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Season 1

  • S01E01 The River that Swallows All Rivers

    • January 30, 2001
    • BBC Two

    The safari begins with some startling revelations - some of the most primative fish in the world, a bizarre-looking bird the size of a man, and secret places where forest animal congregate.

  • S01E02 Spirits of the Forest

    • February 6, 2001
    • BBC Two

    The BaAka pygmies of the Congo are the supreme naturalists of the rainforest. Yet they tell of a huge dinosaur-like creature with a single horn called Mokele Mbembe, which lives in the swamps of the Ndoki.

  • S01E03 Footprints in the Forest

    • February 13, 2001
    • BBC Two

    Congo has the largest concentration of primates in the world, and the forests are home to all three closest living relatives of humans: chimps, bonobos - pygmy chimps - and gorillas.

  • S01E04 On Location

    • BBC Two

    The filming of Congo.

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