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8 Episodes 2017 - 2017
Episode 1
59 mins
Thanks to a team of conservationists, Puerto Rican parrots, manatees and turtles are slowly making a comeback. Narrated by David Attenborough.

Episode 2
60 years after he first covered the topic of armadillos, David Attenborough spotlights the rare giant armadillo which lives in the world's largest tropical wetland area, the Pantanal region of Brazil, in cohabitation with other creatures.
Episode 3
From elephants to beetles, are animal weapons more than just instruments of blunt force? Professor Doug Emlen discovers the secrets of nature's arms race.

Episode 4
52 mins
Tiny heroes have evolved extraordinary skills and achieved mind-boggling feats. From the animal kingdom's greatest artist to the tiny creatures that provide so much of the air that humans breathe, discover what it takes to be a miniature miracle.

Episode 5
Otters are playful, adaptable and champion swimmers - they've captivated cameraman Charlie Hamilton James for the last 25 years. He's filmed them more than anyone else and now, through the eyes of three orphaned river otters, a set of groundbreaking experiments and some incredible wild encounters, Charlie wants to reveal their survival secrets and exactly why he believes they're so special.

Episode 6
Sudan, the world's last male northern white rhino, died in 2018. In his final years, he became a global celebrity and conservation icon, helping raise awareness about the brutality of poaching.
Episode 7
Helen Macdonald, the author of bestselling novel H is for Hawk, deals with the loss of her father by focusing on the art of falconry and training a goshawk while also taking care of its family.

Episode 8
59 mins
On one side of the Jura Mountains there are ants colonies at war and the other home to a huge empire of ants, believed to be one of the largest animal societies in the world, where over a billion ants from rival colonies live in peace.
