Episode guide
Natural World: Season 19
18 episodes · premiered Oct 8, 2000
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- Episode 1: Otters in the Stream of Life Oct 8, 2000 This film follows a year on the exquisite west coast of Scotland, in the intimate company of a family of otters. Guided by their mother, the otter cubs survive the wildest storms of the…
- Episode 2: Camels Down Under Oct 15, 2000 Introduced to Australia in the 1840s by European settlers, camels were the only reliable form of transport in the country's harsh interior. Replaced by motor vehicles and abandoned at the…
- Episode 3: Deadly Vipers Oct 22, 2000 Predators with the largest fangs of any snake and venom containing up to 50 deadly ingredients, vipers kill more people than any other animal. But now that medical science is beginning to…
- Episode 4: The Tigers' Fortress Oct 29, 2000 The chequered history of a tiger conservation park in Rajasthan, northern India, from its success in the 1980s through its battles with corruption and poaching in the early 1990s to its…
- Episode 5: Big Red Roos Nov 5, 2000 A red kangaroo mother and baby belong to one of the hardiest species of animal athletes - but as this documentary shows, even they must battle to survive in the vast and inhospitable…
- Episode 6: Killer Whales: Up Close and Personal Nov 19, 2000 The intimate lives of a family of killer whales that hunt elephant seals and penguins off the storm-blasted Crozet Islands of Antarctica. French scientists study younger members of the…
- Episode 7: Madagascar: Land of Lemurs Nov 26, 2000 Isolated from the rest of the world for hundreds of thousands of years, Madagascar has become a treasure trove of unique wildlife. This programme follows the lives of its charismatic…
- Episode 8: Seychelles: Jewels of a Lost Continent Dec 10, 2000 The epic story of how giant tortoises, silver lizards, the coco de mer tree and other extraordinary species came to be stranded on the tiny islands of the Seychelles, far out in the middle…
- Episode 9: Bower Birds: The Art of Seduction Dec 17, 2000 David Attenborough travels to the remote highlands of New Guinea and the rainforests of Australia to explore the little-known world of the bower bird, a fascinating creature which flaunts…
- Episode 10: The Last Tusker Jan 21, 2001 A colourful feature on Sri Lanka's elephant population, focusing on one of the last wild bulls. On this Buddhist island, elephants may be sacred, but they kill over people a year, and many…
- Episode 11: Seals: Invaders of the Sea Jan 28, 2001 Wildlife programme in which state-of-the-art camera techniques reveal the sophisticated underwater world of the seal - an animal capable of surviving in every ocean corner of the world.
- Episode 12: Killer Bees and Magic Trees Feb 4, 2001 Austrian scientist Gerald Kastberger studies the aggressive giant honeybees of Assam, in particular their unexplained annual migration from the Himalayan foothills to specific trees…
- Episode 13: Hippo Beach Feb 18, 2001 Insight into the bizarre behavioural habits of the African hippo, a creature which spends most of its lifetime in water but cannot swim, and eats mainly grass yet thinks nothing of…
- Episode 14: Timeless Thames Feb 25, 2001 This is a journey along the River Thames, England's most famous river, from its source to the sea. The Thames may seem tame today but it is still wild at heart and just waiting to reclaim…
- Episode 15: Coyote: the Ultimate Survivor? Mar 18, 2001 Documentary on the coyote, cousin to the wolf and one of America's most charismatic animals. The film explores how this elusive and intelligent creature with a spine-chilling call remains…
- Episode 16: Transylvania: Living with Predators Mar 25, 2001 Andrew Sachs narrates a documentary focusing on the large predators which live alongside humans in the beautiful forests and mountains of Transylvania, where shepherds always have to be on…
- Episode 17: Danube Delta: Europe Untamed Apr 15, 2001 The delta of the river Danube is home to half a million wild geese, the greatest concentration of pelicans outside Africa, and the world's largest freshwater fish. Despite the previous…
- Episode 18: Buffalo: The African Boss Jul 31, 2001 A study of the buffaloes of Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania, where they are prey to lions but will also attack them, and even kill their cubs. This dangerous side, which makes them…