Secret Life of the Rainforest (3D)

2011 FESTIVAL
50 min.
Filmmaker: Julian Thomas.
At the crossroads between South and North America, Panama is the perfect place to see evolution in action and understand how animals and plants interact. Nowhere can this interaction be seen more vividly than on Barro Colorado Island. Every year scientists descend on the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. By scaling the treetops from canopy to forest floor, they investigate how animals and plants have adapted and sometimes manipulate each other for survival. Secret Life of the Rainforest reveals ants that fly, the sleep secrets of sloths, bats that hunt ringtones and many other marvels of evolution, all in gorgeous 3D.