2024-10-01
Places around the world that are home to great biodiversity, beginning with Borneo, home to hundreds of animals and plants, and where every year more species are discovered.
Experts test the limits with jaguar cub Frida, as she hones her survival skills in Brazil's Caiman Lodge Reserve.
Alison Cronin retrieves a squirrel monkey that has become aggressive and started chewing its tail after living alone for 20 years in a cage in Essex. Back at base, a delivery of mangoes proves popular among the chimps, and the team learns of a forthcoming arrival.
Alison Cronin and her colleagues prepare to transport an overweight orangutan from South Africa back to the Monkey World rescue centre in Dorset. The task poses plenty of logistical challenges, but matters are further complicated when the experts discover the creature has developed unusual habits.
The broadcaster explores the Galapagos, a collection of volcanic islands in the Pacific known for its extraordinary wildlife. More than 150 years after Charles Darwin formulated his ground-breaking theory of evolution on the remote archipelago, Attenborough explains how life on the islands has continued to evolve in biological isolation, examining how the ever-changing volcanic landscape has given
Ebony Plain: Life and death unfold on the Luangwa Valley's busy grasslands, a home to warthogs, troops of baboons and a solitary leopard.
Experts test the limits with jaguar cub Frida, as she hones her survival skills in Brazil's Caiman Lodge Reserve.
Places around the world that are home to great biodiversity, beginning with Borneo, home to hundreds of animals and plants, and where every year more species are discovered.
The naturalist concludes his exploration of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, west London, by examining plants that have evolved to minimise their dependence on water, enabling them to survive in the world's driest environments. He witnesses a cactus blooming at midnight, tells the story of the spectacular flowering of the Agave franzosinii, and visits the Millennium Seed Bank, a facility designed