Is anything in the movies true? The old Tarzan movies are a hoot. Alberto has already mentioned the tigers. Even as a kid I spotted the Asian elephants which were the only ones used in scenes with humans nearby. Evidently the movie producers were taken to task over this because Asian elephants fitted out with huge fake African elephant style ears sometimes appear. That only made it worse: Asian and African elephants have very different profiles, poises and so on. The vegetation in the old Hollywood jungle movies was also ridiculous - an ecologically nonsensical assortment of potted palms, philodendrons and other commercial flora mixed with no regard to hemisphere of origin or ecological niceties. An oft repeated scene: a magnificently coiffed male lion emerging from thick, lush synthesized jungle. In the German language, the lion is Der Wüstenkönig, King of the Desert. Wuestenkoenig's flowing coiffeur had somehow been preserved from damage as he made his way through the silly tangle of generically tropical plants to appear, Anglicized, as King of the Jungle. Bollywood routinely films scenes in the mountains of Switzerland: never knew that the flora of Kashmir had such a distinctly European flavor. A people who believe that the camera does not lie deserve this sort of baloney. Jim McKenney jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, 39.03871º North, 77.09829º West, USDA zone 7 My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/