Natural World

- Season 30

(2012)

The wild Hamadryas Baboons of Ethiopia have a friend in biologist Mat Pines, they even pick the nits from his hair. He's been studying and living with them for five years in the remote and arid Awash National Park. Now in his final year, we follow the fortunes of his favorite baboon 'Critical' as he tries to find a family and fend off his aggressive male rivals. But the local gun-toting Afar tribe have a traditional hatred of the baboons. Before Mat leaves, he hopes to broker a peace between the baboons and the tribe.

Jungle tigers are turning into man-eaters in the exotic island of Sumatra. Now a maverick millionaire is catching the killers and releasing them on his land. Is this madness, or could it save them from extinction?

Natural World Special. The story of Machli, the most famous tiger in the world. She is a legendary fighter and a wise mother of nine cubs who has founded a vast dynasty of tigers. She is now in the last season of her life and wildlife cameraman Colin Stafford-Johnson returns to find his old friend one last time. This Special shows the extraordinary milestones in Machli's life, all set in the most stunning Indian scenery.

Storm is an extraordinary wolf - the head of a pack in Canada's frozen north that hunts the giant buffalo herds. This pack came to fame in Frozen Planet and now cameraman Jeff Turner spends a year with Storm and his wolf family, learning how they survive in this harsh wilderness and whether Storm can pass his hunting skills on to the new generation of wolf cubs.

David Attenborough chooses his ten favorite animals that he would most like to save from extinction. From the weird to the wonderful, he picks fabulous and unusual creatures that he would like to put in his 'ark', including unexpected and little-known animals such as the olm, the solenodon and the quoll. He shows why they are so important and shares the ingenious work of biologists across the world who are helping to keep them alive.

Three tiny orphaned jaguar cubs are trained to be wild.

Brolga is a tough Australian who lives in the desert outback with a mob of orphaned kangaroos. He rescues baby joey's from the roadside when their mothers are killed and nurses them back to health. This documentary follows him.

Brolga is a tough Australian who lives in the desert outback with a mob of orphaned kangaroos. This documentary follows him.

In the jungles of Peru, the world's biggest otters must fight caiman to save their cubs.

Following the South African plan which is to save the rhino by moving a whole population to a secret location.

Remarkable documentary looking at the life of the queen African honeybee. Ground-breaking close-up photography shows a bee's-eye view of their world within the savannah.