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- Climbers arrive at Everest Base Camp and quickly learn the dangers of the mountain.They are shocked to discover how badly their minds and bodies cope as they move to Advance Base Camp. A cameraman collapses with intense stomach pains. A member of an Indian expedition collapses with acute mountain sickness. It is up to expedition physician, Terry, to lead a full-scale rescue mission.
- Ed Stafford pushes his survival limits as he tries to survive in some of the worlds' toughest environments without even essential equipment and only a camera by his side.
- Former British Army Captain Ed Stafford was the first person ever to walk the length of the Amazon River, but surviving completely alone on a desert island is his biggest adventure yet. Can he last 60 days on an uninhabited Fijian island with absolutely nothing? No survival tools, no rations, no clothes, no film crew... It's a daunting challenge and nobody's ever done it before. In fierce tropical heat, he has only hours to find water before dehydration ends his attempt before it's begun. He must master the island - and his fears - to find food and water, light fire, build a proper shelter, and progress from mere survival to the point where he could stay forever. Filmed entirely by Ed himself, there's never been a more authentic survival series on TV.
- Ed Stafford attempts to survive alone on a Desert island for 60 days. With no clothes, no knife or anything except his camera, an emergency satellite phone and an emergency medical kit.
- Experienced cameraman Ed Wardle sets out on an adventure in which he is the star: a long stay in the barren Canadian wilderness. As the cycle of seasons passes, he must survive from the land, while filming his trapper-like daily life, the landscape he wanders trough and the wildlife he now has to interact with.
- Following on from his stay at Beachcomber Cottage, Monty Halls returns to Scotland. This time on the Hebridean island of North Uist where he takes on the role of a volunteer wildlife ranger.
- The compelling story of one of the most successful mountain gorillas that has ever lived - a huge silverback called Titus. The programme starts in 1967, when the researcher Dian Fossey first made contact with a group of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. She opened up a window on to their secret lives. Forty years on, this film reveals the complete and dramatic life story of one individual animal. Titus's father was murdered by poachers in front of his very eyes. His mother abandoned him in the subsequent chaos. His family disintegrated. He should have died. But we reveal how Titus survived against all the odds. We find him today - a king being challenged by his second in command - another silverback. The unfolding drama climaxes with rare footage of the gorillas at the very top of their mountain world on the Virunga Volcanoes. Titus's present day trials and tribulations take the viewer back in time to reveal key moments in Titus's history. Using testament from eyewitnesses, the film relives one individual mountain gorilla's extraordinary battle for survival.
- Economist Conor Woodman uses £25,000 from the sale of his flat to travel to various countries around the world to buy products from certain regions and later sell them to other countries for a profit.
- Actress Julia Roberts turns naturalist to discover the endangered great ape of Asia, the Orang-utan, as she goes on an expedition with conservationists and ventures deep into the jungles of Borneo.
- Solitary sharks that have formed a gang. An elephant-turned-serial killer. A pride of lions with a sudden appetite for giraffes. And pigs, by the thousands, erupting in flames. What on earth is going on in the animal world? This series travels the globe to investigate mysterious occurrences and odd behavior afflicting the animal kingdom. We follow field experts and game wardens as they dive into dangerous waters and enter wildlife warzones, making discoveries that could rewrite science and spell doom for certain species.
- Austin Stevens looks for exotic and sometimes rare snakes and encounters other animals along the way educating us with each encounter.
- Heart-stopping adventure, deadly encounters and the roughest terrain on the planet...it's just another day for photographer and wildlife expert Austin Stevens. Join him as he travels the globe in search of the world's most fascinating and dangerous animals.
- Crowd Control is a show presented by behavior expert Daniel Pink, and aims to make people think twice about their actions.
- Strung out along 5,000 kilometers of the Equator, between Asia and Australia, Indonesia's 17,000 islands make up the largest and most varied archipelago on earth. From freezing glaciers to coral reefs, orangutans to Komodo dragons, the sheer diversity of landscapes and life defies the imagination. This series tells the story of one of the world's most fascinating regions and its magical wildlife.
