In this episode on the ecosystems, guide Nam explains the importance of mangroves in the food chain. You'll also see the rafflesia, the largest flower in the world.

There's a newcomer at the zoo, and all the other animals are abuzz with speculation about its identity. Could it be... a human?

In part seven of this episode on the ecosystems, the young students are on a field trip (a marsh trip to be exact), where they witness firsthand the destruction of this precious ecosystem. But this is not a new phenomenon: once upon a time in Polynesia...

A new arrival at the zoo is causing a stir. Is it a human? Is it a duck, a beaver or a cross between the two? Our new friend is having an identity crisis...

In the final part of this Il était une fois... episode on the ecosystems, the Maestro explains what happened to the people and the famous statues of Easter Island. It's a lesson we'd do well to learn from.

Our friendly platypus's case of mistaken identity has been addressed. He is finally able to discover his species just in time before hungry Leon makes a meal out of him!

It takes a lot of energy to be a zookeeper, bartender, and night watchman, especially if you only get three hours of sleep every night. But Alca the penguin never shirks any of his responsibilities, thanks to his seemingly endless supply of coffee with vitamins.

The series Il était une fois… les Amériques: Les premiers Américains (Once Upon a Time… the Americas: The First Americans) relates American history from the very beginning up to the twentieth century. Enjoy the opening song about the making of America and its first settlers...

Alca suffers from exhaustion, so life at the zoo must go on without this devoted penguin for a while... Find out who will take his job!

Finding food was often difficult for the earliest settlers of the Americas. Luckily for the characters in this video, there's enough berries to go around.

Now that Leon has taken over Alca's zookeeper's job, things are going haywire. Both Alca, the workaholic penguin, and Leon, the slacker, have to go through intensive training. A specialist in laziness is in order for Alca, and a special electronic organizer for Leon should do the trick!

Since all the animals have moved away from their area, these early Americans are forced to follow in their paw prints... otherwise they'll have no food!

Alca, the workaholic penguin zookeeper, is finally learning how to relax from his friend the sloth when his employees inform him that the zoo is in total disarray. So much for well-earned downtime!

It's one thing to have to track down a woolly mammoth for food, but it's another thing to cook it! Luckily these prehistoric Americans just discovered how to make fire.

The series Il était une fois... les Amériques: Les premiers Américains (Once Upon a Time... The Americas: The First Americans) relates American history from the very beginning up to the twentieth century. In this episode, hunters boast about their day chasing after a huge animal.