Planet Weird

Earth has produced an endless parade of unique and WEIRD animals. Strange behaviours, odd physiology, and outlandish survival techniques can be found in every habitat. Each animal, in the competition to survive, has evolved a weird attribute to secure the winning edge. Across six episodes, PLANET WEIRD uncovers some of the most extraordinary wild characters, each stranger than the last. Inside every weird story is a revelation of amazing adaptation and scientific surprise. Meet an endless array of colourful characters and discover that evolution is alive and ongoing, conjuring every conceivable way for life to succeed.

Africa's Hidden Kingdoms

AFRICA’S HIDDEN KINGDOMS explores the wonders of the most primitive plant and wildlife biomes found in Africa. See the flower carpets of Namaqualand — a global biodiversity hotspot – and the southern right whales that mate off the coast of the De Hoop Nature Reserve, as you revel in the beautiful, ancient and bizarre world of South Africa’s wildlife kingdoms.

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.

A Bee's Diary

In a beehive, tens of thousands of tiny animals work toward a common goal: the survival of the colony. But what is life like for an individual honeybee? A BEE'S DIARY tells that story. Scientists are learning that each bee in a hive is an individual, with its own personality. Told from the point of view of just two bees, an elderly “winter bee” who nurtures the new generation and a young forager who grows as the colony expands, this documentary reveals the secrets of a bee’s life from a completely new perspective. *Winner of 2021 Best Original Music, Non-Fiction, Canadian Screen Awards *Nominated for 2021 Best Visual Effects, Canadian Screen Awards *Winner of the GREEN SCREEN Nature Film Award *GREEN SCREEN Film Award winner for Best Story *GREEN SCREEN Film Award winner for Best Post Production

Wild California

WILD CALIFORNIA pushes past the city atmosphere to immerse you into the truly wild and open world California has to offer. It’s a big state out there and your eyes deserve to see it.

Trimates

Narrated by award-winning actress Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy, Killing Eve), TRIMATES is a documentary for the whole family. This is a story of two generations of women: the young pioneers - Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas - who set out into the jungles over half a century ago to live with our closest ancestors, the great apes. This is also the story of a generation who followed their articles, transfixed by their stories and determined to follow the same distant paths. Featuring an original musical score, and up-close and personal footage filmed by one of the world’s most renowned natural history cinematographers, this film takes us deep into the jungles and mountains of Uganda, Borneo and Congo, as we explore the frontiers of important research and our human origins.

Animals Like Us

Throughout the Animal Kingdom wild animals live in sophisticated societies, inhabited by individuals that show deep emotion and real intelligence. This six-part series takes viewers on an epic journey around the world, touching down on all seven continents to witness the beauty of nature, and to uncover the secrets of the key species that reside on our planet. Throughout it all, the forces of competition, cooperation, and companionship shape the lives of these animals - much like they shape ours. The closer we look at their actions, and unravel what drives them to behave as they do, the more we realize animals are a lot like us!

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.

Wild Dogs: Pack Vs Pride

In this second season of WILD DOGS, Julz is back to follow two wild dog packs and one lion pride, the first cameraman to follow and chart the conflicts and interactions between these two top predators in the Luangwa Valley. Just as action packed as last year Julz will be challenged by the landscape and environment as he endeavors to keep up with the wild dogs in Roxanne, his trusty Jeep. The immersive on the shoulder style keeps us close to the action as Julz fixes on the fly, camps in the wilderness, and does what he does best – captures stunning wildlife behaviour in an incredible landscape.

Animal Senses

From the earliest primitive life forms to sophisticated animals like mammals, primates and birds, animals have evolved powerful senses to perceive their environment. These developed senses can turn mechanical waves, airborne particles, and photons into information that helps animals find food, shelter, mates, and communicate with each other. ANIMAL SENSES traces the evolutionary history of those senses.