Episode guide
Natural World: Season 27
17 episodes · premiered Jan 4, 2008
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- Episode 1: Snow Leopard - Beyond The Myth Jan 4, 2008 The Snow Leopard, one of the most beautiful of all big cats is also one of the rarest. Natural World visits a hidden lair and lifts the veil on this elusive predator.
- Episode 2: Raising Sancho Jan 11, 2008 This is the story of a young giant otter's journey to adulthood. Rescued by local fishermen as a baby and raised by giant otter expert Carolina Vargas, this is the story of a young giant…
- Episode 3: Earth Pilgrim - A Year on Dartmoor Jan 18, 2008 This exquisitely photographed film is a spiritual journey into the ethereal landscape of Dartmoor with Satish Kumar, the world-renowned ecologist, former Jain monk and pilgrim for peace…
- Episode 4: Tiger Kill Jan 25, 2008 Simon King has filmed Africa's big cats for 20 years, but he has never seen a wild tiger. With so few remaining wild tigers, documenting a tiger making a kill is becoming harder. Simon…
- Episode 5: White Falcon, White Wolf Feb 1, 2008 On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, a pair of white gyrfalcons and a pack of arctic wolves are struggling to raise their young. As the falcons' eggs hatch, the parents must find…
- Episode 6: Saved By Dolphins Feb 8, 2008 Since ancient times, there have been legends of dolphins rescuing humans at sea. Two recent cases where swimmers were rescued from sharks by dolphins seem to show that the legends are…
- Episode 7: Badgers - Secrets Of The Sett Feb 15, 2008 · 49m While badgers are easily recognized, remarkably few people have ever seen one alive. It's a creature blamed for destruction and disease, but surprisingly little is known about the sett…
- Episode 8: Spacechimp Feb 22, 2008 In 1961, a four-year-old chimpanzee named Ham became the first animal to return from space alive. He proved that humans could survive the extreme conditions of space. This drama, based on…
- Episode 9: Elephant Nomads of The Namib Desert Mar 26, 2008 This is the remarkable story of two baby elephants struggling to survive their critical first six months in the oldest desert on earth. The Desert Elephants of Namibia suffered a poaching…
- Episode 10: Lobo: The Wolf that Changed America Apr 2, 2008 Ernest Thompson Seton rode into the wilds of New Mexico just before the turn of the century to kill a wolf named Lobo. The book he wrote inspired many generations of naturalists.
- Episode 11: Reindeer Girls Apr 9, 2008 Elle and Inga, 17-year-old cousins from the north of Norway, are far from ordinary teenagers. They are reindeer herders, equally at home helping reindeer swim fjords or ice fishing as…
- Episode 12: Moose In The Glen Apr 16, 2008 Multi-millionaire landowner Paul Lister wants to turn his 23,000 acre estate north of Inverness into Europe's first wilderness reserve. Reinstating the old Caledonian pine forests is the…
- Episode 13: Naabi - A Hyena Princess Apr 23, 2008 The story of Naabi, a young hyena growing up in Tanzania. Here hyenas aren't just scavengers, they're also skilled hunters when they work together in the clan. But life is still a…
- Episode 14: Spectacled Bears - Shadows Of The Forest May 6, 2008 · 49m Paddington Bear celebrates his 50th birthday this year, but behind the children's story is a very real creature that still lives in Deepest Darkest Peru - the Spectacled Bear. Little is…
- Episode 15: Superfish May 14, 2008 The billfish are the biggest, fastest, and most dangerous gamefish in the sea. All have captured man's imagination like few other creatures, whether it's the graceful sailfish, the…
- Episode 16: A Turtle's Guide to the Pacific Aug 7, 2008 Documentary following a loggerhead turtle as she journeys across the Pacific. On the way she meets dolphins and whales, sharks and giant squids, typhoons and fishermen. She swims over deep…
- Episode 17: Jimmy and the Wild Honey Hunters Aug 10, 2008 Jimmy Doherty, pig farmer and star of Jimmy's Farming Heroes, travels to Nepal to meet an ancient group of people who risk their lives to farm their local honey. A keen bee keeper with a…