World of Wildlife Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Adaptation

  How animals change their eating patterns and methods in order to survive, featuring desert creatures that have adapted to life in harsh conditions and the inhabitants of a Californian saline lake

• Africa

  Hippopotamuses; chimpanzees; flamingos; bullfrogs.

• Amazing Islands

  Tiger shark; black-footed albatross; ring-tailed lemurs; Galapagos Islands; dassies; sargassum weeds; puffins.

• Appetite and Diet

  Insight into how the food chain works, focusing on animals including chimpanzees and sea otters, that use tools to ensure a plentiful supply of tasty morsels

• Armour

  Animal species with their own snug-fitting suits of armour provided by Mother Nature

• Asia

  The truth behind the myth of mass suicide among Siberia's lemmings, and the varied wildlife of the Indian subcontinent, focusing on the free-ranging tigers of the Bandhavgarh National Park, soft-shell turtles thriving among the human corpses deposited in the Ganges and an elephant that has settled far from home in a Tennessee sanctuary

• Athletes and Acrobats

  The athletes and acrobats of the animal kingdom, including European red squirrels, the gentoo penguins of the Falkland Islands, and Thailand's agile lar gibbons, believed by inhabitants of the region to be the ghosts of heartbroken lovers

• Australia

  The amazing array of creatures to be found in Australia, from red kangaroos and bettongs to cockatiels, black-necked storks and possums

• Aviators
• Babies

  The fragile and often surprising lives of baby birds and animals. Featuring the murderous habits of fledgling cuckoo catfish and the difficult infancies faced by young lions, red-breasted geese and giant otters

• Beaks and Teeth

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Bears
• Big

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Bizarre

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Brains and Cleverness

  An insight into dolphins' intelligence, revealing how their advanced brains allow them to engage in complex social behaviour

• Brazil
• Brazil/Lakes and Streams

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the wildlife living in and near the lakes and streams in Brazil's Rio and Rio Negro

• Building Homes

  Aardvarks; weaver birds; beavers; rock python; hermit crabs; barn owls.

• Burrowers and Builders

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Caribbean
• Cats

  Insight into the mystique of the feline family, from the earliest domesticated species venerated by the ancient Egyptians to the magnificent big cats struggling to survive in the modern world. Woburn Safari Park takes delivery of three Siberian tigers in a bid to conserve a creature hunted to the point of extinction, and elsewhere experiments are afoot to regenerate the rare Barbary lion population before it's too late

• Cats

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Cats
• Cats

  Tigers; leopards; domestic cats.

• Changes

  Insight into transformations that occur in the natural world, from the development of life-forms to environmental changes

• Clever

  Educational nature programme offering an insight into the wonderful world of wildlife through the eye of a camera lens

• Close Encounters
• Co-operation

  How some animals rely on the co-operation of others for their survival

• Coasts

  A look at wildlife living along coastlines

• Cold

  Hummingbirds; penguins; crocodiles; crane.

• Color

  Changing appearances; octopus; snowshoe rabbit; chameleon.

• Colour

  Methods in which various animals use camouflage as a means of protection or to attract a prospective mate, including the snowshoe hare and the ptarmigan

• Colour

  How animals make use of colour for camouflage, focusing on the red octopus, Arctic fox and chameleon, and how male Gelada baboons attract mates by displaying their 'bleeding hearts' during courtship

• Colours
• Communities

  Documentary focusing on how members of animal communities co-exist, featuring the termites of the African savannah : which unite to protect the hive's queen against predators : the methods used by adult greylag geese to train their young to find food and the complex family structures of Tanzania's colobus monkeys

• Cooperation

  Ants; vultures; cheetahs; pelicans; reindeer; wolves.

• Dangerous & Deadly
• Dangerous and Deadly/Close Encounters

  Exploring the amazing world of wildlife, focusing on close encounters

• Deep and Dark

  Intimate insight into life in the natural world, featuring the flora and fauna that struggle to survive in a range of vastly differing habitats

• Defense

  Buffalo; lions; montage; puffer fish; cobra; alligators; meerkats.