- Documentary about the relationship between singer Michael Jackson and his chimpanzee Bubbles. This revealing documentary talks to those who witnessed the relationship first hand, including Michael's sister La Toya, and explores the complex psychology behind Jackson's devotion to his chimp and other animals. It also highlights the path Bubbles' life took once he hit adolescence and Michael could no longer care for him, to where he is now more than 20 years later. The documentary also reunites La Toya Jackson with Bubbles after more than 20 years apart.
- Marine biologist and professional diver Monty Halls turns his back on city life to become a 21st century beachcomber on the west coast of Scotland.
- An eight-part exploration of the diverse peoples that make up the African continent.
- Aron Ralston is arguably the most famous survivor in the world. His ordeal in a Utah canyon, where he had to cut off his own arm after getting trapped, was made into the Oscar nominated film '127 Hours'. Now, he's spending another 127 hours as a castaway on a desert island. The story of his struggle to survive in the canyon merges with his desert island experience, as he starts to suffer debilitating dehydration, and tells how in the canyon he had to drink his own urine. In an emotional fireside climax on his fifth night, he remembers how the vision of his yet unborn son gave him the strength to amputate his arm, and how then, as now, thoughts of his family sustained him through bleak moments.
- Monty Halls spends a summer in the west of Ireland, observing the animals that migrate through the waters off Connemara.
- Investigating weird and wonderful real-life stories from the natural world. Each show unravels three wild mysteries, combining groundbreaking scientific discoveries with classic detective work.
- Jaguar Adventure is a series that follows Nigel Marven to the Pantanal, the world's biggest wetland and home to the planet's largest population of jaguars. Can Nigel realise his childhood dream of coming eyeball to eyeball with a jaguar in the wild?
- Kate Humble and Simon King follow the animals living along Zambia's Luangwa River, from the last days of the longest dry season in memory to the arrival of the rains that will change everything.
- Frank is in a wheelchair and has a long held dream to see the birds of paradise in Papua New Guinea. His friend, Benedict, a well traveled adventurer, and a team of people including many local people, attempt to get him through the rugged lands to where the birds can be seen. It not only follows their physical journey but their own emotional journeys as well. This documentary has many honest, self filmed, insights into their individual thoughts about themselves and each other.
- Canada: A Year In The Wild is a visually satisfying documentary that follows some of the most iconic Canadian wildlife through a year in the vast Canadian wilderness.
- Every year, without fail, Jane Goodall breaks a grueling schedule of lecture tours and conservation work to go 'home' -- her spiritual home of Gombe National park in East Africa. This film follows her on that journey, returning to Tanzania to see her beloved chimps, some of whom her work has practically made household names - Fifi, Freud and Frodo. We'll hear her thoughts every step of the way during the weeks leading up to Gombe -- as she visits a chimp sanctuary in Congo, delivers a final lecture, attends meetings and continues her work for the Jane Goodall Institute. This film reveals a new side of Jane Goodall, the thoughts and emotions generally hidden from the multitude of film crews that have followed her in the past.
- For fifteen million years orangutans roamed tropical forests from China to South East Asia. In Borneo, one of their last island outposts, lives one today who is a legend. He's won more than just a kingdom, he's won human hearts. They gave him the name Kusasi. The Orangutan King is the story of Kusasi's life told to us by a remarkable witness. Dr Birute M. Galdikas has been researching orangutans in Borneo for over 40 years. Under the guidance of Louis Leakey, Galdikas joined Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey to become a pioneer of Great Ape field research. Together they were known as the 'trimates', or 'Leakey's Angels'. Yet while Goodall's chimpanzees and Fossey's gorillas were made familiar through films, the orangutans are still largely unknown to television audiences. Their solitary lives high in the tree canopy have made them difficult to follow and film. Now, for the first time, Dr Galdikas will draw audiences deep into the orangutan universe. With enthusiasm and insight she tells us this special story - taking us back 30 years and unfolding Kusasi's story with detail, energy, and the wonder that she still feels for the orangutan species. As a three year old orphan, Kusasi fell under the care of Galdikas in her forest research camp. But driven by a cunning and tenacious spirit Kusasi did not behave as the other ex-captive infants. From the moment he arrived until today, Galdikas has watched Kusasi fight to win back and then succeed at life in the wild. And he's achieved what had once seemed impossible, reaching the top of the power hierarchy and ruling for ten years. The people who work at Camp Leakey enjoy his charisma, and even those who only visit him in his forest kingdom are struck with awe. As Julia Roberts was in 1997. Her encounter with Kusasi was unplanned - becoming a tight clinch with an irritable 140 kilo beast, possessing the strength of ten men. But she was unharmed. Kusasi is not malicious, and he's respected as much for his indifference to humans as for his power over the other orangutans. Today his spirit still burns brightly but his physical strength is fading. His fights with the rogue males who cross his borders are weakening him and The Orangutan King is the last chance for us to see him in power. But the hope of this film is that he will not be the last of his kind to rule with such strength in his forests. If the forest destruction can be stopped, there is a long future for the considerable Kusasi bloodline.
