The film tells about the flora and fauna of China.
Panorama of a part of Beijing.
People enter the gates of the Beijing Zoo.
Visitors on the alleys of the zoo.
Panorama of a part of the zoo.
Storks and pelicans on the bank of the pond.
Pelicans swim in the pond.
Flamingos and other waterfowl of the Beijing Zoo.
Panorama of a part of the zoo, visitors on the alleys.
A South American toucan living in the zoo.
Visitors look at the birds through the glass.
Macaws of different colors sit on the branches, children's faces.
Visitors sketch the parrots.
African giraffes in the cages of the zoo.
Giraffe heads, a girl sketches giraffes.
Giraffes eat leaves from the upper branches of trees.
Adults and children go to the enclosure with red pandas.
Red pandas in the enclosure.
Red pandas on a tree eat leaves.
Faces of zoo visitors.
Red pandas lick each other.
Giant pandas eat bamboo leaves in the enclosure, play with each other.
A panda gnaws on a bamboo stalk.
A visitor takes a photo of the panda.
Zoo visitors near cages with monkeys.
The monkeys in the cages swing on rings and swings, play with each other.
A monkey with a pocket mirror in its paws.
The monkeys look into the mirror, try it with their teeth.
Zoo visitors examine the monkeys.
Monkeys play in a cage.
A monkey sits on a perch.
Panorama of the jungle in southern China.
View of part of a river flowing among forested hills.
1959
Beijing
Summer
A herd of elephants on the bank of a river at a watering hole.
Elephants walk through a clearing and a river.
A baby elephant is bathing in the water.
Elephants in a clearing.
An elephant is tearing grass with its trunk.
A baby elephant next to a female elephant.
Golden-headed weavers on tree branches and near their nests in the Yunnan forest.
A weaver in a nest.
A young rhinoceros in the coastal reeds.
A hornbill on a tree branch.
A monkey on the bank of a reservoir.
A species of thin-bodied monkey.
A golden pheasant in the grass.
A monkey climbs a tree, jumps along the branches, and eats leaves.
Various species of monkeys that live in the jungles of southern China.
A gibbon jumps along the branches of trees.
A leopard sitting in ambush for monkeys.
A gibbon escapes from a leopard by hiding in the thickets.
A leopard searches for prey, a flying squirrel on the eyelid of a tree.
Mundjak deer walking through the forest.
A macaque with cubs on a tree branch.
Monkeys climb vines, life of monkeys in the forest.
A macaque with cubs gnaw bark from a broken branch.
Quarrel of monkeys.
A cub eats leaves from a tree.
A mother with cubs drink water from a stream.
Monkey cubs climb trees.
1959
China
Summer
A boa constrictor crawls up a tree trunk.
A monkey with its cub is saving itself from a boa constrictor.
A baby monkey is hanging on a branch.
A boa constrictor crawls along the branches of a tree.
The monkeys are saving themselves from the boa constrictor by climbing along the branches.
The boa constrictor takes aim at its cub.
The monkey saves its cub and carries it away.
The boa constrictor climbs down the tree and crawls away along the grass.
The monkeys with their cubs are sitting on the branches.
A bear is looking for berries in the grass, a monkey is eating a banana.
The monkeys are screaming to their relatives to signal danger.
The bear is climbing a tree, the monkeys are screaming.
The bear climbs down the tree.
The monkeys attack the bear.
The bear runs away into the forest.
The monkeys are in the trees.
A tiger comes out of the jungle and looks out for prey.
The tiger cubs are sitting in the grass.
A tiger is hunting.
The tiger cubs are playing with a tigress.
A tiger cub is hunting a bird, hiding in the grass.
A tigress is playing with a tiger cub.
The tigress is hiding behind the trees.
The tiger cubs are sitting in the grass.
A tiger is going hunting.
1959
China
Summer
A young doe is eating leaves from a tree.
A parrot climbs out of its hollow.
The doe goes deep into the jungle, walks through the grass.
A tiger and a doe in the jungle.
The tiger is in ambush, preparing to jump.
The doe starts to run, the tiger pursues her.
The tiger pounces on the doe, trying to bite her to death.
A monkey watches the fight.
The tiger drags its prey into the jungle.
Monkeys watch the tiger from a tree branch.
Baby monkeys play on a tree branch, climb vines.
Monkeys climb up tree trunks, play with each other.
Monkeys eat berries from the branches, fight among themselves.
Monkeys eat leaves from a tree branch.
A bird flies out of the hollow.
A monkey takes eggs from the nest in the hollow, eats them.
