72 Dangerous Animals: Latin America

I totally agree with the low raters. It's a pity, they couldn't make a real documentary about these beautiful, wonderful animals.

The original host as well as the german one speak like they would host a horror show or the like. It just sounds ridiculous. And the aggressive music throughout the whole show makes it worst.

On top of it there's barely useful information.

This series is everything but educational with occasionally even misleading or wrong information

It's a primitive representation of these wonderful animals, they even devalue them as creatures and killers, with an aggressively speaking host and even more aggressive music the whole series through!

If you want to scare your children, please show them this dreadful nonsense

This show wants to scare and desensitize people to animal abuse by showing edge cases of animal attacks. It's really sad that producers need to make money that way.

Documentary noun 1. a movie or a television or radio program that provides a factual record or report. synonyms: factual program, factual film

This show should not be in the documentary category because it is more like a reality TV show for people who would get bored watching an actual documentary. It gives shallow inconsistent information about a bunch of animals and then proceeds to subjectively rank them in a game-show fashion. The music is melodramatic even in the most unrelated scenes, the narrator sounds like he's hosting Fear Factor, and the information given about the animals are completely arbitrary. The information varies from their venom etc, to their shamanic purposes and how shamans curse those who hunt the animal without holy permission etc. The ranking criteria is non-existent; the show claims to 'rank' the most dangerous animals, but then proceeds to rank non-deadly ants, venomous frogs, and stingrays in the same criteria, which is never clarified and is totally absurd. I still do not understand their rankings, is it pain, lethality, chance of encounter? Can anyone imagine BBC Planet Earth ranking biomes or species, it's just stupid. On top of this, the experts who are interviewed are not relevant in their fields, and gives the impression that the documentary makers just interviewed whoever they could get a hold of. This is as documentary-like as a History channel special about Aliens and Thanksgiving. If you're looking to get informed about wildlife, toxins, biology, or anything factual, then steer clear of this show. However, if you just want to sit down with your friends, get drunk, and mindlessly watch a weird gameshow-reality TV-documentary mashup, for giggles, then this show will not disappoint you.

I've learned a lot about wildlife in other areas of the world. I don't always agree with their rankings, but the rankings aren't the point. The point is just seeing the different wildlife in the area and getting a snippet of that specific animal or insect in under an hour (seems most episodes are in the upper 40 minute range).

Looking at other reviews on this I'd have to say that maybe animal activists shouldn't watch this type of program, or basically any nature documentary on Discovery, Animal Planet, etc., as none of them are really designed to your agenda. I applaud the program for simply telling why people should stay away from dangerous animals. But I would like to point out that there have been several examples in the series where they play advocate to animal rights causes and discuss abuse or endangered aspects of animals. I'd also point out that no one on the series advocates harming any of the animals, even those who have been attacked.