Inside the Harsh Lives of Wild Carnivores: New at Reason

'The Hunt'Based on the approximately 1.2 zillion bugs-and-bunnies-avengers with Twitter and Facebook accounts who wanted to disembowel and eat a Minnesota hunter last year for killing Zimbabwe’s saintly Cecil the Lion last year, I’m guessing an eight-week documentary revealing that the animal kingdom is in large part composed of creatures who are neither pacifists nor vegans is going to come as a shocking and even traumatic surprise.

For misanthropes who still sport “NUKE THE WHALES” buttons from their last Fleshapoids concert, though, BBC’s The Hunt is likely to be a sublime experience. Orcas inflicting mass infanticide on humpbacks! South African falcons gorging on winged Indian termites! Ethiopian wolves ravaging giant mole rats! Nature in all its maniacal blood-drinking glory! Television critic Glenn Garvin explains more.

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