Scorpion DVDs/Videos (?)

parabuthus

Arachnodemon
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I saw a brilliant documentary some time ago which had David Attenborough narrating. It was solely about scorpions as far as I can remember, and finished up with a Parabuthus transvaalicus... being the daddy of all scorps ;P and chasing off a meer cat (I think) by spraying it's venom. It was extremely well made, a great watch.

Did anybody else see this program? And does anybody know if it is for sale on DVD or VHS? I'd love to get a copy of it, or any other Scorpion documentary for that matter.

Any info would be appreciated.
 

darkeye

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Was that "Scorpions and Their Venomous Cousins"???? It was on Discovery or Animal Planet a few years back.

I have been looking for it for almost a year now (taped over my son's copy :wall: )

Or not?
 

Predator

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I havent seen it but by the way it sounds I would like to.
 

fusion121

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It was an episode of "wildlife on one" I seem to recall, you can probably get it from the BBC, they are making all of their nature documentaries open access.
 

ThatGuy

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i know what your talking about but i saw it like 2 years back, but that would be sweet to find it on dvd.
 

Gsc

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I just checked Ebay- No scorpion videos (other than the rock band...lol). Maybe one will pop up sooner or later. Over hte years, there have been a few scorpion videos/shows...I too would love to egt ahold of a few!
 

parabuthus

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Yeah it was a great show, and it was on terrestial television... Wildlife on One, I think. Awesome program.

It sucks that there aren't any documentaries for scorpions to hand easily, doesn't it? There is a bit of money to be made there... maybe the people in the right places will wisen up.

I am going to check the BBC website (if they have one for their Wildlife programs).

Thanks for the responses guys.
 

Fluid Filter

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I remember seeing an hour long bbc (ithink) program called "A Scorpion's Tail" (rather than "tale") and did a brief search and couldnt find anything. Maybe someone else will have better luck.
 

fusion121

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The Animal channel (in canada) on cable showed a hour long program called "the scorpions tale" just the other day, it wasn't very good and they kept on misidentifying species.
 
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