Hot Life In Africa
Explore breeding strategies that help wild dogs and hyenas survive the heat.
Explore breeding strategies that help wild dogs and hyenas survive the heat.
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Observe tiny penguins cheating death, while seahorse dads pull double duty.
Choose sides in the animal battles that rage all around the best-tended vines.
Sway to the rhythms of alpine animal life in Austria's ice-cold Little Siberia.
Explore breeding strategies that help wild dogs and hyenas survive the heat.
Study the life-saving cooling techniques cheetahs, crocs, and giraffes use.
See animals endure extreme heat, predators, and drought to care for their young.
Enjoy a tropical 24 hours with creatures from tiny zooplankton to whale sharks.
South East Asia offers mysterious old cultures, steaming cook-shops, exotic plants and animals, and monks deep in prayer. A journey through this area reveals everything that life has to offer. We visit Myanmar, where tourism is still in its infancy and undisturbed temples and nature are sights to behold. Then, in Cambodia we find the mysterious temples of Angkor. And finally, we head over to Vietnam to enjoy the beaches, rivers, and Buddhist pagodas.
Go on an adventure with a brave baby coati who has a nose for avoiding danger.
Learn spider monkey troop dynamics and tail-hanging technique with baby Dora.
Discover the challenges and firsts growing animal babies face in the wild.
Probe the similarities between human and animal parenthood, from birth onward.
Learn about the unique methods wild animals use to make the deceased disappear.
Sway to the rhythms of alpine animal life in Austria's ice-cold Little Siberia.
Classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Umphang Sanctuary, the largest in Thailand, is an outstanding biodiversity refuge in Asia.
A natural paradise located off the coast of Guinea Bissau, the Bissagos archipelago is a strategic place for the conservation of the planet's biodiversity.
The Kakapo, or owl parrot, is a large flightless bird found on two New Zealand islands: Codfish Island and Anchor Island. In the 1990s their numbers dropped to as low as 50 birds but this figure is now on the rise. Deidre Vercoe is responsible for running a conservation scheme which monitors each one of the remaining birds to keep them safe and to encourage them to breed.
Meet Lena and Olya Esipovas, a formidable mother-daughter team based in Uzbekistan devoting their lives to saving the saiga – a critically endangered antelope with a distinctive bulbous nose. In 2015 an epidemic tragically wiped out half of the remaining population, killing over 200,000 animals in just a few days, making the work of Lena and Olya and their team of volunteers all the more urgent.
Uncommon and hardly known, today the Dugong is the most threatened sea mammal on the planet. The species can only be found in certain parts of the Indian Ocean and in the western regions of the Pacific. Off the coast of Mozambique, in the Bazaruto archipelago, Karen is on a mission to monitor this species and implement policies to bring it back from the brink of extinction.
Sloths – famous around the world for their slow pace of life – are under threat. In Suriname, their numbers are falling at a staggering rate as their forest habitat is transformed into towns and roads. Since 2005, Monique Pool, nicknamed the Sloth Lady, has been working tirelessly to protect this unique species with a shelter for injured sloths and an area of forest protected from development to ensure that the local sloths have a safe place to live. Get up close with this amazing animal as she rescues sloths from urban areas, nurses injured sloths back to full health and releases them back into the forest.
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