Another National Geographic documentary that shows up on Disney Plus in the films section was "The Croc that Ate Jaws" another somewhat sordid title for a documentary that explores interactions between two apex carnivores.
Though Crocodilla are traditionally found in freshwater and Sharks are traditional found in saltwater, increasing numbers of both species are leading to them competing for food in areas, such as the Florida Everglades, where the waters mix. With evidence of encounters between the two starting to be recorded, a team of scientists look to tag both Alligators and Sharks and monitor their interactions.
I wouldn't count this a spoiler, but it's prudent to the show that the Floridian research really doesn't come up with very much. They do strap cameras to both creatures but there's no footage on interaction there at all. The tagging does suggest that they share the same space but the whole experiment doesn't come up with very much. Elsewhere, there is various bits of footage from around the world, a head of a Crocodile that washed up on a South African Beach, another killing a turtle but then having his lunch stolen by small sharks picking at it and another of both a shark and Saltwater Alligator chewing on a dead Whale carcass. All this footage is reasonably interesting and is enthusiastically explained by a marine scientist, but none of it really fits in with that clickbait-y title.
It feels like the logical thing to do would be to get your footage and then decide what the documentary is about, but this feels like the title came first and the footage is engineered to fit that. Not without value, or interest, but misleading.
Though Crocodilla are traditionally found in freshwater and Sharks are traditional found in saltwater, increasing numbers of both species are leading to them competing for food in areas, such as the Florida Everglades, where the waters mix. With evidence of encounters between the two starting to be recorded, a team of scientists look to tag both Alligators and Sharks and monitor their interactions.
I wouldn't count this a spoiler, but it's prudent to the show that the Floridian research really doesn't come up with very much. They do strap cameras to both creatures but there's no footage on interaction there at all. The tagging does suggest that they share the same space but the whole experiment doesn't come up with very much. Elsewhere, there is various bits of footage from around the world, a head of a Crocodile that washed up on a South African Beach, another killing a turtle but then having his lunch stolen by small sharks picking at it and another of both a shark and Saltwater Alligator chewing on a dead Whale carcass. All this footage is reasonably interesting and is enthusiastically explained by a marine scientist, but none of it really fits in with that clickbait-y title.
It feels like the logical thing to do would be to get your footage and then decide what the documentary is about, but this feels like the title came first and the footage is engineered to fit that. Not without value, or interest, but misleading.
