Jaguar Beach
On a remote stretch of Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, the lush, volcanic landscape gives way to a startlingly different world: a dry tropical forest — one of the last of its kind on the planet—where a newly resurgent population of jaguars has reclaimed their kingdom. In the waters at its edge, legions of olive ridley sea turtles emerge from the ocean for one of nature’s most spectacular events, a mass nesting ritual called the arribada. Here, the two unlikely creatures meet, with spectacular consequences for both their species and the vastly different ecosystems they inhabit. Narrated by Chris Morgan.
CREDITS
A production of the WNET Group, Terra Mater Studios GmbH, Coneflower Studios and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios.
PRODUCED BY
Filipe Deandrade, Brian Moghari, Ann Johnson Prum, Doug Shultz
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
John Rubin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Ivo Filatsch, Sabine Holzer, Sean B. Carroll,
Jared Lipworth, Fred Kaufman
NARRATED BY
Chris Morgan
WRITTEN BY
Doug Shulz
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY
Filipe Deandrade, Brian Moghari, Ann Johnson Prum
EDITED BY
Mark Fason