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There is a forest that is older
and richer than the Amazon.
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Even though it was discovered by Europeans
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centuries ago, it still keeps many of its secrets.
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A large number of the animals of this forest
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live nowhere else.
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Much about their lives remains cloaked in mystery.
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And within the forest's green embrace
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lies one of the wonders of the world.
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The Mata Atlantica stretches 1000s of kilometers
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along the coast of Brazil.
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From the temperate South of the country
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to the tropical North.
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From the coast, the forest extends
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as far as 600 kilometers inland
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creating a wide range of habitats.
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There are lush lowland rainforests,
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steep mountain woodlands,
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and open areas of rock and grass.
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Over the last 500 years,
much of the Mata Atlantica
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has been converted to pasture and farmland
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but the remaining patches of forest
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still support extraordinary animals.
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Muriquis are found nowhere else on earth.
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They can spend their whole life in the treetops.
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They share the forest with a bewildering array
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of other animals.
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It is the many habitats of the Mata Atlantica
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that have produced a rich variety of plants
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that in turn support a wide range of animals.
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A kaleidoscope of butterflies.
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Nearly a 1000 species of birds,
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more than in the whole of Europe.
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While the muriquis inhabit the canopy,
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other monkeys live in complex
layers of branches below.
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Marmosets and Capuchins live
alongside the muriquis.
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Each adapted to their own part of this complex
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and varied forest.
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Unlike other monkeys in the
forest that have hierarchies,
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muriquis live in a more egalitarian society
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where peace is maintained by much touching,
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hugging, and reassuring cuddling.
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The monkeys live in groups
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where the males are often related
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and brothers form close bonds.
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But the strongest bond is
between mother and infant.
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The muriquis are highly
adapted for living in trees.
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They have long hands for grasping the branches.
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Their tails are prehensile
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able to grip like an extra hand
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as they move across the tree tops.
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The band of brothers
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with their mothers and younger siblings
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live in harmony in canopy.
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But why muriquis are so friendly
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is still somewhat of a mystery
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like so much in this forest.
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It is not the just the monkeys
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that are unique residents of the Mata Atlantica.
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Many of the forests' birds
are found nowhere else.
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Most depend on the forest.
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Like the blue manakin.
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It has a very different social life
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to the muriquis.
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The males are splendidly colorful
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while the female is a more modest olive.
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But when she arrives at a particular branch
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a group of males quickly assembles.
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Their dance display was not good enough this time.
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It is the riches of the Mata Atlantica
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in particular the easy availability of fruit
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that allows the male manakins to spend
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so many hours each day dancing.
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Even without a female, the local males
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will gather to practice their dance routine.
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These males are not related
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and yet they work as a team.
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Only a coordinated effort
will impress a female.
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Without a good team display,
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none of these birds will get the chance to mate.
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Manakins are widespread in the Mata Atlantica
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often living where the forest
borders other habitats
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like marshes and grassland.
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And the forest that runs along swamp and stream
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is the favorite habitat of the bushdog.
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This one of the smallest members of the dog family
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is extremely rare and very little is known
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about its life.
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What we do know is that they are highly social
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like many creatures of the Mata Atlantica.
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In bushdog groups, there is
an alpha male and female
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that lead the pack.
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They are the only ones that
breed in their society.
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These rare wild dogs
prefer to live near water
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and in particular rivers.
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Much of the water that flows westwards
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from the forested slopes
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meets to form the Iguazu river.
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And it creates one of the
greatest spectacles on earth,
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the Iguazu falls.
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The water from over six million hectares
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over a 1000 tons per second pour over the falls.
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The falls stretch nearly three kilometers
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and in places, the water plunges over 18 meters.
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Yet this raging torrent is just
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another habitat in the forest
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and fragile swifts have made the falls their home.
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Incredibly they fly straight
through the waterfall.
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Great dusky swifts are waterfall specialists.
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They roost on the sheer walls alongside
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and behind the falls.
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Even with kilometers of cliff,
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the birds fight to have a prime roosting site.
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They seem to be naturally aggressive.
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The birds fly through the wall of water
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and fight for space on the sheer rocks
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because here they will be safe at night.
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Vultures return to roost in the trees
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surrounding the falls.
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At night the forest is not a safe place.
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Killers are on the prowl
paroling the forest floor.
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The muriquis are safe in the treetops
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and the swifts can sleep soundly
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sheltered by the falls.
