Man and the Earth
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Man and the Earth

El hombre y la Tierra is a 1974 television series produced by Radio Televisión Española.

16. The Island of the Gannets

The Island of the Gannets
0.0Jul 30, 1974 · 30 min

On a flat islet covered with glasswort, in the middle of the Venezuelan Coral Sea, brown boobies nest. The reproductive biology of this immense colony is the subject of this episode of Man and the Earth. For a European, explains Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, "someone accustomed to animals fearing his presence, the most surprising thing is the calm with which these boobies welcome these new 'animals.'"