The Future is Wild

The Future Is Wild is a British 2002 thirteen-part semi-pseudo documentary television miniseries.

Storyline
Based on research and interviews with several scientists, the miniseries shows how life could evolve in the future if humans were to disappear from the Earth altogether through extinction. The version broadcast on the Discovery Channel modified this premise, supposing instead that the human species had completely abandoned the Earth and had sent back probes to examine the progress of life on the planet as time progressed. The show styled itself after the format of a nature documentary. It is narrated by John de Lancie in the Discovery Channel version.

The miniseries was released with a companion book written by geologist Dougal Dixon, the author of several speculative evolutionbooks, or "anthropologies and zoologies of the future" (such as After Man: A Zoology of the Future), in conjunction with natural historytelevision producer John Adams. For a time in 2005, a theme park based on this program was opened in Japan. In 2008 a special on the Discovery Channel about the development of the video game Spore was combined with airings of The Future Is Wild.

A documentary film version of the series was originally set to be picked up by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros. Warner Bros.],[1]  however, the series may be rebooted by production company Vanguard Animation and broadcasting at HBO.[2]

The 2-part 2005 series Extraterrestrial (also known as Alien Worlds) takes a similar scientific approach to the creation of speculative ecologies and the depiction of their inhabitants. As the title suggests, however, these are set on extrasolar planets with no connection to terrestrial evolution.

Sound Effects Used
Sound Ideas, SQUIRREL - CHATTERING, ANIMAL, RODENT (H-B) (Heard once in "Praries of Amazonia")