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The waterfall is the lynch-pin
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in the lives of the swifts
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but each morning they must depart
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the security of their home.
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Like other swifts, they are aerial predators
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spending the day on the wing
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snatching the many insects
that fly out of the forest.
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Coatis relatives of the raccoon
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are found throughout the Mata Atlantica
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and far beyond.
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Unlike the swifts, they are opportunists
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aided by a great sense of smell
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they snuffle out all kinds of insects and bugs.
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Coatis are highly social animals.
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The babies are born in a nest in the treetops
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and when just six weeks old,
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they descend to join other families.
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There are several mothers and
each one keeps an eye out
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for all the youngsters.
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Lead on by their noses,
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the young ones are endlessly curious.
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In this band, the adults are all females,
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a supportive sisterhood
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where mothers will even
suckle each others' babies.
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Coatis are smart,
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but the youngsters have much to learn
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including what constitutes
food and what doesn't.
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This is when it is good to have your mother
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and aunties around.
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The coatis may live alongside the manakins
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but in reality, they inhabit different worlds.
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While the coatis spend most of the day
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rummaging for food,
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the manakins are free to practice.
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The moment of truth of female has arrived.
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There is a strict hierarchy amongst the manakins
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and the alpha male is often the oldest bird.
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Only he has a chance of mating.
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The others are just the support act.
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Why do they dance when they
have no prospect of mating?
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They have no choice.
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For a female will not mate with a lone dancer.
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So every male must join a
group and wait his turn.
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It may take as long as 10
years to become top bird
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and in that time a male will have danced
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for 1000s upon 1000s of exhausting hours.
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The alpha male calls an end to the display.
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The others bow and he goes to the mating perch.
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The female is not impressed.
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Obviously more practice required.
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Back to the training ground.
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Females are very choosy for a reason.
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They do all the work of building the nest
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and incubating the eggs.
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She has dowdy plumage to reduce
the chances of being seen.
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But the coatis are adept at sniffing out a meal.
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Eggs are as acceptable as insects
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to these generalists.
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The male and female manakins
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lead very different lives.
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Whilst males have to wait many years,
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the females start breeding when
they are just one year old.
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They need to, for very few
nesting attempts are successful.
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A mother with chicks is a rare site.
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In the treetops, the muriqui mothers
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lavish care on their babies
for more than two years.
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These monkeys are so specialized
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that they need never leave the canopy.
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It supplies everything they require.
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There are leaves and fruit.
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When a vine flowers, there is even sweet nectar.
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The muriquis maybe gentle creatures
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but not from a plant's perspective.
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Its flowers are destroyed
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and without them, the vine
will not be able to reproduce.
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The muriqui's world is not the natural paradise
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it might at first seem
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for their forest home has
been shrinking for centuries.
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The trees were fell to create fields for cattle
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and for coffee and sugarcane,
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the most Brazilian of crops.
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Even with the loss of trees,
the Mata Atlantica forest
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that supports the manakins and the muriquis
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still contains over 20,000
different kinds of plants.
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And that wealth of species supports
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vast numbers of insects including over
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2000 different kinds of butterflies.
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The iridescent morpho males
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will patrol forest streams
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trying to drive off alpha males
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and attract a female.
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Mineral salts can be in short supply
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in tropical forests
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but they are essential for growth.
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So many species of butterfly
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gather at evaporating puddles along the rivers.
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The butterflies suck up the salty water.
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They concentrate the salt in their bodies
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and pump out the excess water.
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What is peculiar about this mass of butterflies
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is that they are all males.
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They will use the salts as a gift
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for the females when they mate.
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It is thought that the salts are important
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for the correct development of the eggs.
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But the mystery is why doesn't the female
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gather the salts herself?
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The salts maybe important for breeding,
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but most butterflies feed from flowers
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like this bromeliad.
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This is very ancient and successful relationship.
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The butterfly transfers the plant's pollen
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and receives nectar as a reward.
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But butterflies have one weakness as messengers.
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They are fair-weather fliers.
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When it is cloudy or rains,
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they have to find somewhere to shelter.
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As much of the Mata Atlantica is a rainforest,
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this can be a problem for the plants.
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A new messenger was needed.
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Hummingbirds.
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They are warm-blooded
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and can fly through the worst rainstorm.
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While the butterflies are grounded by bad weather,
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the hummingbirds get through with the pollen.
