2024-10-06
Explore the shores of the Northern Territory and the abundant waters of the Great Barrier Reef. Face flooded roads, hungry saltwater crocs, and killer jellyfish as Lizzie investigates why so many strange, deadly creatures make this remote area home.
Say goodbye to the tropics and dip into cool southerncoast waters. Come face to face with majestic grey nurse sharks, shapeshifting cuttlefish, and huge blue whales play with penguins and sea lions and learn why these seas are brimming with life.
Complete the trips final lap in the untamed lands where Australias interior desert meets the hot, hostile Indian Ocean. Confront the challenges of survival in this region as Lizzie dives with tiger sharks, manta rays, and nomadic turtles.
Complete the trips final lap in the untamed lands where Australias interior desert meets the hot, hostile Indian Ocean. Confront the challenges of survival in this region as Lizzie dives with tiger sharks, manta rays, and nomadic turtles.
Low tide exposes a band of shore called the intertidal zone. Its a place of stunning extremes, attacked by hurricane force waves and exposed to baking heat. Creatures here have evolved in countless bizarre ways. Scientists explore this alien realm.
The African intertidal zone is home to a unique universe of plants and creatures. Here, life has adapted to survive in a challenging marine environment some species are able to live on exposed rocks, while others prefer the shelter of rock pools.
On Africas east coast, the warm Agulhas run south with a distinctive subtropical landscape. Made up of everything from mangrove swamps to colorful coral reefs, the area has marine turtles who breed on long and warm sandy beaches and a recently found population of living fossils, the Coelacanth, which dwell in deep, submarine canyons.
Not all baby animals are cute. Often, quirky physical traits are evolutionary adaptations that have helped a species survive. Visit four funnylooking youngsters, including a Baird tapir, two baby gelada baboons, an anteater and a Bactrian camel.
We follow the South African mangrove forest and its residents through the change from high tide to low and back to high, meeting the redclaw mangrove crabs that keep the forest clean, helping it provide food and shelter for a variety of species.
Take a look at one of Africas most abundant and diverse wildlife areas, the Okavango Delta. Investigate the way the delta functions and learn about the variety of interesting species that live in the area.
An unusual colony of African penguins have learned to live with their human neighbours on the southwestern tip of Africa, but their tenacity is tested by golf courses, highways, pets, and a sea of curious humans who view them as a tourist attraction.
Life in the savannas of Africa is ruled by water. And throughout the long dry season, lifegiving rivers run dry and harsh drought conditions prevail, making waterholes crowded.
Nestled on the western coast of South Africa lies an extraordinary cove that is host to an abundance of marine and bird life. It provides ample food and spurs a life cycle that reaches well beyond Africa. This is the Blue Lagoon.
A mighty river snakes through wilderness in southern Africa. Its vast flood plains are a magnet for animals that, during the dry season, travel great distances to reach this oasis. But every animal has its place along the banks of the mighty Chobe.
Follow a rivers epic quest to find the ocean, carrying water that has floated high over the mountains, quenched giant thirsts, and cut through rock, only to spill its nutrients into the warm and vibrant Indian Ocean and continue its endless cycle.
Experience the north Atlantics intense, brief summer with its animal residents. Follow Arctic fox cubs learning to hunt for survival, an otter pup going solo for the first time, a mateseeking puffin, and tiny reindeer taking their first steps.
In Iceland only one out of six cubs has survived. Abandoned by her parents, she now has to fend for herself. The reindeer herd swim two miles across open water. In Scotland, 35,000 grey seals arrive for their annual breeding season.
In the early months of the year, the Earths axial tilt brings the height of summer in some places and the depths of winter in others. See how life struggles to survive under these extreme conditions.
Travel around the globe to witness the atmospheric shifts that take place in March, from the wave of cherry blossoms that unfold across Japan to the final raft of green sea turtles that arrive on the Great Barrier Reef islands to lay eggs.
Watch summer unfold in the Northern Hemisphere, while regions close to the equator enter the wet season and Southern Africa goes dry, creating scarcity for some creatures and bounty for others.
Track a pregnant shark along the Great Barrier Reef and see if she leads a team of scientists to her hidden pupping ground. Then search for signs of mating along the southern coast that could reveal a very shy female megashark in search of a partner.
Stay up late as the northern team attaches an activity tag to a bull shark and finds out what this night owl does after sunset. Then dive 80 meters deep with the southern team, who are hoping to put a satellite tracker on a female great white.
Ponder shark community hierarchies as the northern team studies how young blacktips learn social and survival skills. Then rush to Rainbow Beach with the southern team, who are eager to witness the sand tiger sharks most elusive behaviour mating.
Stalk the seas with sharks as they hunt using heightened senses and killer instincts. Watch a whitetip reef shark put its electrical sensors to work finding its preys heartbeat, and the pelagic thresher shark stun its quarry with its whiplike tail.