David Attenborough went to Paraguay to find armadillos but he encountered many other animals - the smallest bird in the world, the exquisite humming bird, and one of the largest, the ostrich-like rhea; jabiru storks, toucans, hang-nests and oven birds; turtles, coatimundi and a maned wolf. He travelled by boat up a small, torturous river in to the far interior; he met Indian tribesmen, lone ranchers and the Paraguayans who played to him with their haunting guitar and harp music; he went to the plain lands of the vast cattle-ranching estates, and he rode by horseback into the harsh, parched, inhospitable country of the Gran Chaco.