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The combination of sticky pollen and sugary nectar
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means the birds feathers get matted and messy
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but in the Mata Atlantica
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there is always a stream nearby.
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The many hummingbirds that live in the forest
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are undeterred by the frequent rain.
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And the bushdogs too live with the rain
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and the wet vegetation.
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In fact they are almost amphibious
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with little webs between their toes
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that help them to move over the soft wet ground.
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The alpha pair mark the ownership
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of their piece of forest.
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The urine smells strongly of vinegar.
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And this has given the diminutive dogs
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their other name, vinegar hounds.
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The dogs are only as big as a terrier
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but by working as a team
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they can hunt animals like coatis.
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The coatis are safe from the bushdogs
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as long as they remain in the trees
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and there is food here in the bromeliads.
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Unlike the muriquis, the coatis
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can't leap across the tops of the trees.
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There is only one way out.
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Down, nose first.
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Now they are in real danger.
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For a generalist like the coatis,
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the Mata Atlantica is a hugely complex place.
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So much for the young coatis to learn
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about predator and prey.
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The many streams and rivers
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are the highways for the
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far-ranging coatis and the bushdogs.
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But for the swifts, the might Iguazu is home
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for they not only roost behind its wall of water
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but make their nests there too.
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The narrow ledges are in great demand
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and swifts may use the same nest year after year,
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which means new couples are forced to use
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less suitable locations
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and some young birds seem to
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struggle with the basics of breeding.
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Older birds have the benefit of experience
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but even a changeover can be
aggressive for the swifts.
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The nests are constructed of mud and moss
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which the birds gather from the waterfall itself.
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Nest building is a complicated business
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and inexperienced birds can
get things hopelessly wrong.
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Even starting to build a nest
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on the back of your partner.
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While some swifts are getting in a real mess
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construction is going well elsewhere.
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After the dirty work of nest building,
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the birds take a welcome wash
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courtesy of the greatest
power shower in the world.
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Feathers cleaned and spruced up,
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the swifts fly out to search for more insects.
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The breeding swifts seem unaffected
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by the consonant roar of the falls.
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But nearby another creature has found
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a novel way to live in a noisy environment.
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The torrent frog.
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Like most frogs, he calls
out to attract a mate.
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But when his peeps are drowned out,
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the male has another way of enticing a female.
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If you can't be heard,
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then a little leg wave might work.
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Surely irresistible to any female.
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Waving your legs is a great way
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to draw attention to yourself.
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But not only from frogs.
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The highly venomous jararaca.
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If the snake comes too close,
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the frogs use their legs in
a more conventional way.
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The frogs and swifts specialized creatures
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that depend on the streams and cataracts,
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face a real threat after storms and heavy rain.
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The rivers fill
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seven times as much water,
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10,000 per tons per second
thunder over the falls.
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Now the location of the nest
ledge becomes critical.
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The experienced couple are still safe.
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But the young pair are in trouble.
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The rising waters have flooded their nest.
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All is lost.
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The young birds will try again next year.
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For these birds, nesting is all about location.
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The older pair are safe and dry
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even if they are still squabbling.
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The swifts depend on the waterfall
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and the surrounding forest.
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Luckily, even when the floods recede
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there will be water enough to protect these
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strange and specialized birds.
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The source of all this water,
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the montane forest is the home of the muriquis.
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The great variety of trees
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as many as 450 different
species in a single hectare
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means there is fruit to eat most of the year.
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The muriquis are quite safe
in their treetop fortress
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but even so the presence of a jaguar
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causes them concern.
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Jaguars are powerful climbers.
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But no match for the muriquis.
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On the occasions when there is no fruit,
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the muriquis can eat the leaves of the
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cecropia tree
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for they have no toxins
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unlike many of the other plants of the forest.
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But they are not unprotected
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for the cecropia provides accommodation
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in its hollow stems for hordes of
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fierce azteca ants.
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The ants attack any reckless intruders
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like this black Capuchin.
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The monkey pays a terrible price for his snack.
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The muriquis have a different approach.
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They avoid the tree and its ferocious ants.
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The technique is foolproof.
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Almost.
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The muriquis are so completely
at home in the treetops
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that they even find water here.
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A handful of leaves acts like a sponge.
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Life seems easy for adult and young alike.
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For the other inhabitants
of this multi-layered world
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finding food is a more tricky business.
