{"id":2109,"date":"2012-11-13T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2012\/11\/the-dark-natures-nighttime-world-tv-review\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T15:12:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T21:12:20","slug":"the-dark-natures-nighttime-world-tv-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/the-dark-natures-nighttime-world-tv-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark: Nature\u2019s Nighttime World – TV Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

This synopsis<\/a>\u00a0of the new nature show The Dark\u00a0makes us wish our cable package included BBC2:<\/p>\n

Advanced thermal imaging cameras and motion sensitive cameras enabled the team to unearth the secrets of nocturnal animals in south and central America.<\/p>\n

And researchers spent long hours making sure they were in the right place at the right time. It made for thrilling viewing.<\/p>\n

Jaguars were shown moving stealthily, hunting nesting turtles by the dark of night.<\/p>\n


\nThere was remarkable footage of pumas with fresh kills but the finest sequence, however, was of a jaguar prowling at night.<\/p>\n

The large male big cat walked past a number of turtles before revealing his real interest \u2013 the scent of another jaguar.<\/p>\n

The breathtaking footage was captured with remarkable precision.<\/p>\n

Another jaguar joined the parade before walking towards the camerawoman\u2019s hide for an inspection. The footage was quite incredible and the male and female cats eventually walked away into the night, so as to breed. Later, the same camera woman found herself inches away from a jaguar, which walked up to her hide out of curiosity.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, she didn\u2019t scream; which probably helped to save her life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This synopsis\u00a0of the new nature show The Dark\u00a0makes us wish our cable package included BBC2: Advanced thermal imaging cameras and motion sensitive cameras enabled the team to unearth the secrets of nocturnal animals in south and central America. And researchers spent long hours making sure they were in the right place at the right time. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wildlife-conservation","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6335,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/6335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}