2024-10-06
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.