• Deserts

  Camels; rattlesnakes; deserts; tortoises.

• Disguise

  How different animals, large and small, are experts in disguising themselves

• Disguise
• Disguise

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Disguise
• Dogs

  An overview of canine species, which include wolves, the coyotes of North America and Australia's dingoes

• Dusk Till Dawn

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Dusk Till Dawn

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Earth, Wind and Fire

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Earth, Wind and Fire

  A look at the elemental forces of earth, wind and fire which are constantly shaping the environment for man and the animal kingdom, bringing destruction in their wake but also the possibility of regeneration

• Earth, Wind and Fire

  The impact of the elements on life.

• Earth, Wind & Fire
• East Africa

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Endangered

  Report on the work of the Kukrail Rehabilitation Centre in northern India, which specialises in the care and breeding of gharials, rare cousins of the crocodile, whose numbers dropped to 2,500 before the conservation project brought them back from the brink of extinction

• Europe

  Bird and animal species found in a variety of environments and climates throughout Europe, from the gannets and puffins of the bleak, windswept Shetland Islands to Spain's endangered lynx population

• Extremes
• Extremes/Bears

  An informative documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Fantastic Forests

  Black bears; kelp forests; rain forests; wild boar; orangutans.

• Feeding

  How animals have developed techniques for finding food, including the humpback whales of Alaska that herd their prey fish into tight shoals to provide easy pickings, and the olive baboons of Kakuru which find it easier to steal from human neighbours

• Fighters

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Fish

  How fish, the oldest and largest group of vertebrates with more than 24,000 species, survive and adapt to their surroundings

• Flight

  A close-up view of birds, insects and animals in flight, including guillemots : raised on some of the most treacherous terrain on earth : and free-tailed bats. The programme also provides an insight into flightless birds such as ostriches, cassowaries and emus

• Freshwater

  Salmon; brown bear; flooded forest; pond life; caribou.

• From Dusk Till Dawn

  Intimate insight into the natural world, turning the spotlight on nocturnal animals to discover why some creatures only come out at night. Featuring footage of such denizens of darkness as bats and possums, as well as the lowdown on the lives of grasshopper mice, which prefer venturing out after twilight as it keeps them away from the baking American desert sun

• Fur, Feathers, Scales and Skin

  Insight into the functions of the various body-coverings and protective layers used in the animal kingdom, including the insulating body-hair of bird-eating spiders and polar bears, the defensive skin-glands of poison dart frogs and the sexual displays of peacocks' spectacular plumage

• Gangs and Groups

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Gatherings

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, featuring interesting facts about various rural communities from all over the globe

• GenericRain and Water

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Giants

  Insight into nature's vast wildernesses inhabited by giants of the animal kingdom, from South America's river wolves : two-metre-long otters: and the Californian condors that inhabit the Grand Canyon, to the colossal South African baobab tree which provides food and water for the country's elephant population

• Grassland and Flowers

  Creatures inhabiting the world's grassland regions, focusing on the role of insects in the pollination process, the unique saiga antelope of the Russian steppes, and the manatees of Florida's underwater meadows

• Grassland Flowers

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Grasslands and Flowers

  Grasses provide food for antelopes, insects and birds, as well as ingredients for medicine.

• Growing Up

  The many ways various animals are prepared for adulthood, a crucial process in which they acquire the skills necessary for survival in a hostile world. While some creatures rely on instinct, others have to be taught, as exemplified by cheetahs and Thompson's gazelles, which gradually mature into their respective roles of hunter and hunted

• Hibernation

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Hibernation and Torpor

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Hibernation and Torpor

  A look at how and why various animals hibernate, exploring the ways in which they prepare for the winter months. While many smaller creatures lower their metabolism with relative ease, larger mammals, such as black bears, have to find other means to cope

• Hibernation and Torpor

  Hibernation.

