Valentin Gruener found Sirga as a ten-day old cub, dehydrated and dying in a lion enclosure on Grasslands Game Farm in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana. Instead of letting nature take its course, he rescued her and raised her by hand.
Filmed over three years and with unrivalled intimacy, this ground-breaking series delves into the heart of an extraordinary friendship between a man and a lioness, and reveals what it takes to walk and hunt with a lion.
Salty Love is an underwater story of love and how marine life has found ingenious ways to reproduce. From the magic of coral spawning, the dance of the manta ray, the bond of marine mammals, the dedication of the male sea horse, the labour of love by sea turtles there are so many amazing underwater relationships.
From the tops of mountains to the depths of the sea, host and adventurer Lin Sutherland takes viewers to some of the most spectacular scenic areas around the world…unfolding the secrets of the natural world. We take in intimate look at a variety of unique and colorful wildlife, focusing on the often unusual social and interactive behaviors as well as the maintenance and survival of species in a changing world.
The world’s rhinos are in trouble and wildlife television presenter Bonné de Bod is on a quest to find out why and more importantly, what’s being done. Join her on this very important journey as she meets with those at the coalface of the rhino poaching crisis.
PRECIOUS PUPPIES is the definitive documentary on puppies, showing the diversity of breeds, behaviours and antics that makes them such adorable creatures.
Kai Kai and Jia Jia are two of China’s most precious pandas. The species is dying out, unless they can get them to breed. But pandas only have a two-day window of opportunity in the entire year to mate. Now Singapore thinks they can bring these bears back from the brink.
With predictions of polar bears being extinct in 50 years, On Thin Ice follows bears as they emerge from their dens and navigate their rapidly changing environment. On Thin Ice shows how the frozen expanses of the Arctic are shrinking at an unprecedented rate, with the very survival of the polar bear literally on thin ice.
Moon Bear: Journey to Freedom tells the story of the biggest breakout since “The Great Escape”! In a remote province of China, five hundred Asiatic black bears are being rescued from Sichuan’s torturous bear bile farms, their home for up to twenty-years.
For the first time ever attempted in the tropics, the Singapore Zoo is going to breed a pair of pandas. Over the course of one year, Making Pandas takes you behind the scenes and follows the incredible work of a dedicated group of zookeepers and vets was they race to get Singapore’s famed couple to… fall in love.