...and a bit of cluckin'
May 19, 2013 10:07 AM   Subscribe

 
slow motion- check
slow motion battle scene - check
feathers - check
sex - check

And I didn't even know that Zack Snyder made nature documentaries.
posted by HuronBob at 10:12 AM on May 19, 2013 [2 favorites]


The fact that the narration includes the word "gents" leads me to believe that this is one of those things where they take a British documentary and redub it with an American voiceover for no damn reason.

Digging a little deeper, I find that it's a clip from "North America," a documentary series with just seven episodes. Hmm.
posted by Sys Rq at 10:46 AM on May 19, 2013


Apparently, Tom Selleck is narrating it (though the folksiness is suspicious). The footage looks really beautiful; it airs beginning tonight.
posted by ChuraChura at 10:50 AM on May 19, 2013


It's like MetaTalk in real life.
posted by grouse at 11:11 AM on May 19, 2013 [1 favorite]


Wow, talk about blue balls.

Impress the lady, bow chicka wah wah and some asshole comes over and jumps on your back and starts punching you. I'll stick with being human then.
posted by Samizdata at 11:28 AM on May 19, 2013


This is why the prairie is so awesome, all kinds of drama going on hidden in the tall grass. If you were fifty feet away from this battle you probably wouldn't know it was happening at all.
posted by Kevin Street at 12:05 PM on May 19, 2013


This. Only with T. Rexs instead.
posted by sevensixfive at 12:06 PM on May 19, 2013 [5 favorites]


Apparently, Tom Selleck is narrating it (though the folksiness is suspicious). The footage looks really beautiful; it airs beginning tonight.

I'll wait for the David Attenborough dub.
posted by sebastienbailard at 12:07 PM on May 19, 2013


I'm going to tune in because I love good nature stuff like this, but in an ad we saw for it, they foley'd a redtail call into a scene to two bald eagles fighting, so, hmmmm. Hoping that was just a marketing department OOPS and somebody got yelled at.
posted by rtha at 12:33 PM on May 19, 2013 [4 favorites]


BRB, dubbing sound effects from Joust into this.
posted by adipocere at 2:09 PM on May 19, 2013 [7 favorites]


It's times like this I wish I was still involved in the dating scene, because I would love, love to do my best prairie chicken impression in a bar to pick up some nice lady.

Hell if I could get one of my friends (a wingman, hah!) involved to play the part of an adversary, it would be even better.
posted by quin at 12:35 PM on May 20, 2013


Having watched the first couple of episodes, it could use less folksiness and anthropomorphizing, but the footage is sufficiently stunning to make up for it. Bald eagles playing catch with the head and neck of one of the geese they just ambushed, for example.
posted by tavella at 9:56 AM on May 22, 2013


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