• Hot & Cold

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Hunters

  Predators around the world, from the lions of the Masai Mara in Africa, which have learned to co-exist relatively peacefully with the Masai people to birds of prey, which are adapted to their environments and possess the necessary equipment to make them superior hunters : keen eyesight, sharp beaks and vicious talons

• Inductees and Aliens

  Ethical issues arising from the practice of taking animals out of their natural habitat and placing them in zoos

• Ingenious
• Ingenious/Caribbean

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Instincts
• Instincts/ Aviators

  Exploring animals that live in the wild, focusing on instincts and aviators

• Intelligence

  Reports on the different levels of intelligence in the animal kingdom, showcasing the cunning methods species use to hunt and feed

• Islands

  A study of Earth's island inhabitants, including iguanas on the Galapagos, with their inbuilt glandular protection against the heavy salt content in their diet. On the mound of seaweed that constitutes the Sargasso sea, a species of Loggerhead turtles can be found, and the ring-tailed lemur is the endangered species, resident only on Madagascar

• Jungle

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Jungles
• Kings and Queens

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Kings and Queens, Deep and Dark

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Lakes and Streams
• Learning and Play

  Gorillas; animals playing; vulture; seals; foxes; dogs.

• Leaving Home

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Living Alone

  Wide-ranging report on the animal kingdom's loners : solitary creatures including snow leopards, Tanzanian hornbills and flightless Humboldt penguins. Also featured are Brazil's isolated Caboclos people, who live along the banks of the Amazon, struggling to survive in a dwindling environment

• Living Together

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Locomotion

  A close-up look at how different creatures negotiate their way around their environments, focusing on the swimming techniques of fish and the transportation mechanism of the scallop

• Mammals

  The diversity of mammal species around the world, from the warthogs of Africa and bearded pigs of Borneo to Guam's endangered Marianas fruit bats. Although they may seem very different, these creatures share certain defining characteristics : they're all warm-blooded, have body hair and suckle their young

• Marsupials

  A look at Australia's unique and surprisingly diverse marsupial species, including wallabies and kangaroos

• Mating and Courtship

  Lions; flightless cormorants; dung beetles; lizards; ostrich; gibbons.

• Miniature

  Developments in camera technology which allow wildlife film-makers to capture even the tiniest creatures in action, including hermit hummingbirds, which beat their wings an astonishing 170 times per second while extracting nectar from flowers, and pygmy marmosets, the smallest of all the primates

• Monsters

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Mountain Top and Hillsides
• Mountain Tops and Hillsides

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Mountains and Valleys

  Insight into life in the animal kingdom, focusing on the role of national parks in the preservation and protection of creatures whose natural habitats are to be found in mountains and valleys

• Movement

  Crocodiles; wildebeest; movement/evolution; elephants; Komodo dragons; horseshoe crabs; dolphin.

• Multitudes

  The problems caused by animals which congregate in large numbers, including swarming insects and snakes that hibernate in their thousands

• Mysteries

  A report on the giant forest hog, a beast finally discovered in 1904 which had previously eluded explorers for centuries. Plus, a visit to the Janet Flowers Dolphin Project in Florida, where children with speech and learning difficulties improve by swimming with pan-spotted tropical dolphins, and an insight into how Costa Rica's Olive Ridley turtles return to the beach where they hatched to lay their eggs

• Mystery

  Mysteries of the natural world, such as animal languages and complex migration routes

• Navigator
• Navigators

  Revealing camouflage techniques used by large and small animals to hide from predators and prey

• Nests and Eggs

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• North America

  The native fauna of North America, including species threatened by environmental change such as the puma and bald eagle

• Old and Ancient

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Old and Ancient

  The world's oldest species, including the duck-billed platypus and echidna which have been around since the age of the dinosaurs and can live for up to 50 years, and giant Galapagos tortoises thought to survive in the wild for up to 200 years

• Old and Ancient

  Tortoises; lungfish; tuatars.