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- The program explores communications and relationships between animals and humans. In part one we witness how animals can learn our language and find unique human-animal partnerships working to make the world a better place. Part two will discover how we humans can learn the languages of animals through science and other, less-easily defined approaches. Part three discovers the "conversations" that can take place between animals and humans, and the amazing results that these mutual comprehensions can yield. Dr Goodall's message is that communicating with animals brings humankind closer to another world, and that such liaisons can bring about unexpected benefits.
- In 1998, Chris Packham met a hunter-gatherer tribe in remote Sumatra. 20 years later, he goes in search of the same tribe to search for the girl whose photograph he took.
- Jeff Corwin joins an elite hit squad of scientists on an adventurous mission to search out new species in one of the most remote and mysterious regions on Earth - the Himalayas. The mysterious Makalu-Barun National Park, on the shoulder of Mount Everest in Nepal, is a "biodiversity hotspot" - a rugged, forested region that Conservation International has singled out as the destination of an extraordinary expedition. Working day and night, a team of CI scientists will build an inventory of the region's wildlife. They hope, and expect, to come across new species as they work. Makalu-Barun is also a hotspot for yeti sightings. While the CI scientists work day and night, Jeff undertakes his own mission: to search out another, undescribed species - the infamous yeti. Determined to get to the bottom of this enduring mystery, he is guided by the stories of local people, the words of yeti myth experts, the advice of his fellow biologists and the accounts of holy men. He stumbles upon recent photographs and prized yeti relics, and travels to isolated yeti haunts in his search. By the end of the show, he is ready to draw his own startling conclusion about the truth behind the myth.
- The Black Mamba is well known as Africa's deadliest snake. In the small country of Swaziland, it's feared and revered for its power. Between October and February, temperatures rise here and it's known as 'snake season'. At this time of year, black mambas turn up everywhere - in people's homes, schools and cars. When people find snakes here, they kill them but getting close enough to kill a mamba means it is close enough to kill you, and people are getting bitten here every week. In a country with very limited health care and no anti-venom, it is becoming a crisis. Two very unlikely people have become motivated to do something about it. Thea Litschka-Koen is a mum, and manages a hotel with her husband Clifton. Known affectionately as the white witch by the locals, Thea is determined to change attitudes towards venomous snakes, based on centuries of fear and superstition. She and her husband are on call 24 hours a day to rescue and release black mambas and other venomous snakes when they get 'too close for comfort'. But what the locals really want to know is - will they come back again? We follow Thea and her team as they set up a pioneering new scientific project to track black mambas in the wild. If she can find out more about their movements and daily lives, she will be able to pass on vital information and reassurance to the local people who have to live alongside them.
- Travel by air with Mike Fay across Africa as he takes detailed digital still images of the continent to examine the human footprint on the land.
- Describes a December 2010 series of five shark attacks at Eqypt's Red Sea Sharm el-Sheikh resort area that has exceptional water areas including coral reefs.
- Comedian Joe Pasquale attempts to survive alone in Guyana's vast rainforest. It's the wet season and torrential rains make survival difficult as Joe struggles to make fire and find food. In 90 percent humidity and crushing heat Joe builds a shelter and chops down two massive palm trees in a bid to get to the edible palm hearts at very top. But when the palms get trapped high up in the jungle canopy, Joe is reduced to eating maggots. After days of starvation rations, and losing his way in the jungle, Joe finally finds food. After surviving 6 days alone, Joe tears down camp and prepares to head back to civilization. He reflects that the experience is the most difficult thing he's ever done but acknowledges that to survive alone in the wild mental determination is even more important than physical endurance.
