Wild Lizard Chase

  • By Gisela Kaufmann
  • Posted 10.01.09
  • NOVA

NOVA producer Gisela Kaufmann says monitor lizards are the most challenging animals she has filmed in 20 years of shooting in the field. These highly alert creatures use every trick in the book to evade human observers and their cameras. In this slide show, get a taste of the obstacles Kaufmann and her crew faced in making "Lizard Kings."

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In this slide show, producer Gisela Kaufmann illustrates the challenges of filming monitors, the wiliest of lizards.

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(Gisela Kaufmann)
Courtesy Malcolm Ludgate
(all others)
© 2009 Kaufmann Productions P/L

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