- Enter the lush and shadowy wild, where baboons rule the day, leopards own the trees, and African Goshawks reign over the skies. The world's jungles host some of the fastest animals on the planet. Vipers literally strike at lightning speed, spiders leap toward their prey at distances 70 times their body length and, with the flick of their tongue, chameleons snatch their targets at speeds of 900 MPH. This is one high-speed trek you don't want to miss.—Anonymous
- Jungle hunters are masters of disguise. But speed is their secret weapon. A chameleon shoots its ballistic tongue out with five times more g-force than a fighter jet. A Gaboon Viper strikes as fast as lighting. And Leopards take to the trees in a murderous ballet. The jungles explode in an orgy of speed, designed purely to kill.
- Human beings believe they are the masters of speed, with their super cars, rockets and supersonic jets. But the natural world puts even these metallic speed demons to shame. This episode of Speed Kills explores the jungles of the world. Despite their sedate appearance, they host some of the fastest animals on the planet. And they use this speed, to kill.
The secretive animals of the rainforests are masters of disguise. Hidden in plain sight, some dont move for weeks. But when they unleash their masterstroke of movement, the speed is astonishing. The flick of the chameleons tongue unleashes an acceleration of 50 Gs - five times that of a fighter jet. A lightning-quick strike of the Gaboon Viper is the fastest of any snake in the world. The jumping spider uses hydraulics to jump up to 70 times its body length - in a flash.
These spectacular moments, too fast for the eye to see, are revealed with high-speed cameras. What happens in less than half a second in the jungle is viewed in High Definition detail at 1000 frames per second. The result is a jaw-dropping glimpse into another world.
Our portal into this world is the dramatic suspense-fueled sequence of an African jungle monster on the hunt. A Gaboon Viper lays an ambush for an unsuspecting jungle rat. Willing to wait for weeks for the rat to step into his strike zone, its patience is rewarded when it sinks its massive fangs the longest in the world into the rat with a lightning fast strike. In a scene straight out of a horror film, the Gaboon viper then swallows its immobilized prey alive.
But how do these jungle monsters unleash this crazy speed?
What are the latent coiled mechanisms that lie inside their bodies?
Speed Kills, Jungles also reveals in spectacular 3D animation the inner workings of these speed demons bodies. The crazy bone and muscle structure of a chameleons ballistic tongue. The coiled spring mechanisms in the Gaboon Vipers massive bodies. And the secret combs on an owls wings allowing them to fly in absolute silence.
These, and other, assassins of the jungle are showcased in spectacular slo mo action and never-seen-before CGI animations. From the nightmarish Tiger Fish on ferocious hunts in the jungle rivers to Leopards taking to the trees in a murderous aerial ballet. Ant Lions are the underworld monsters creating avalanches with their giant claws, while Goshawks maneuver through the jungle trees in a flight that fighter jets cannot match.
The jungles explode in an orgy of speed, designed purely to kill.
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