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A fallen tree holds many grumps
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to tempt a young coati.
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But he must be careful.
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For the group has disturbed a
Brazilian wandering spider
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that was sleeping under the log.
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Normally nocturnal, this
spider is a serious danger
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for it is the most venomous in the world.
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Young noses must be wary.
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The growing coatis have learnt
another important lesson.
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Some things in the leaf
litter are best left alone.
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None more so than these, army ants.
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There maybe as many as half a
million ants in the swarm.
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They attack everything they encounter.
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These are the true top predators of the forest.
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Even the wandering spider is overpowered.
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Animals much larger than the ants
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are pinned down and then dismembered.
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Even those that manage to
escape the ants are not safe.
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There are birds that are camp followers.
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They capture the insects
that flee the swarming ants.
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Yet more specialized lives
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inside this little known forest.
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For part of the time, the ants are nomadic
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and the workers and soldiers
carry the precious larvae,
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the colony's next generation.
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After hunting all day,
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they construct a shelter, a bivouac
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from their own bodies.
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This will be their shelter for the evening.
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The larvae are safe inside the living walls.
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High above the dark and dangerous forest floor,
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there is still a little
light for the muriquis
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but they too are preparing for the night.
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Even if a youngster still wants to play.
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At night the forest is a very different place.
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Porcupines awake and set
out in search of food.
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Little is known of these secretive creatures.
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The Mata Atlantica is home to
at least five different kinds.
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One species was only discovered in 2013.
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In the centuries since europeans
landed on Brazil's shores,
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the forest has continued to be cleared.
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00:45:55,229 --> 00:45:57,184
Now some of the remaining pieces
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00:45:57,185 --> 00:46:01,352
are too small to support
animals like the porcupines.
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They may become extinct before we know
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anything about them or their nocturnal lives.
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93% of this unique forest has been lost.
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The Mata Atlantica once covered
a million square kilometers
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but much of the forest has
been converted into grassland.
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Despite what would appear impossible pressure,
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the remaining patchwork of forest
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still supports many animals.
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They are benefiting from a modern movement
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to save what remains of the Mata Atlantica.
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The immense Iguazu is protected.
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The falls mark the boundary
between Brazil and Argentina
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and both countries created national parks
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00:47:16,447 --> 00:47:18,447
that surround the falls.
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00:47:23,889 --> 00:47:25,664
Luckily for the swifts,
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the parks safeguard many
1000s of hectares of forest
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00:47:29,639 --> 00:47:33,806
where they can still catch
insects to feed their young.
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00:47:47,782 --> 00:47:51,949
The chick grows rapidly nourished
on a high protein diet.
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00:47:52,785 --> 00:47:54,894
As it approaches the time to leave,
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to fly through the waterfall to a world
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it has never seen, the chick moves out of the nest
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00:48:01,319 --> 00:48:04,416
and climbs to the rock nearby
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00:48:04,417 --> 00:48:07,000
along with the other nestlings.
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00:48:17,534 --> 00:48:22,403
Then triggered by some stimulus we may never know,
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00:48:22,404 --> 00:48:25,321
the young birds release their grip.
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00:48:39,348 --> 00:48:41,821
Some instinct impels the birds
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00:48:41,822 --> 00:48:45,989
and in an instant, they transform
into creatures of the air.
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00:49:30,445 --> 00:49:33,862
One of the greatest threats
to the remaining forest
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00:49:33,863 --> 00:49:36,196
is the growth of the cities.
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00:49:38,087 --> 00:49:42,253
Today, over 70% of Brazil's population
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lives within what was Mata Atlantica forest.
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140 million people.
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00:49:55,332 --> 00:49:58,774
Brazil's towns and cities continue to expand
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into the forest.
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00:50:15,335 --> 00:50:19,502
Blue manakins display with
an earshot of the traffic.
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They can survive in small pockets of forest
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but for young male like this,
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there is an uncertain future.
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00:50:29,349 --> 00:50:31,932
It will be 10 years before he will have a chance
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to lead his own display team.
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00:51:02,126 --> 00:51:04,485
By the time he has learned from his elders
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and is ready to breed,
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the forest may no longer exist.
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He could be dancing into oblivion.
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00:51:18,829 --> 00:51:20,329
But there is hope,
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for there is a determination to save what remains
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of this rich and unique forest.
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Even with just 7% left, the
Mata Atlantica is still
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one of the richest habitats on earth.
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