CPs on TV again!
Fernando Rivadavia Lopes (ferndriv@usp.br)
Thu, 24 Aug 1995 16:47:52 -0500 (CDT)
Last night I saw another program on the Discovery Channel on the
Roraima Highlands. That's the 3rd in about a week! This one was on Auyan
Tepui and was apparently made for German TV. Unfortunately, CPs were
shown really briefly. Yet they did something most never do. They showed
traps of U.humboldtii up close. They didn't really show the plants as a
whole though, only a guy removing a stolon from a Vriesia. Then they
showed B.reducta and did a cool take where the viewer was taken on a dive
into the tube down to the dead insect mass at the bottom. No Drosera nor
Heliamphora were shown, though that 'Jorge' who was studying the
insects trapped by Heliamphora in the Mt.Cuquenam/Mt.Roraima program was
there again.
Unfortunately, I got the program on the go once again, when they
were in a helicopter apparently just reaching the top, and thus don't
know how much I missed. Most of the program was devoted to their futile
search of aquatic "dinosaurs" spotted in a lagoon by one of the team's
wacky members, who interrupted the other's plant researches all of a
sudden, screaming that he'd just seen 4 of these "dinosaurs".
Fernando Rivadavia
Sao Paulo, Brasil