River Monsters - Pack of Teeth

Honestly, I confess: this is my favorite episode of RM S4 up to date, for several reasons.

First of all, this is an episode set in Africa. I like Africa; make no mistake, I like nature in general, but Africa so far is the best for some reason I cannot put my finger on. Maybe it's because JW in his show depicts it so colorfully: the animals, the native people and their culture, and, of course, the fish. The witch doctor's performance in this episode was amazing and certainly interesting - I have enjoyed watching it a lot.

I also felt great regret to the victims of the Nile crocodile's attack: the second-biggest crocodile in the modern world, the armored king of Africa's swamps and rivers isn't very impressed by the latest alpha species on land and feeds on humans as if they were any other sort of prey - a far call from the highly urbanized city life of Canada and States...

Of course, the Nile crocodile was just one of the species featured in this RW episode - from the small tilapia to the elegant egret to the massive hippopotamus were shown very vividly and vivaciously - very much alive. This is a clear contrast to Russian landscape that appears to be devoid of any life other than people - and people are dying out as well...

The fish themselves number two, not counting the incidental tilapia: the catfish and the African tigerfish. The catfish... is the catfish: there are more RM episodes that do feature a catfish of some species than vice versa. You just go to accept it.

The tigerfish, however, were something else: powerful and wicked-looking they're worthy cousins to the goliath tigerfish that appeared in the previous seasons. Unlike the goliath, this species hunts in packs, apparently, and it is just as deadly as the South American piranhas, only more so, since even this species of tigerfish is larger than the piranhas are.

In any case, I certainly enjoyed viewing this episode, and I hope that the following episodes of RM will be just as good as this one.