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- It captures some of the most extraordinary scenes ever seen on film of these predators hunting and killing. This award-winning programme, filmed at Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa and Kenya's Masai Mara, features the "big five" super predators: lion, hyena, wild dog, leopard and cheetah. The film includes a place for a man to work in closer partnership with nature for our mutual benefit and survival.
- The grasslands of Africa are a banquet spread for feline predators. Explore the hunting and nurturing habits of lions, leopards, and cheetahs of the African savannah, as well as the overlooked grasses that lay the foundation for the amazing array of wildlife flourishing among its leaves.
- Virginia McKenna revisits the locations and the stories behind the making of the classic movie. There is also astonishing archive footage also showing Britain's imperial reign over Kenya.
- One guide tries to protect the endangered elephant shrews that can only be found in the coastal forests of Kenya's Arabuko National Park.
- There is a great deal we can learn from our fellow creatures. Their understanding of the world pre-dates our own, and carries with it extraordinary abilities to heal, communicate, and transform our lives.
- Dom works as a keeper at the UK's largest zoo. As he mucks in, and mucks out, he discovers that the zoo's conservation efforts are helping to make sure that many of these endangered species survive in the wild for generations to come.
- Countless fish fill the seas and almost all other waters on the blue planet, some even visit or invade bordering land. Evolution created a huge variety in size, shape, defense means etc., fit for varies ways of life in all kinds of waters, allowing camouflage, shelter etc. They occupy various positions in aquatic and related food chains, eaten by and/or eating other fish and vertebrates, crustaceans etc. Other relationships are parasitic or symbiotic. Some know role-reversal, with males caring for eggs and/or hatchlings. Many species live in huge schools, often for safety.
- Ethiopia's Afar low plain is a lunar landscape of craters and saline lakes in hellish heat. By extreme contrast, over thirty million years, half a million cubic kilometer lava created an equally bizarre mountain range nearby.
- Two cheetahs are observed raising their cubs in the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.
- The maneless lions of Kenya's Tsavo National Park are examined, and their reputation as man-eaters is laid to rest by Bruce Patterson of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, who has recorded the behavior of individual lions.
- Volcanoes, some still active, shape East Africa's vast savannas, mainly consisting of grasslands where huge wildebeest and other herds roam and their annual migration steers the habitat type's complex life cycle. Some areas still remain primeval jungle, or became marshes or even hostile salt zones, yet all harbor intensive wildlife,whose lives are a merciless struggle for life, for elephants as well as insectivores.
- David Attenborough takes a look at the future of the world's warmest and wildest continent, which like our planet saw more change in the last half-century then ever before, and must expect even more. Problems like demography and climate change are immense, exacerbating others like poaching and habitat loss. Nevertheless he sees positive things too, like growing conservation awareness and efforts from native tribes.
- Reaching high into the sky at Africa's equator, Mount Kenya stretches up into the troposphere. How does life survive on these harsh slopes?
- 2010– 43mTV-PG7.5 (11)TV EpisodeStretching for thousands of square kilometres, the world's largest salt lake receives little rainfall and temperatures fluctuate wildly. How can life flourish in this environment?
- Gordon Buchanan returns with his camera crews to Tsavo nature reserve in Kenya, where he's recognized by an elephant herd he filmed earlier and their native permanent ranger guardian, Benjamin, to observe them intensely for a longer time. The group sometimes splits for foraging purposes, but always reassembles around the mother and 'baby'. However the aunts' attention is largely lost fro her when a new calf is born, who needs more care then the mother alone can give, needing to learn everything an be protected, not least against the -often horny- males. Gordon also films an 'elephant class' which nurtures ad trains orphans, just as several present herd members needed due to poaching.