• Outback

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife in the Outback, with stylish graphics and interesting facts

• Outside and Inside

  Insight into the rich array of life in the animal kingdom, from jackdaws nesting in British chimneys to raccoons being introduced back into the wilds of Indiana

• Parents

  The variety of child-raising techniques in the animal world, including red-headed turtles who happily abandon their young, and magellanic penguins who conscientiously share parental duties. Unfortunatley, the females of some species are not so lucky, like the pipa toad who takes all the responsibility of raising her young while the male slopes off

• Perceptions

  An in-depth insight into how environmental and atmospheric conditions can explain why animal species have evolved to have different ocular abilities

• Performance

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Performance/Jungles

  A look at animals that live in the jungle

• Poisonous Creatures

  Black widows; desert scorpions; sea montage; poison dart frogs; spitting cobra; charcoal-eating colobus.

• Pole to Pole

  Penguins, whales, polar bears and seals cope with the extreme temperatures of the waters nears the Earth's poles.

• Predators and Hunting

  Killer whales; chimpanzees; crocodiles; marsh mongoose; wild bearded-pigs; tigers; horn shark; angel shark.

• Primates

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Primates

  Howler monkeys; lemurs; lions.

• Primates

  Primates around the world, from the spider monkeys of South America and Madagascar's endangered lemurs, to a conservation programme for marmosets on Jersey

• Rain and Water

  The importance of water to living things, from a unique species of pupfish inhabiting small pools in California's Death Valley, to Balikli Kaplica in Turkey, where psoriasis sufferers are treated in thermal springs. In Central America, the Mayan Indians pray for rain to ensure the success of their crops, while the Mississippi delta and Yellowstone National Park provide essential water supplies to the USA's human population

• Rare

  Stylish graphics bring to life rare species of wildlife from around the world

• Reefs

  A look at reefs

• Relationships

  Cowbirds; oxpeckers; underwater montage; tides; bats; butterfly; ant; human evolution.

• Reptiles

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Reptiles

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Reptiles

  Reptiles include snakes, lizards, crocodiles and turtles.

• Reptiles

  Intimate insight into the world of reptiles, cold-blooded creatures which seek out sunny spots in which to bask

• River and Swamps

  Bird, fish and animal species inhabiting the world's wetlands, from the flooded fields surrounding the Volga in northern Russia, to the vast Okavango Delta on the edge of the Kalahari desert, home to everything from herons to hippos

• Rivers and Swamps

  Fresh waters; alligators; catfish; migrating birds.

• Sand and Snow

  How animals survive in extreme climatic conditions, including the burrow-dwelling animals of California's Mojave desert, and the beetles and geckos of Namibia that live on dew and fog from the Atlantic, as well as the hardy wildlife of northern Canada, where hungry polar bears are increasingly encroaching on human habitation in search of food

• Savannah
• Savannahs

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Scales, Fur and Skin

  The lowdown on the benefits of scales, skin, feathers and fur, revealing how these natural coverings protect animals from the elements

• Scent

  Insight into the importance of scent in the animal kingdom

• Sea

  The natural history series investigates underwater species, exploring the circle of life under the waves and probing the delicate ecology of the world's oceans

• Sea

  Reports on the reproductive techniques of sea creatures and the way in which the shrimping industry adversely effects the habitat of the sea floor. Also featured are the bizarre spawning ritual of the Capelin fish that throws itself on the rocky shore of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to lay its eggs, and the different methods that animals employ to catch their food

• Sea

  Dolphins; corals; Baja California; sea creatures.

• Sea
• Sea Creatures

  An insight into the world of sea creatures, through the eyes of wildlife photography and graphics

• Seashore and Beaches

  Intimate insight into the rich variety of animal life inhabiting coastal areas around the world, including puffins, grey seals, octopuses and brittle-stars on the Isle of Lundy in the Bristol Channel, spotted slugs in Co Kerry and Australian soldier crabs, which swarm up the country's beaches in search of food. There's also footage of red-headed turtles laying their eggs on the banks of Amazon tributary the Rio Negro, and an interview with fossil-hunter Tony Gill

• Seasons and Cycles

  Seasons and cycles in the natural world, following the common toad through hibernation and spawning, and a monarch butterfly as it pursues its major food source, milkweed. The lava from volcanoes also acts as an ideal source for seeds to germinate, but perhaps the strangest cycle belongs to the cicada, an insect which emerges only once every 17 years to mate

