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| Mark O'Shea (left) comes up against the aggressive (and terrifyingly fast) three metre long Atlantic Coastal Bushmaster (right). | |||||
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O'Shea's
Dangerous Creatures - (Yorkshire Associated Productions for Animal Planet/Discovery/Channel Four, 2000) (30'/BetaSX/16x9) Director/Series
Producer: Martin Belderson
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The most dangerous predator in the few remaining shreds of Brazil's Atlantic Coastal rainforest is the bushmaster. Its big, its aggressive and its deadly. And with the heat-seeking pits that give it an extra sense, the bushmaster is not the kind of snake you'd want to trip over at night. Not that that stops Mark O'Shea from heading into the rainforest at midnight in his search for a specimen to milk for anti-venom production. |
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Bahia
and Alagoas in Brazil's north-east were the locations of Mark O'Shea's
search.
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