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Zoologist Steve Backshall meets the world's deadliest animals and the people living alongside them.
- 2016-2016
- 1 season
- Documentary
Zoologist Steve Backshall meets the world's deadliest animals and the people living alongside them.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2016
Episode 1
Indonesia
46 mins
Steve Backshall travels to the wild islands of Indonesia where he finds komodo dragons, king cobras and the flamboyant cuttlefish.
Episode 2
Guyana
46 mins
Steve Backshall journeys through the rain-forests of Guyana.
Episode 3
Mexico
46 mins
This week Steve's in Mexico where he gets hands on with a two metre long rattlesnake.
Episode 4
Australia
46 mins
Wildlife expert Steve Backshall travels to Queensland Australia - "home of the deadly" with an awesome variety of animals that have evolved adaptations to hunt or defend.
Episode 5
Namibia
46 mins
Naturalist Steve Backshall explores the wildlife in the landscapes of Namibia, southern Africa. He tracks two hungry cheetahs as they go on a hunt, stakes out a carcass to get up close to a group of vultures, and has a close encounter with an agitated lion as he helps a vet at work.
Episode 6
South Africa
46 mins
This week Steve is in the vast nature reserves of South Africa. He goes in search of a pack of rare and endangered African wild dogs, he helps capture and tag a magnificent martial eagle. He gets hands on with a venomous spitting cobra and a puff adder as they strike and he risks life and limb to kayak up close to Africa's most dangerous mammal, the highly unpredictable hippopotamus.