• Secret Worlds

  A look at wildlife around the globe using photography, graphics and a host of animal facts

• Secret Worlds/Mountain Tops and Hillsides

  An insight into animal behaviour that usually remains unseen, and a look at creatures that live in upland areas

• Senses

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Sharks

  A look at the lesser-known species of shark, including dramatic footage of the mating frenzy of the normally placid nurse shark, and voracious tiger sharks in pursuit of turtles, which they can dispatch thanks to their highly evolved saw teeth

• Signals and Sounds

  Documentary on the often elaborate techniques employed by animals to communicate with each other, from the tree-tapping of South American bird-eating spiders and the elaborate twig and feather constructions of Australian satin bowerbirds, to African elephants' use of infrasound

• Size

  The planet's largest and tiniest creatures, including six metre-high giraffes and the world's smallest crocodilian : the spectacled caiman

• Size

  Insight into the animal kingdom, featuring some of the world's largest and smallest creatures, from the huge anaconda snake to the tiny silky marmoset, which weighs no more than four ounces at birth

• Small

  Intimate insight into life in the natural world, featuring the flora and fauna that struggle to survive in a range of vastly differing habitats

• Snakes

  Insight into the world of snakes, which existed 100 million years before the first primates. The documentary explores the contrasting religious beliefs that have grown up around the reptiles, investigates the production of venom antidotes and profiles activists attempting to protect endangered species

• South and Central America

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom, focusing on creatures found in South and Central America

• Specialists

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Speed

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Status

  A look at the formation of social structures in the animal kingdom, exploring how hierarchy aids survival and breeding

• Status

  A pecking order dictates life for baboons, hyenas and deer.

• Status

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Strange Creatures

  Some of the world's more unusual creatures, from electric catfish in Africa's Lake Tanganyika, to sloths on the Caribbean island of Costa Rica, and the anomalous big cats alleged to roam the British countryside

• Strangers

  Animals impact local flora and fauna when they move to new habitats.

• Strength

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Sub Zero

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Sun and Moon

  An investigation into the sun and the moon's place in the world of wildlife, and how all nature is dependent upon the two intergalactic bodies

• Super Size

  Anaconda; giraffes; deer; tarantula; condor.

• Survival

  Survival becomes more difficult in harsh environments.

• Survival and Endurance

  How animals use methods to beat the competition in the battle for survival

• Swarms

  Investigation into species that swarm, revealing why creatures such as locusts and the red-sided garter snake sometimes gather together in enormous numbers

• Swarms and Pests

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Tails and Toes

  Animals gather food with their teeth, tails and toes.

• Tails, Toes and Teeth

  Insight into life in the animal kingdom, focusing on the fight for survival as male birds use their gaudy tails to attract a mate and chimpanzees fashion tools with their hands

• Territories

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Tiny Beasts

  Nature documentary offering an insight into a selection of small creatures

• Tracks and Trails

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Travelers and Tourists
• Travellers and Tourists

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Trees

  A look at the forest of the Amazon, which covers an area of six million square kilometres and houses an extraordinary array of wildlife

• Tropical

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Tropical

  Species thriving in tropical conditions, including Kenya's marine life and monitor lizards, the African honeybee which provides a nutritious : if rather dangerous : treat for the Mbuti tribesmen of the Ituri forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Costa Rica's endangered macaws. Also featured are the tropical flora being grown in artificial conditions at the Eden Project in Cornwall

• Tropical

  The natural resources of tropical rain forests.

• Tropical

  The importance of tropical rainforests, which provide a rich environment for a host of animals, as well as for people who know how to exploit the jungle without harming the eco-system

• Tropical

  Intimate insight into life in the animal kingdom

• Tropical Asia

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities in Asia

• Underground and Overground

  An informative and entertaining documentary about wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Unexpected

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the world of wildlife, with stylish graphics and interesting facts, featuring various rural communities from all over the world

• Wings

  Documentary exploring the way birds and mammals' wing construction enables them to fly in different ways

• Wonders

  An informative and entertaining documentary about the natural world, using stylish graphics and interesting facts, as well as featuring various rural communities from all over the world