The Small Big: Taiwan Lesser Salamander

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Taiwan lesser salamanders are not fast, but they do exhibit a useful protective mechanism to ward off snakes, their natural enemies. However, they have no defense when facing a life-threatening crisis, such as a mudslide after a sudden heavy rain in their ever-dwindling habitat.


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The Small Big

The documentary adopts the latest VR technology to record the ecological behaviors of the eight endemic species in Taiwan, including pareas atayal, emerald green treefrog, Formosan hill stag beetle, pachyrrhynchus sarcitis, Formosan macaque, Taiwanese fiddler crab, Mikado pheasant and Formosan lan