This is a curiously constructed documentary as it starts as if it were an animation, and one rather oppressively scored by Bach too, before we join a beautifully lithe white stoat munching on a bird. It scarpers just as a wolf arrives and then that animal swiftly procures itself an unlucky white rabbit. That feast doesn’t last long, though, for an owl promptly arrives and after an off-camera struggle it emerges, airborne, with the carcass whilst our canine licks his wounded paw. The stoat, meantime, seems to have survived ok atop some branches and thence we go back for some more rousing organ …
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