A Shepherd's Bestiary: The Hidden Animal World of Iberia's Mountain Nomads (Documentary, 2022)

Once our ancestors had abandoned the hunter-gatherer way of life after discovering agriculture and their nomadic camps had been transformed into sedentary communities, we humans gradually lost the close contact we had with nature and the animal species that accompany us on this fabulous journey called life. Nevertheless, not all men and women set down roots in the earth. Shepherds continued to wander in search of fresh pasturelands to feed their flocks. Few artifacts remain to tell us about those tough men who worked in the natural landscape and acquired deep knowledge of the world around them. During the long hours of solitude next to their herds, the most skillful of them created unique and fascinating objects of everyday use, some of them quite beautiful. As if it were a field notebook, this lovely bestiary offers us an opportunity to learn about the surroundings in which a humble shepherd lived, more than one hundred years ago. A world that we invite you to explore, where the frontier between the domesticated and the wild is hard to distinguish. ------- Chapters ▷ 00:00 - Introduction ▷ 00:45 - Life on the Move - The Nomads of the Iberian Mountains ▷ 01:29 - The Carved Horn of Inacio Lucas ▷ 02:26 - Bestiary - A Window into the Wild Past ▷ 03:39 - From Symbols to Shepherd Art ▷ 04:18 - The Story Etched in Horn - Faith, Work, and Animals ▷ 06:24 - The Birth of the Dehesa - Manmade Wilderness ▷ 08:04 - The Wild Iberia - Wolves, Deer, and Hidden Lives ▷ 09:33 - The Iberian Wolf - Master Hunter of the Mediterranean ▷ 12:18 - The Autumn Rut - Battle of the Red Deer ▷ 17:24 - The Wild Boar - Armored Survivor of the Forest ▷ 20:26 - The Secret World of the Marten and the Night Hunters ▷ 23:18 - The Genet - Africa's Gift to Europe ▷ 25:05 - The Fox - Cunning Guardian of the Fields ▷ 28:24 - Lords of the Sky - The Golden Eagle and Red Kite ▷ 30:42 - The Rabbit - Lifeblood of Iberian Predators ▷ 35:28 - The Grey Heron and Stone-Curlew - Masters of Water and Land ▷ 40:21 - The Last Bear - Myth and Memory of the Iberian Mountains ▷ 45:35 - The Shepherd's Legacy Lives On - Inacio Lucas and His Art ▷ 46:30 - Credits #documentary #animals #wildlife #shepherd #nature #bestiary #animalbehavior #animalplanet ------- Subscribe to wocomoWILDLIFE: https://goo.gl/L5puvQ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wocomo ------- Original title: Bestiary - A Shepherd's Legacy A film by José Antonio Vallejo © 2022, Licensed by Albatross ------- Videos about animals, aquatic life and nature: wocomoWILDLIFE offers high-quality entertainment. The films on our channel are produced by leading production companies. Check out our other channels to watch high quality documentaries: ▷ wocomoHUMANITY: https://www.youtube.com/@wocomoHUMANITY ▷ wocomoDOCS: https://www.youtube.com/@wocomodocs ▷ wocomoHISTORY: https://www.youtube.com/@wocomoHISTORY ▷ wocomoTRAVEL: https://www.youtube.com/@wocomoTRAVEL ▷ wocomoCOOK: https://www.youtube.com/@wocomocook WocomoWILDLIFE is part of the Wocomo channel network by NIKITA VENTURES. Wocomo - wonderful content in motion.