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202353 minGdocumentary

7.0/ 10(5 ratings)• TMDB

The Wild Sides

202353 minGdocumentary

7.0/ 10(5 ratings)• TMDB

In Botswana's Mashatu, elephants, cheetahs, leopards, jackals, and baboons coexist as their environment shifts between drought, flood, and abundance.

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In Botswana's Mashatu, elephants, cheetahs, leopards, jackals, and baboons coexist as their environment shifts between drought, flood, and abundance.

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Charles Barton

Charles Bartondirector

Dorothy Peterson

Dorothy Petersoncast

Edith Fellows

Edith Fellowscast

Charles Peckcast

Tommy Bond

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In the extreme landscape of Mashatu in Botswana, all animal families' paths cross; each one's plot is affected by the next. Elephants, cheetahs, leopards, jackals, and baboons live together as their home experiences drought, flood, and abundance.

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