The World About Us (1967 - 1987): Forest in the Clouds
(1977)
What is a jungle? How do its creatures find a place to live in what appears to be an inpenetrable green tangle? The forests of Costa Rica provide some intriguing answers.
Agoutis, armadillos, scorpions and spiders coexist on the forest floor, while high above bromeliad plants sit on the trees sheltering a secret world within. Huge, strangling fig trees rely for existence on wasps as small as match-heads; ants hide in potato ferns, and paper wasps show an ingenious way of keeping dry. In this haunt of bellbird and howler monkey lives that most exotic of jungle birds the resplendent quetzal, sacred to the Mayas. Rarely seen and perhaps filmed for the first time it moves through the forest that weeps its own rain.
