Each episode is followed by a ten-minute Wild Brazil Diaries segment, illustrating the techniques used to film a particular subject.

The series aired in the United States on Discovery Channel, under the title Brazil Gone Wild.

Five months of monsoon in the Andes and Amazon rainforest cause mountain streams to swell and start a cascade of flooding, spectacularly affecting Brazilian wildlife.

Capuchin monkeys on the cliffs make the most of a few weeks of abundant vegetation, but their offspring must quickly learn to become less dependent on mother and fit into the group hierarchy.

The coatis must retreat to higher ground as their lowland prairies flood, but feast on lungfish in pools and shallow patches.