ANIMAL PLANET HD WORLD

The rivers of Guyana may host a real freshwater mermaid that the locals call the Water Mama.

Water is essential to all life on Earth, but too much or too little can be disastrous. Parents must master timing to overcome freshwater's constant change and successfully raise the next generation.

When a sea monster washes up on an English beach, Jeremy Wade sets off to unmask the beast. His journey takes him to the ice sheets of Greenland and Norway.

Jeremy Wade investigates a case in Nepal that sounds strangely familiar - a lone fisherman dragged off his feet and into a mountain river by the original river monster, the goonch catfish.

A mysterious sea creature kills a tourist snorkeler and several local fishermen in Indonesia.

The Addo Elephant Park was founded in 1931 and is 1,640km2. It hosts more than 450 elephants and other mammals and was created in response to the elephant population falling as low as eleven.

Table Mountain National Park on the southwestern tip of Africa surrounded by ocean and humanity.

In the northeastern corner of South Africa lays a land of beauty with beaches and coral reefs.

In the centre of South Africa is an ancient landscape that was once an inland sea.

In the southern reaches of Africa's great Kalahari basin, everything is made tough.

In the wet season the Luangwa Valley is a green paradise, as the waters flow in abundance.

For four months of the year, the Limpopo river revitalises the landscape, nourishing wildlife.

The Hoanib River rises in the Hoanib Valley in Namibia, and only flows for two weeks a year.

Once a year, a flood engulfs the the Okavango Delta, a wetland surrounded by arid plains, and creates a haven for wildlife.

Exploring how mountain goats know a volcano is about to erupt, what happens to birds trapped in the eye of a cyclone, and a range of other topics concerning how animals cope with natural disasters.

The crew looks at the various challenges mothers of different species face to survive and keep their cubs alive.

Matkasur invades Maya's territory, forcing her cubs into hiding. After discovering her cubs, Maya shows the way tigers hunt and preys on a deer.

The filmmaker follows wildebeests and zebras circling East Africa looking for lush grazing and sheds light on the hungry river crocodiles who lie in wait for this movable feast.

In the animal kingdom, defending young takes priority above all else, and every creature deploys its own unique strategies to keep their family safe.