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- A little loggerhead turtle follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream all the way to the frozen north and ultimately swims around the entire North Atlantic to Africa and back to the beach where she was born.
- Astrophysicists and biologists come together to imagine how, where, and what types of extraterrestrial life forms can we hope to find in the near future.
- Experts Greg Skomal, Heather Bowlby, Megan Winton, and Warren Joyce look into what motivates white sharks to travel to the northernmost edge of their range following the first probable white shark attack in Canada in more than 150 years.
- Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores why we are driven to measure and quantify the world around us and why we have reduced the universe to just a handful of fundamental units of measurement.
- Follow a year in the life of the forest, told through the eyes of its most iconic inhabitants: New Forest Pony spring foal, a pair of rare goshawks nesting in the ancient woods and a fallow red deer stag.
- Puck is the leader of a family of bottlenose dolphins known to researchers as The Beaches because of their unusual habit of catching fish by driving them through shallows to the shore. She is heavily pregnant with her eighth calf, Samu , but the baby is late and the seas are starting to fill up with hundreds of sharks, ever-ready to feast on newborns. Swimming with Puck as she waits for Samu's birth, are her surviving daughters and grand-daughters and a five-year-old son, India, who ought to have sought independence by now but seems reluctant to leave the family circle. Change and hazards lie ahead and with the use of the latest in miniature HD cameras, and underwater listening devices, this film grants viewers unprecedented insight into how dolphins live, including the earliest hours of Samu's life, how older sisters help to guard the baby against sharks and scenes which suggest: . dolphin mothers 'sing' to their unborn babies . unrelated females gather to greet newborns . family members give life-skills lessons to the very young. As the story unfolds, audiences also discover the hazards of living shark-filled waters; find out about what happens to Puck's son when he first leaves the group, and witness the unusual variety of hunting techniques developed by Shark Bay's dolphins, including the first known example of tool use by a marine mammal. Additional revelations are provided by Professor Janet Mann, of Georgetown University, USA, who has been studying the dolphins of Shark Bay for more than 20 years. In that time, Janet Mann has collated the life stories of around 1,500 individuals, learned to recognise many on sight and revolutionised what it known about dolphin life, including discovering the dolphin tool-users - a family which fixes sponges to their snouts to hunt close to the sea-bed.
- Show Summary Daniel and Our Cats is a British documentary film produced and directed by Julika Kennaway which tells the story of a married couple in Namibia who owned two leopards and a lion before they were cruelly taken away. The documentary originally aired in the UK on Animal Planet on 25 December, 2007. It is 48 minutes long. Daniel and Our Cats aired in South Africa on DStv's Animal Planet on Sunday 23 March 2008, at 20h00. Repeat Monday 24 March: 02h40 Synopsis This award-winning documentary film tells the fateful story of Catherine, a French woman who travelled to Namibia in search of Africas big cats. In the midst of the desert she married Daniel, known locally as the lion man. Fascinated by his extraordinary ways with animals, Catherine lived an unusual and idyllic life in the remote Namibian hills with two leopards, a black-maned lion and her new husband. One fateful night everything she loved was snatched away. Daniel, Catherine and their cats were on their way to a film shoot when their cats were confiscated by the authorities at the Namibia/South Africa border. Without the right paperwork they stood no chance with the authorities. Daniel was imprisoned and the cats taken to a secret location. Following Daniel's eventual release, viewers watch as he and Catherine are forced to start a new life in South Africa. When Daniel is finally able to track his cats down in Namibia, incredible footage shows the reunion between him and cats, as all three cats remember Daniel, highlighting their unique bond. But as Daniel begins the long journey home to Catherine and his lawyers in a desperate attempt to reclaim his cats, yet another tragedy befalls them all. Daniel and our Cats is a personal, true story of love, loss and healing, told in Catherines own words.
- This is a documentary in which we get to follow the researchers Tim Clutton-Brock and Grant Malcolm McIlrath from the universities of Cambridge and Pretoria, out on a routine research trip in the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa, with the meerkat family "Lazuli", who have gotten very used to them being around, since they've been studied since 1993 or '94, the Lazuli is also the first clan that they started studying. Some of the Lazulis that we get to know a bit include: Bulgarian (the dominant male), seven year old Zyzyphus (the dominant female), Figaro (the eldest son) and Lulu (the eldest daughter).
- Dr. Tristan Guttridge and James Glancy travel to Andros Island to investigate reports of an exclusive population of giant hammerheads. Attempting the longest shark dives EVER - using an underwater habitat.
- With shark experts from around the world, evidence is examined of sharks eating sharks.
- Rebecca is an ambitious young girl, who is very eager to become an artist. After a big argument with her unsupportive parents, Rebecca pays a visit to her long-lost aunt and uncle.
- In a conflict packed with devastating battles, Gallipoli stands out as one of the First World War's most futile and bloody.
- Deadly swarms, a spider the size of a dinner plate and a hornet than can kill with just one sting. Phil DeVries goes in search of the world's most awesome insects in a journey that takes him from Japan to the swamps of South America.