Programme
00:17 - 00:37
Fascinating Places
A Summer With Polar Bears at Hudson Bay
Series, Nature, Documentary
A look at polar bears during an ice-free, colorful summer.
00:37 - 00:58
Fascinating Places
Summertime Wilderness
Series, Nature, Documentary
A look at the brief summers in Hudson Bay, which offer ideal living conditions for numerous animals and plants.
00:58 - 01:18
Fascinating Places
Season of New Beginnings
Series, Nature, Documentary
A look at the major challenges for wild plants and animals, such as breeding and stocking up on energy, that come with the arrival of spring.
01:18 - 01:50
Super Senses: Wild Feats of Evolution
Smell & Taste
Series, Documentary, Animals
Examining how things taste, and how vital scent is from the animal perspective; an animal's sense of smell will also detect the scent of odorants carried through the air.
01:50 - 02:23
Super Senses: Wild Feats of Evolution
Superhuman Senses
Series, Documentary, Animals
Certain animals have some crazy looking sense organs; every feature has a special purpose that has evolved to ensure the survival of the animal.
02:23 - 02:54
Super Senses: Wild Feats of Evolution
Sixth Sense
Series, Documentary, Animals
Animals have sense organs with which they can recognize electromagnetic fields; they can feel when an earthquake is approaching and sharks can track their prey.
02:54 - 03:26
Super Senses: Wild Feats of Evolution
Sense of Timing
Series, Documentary, Animals
Living beings have an internal biological clock, modeled on the famous circadian rhythm of night and day and running over a period of 24 hours; this rhythm is particularly evident in the cicada, lizards, bears and Arctic ground squirrels.
03:26 - 03:58
Super Senses: Wild Feats of Evolution
Underwater
Series, Documentary, Animals
The sea hosts an enormous quantity of species of fish, mammals, and crustaceans that have unique mechanisms to withstand pressure, low temperatures, and total darkness of the seabed.
03:58 - 05:03
Baboon Bandits
Special, Documentary, Nature
Follows the last baboons of Table Mountain as they have become a plague; the residents are split between sympathy and rage.
05:03 - 06:07
Animal Doctors
Special, Documentary
Exploring how animals developed over time and generations their own medicine and health care strategies and how have these may have been passed onto early humans.
06:07 - 07:11
Antarctica
Special, Nature, Documentary
Exploring Antarctica, one of the world's most beautiful, yet inhospitable, landscapes.
