Humanlike: The Chimps Of Fongoli

HUMANLIKE: THE CHIMPS OF FONGOLI is the story of a remarkable group of chimpanzees in Senegal, West Africa. They live at the very limits of where chimps can survive. As they adapt to the extreme heat of the savanna south of the Sahara Desert, they could hold clues to how we became human. For years, these chimps were elusive ghosts, rarely seen. But then one team and one man changed everything – seeing into their secret lives and recording extraordinary new behaviors that shine a light on our own evolutionary past and fundamentally changing how we think about ourselves.

Shark Swarm

Secrets that lie at the ends of the Earth could unlock the mysteries of the SHARK SWARM.

Wonders Of The Ocean

The Pacific Ocean encompasses an extreme range of environments nature has to offer, from deep ocean trenches to undersea volcanoes and from tropical lagoons to wave-tossed sub-Antarctic waters. The most remarkable thing about the Pacific is that life has managed to gain a foothold in all these environments. Unique and often bizarre creatures have adapted below and above the waves to make the most of every situation. This series showcases the many incredible creatures that have evolved to call the Pacific home.

Kenya Wildlife Diaries

In the Shadow of Mount Kenya lies one of the most spectacular and busy game reserves in East Africa. The Lewa Reserve is home to fifteen thousand animals, including some of the rarest and most dangerous on earth. Follow the conservancy staff as they brave some very extreme challenges in order to make sure wild Africa's greatest treasures live on.

Aussie Snake Wranglers: Deadly Pursuit

AUSSIE SNAKE WRANGLERS: DEADLY PURSUIT follows a team of elite snake handlers as they go head-to-head with some of the deadliest snakes on the planet. It’s breeding season on the Sunshine Coast in Australia, and snakes are on the move. In each episode, the team answer multiple distress calls from everyday people whose homes have been invaded by these fearsome reptiles. Snakes move quickly and can disappear in the blink of an eye, leaving families distraught. This fearless crew won’t stop their pursuit until the snake is safely caught and relocated, even if that means putting their own lives on the line.

Red Crabs Crazy Ants

Christmas Island is home to the yearly mass migration of red crabs. Each year many of the crabs fall victim to the alien yellow crazy ants. These ants release formic acid as they crawl over and around the crabs which, with no defence against the ferocity of the onslaught, become stressed and generally die within a few hours.

World's Deadliest

In the wild there are more ways to die than anyone can count. From the moment an animal is born, nature is trying to knock it out of the race to exist and multiply. In this seven part series, living and dying isn’t always a zero-sum game. Instead of winners and losers there are hunters that are barely making do and multitudes of prey that have to escape death every day of their lives. Nature is a cruel mistress, but life goes on in WORLD'S DEADLIEST.

World's Biggest Baddest Bugs

How big and how bad are the beasties lurking in your backyard? Bugman Ruud Kleinpaste is taking us on an entomological odyssey around the globe in search of the ultimate biggest and “baddest” creepy crawlies.

Extreme Animals

In EXTREME ANIMALS, we reveal the different personalities and behaviors of the world’s animals and find the most extreme examples in each category. The storyline is simple: count down the ten most extreme animals for any given behavior or location. The journey to find the answer takes the audience into the complex world of animal behavior and the reasons behind why our wild cousins do what they do.

Gangs of Lemur Island

Feuding families, civil war, and lovers’ trysts. This is not Romeo and Juliet; this is a troop of ring-tailed lemurs leading extraordinary lives on ‘Lemur Island’. Meet the lemurs of Berenty, a spiny forest reserve in Madagascar, where the primates are obsessed with social rank and status, and have shown to be adept at adapting to survive in an environment of extremes in a changing climate. Science and behaviour intersect in the gripping GANGS OF LEMUR ISLAND.