0:05 and now the snakes are on the alert this is the best feeding opportunity they will get all [Music] year on flat round a baby iguana can outrun a race of snake but others are waiting in [Music]
0:58 ambush another hatchling has its first glimpse of a dangerous world
1:52 [Music] e a snake's eyes aren't very good but they can detect movement so if the hatchling keeps its nerve it may just avoid detection
2:48 [Music]
3:51 a near miraculous [Applause] Escape the lucky survivors could begin learning the unique way of life demanded by this hostile Island as they mature young males begin to explore the boundaries of the Pride's territory red has ventured out [Music] alone [Music] and blunder straight into the middle of the hyena
4:58 clam [Music] he's trapped by over 20 of [Music] [Music] them the pet tries to wear him down this number to kill [Music]
5:56 him think it's impossible find he can't keep the B much longer he's tiring fast his ally Tatu has heard the
6:53 commotion now the ODS have changed [Music] even for 20 hyenas a pair of male vs is too much to take [Music] on during the dry season over half a million turns crowd onto this remote atal in the Indian Ocean their chicks are still in their dark juvenile
7:45 plumage they vary in [Music] age whilst the more advanced chicks take to the air [Music] H others aren't quite ready [Music] yet those just starting to learn to fly use the shallow Lagoon that occupies the
8:35 center of the atol as their training ground it's difficult for some of them to stay a loft for [Applause] long giant
9:21 tranes usually they are solitary Hunters but about 50 of them have come here from nebor ing reefs attracted by this abundance of potential prey the fledglings stay out of the water if they can they even drink on the [Music] wing
10:06 if the chalia to catch one now they have to up their [Music] game so there is a fish here that amazingly has a brain capable of calculating the air speed altitude and trajectory of a
10:58 bird the time comes when every fledgling has to take to the air and collect food for [Music] itself their parents lead them to the training
11:43 [Music] grounds [Music] I
12:33 [Music] if they are to survive they must learn [Music] quickly after a month of practicing over
13:26 the Lagoon the youngsters start to leave and take their chances out over the Open Sea exhausted from his swim the bear must regain his strength the next day a sea fog shrouds the island the Wallace is sense that they're in danger using the fog as cover the bear approaches The Herd [Music] the adults Clos ranks around their young presenting a wall of blubber and
14:16 hide he tests the barrier but it stands firm it appears that the world's largest land carnivore has met his match [Music] there must be a in the armor somewhere not [Music] here this female walrus is shielding her pup if he can just prize her off [Music]
15:04 the bear's claws and teeth can't penetrate her thick [Music] hide with the herd retreating to water the bear must move quickly having failed with one he heads straight for [Music] another the chance of his first meal in months is slipping
15:55 [Music] away he seems increasingly desperate it's now or never he must avoid the stabbing tusks if he's the [Music] win the flailing walrus is immensely powerful and drags the bear away from the shallows towards the safety of the herd
16:43 it slips from his grasp mantids will eat anything that [Music] moves including other mantids time to [Music] leave this tiny insect is now open to attack from predators lurking in the
17:34 [Music] undergrowth whether an individual matis survives or not is partly a matter of chance whether it's spotted by a predator whether it turns right or [Music] left so far its luck has held but this hungry jumping spider is still in
18:24 Pursuit am mantis is born with exceptional eyesight but the spiders is even better although this young mantis can't yet fly its long for legs evolved to catch prey give it [Music] [Music] reach [Music]
19:12 there seems to be no [Music] Escape but this mantis has a surprising line in self-defense Kung Fu praying mantis [Music] style of course it's all Bluff trying to look bigger and confuse its [Music] enemy but it's got away with it
20:03 just staying alive for its first few hours is a significant accomplishment for a newly HED insect but there's still a long way to go with a bit of luck in two months time it will be as big and beautiful as this orchid [Music] maned [Music] or maybe not after all mantids are cannibals Stony Canyons provide a sanctuary for Animals throughout the Middle East like Nubian ibex
21:04 these wild goats can only survive here because precious water bubbles to the surface in [Applause] Springs in summer the females come to drink at these pools every day the pool is guarded by a male IEX he has exclusive access to the females who come here he tastes the air to see if any of them are ready to mate but this is such a prized spot that inevitably he has
21:53 competition getting the upper ground will be key [Music] the male's skulls are specially reinforced to take a battering
22:49 they're evenly matched the battle could last up to an hour [Applause] but when a third male joins in no one seems to know who to fight the party is soon broken up by a tell full tail smell in the
23:38 air the ibeck are right to be skittish beduin have always been skilled Hunters Kenya famous for its big cats the Supreme Hunters [Music] cheaters specialize in hunting at speed though fast they're fragile creatures built to Sprint after small prey they don't have the strength or weight of a lion to bring down larger animals this male is different he
24:26 doesn't hunt alone he's leared that there is strength in [Music] numbers but here there are not just two but three cheaters a Band of [Music] Brothers they have changed their tactics and by doing so have taken their prey by surprise they have leared that working together they can bring down large [Music] prey an
25:16 ostrich a bird that Towers over a cheetah and is more than twice as heavy it can't fly to escape danger but it can lash out with a deadly kick a female unaware as yet of any danger even with three of them this is still highly risky if one gets injured the other two couldn't hope to tackle such large [Music] prey on the other hand if they get it right the rewards are [Music]
26:08 huge the male has spotted one of the brothers but only one it's not too [Music] worried then suddenly there are three the female is slower to realize the danger and the cheaters switch
26:56 targets [Music] it takes the combined effort and weight of all three brothers to bring down this powerful bird even now the ostrich could land a fatal kick so far the brothers are winning ostriches have yet to find a way to foil such TS high up in the Rockies one of the greatest gatherings in the wild west is
27:48 underway for most of the Year bison bulls and cows live separate lives but for a few weeks in late summer thousands congregate in this Yellowstone Valley it's the rut The Mating Season and the biggest Bulls are busy guarding their harim a dominant bull might mate with over 50 females for the calves born this year now is the time to stretch their young legs
28:38 but as the herd grows so tensions [Music] rise [Music] the rut takes a heavy toll on the big bulls so a run driving now could give this young Contender an
29:35 [Music] edge but there's life in the old full yet Head to Head the Challenger more than holds his own then he makes a small mistake shunted aside his challenge is brutally
30:26 ended the young bull gambled everything and has paid a heavy [Music] price somehow in this melee of 60,000 thousand or so Penguins a parent has to find its [Applause] chick it returns to the place where it last left its chick in the hope that it
31:15 might still be close by but chicks tend to wonder so the adult has to call to it [Laughter] the chick responds and they slowly home in on one another the plaintiff inrees of the chick stimulates the adult to regurgitate a mouthful of [Laughter] fish
32:00 with the return of one parent the other is free to go to Sea to feed for [Laughter] [Laughter] [Music] itself aware of the leopard Seal's presence the Penguins press together at the ice Edge unwilling to be the first to risk diving [Applause] [Music] in occasionally the seal comes out onto the ice and attempts to grab
32:56 one [Music] but its most successful strategy by far is to lie in [Music] weight it hides behind a corner of ice the Emperors gain confidence and make a dash for it [Applause] [Applause] the first wave of penguins Escape once in Open Water they will be
33:50 safe the seal is alerted by the noise and through the mass of bubbles it makes its attack [Music] almost invariably it makes a [Music] kill encouraged by the absence of the seal the remaining Penguins make a break for the Open [Applause] Sea [Applause] [Music] in time their chicks will fledge and
34:45 when the Antarctic Autumn is near its end these adults will walk across the newly formed ice to endure yet another winter on the Frozen sea
