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3 Episodes 2018 - 2018
Episode 1
Wed, Jan 31, 2018
The team uncover the hidden lives of three iconic animals. In the Kalahari Desert they put cameras on wild meerkats, in Cameroon, Gordon and scientist Mimi Swift look at a four-year-old orphan chimp, and in Argentina, penguins carry tiny cameras far out to sea on an epic journey of up to 300 kilometres.
Episode 2
Thu, Feb 8, 2018
In Namibia, Gordon joins a cheetah conservationist who wants to see if three orphaned cheetahs, which she has raised from a day old, can learn to hunt effectively in the thick vegetation. In Australia, the team put cameras on fur seals to try to see how they hunt their prey and avoid attacks by great white sharks. In South Africa, the team deploy the first ever cameras on wild baboons in an effort to understand why these clever monkeys sometimes raid farmers' crops.
Episode 3
Wed, Feb 14, 2018
In the heart of the Atlantic, Gordon joins a team looking to discover why huge numbers of devil rays, fish with 'wings' nearly four metres across, gather every summer near the Azores archipelago. In northeast Turkey cameras are carried by brown bears as part of a study trying to understand why so many bears survive in a small patch of forest. Meanwhile, in southern France, on-board cameras help scientists trying to prove that guard dogs can help protect sheep flocks from wolf attacks.