A monkey climbs up a tree trunk.
A bird on a branch.
The monkeys continue to destroy the nest in the hollow, eat the eggs they have obtained.
The bird defends its nest, distracts the monkey.
The monkeys finally destroy the nest in the hollow.
The monkey tries to stick its paw into the hollow, runs away.
A cobra crawls out of the hollow.
The cobra crawls along the ground, the monkey watches it.
A frog sits on the ground, the head of the cobra.
The cobra bites the frog.
The head of the cobra, the frog dies.
A monkey on a branch.
1959
China
Summer
A cobra is looking for its prey.
A mongoose appears, the cobra watches it.
A fight between a mongoose and a cobra, a monkey watches the fight from a tree.
A monkey climbs up the branches.
A mongoose kills a cobra, eats its meat.
Evening jungle views.
Monkeys are sleeping on tree branches.
A deer in the jungle.
A civet looks out of a hollow.
A civet is on a branch looking for food.
Lemurs or slow lorises on tree branches.
Lorises slowly move from branch to branch during their nightly search for food.
A loris eats a caught grasshopper.
Lorises sit on tree branches, settle down for a daytime sleep before dawn.
View of a part of a river in the jungle.
Monkeys are looking for food in the grass.
A monkey is drinking water from the river.
One of the monkeys is carefully approaching the shore.
Monkeys are drinking water from the river.
A monkey climbs down from a tree and approaches the water's edge.
A crocodile is swimming down the river.
The monkeys drink water and rush away from the bank towards the trees.
Ducks are in the water, a crocodile is swimming underwater, looking out for prey.
A duck is splashing in the water.
The crocodile is frozen before throwing.
The crocodile's head, the crocodile is diving into the water.
Ducks are in the water, the crocodile is watching them.
The crocodile is approaching its prey.
The crocodile grabs one of the ducks with its teeth.
The ducks rush to cover.
Circles on the water.
A monkey on a tree branch, peasants are working in their vegetable garden.
A monkey on a tree branch, a panorama of flower thickets.
A panorama of a corn field.
A herd of monkeys is heading to the peasants' fields for prey.
The monkeys are eating young corn shoots and corn cobs.
1959
China
Summer
Monkeys raid a corn field, eating the cobs and stalks.
Baby monkeys on corn stalks.
Baby monkeys fight over a corn cob.
Young monkeys play with each other in a ruined field.
A farmer, having discovered monkeys in the field, calls his family members.
Monkeys in the field.
A farmer runs with a gun, followed by his wife with a hoe in her hands.
The monkeys, sensing danger, run away from the corn field.
The peasants drive the monkeys out of the field.
The farmer shoots at the monkeys with a gun.
The monkeys run away into the jungle.
Young monkeys are in charge of the table in the yard, ruining the holiday table.
The farmer and his wife return home, the monkeys continue to eat the holiday treat.
The peasants discover a ruined holiday table.
Hunters float on rafts along the river, pushing off with poles, a cage on one of the rafts.
Views of the river.
Hunters disembark.
Elephants walk through the jungle, hunters carry equipment and cages.
Hunters go deeper into the jungle.
Hunters walk through the forest, cross a stream.
1959
China
Summer
Hunters are walking through the forest, monkeys are in the trees.
One of the hunters is making his way through the thicket.
Monkeys are jumping from branch to branch.
Hunters are surrounding the hunting area with a net, a type of installed net fence.
Monkeys are watching people from the branches, jumping from branch to branch.
Hunters are starting to drive monkeys onto the net, shouting, beating gongs.
Monkeys are running away from people along tree branches, beaters are walking through the jungle.
Monkey is jumping from branch to branch.
Hunters are watching a wild boar through the thicket of grass.
Boar is in the water.
Monkey on the river bank is escaping from hunters.
Hunters are approaching the bank.
Monkey is trying to swim away from hunters.
Hunters continue to drive the herd of monkeys towards the nets.
Running monkeys.
Hunters are shooting in the air, beating gongs.
Monkeys are caught in a net.
Hunters catch the trapped monkeys.
The remaining monkeys are driven to the nets.
Monkeys entangled in nets.
The captured monkeys are put into cages.
Hunters take the captured monkeys out of the nets.
Hunters carry away the cages with monkeys.
Visitors to the Beijing Zoo approach the cages with monkeys.
Monkeys in the zoo play with each other.
A monkey plays with a baby born in the zoo, the face of one of the visitors to the zoo.
Frolicking monkeys.
The head of a monkey.
Panorama of the jungles of Yunnan in southern China.
1959
China Beijing
Summer