Duel of animals

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Television broadcast
German title Duel of animals
Original title Animal Face-Off
Country of production United States
length 60/120 (including advertising) minutes
Episodes 12 in 1 season
genre Edutainment
First broadcast 2004 on Discovery Channel (US)
German-language
first broadcast		 2005 on Discovery Channel (D)

Duell der Tiere (alternative title: Das Duell ; Kampf der Tiermaschinen ) is a 12 episode popular science documentary series that is broadcast in Germany on Super RTL . As early as 2005, it was shown on the German pay TV branch of the Discovery Channel as a German first broadcast under the title Das Duell , followed by the free TV premiere on DMAX in 2007 under the same name. In September 2009 DMAX repeated the entire documentary as a battle of the animal machines .

The series was originally broadcast on the American Discovery Channel between March 21, 2004 and September 12, 2004. One episode lasts about 60 minutes, depending on the advertising used, only the last episode lasts about 120 minutes.

action

In each episode, two animals are selected who have to use their abilities and powers in battle. As a rule, these are animals that come from a similar habitat in reality and therefore sometimes fight among themselves (the only exception is the third episode, as the range of the lion and tiger in India no longer overlap). In order to be able to represent these fights on the computer, mechanics work with technicians, zoologists and biologists to develop machines based on the skulls, teeth and claws of the animals in question, in order to try out what force they exert and what movements the animals are capable of. There are always two scientists at your side who deal with the animals shown and who bring the current state of research and knowledge from researching the animals into the computer models. After various experiments to demonstrate the respective abilities of the animals, a final fight takes place in a virtual arena.

Season one virtual battles

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