- England Cricket hero Freddie Flintoff spends eight days completely alone in a remote corner of Botswana's Okavango Delta. Armed with a camera to film his adventure Freddie is constantly on guard against the dangerous wild animals that live in the African bush - out here, he's on the menu. He has to hunt and gather to supplement the emergency survival rations he has with him or he will go hungry, and he has to collect, boil and filter every last drop of the drinking water he needs to survive. After trouble setting camp and getting a fire going he realises that he needs to be more focussed and begins to find his feet. Freddie is entranced by a spectacular and alarmingly close encounter with a herd of elephants and decides that he would rather go hungry than hunt for food. Nearing the end of his time in the bush, lions make a terrifying night time visit to Freddie's camp. After 7 nights and 8 days in the Okavango Delta Freddie strikes camp and heads for a rendezvous with the support team. It's been an extraordinary experience and one that he hopes to have again - next time with company.
- Comedian John Bishop visits the Rwandan forest to learn about the endangered mountain gorilla from the vets who dedicate themselves to protecting them.
- Three men use their extraordinary animal expertise to turn the natural behaviour of some familiar garden creatures into fun. They introduce bee racing to the world, demonstrate how to coach goldfish to play football, and conduct a series of gourmet tastings with a very sophisticated urban fox. Who are they? Lloyd Buck is a professional bird trainer, and full time Essex boy Matt Thompson is a zoologist and enthusiastic goldfish trainer James Cooper is a prop designer and the team's mechanical genius This series is a privileged peek into their world. It's a world where ravens perform magic tricks, birds of prey chase "scalextric" mice, and slugs aren't a garden pest, but talented escape artists. All three men have an uncanny way with animals and a fascination with natural animal behaviour. Their mission is to celebrate the unsung talents of the creatures all around us.
- Each reunion captures the bond between warm-hearted human character and adorable wild animal, proving with each story that animals are just as capable of love as humans are.
- Shaun Foggett lives with his partner, three kids and 21 deadly crocodiles. Shaun is an ordinary man with extraordinary dreams. Together with his partner Lisa and their young growing family, Shaun lives in a small house in the suburbs of Witney, Oxfordshire. Packed into sheds that fill all but a tiny square of their garden, he also has a collection of 21 crocodiles - the largest in Britain - many of them endangered in the wild. But he wants more. In 2005, Shaun survived a near-fatal blood disease and as he recovered, vowed to pursue his ultimate reptilian dream - to open the first ever Crocodile Zoo in Britain with each of the 23 species of crocodilian in the world. We follow his journey over a period of 5 months as he gives up his job as a joiner/carpenter in the family building firm to kick-start his hopes - finding premises, designing enclosures and hopefully persuading the planners to let him move 21 crocs to an industrial unit.
- As the dry season grips southern Tanzania, a pride of lions is faced with a shortage of prey. A big kill is essential for the pride's survival. One buffalo would provide enough meat to sustain a pride for several days. But it's not as easy as it sounds. Weighing more than a ton, the male buffalo is a daunting prospect for a hungry lion. Their herds are made up of many sub-groups of closely related individuals, and unlike other prey who run randomly in the presence of predators, buffaloes close ranks and face their adversaries head on. Many a buffalo bears the tell-tale signs of a failed lion ambush, thick scars running down their backs or parts of their tails missing. More often than not, however, it is the lion that is injured in these confrontations. It would take a certain amount of tenacity, foolhardiness and teamwork on the lions' part to bring this mighty beast down. Intimate Enemies is a film about the relationship between these two great animals as a drought forces them into a titanic battle.
- When healthy dolphins mysteriously start turning up dead in remote Scottish coastline and Virginia US, a full scale search is launched to find the killer.
- Shaun Foggett and his family (partner Lisa, their three children, and more than 20 deadly crocodiles) will capture the hearts and imaginations of viewers as they follow this one-off man in pursuit of his dream.