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- Exploring the many ways animals use colour throughout their lives.
- Advanced audio tech reveals never-before-heard animal behaviors: caiman chirping in eggs, lions and hyenas nocturnal skirmishes, puzzling fish humming, avian mimicry precision.
- Follow the adventures of baby lions, elephants, penguins, pangolins and more as they learn to navigate the highs lows of life in the wild.
- David Attenborough investigates the remarkable life and death of Jumbo the elephant - a celebrity animal superstar whose story is said to have inspired the movie Dumbo.
- David Attenborough presents a collection of his favourite natural curiosities found throughout the animal kingdom from armoured giants to crafty insects.
- Attenborough narrates the story of a vast island wilderness - ancient forests, pristine rivers and spectacular coastline. Seasons vary from dry heat, strong winds and cold bringing wombats, wallabies and platypus out in daylight.
- When a thirty-something 'suit' breaks into a music festival to retrieve his stolen belongings, he ends up finding love and freedom instead.
- David Attenborough's nature documentary about the wondrous Tasmania that also tries to debunk the ugly stereotypes about its most famous, notorious and, of recently, endangered inhabitant, the Tasmanian devil.
- In this first episode, David explores how animals use colour in the wild for survival and attracting a mate - and even for warning off predators. Along the way, he gets up close to peacocks in India, and mandrill baboons in the rainforest - discovering just how extraordinary and beautiful colours in the natural world really are.
- In this second episode, David explores how animals use colour to hide, and disappear into the background when they need to camouflage. Along the way, he looks at Bengal tigers in the Indian sub-continent, and at how zebras confuse potential predators in Masai Mara by literally 'dazzling' them. He also sees how the chicks of the pin-tailed whydah imitate the patterns of their siblings to ensue they're not seen as an unwanted imposter to the nest.
- The crew shares how they captured views of a hidden world across various habitats and challenging conditions using a pioneering camera system.
- Forgotten bones of Jumbo the elephant help scientists crack unsolved mysteries surrounding the world's first animal superstar.
- Exploring the intimate and secretive lives of dingoes in Australia's Blue Mountains, we follow a pack as the pups emerge, follow them as they grow and eventually disperse into the big blue yonder.
- Davis presents parthenogenesis, asexual reproduction, notably in species which are capable of sexual breeding too. Sometimes it's the way for a population to be established by a single colonizing female, as Komodo dragons did on various smaller Insulind islands. Sometimes cloning is deemed ideal for a species perfectly adapted to its environment, albeit a gamble on the long run to give up natural variation. Often however it's combined with sexual reproduction in a complex seasonal s-cycle, as with aphids, whose females also breed pregnant offspring, so as to clone themselves fast in huge numbers.
- Davis presents two species famous for their body armor, while wondering why it's not more common. First the skin plated rhinoceros, subject of myths until a tame female from colonial India was toured throughout Europe by a Dutch captain. Next the spines-covered hedgehog and his actually very different, not closely related African counterpart, the porcupine.
- David presents two animal types who cope with deep dark fabulously, in different ways and surroundings. First the owls, whose eyes, skull and even spine are anatomically adapted spectacularly to allow incredible eyesight, even at night, yet depends no less on his fine hearing. Next the deep sea squids, a giant with the present fauna's larger eyes, who must use bio-luminescence in the pitch dark at about 1000 meters depth.
- David presents two animals who have worse reputations then deserved. First the gorilla, long seen by none or too few Westerners in the flesh, which alas also got its scientific name after discoverer Savage. Next vampire bats, a story of mistaken species identity and mixing up with East Eiropean vampire myths, culminating in Bram Stoker's literature.
- David presents aquatic animal species who make shockingly efficient use of self-generated electricity. First electric eels, who use such powerful current that it stuns or kills prey or assailants, even grown men. Next various other fish, who also master techniques to use electricity as a sixth sense to locate invisible prey.
- David presents animal species who produce amazingly elaborate and efficient constructions. First spiders, and to a lesser degree caterpillars, who spin silk for webs and various specialized purposes, a process scientists still are unable to fully understand, let alone copy. Next weaver birds, whose hanging nests, a male's best bid to earn an impressed female as breeding mate, require incredible, largely innate qualities, including tying knots (uniqe for birds) and expertly selecting fit materials.
- David presents two animal species who redistributed parental roles and properties most unusually. First sea-horses, where the male has a pouch to brood the eggs, a still largely unexplained role reversal with strong couple bonding, exponent of an evolution among its related precursors. Next hyenas, where females are larger, stronger, dominant but hard to distinguish as their external sex organs resemble a male's.
- David presents animal species whose seasonal (dis)appearing has puzzled men for centuries. First geese and other migratory birds, which were long supposed to 'hibernate' in bizarre ways, a matter of dispute centuries even after emperor-falconer Frederic Hohenstaufen wrote down the actual fact. Next butterflies, who were believed 'sponteously generated' until people realized they are the adult form of utterly dissimilar caterpillars.
- David presents vertebrate species who cope amazingly with freezing cold. First the emperor penguin, where the males especially brave incredible cold to mate and protect their offspring. Next North American frog species who mastered the art of surviving frost even in ice thanks to a sort of cry-stasis.
- The chameleon fascinated naturalists since the family's discovery, mainly on account of its color-shifting, while arousing various legends, even being a diabolic spy created from other animals. David focuses on another anatomical oddity, the extraordinarily long, fast-propelled tongue, aimed thanks to the two independently-controlled eyes combining to full circle-sight. Giraffes always fascinated humans, making them an ideal princely gift from the Egyptian viceroy for major European monarchs. Its entire anatomy is out of whack to accommodate for the exceptionally long neck and legs, presumably mainly to reach high leaves.
- Some animals have mastered the art of deception. The cuckoo lays its eggs in the nest of other birds and tricks them into raising its young, while the spooky looking Death's-head hawk-moth deceives hundreds of bees to steal their honey. How do these cheats and imposters get away with it?