Mammals in Majesty on France 5

It is not an old monkey that we learn to make a face. In a West African jungle, a group of young chimpanzees discovers a honey -full bee nest. Golden Ambroisia delights this gourmet but clogged, which is copiously sting by the guards of the hive. A emeritus chimpanzee, the marked face of the folds of the experience, observes the scene with dismay. He seizes a long stick, which he breaks at the right size and, with a few assured gestures of the new tool, harvested the precious nectar which he tastes under the gaze of his disciples.

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There is something Anatomy lesson of Rembrandt in this table taken from the last animal documentary of the BBC Natural History Unit, to whom we owe the two fabulous seasons of Prehistoric planet . Dinosaur placids, however, on the menu for this new delivery. Co -produced with France Télévisions, Mammals, the champions of survival is interested in vertebrate patients who conquered the earth in the wake of the disappearance of tyrannosaurs and their affidals, 65 million years ago; A proliferation to put on the account of remarkable adaptability and an unparalleled ingenuity.

Virginie Efira’s narration

Carried by the narration of Virginie Efira, the documentary illustrates this resilience by more endearing sequences than the other. Over the coast of New Zealand, groups of false orcas are friends with dolphins, who have become their play and hunting companions. In Canada, in Hudson’s bay, a fourth lurks around a polar bear that lets her peck in her meals. Much further south, with grassouchettes of Patagonia is a gargantuan feast of the wrecks of a fish market, with the complicity of the inhabitants of a Chilean town.

With incomparable know-how, directors Jo Avery and Scott Alexander demonstrate that it is not enough to stick a team of filming in the Basques in the animal world to draw superb thumbnails. Filmed from one extreme environment to the other, from the Sonora desert, in Arizona, to the depths of the Jungles of Uganda, the scenes gently approach Etruscan Musagues, starred Taupes and other cups with toque of Sri Lanka, revealed in a velvety staging. There, a tripling stops in very close plan on the eye of a lioness, sublime egg yolk fixed on an antelope. Tension, Sergio Leone way.

Elsewhere, a perfectly composed plan presents a malicious babouin seated, knees folded. The falsely disinterested look, he hunts the hungry veran who exceeds him, not counted, in the hope of tasting an appetizing crocodile egg. But the lizard ignores to serve as a diversion … with observer placid, of a simian duplicity. And then, some moments of grace sublimate these magnificent images. This is the case with the upset loves of a Fennec, abandoned by his beautiful in the dunes of the Sahara, under a full -moon night. Another flawless.