2024-10-06
Looking into the animals' body movements when they are pursuing romance. (Repeat).
Meet alphas who get by with a little help from their friends. Discover the inescapable gang mentality of mating male dolphins, ponder ant colonies' unique scents, find out why female geladas always get the last word, and see wolves hunt family-style. (Repeat).
Celebrate small but mighty animal warriors armed with sheaves of scary weapons. Admire nutrias' stink bombs; honey badgers' savage, needlelike choppers; black-tailed gulls' razor-sharp beaks; and the killer talons on dive-bombing peregrine falcons. (Repeat).
Hippos join forces with fish for a full-body exfoliation, and ravens invite wolverines over for some bone-crunching assistance with their dinner. (Repeat).
Hope heads to Canada's biggest city and hits the streets with a full-time wildlife rescue team. (Repeat).
The sense of touch is useful to feel physical forces such as bites, changes in temperature and texture. Some animals have become extra sensitive to feel very faint vibrations, which give them a lot of information about their environment. (Repeat).
Different types of eyes give animals different types of vision, and in some cases, they can be extraordinary. (Repeat).
The Hudson Bay lowlands, part of North America's largest wetland, are more than 300,000 square kilometers of muskeg, a vast bogland characterized by water-soaked peat mosses and stunted trees. (Repeat).
The Yukon is spotlighted. (Repeat).
Hope heads to Chicago to tackle a problem that results in the death of millions of birds each year. (Repeat).
The rescue squad responds to a call about an opossum entangled in a fence, which turns out to be the type of animal that does not play dead. A goose with a major foot injury receives rehabilitation inside the center before being released back into the wild. (Repeat).
Follow an injured opossum into surgery, as the medical team realizes amputation may be the only way to save his badly injured toe. And meet some turtle hatchlings who seem ready for release when the team gets disappointing details about their size. (Repeat).
Animal species that capitalize on their population size and isolate themselves in order to survive are examined. (Repeat).
Hope heads to Chicago to tackle a problem that results in the death of millions of birds each year. (Repeat).
Sound waves are produced by movement. Animals have evolved organs to detect those sound waves in the air or water to perceive movements in their environment. This can be used to find prey, predators and mates. (Repeat).
Some animals have senses that humans can't even conceive. With those powers, they can do marvelous things. (Repeat).
In Africa, a caracal's 'rocket-propelled' launch enables it to catch birds in flight. In the Australian outback, a kangaroo's hop is key to finding water in a desert of over a million square kilometres. On an English farm, an insect's ultimate ejector seat accelerates it to 700G with help from a clutch in its crotch. And high above the jungles of Borneo, a leaping snake's unique shape allows it to
The series turns to animals that fly, including footage of half a million mother bats, an agile sparrowhawk raiding for food, and large beetles taking to the sky as part of their mating ritual. The program also reveals how peregrine falcons can reach speeds of 200mph and why an albatross's nose helps it to fly. (Repeat).
This episode features a creature that creates sound out of thin air with the world's fastest courtship display and arguably the world's most aggressive bird.In a South American jungle, there's 'hunt and evasion' flying during the night, as bats and moths fight for the upper hand in one of the world's oldest arms races.Plus a camera films a giant flock to unlock the secrets that keep half a million
Looking into the animals' body movements when they are pursuing romance. (Repeat).
Steve Backshall looks at the dance-like moves that animals perform to survive all aspects of life. (Repeat).
In Africa, a caracal's 'rocket-propelled' launch enables it to catch birds in flight. In the Australian outback, a kangaroo's hop is key to finding water in a desert of over a million square kilometres. On an English farm, an insect's ultimate ejector seat accelerates it to 700G with help from a clutch in its crotch. And high above the jungles of Borneo, a leaping snake's unique shape allows it to
Conservationist Giles Clark embarks on his biggest mission to date - taking on the illegal wildlife trade and helping to build a new bear sanctuary in Laos, south-east Asia. Giles has been asked by good friend Matt Hunt, CEO ofee the Bears, to help for 12 months and is not long into his role when he has to step in to help Mary, a five-month-old sun bear. Mary was rescued after her mother was kille
Meet alphas who get by with a little help from their friends. Discover the inescapable gang mentality of mating male dolphins, ponder ant colonies' unique scents, find out why female geladas always get the last word, and see wolves hunt family-style. (Repeat).
Celebrate small but mighty animal warriors armed with sheaves of scary weapons. Admire nutrias' stink bombs; honey badgers' savage, needlelike choppers; black-tailed gulls' razor-sharp beaks; and the killer talons on dive-bombing peregrine falcons. (Repeat).