Love Nature

Winter is coming, and the animals take advantage of autumn's final bounty before the cold, barren months ahead.

The southwest corner of New Zealand's South Island is hemmed in by giant mountains and the rough Pacific Ocean. Rare penguins are locked in a daily game of cat and mouse with giant New Zealand sea lions.

In southwestern New Zealand, deep fiords and tidal lagoons are wrapped in green rainforest. The dark fjords harbor creatures normally found in the deep.

The south-eastern coast of New Zealand are some of the richest fishing grounds in the world - the place for young marine animals to transition from novices to independent adults.

Dash across southeast Queensland as breeding and snake-catching season ramp up.

Launch into spring's snake surge with Liv and Stu, who intercept two male brown snakes duelling for mating rights at a construction site.

Weave through Queensland's coastal chaos, where Jess faces her fears chasing a lace monitor lizard up a tree with an active beehive.

Dive into tight spaces, underneath hot houses, and into tense rescue situations as the catchers confront a six-foot-long, highly venomous brown snake.

Storm into a new suburb, where the wranglers keep deadly snakes from slipping into family homes.

Respond to danger on a rural property with Mick and Adele, who brave a fired-up brown snake.

Get tangled up in breeding season with Mick and Adele, who save a Jack Russell from a peckish python.

Gear up for a steamy rescue when Dan and Jess remove mating eastern browns from a backyard, then hold your breath as Mick sniffs out a highly venomous snake inside a couch cushion.

Scramble as the ER team tends to a spring flood of patients. Watch vet Phil stabilize an ailing joey as the rescue team fends off a rude kangaroo.

Head out with rescuer Jo to scoop up a pelican who's swallowed a fish hook, then see Sam free a newborn bat tangled in a fence.

Shadow vet Bec, who patches up dog-bitten koala Rachel, and new vets Ruby and Kerryn, who soothe a pack of itchy possums.

Dash across southeast Queensland as breeding and snake-catching season ramp up.

Weave through Queensland's coastal chaos, where Jess faces her fears chasing a lace monitor lizard up a tree with an active beehive.

Dive into tight spaces, underneath hot houses, and into tense rescue situations as the catchers confront a six-foot-long, highly venomous brown snake.

Storm into a new suburb, where the wranglers keep deadly snakes from slipping into family homes.

Respond to danger on a rural property with Mick and Adele, who brave a fired-up brown snake.

Get tangled up in breeding season with Mick and Adele, who save a Jack Russell from a peckish python.

Gear up for a steamy rescue when Dan and Jess remove mating eastern browns from a backyard, then hold your breath as Mick sniffs out a highly venomous snake inside a couch cushion.

Scramble as the ER team tends to a spring flood of patients. Watch vet Phil stabilize an ailing joey as the rescue team fends off a rude kangaroo.

Head out with rescuer Jo to scoop up a pelican who's swallowed a fish hook, then see Sam free a newborn bat tangled in a fence.

Shadow vet Bec, who patches up dog-bitten koala Rachel, and new vets Ruby and Kerryn, who soothe a pack of itchy possums.

The evolutionary journey of life on Earth spans millions of years - and the results are as diverse as they are jaw-dropping.

Follow Shanet, who spends her days tending to the needs of Harold Custard the rockhopper penguin, and feel the love as Barista cares for Cindy the baboon in her golden years.

Celebrate Cash the house donkey's birthday, then play hide-and-seek with Milton the skunk.