Travel in the Late Eocene

Walking with Beasts

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Episode 2 : "Whale Killer"

Filming Location: Florida & Mexico
36 Million Years Ago

The second episode is set in late Eocene, when the polar caps froze over and drastically changed the Earth's ocean currents and climate. The first part of the episode explains how an early whale, Basilosaurus mates and how the world is changing into an ocean famine.

On land there is an Andrewsarchus driven to the beach to feed on turtles. The narrator explains that Andrewsarchus, the largest mammal predator ever to walk the earth is a sheep in wolf's clothing.

Back in the ocean, a starving mother Basilosaurus is forced to hunt in the mangrove swamps. Unable to catch the early monkey Apidium, she is then hunting a Moeritherium.

The Moeritherium crawls on to land, but in the mangroves, land does not last long. However the Moeritherium escapes and the Basilosaurus returns to the sea. The cast moves on to land where a herd of Embolotherium struggle to survive: one of their calves dies and two Andrewsarchus feast on it but the mother Embolotherium drives them away because she has a strong bond with her offspring, even if it is dead.

Back in the sea the mother Basilosaurus preys on a group of Dorudon and is successful. The episode ends with the mother Basilosaurus swimming with her newborn calf.

Narrator:
Kenneth Branagh

Production Crew:
Director:
Nigel Paterson

Writers:
Kate Bartlett
Jasper James
Michael Olmert

Producers:
Tim Haines
Jasper James
Nigel Paterson

Film Editors:
Greg Smith
Andrew Wilks

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Sources: Wikipedia.com, IMDb.com

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