Animal Face-Off

Duel of Animals ( Alternative title: The Duel; struggle of the animal machine ) is a 12 episodes comprehensive popular science animal documentary series that is broadcast in Germany on Super RTL. As early as 2005 it was shown at the German pay TV offshoot of the Discovery Channel as German premiere under the title The Duel, followed in 2007 by the Free-TV premiere on DMAX under the same name. In September 2009 DMAX repeated the complete documentation as a struggle of the animal machine.

Originally the series on the Discovery Channel after March 21, 2004 and September 12, 2004 broadcast. A sequence lasts depends on the advertising used about 60 minutes, only the last sequence comprises about 120 minutes.

Action

In each episode, two animals are selected that must deliver their abilities and powers in combat. In general, there are animals that are found in the reality of a similar habitat and therefore sometimes fighting among themselves unsubscribe (the only exception is the third episode, as the area of ​​distribution of lion and tiger in India no longer overlap ). In order to view these struggles on the computer, develop mechanics together with technicians, zoologists and biologists after head, teeth and mouth templates of the animals concerned machines to try out what power they exercise and what movements the animals are capable of. Here, you always have two scientists to the side, which deal with the illustrated animals and bring the current state of research and knowledge from the study of animals in the computer models. After various experiments, to represent the respective capabilities of the animals, is a final fight place in a virtual ring.

Virtual struggles of the first season

  • Saltwater Crocodile against white shark Winner: Great White Shark
  • African elephant against rhinoceros Winner: African Elephant
  • Asian Lion vs Bengal Winner: Asiatic Lion
  • Hippo against Bull winner: Hippo
  • Wolf v Puma Winner: Puma
  • Polar Bear against Walrus Winner: walrus
  • Siberian tiger against Brown Bear Winner: Brown Bear
  • Lion vs Nile crocodile Winner: Nile crocodile
  • Anaconda against Jaguar Winner: anaconda
  • Mountain Gorilla against Leopard Winner: Gorilla
  • American Alligator against American Black Winner: Black Bear
  • Colossus Squid against sperm whale Winner: Sperm Whale
Nature documentary DMAX (TV channel) African bush elephant White rhinoceros Bull shark Eunectes
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