Natural World Season 23 Episodes

Episode 1

Cheetahs - Fast Track to Freedom

Episode 2

Norfolk Broads: The Fall and Rise of a Great Swamp

Episode 3

Desert Wolves of India

Yadvendradev Jhala spent a year in the Kutch desert of India, following a pack of wolves as they endured harsh conditions, suffered persecution by local herdsmen, and sought food for the cubs.

Episode 4

Typhoon Island

Taiwan is one of the most beautiful places in Asia. Sitting on the edge of the Pacific, it brims with spectacular wildlife, including bears, salmon, worm-eating snakes, multi-coloured birds and monkeys; it's also home to bizarre creatures found nowhere else on Earth. Early settlers named it Isla Formosa -the "Beautiful Isle" - and, despite the constant ravages of typhoons, earthquakes and a storm of human progress, it's still wonderfully wild.

Episode 5

Mississippi: Tales of the Last River Rat

49 mins

The Mississippi is the great river of North America. Sculpted by bitter winters and blistering summers, it is home to a multitude of wildlife and a rare breed of people - the 'River Rats'. The lives of these people are intricately bound to the ebb and flow of the river. Seen through the eyes of the celebrated last river rat, Kenny Salwey, this film explores the challenge to survive that every animal faces as the Mississippi meanders its way through four extremely defined seasons.

Episode 6

Hammerhead

The Hammerhead Shark, one of the most bizarre predators of the deep, is at last revealing the secrets of its astonishing head. Marine biologists in Hawaii enter its eerie world to find out how a freak mutation has become a deadly weapon.

Episode 7

The Wild Wood

Episode 8

Andes - the Dragon's Back

Episode 9

Land of the Falling Lakes

A look at an ancient Eastern European forest, and its inhabitants.

Episode 10

Echo of the Elephants: The Final Chapter?

Episode 11

Shark Coast

David Attenborough travels along the coast of Southern Africa which has an incredible variety of sharks, over 140 species, from massive great whites and tiger sharks to dozens of tiny sharks with intriguing names like the pyjama shark and leopard cat shark. The answer to why these seas are so rich in predators lies in the unique pattern of warm and cold currents allowing sharks that normally live oceans apart to coexist.

Episode 12

Serengeti 24

Documentary chronicled the maternal behavior of a cheetah and a leopard as they cared for their cubs in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park.

Episode 13

Secrets of the Maya Underworld

Episode 14

A Boy Among Polar Bears

Documentary about Apak Taktu, a young Inuit boy, making his first trips out onto the Arctic sea-ice with his father. Apak learns the skills essential to survival in the hostile wilderness - building igloos, travelling by dog sled, hunting seals and narwhals, and avoiding the dangerous attention of polar bears. A stunning portrait of the Canadian High Arctic, one of the coldest yet most beautiful places on earth.