This kicks off very much in the style of a Disney movie as we watch a family of hungry raccoons gambolling around a meadow high on the Apennines before they climb a tree and make shirt shrift of it’s juicy leaves. That introduces us to our guide for much of the next hour or so as he leads us on a tour of the varied flora and fauna of his home. Aided by a jolly score, we a wide range of critters from praying mantises having a duel to beetles carrying twice their body weight in perfectly spherical dung! There are morphing chrysalises, chewing caterpillars and a great formicarium on his patch as …
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