study it's clime, diet and habits ... sweet Marvin mucks around in a time where the mammoth is near extinction. Grabs a hurt animal and brings it back..... then he can't figure out why the animal is not getting any better........
How does he solve the climate problem.... why hire a pea-brained vet to give it a haircut !!!!
and....Tyro in a wood stick enclosure ??? spare me !!!
Granted nothing but skeletons and fossils were known about most of the animals ........ but a thorough study before capturing them was a must !!!
Shame on the BBC which usually has quality programming !!