2024-09-28
Amanda puts a radio collar on one of the first cheetah cubs born in Malawi in twenty years and the team struggles to give a 4meter python a physical. See a group of tourists deliver a rambunctious baby monkey they rescued from the pet trade.
Watch as the Lilongwe Wildlife team try to release two serval cats into the wild. One escapes and returns injured. Will their release be successful? A new baby vervet arrives in critical condition, and a giant owl flies to freedom.
Join Amanda on a white knuckle bushwhacking adventure to rescue a waterbuck caught by a poachers snare. Meanwhile, the centers resident hyena is treated for flea bitten ears and Alma gets a mysterious late night monkey delivery.
See Amanda and Sophie push boundaries to get a vervet monkey with a broken leg back into the wild, the team is challenged when collaring a fourton elephant. Alma receives an orphaned, catlike genet and an antisocial baboon rejoins a troop.
Join the rescue as Amanda and Mandy try every trick in the book to help a snared hyena, a lion threatens a village, and the teams plan to release a troop of 13 monkeys is thwarted by last minute surgery and some crafty escape artists.
In Southern Africa, Spring starts in early September and the natural world stirs into life. Days begin to lengthen, temperatures rise, and animals and plants combine in an orchestrated effort to reproduce, give birth and raise their young.
Summer in Africa is a season of extremes, it separates the weak from the strong. It tests the survival instincts of cheetahs, lions, geckos, turtles and many more species as they search for food and water in the extreme heat of summer.
Travel to Samburu, where matriarch Anastasia turns her elephant herd north after a local river dries up. Then, in Naboisho, see cheetah mom Kuleta evade a crafty pack of hyenas. Later, in Laikipia, check in on wild dog Phoenix and her new litter.
Discover the clever way elephants dig wells, and see the relief that comes with a sudden riverfilling downpour. Mourn cheetah Kuletas loss after lions kill one of her cubs, and get a frontrow seat when wild dog Phoenix faces off with a hyena mob.
Trail Anastasia as her herd splits to protect two precious elephant calves, while Kuleta retakes territory for her remaining cheetah cubs. Join wild dog Phoenixs search for a new mate as the skies open up and rain begins to heal the parched land.
Trail Anastasia as her herd splits to protect two precious elephant calves, while Kuleta retakes territory for her remaining cheetah cubs. Join wild dog Phoenixs search for a new mate as the skies open up and rain begins to heal the parched land.
Look behind the scenes and meet the innovative teams working to preserve and protect Kenyas wildlife. Check out Save the Elephants radiotrackingcollar system, a drone that monitors wild dog packs, and a local team of Maasai cheetah trackers.
In Southern Africa, Spring starts in early September and the natural world stirs into life. Days begin to lengthen, temperatures rise, and animals and plants combine in an orchestrated effort to reproduce, give birth and raise their young.
Summer in Africa is a season of extremes, it separates the weak from the strong. It tests the survival instincts of cheetahs, lions, geckos, turtles and many more species as they search for food and water in the extreme heat of summer.
Travel to Samburu, where matriarch Anastasia turns her elephant herd north after a local river dries up. Then, in Naboisho, see cheetah mom Kuleta evade a crafty pack of hyenas. Later, in Laikipia, check in on wild dog Phoenix and her new litter.
Discover the clever way elephants dig wells, and see the relief that comes with a sudden riverfilling downpour. Mourn cheetah Kuletas loss after lions kill one of her cubs, and get a frontrow seat when wild dog Phoenix faces off with a hyena mob.
Trail Anastasia as her herd splits to protect two precious elephant calves, while Kuleta retakes territory for her remaining cheetah cubs. Join wild dog Phoenixs search for a new mate as the skies open up and rain begins to heal the parched land.
Trail Anastasia as her herd splits to protect two precious elephant calves, while Kuleta retakes territory for her remaining cheetah cubs. Join wild dog Phoenixs search for a new mate as the skies open up and rain begins to heal the parched land.
Look behind the scenes and meet the innovative teams working to preserve and protect Kenyas wildlife. Check out Save the Elephants radiotrackingcollar system, a drone that monitors wild dog packs, and a local team of Maasai cheetah trackers.
Hear the Serengeti plains echo with the thunder of two million wildebeests on the move. Meet them at one of the most dangerous parts of their annual circular migration, a risky crossing of the crocodilefilled Mara River at the regions north end.
Travel to the southern Serengeti to witness the largest mass birth on the planet. Explore the shortgrass plains, where female wildebeests rest with their new babies before recrossing the Mara River, where hungry crocs await an annual feast.
Are they guinea pigs, beavers, or something else? Capybaras embody the features of several different animals at once, as do warthogs, anteaters, and other fascinating genetic hybrids. Learn why these wannabes display such particular physical traits.
The snakes of Australia are as diverse and striking as the landscape they inhabit there are more than 300 different species here, some harmless to humans, others deadly. From the death adder which has a strike almost quicker than the human eye, to the scrub python which is equipped to track its prey, snakes know how to survive in this inhospitable land.
This wild dog has been on Australias shores for at least threeandahalfthousand years and is believed to be descended from the Asian wolf but canis lupus dingo is a distinct species, different from both the wolf and the domestic dog.
Lurking in the waterways of Queensland and the Northern Territory live the largest living reptiles on Earth theyre among the most dangerous animals in Australia. Crocodiles are formidable predators, superbly adapted to aquatic life, with skull crushing jaws and lightning speed. They were on earth long before the dinosaurs, and have outlived them by millions of years. Now theyre protected in Austra
Flying out of the Australian twilight is one of the most successful mammals on the planet the bat and one of the most gregarious of their kind is the flying fox. With a wingspan of more than a meter, the grey headed flying fox is the largest fruit eating bat in the country.
While all marsupials share similarities, it is some of the rare smaller marsupials that highlight the fascinating contrast between them and few small marsupials highlight these innate differences better than the quokkas and the quolls.
At first glance, the tropical forests of Australia seem empty and still. But look closer and they are packed with life. Few places in the country contain such a high diversity of insects as here. From the canopy to the forest floor, insects cram into every space and they must fight to survive. In this great battle for life, insects have adopted extraordinary survival strategies jumping spiders di
While many think of coastlines and deserts when they think of Australia, there are other secret pockets of paradise that are home to some of the most intriguing and iconic of its animals the waterholes. The freshwater wetlands and waterholes in the tropical far North of the country are among the most diverse ecosystems, hosting an extraordinary array of birds, insects, fish and freshwater crocodil