For animals all around the world,
their first year is one of the most difficult and most dangerous.
To survive, they must overcome daily threats and challenges.
From rivals...
..from the elements...
..and predators.
This is actually the most dangerous time.
In this series, three wildlife camera operators will follow our
planet's most iconic animals...
..as they grow and develop day by day.
We start with the first three critical months.
In Kenya, a newborn elephant must develop the skills to keep up
with her fast-moving herd.
In Sri Lanka, a week-old macaque must learn to survive in a world
surrounded by humans.
On the edge of the Arctic, five-week-old fox cubs must learn
to hunt before the most ferocious winter sets in.
And in Uganda, a baby mountain gorilla must overcome the odds
to survive in the last fragment of an ancient forest.
This is the story of what it takes to survive in the wild.
Half of those cubs won't make it.
I just want them to come back out of harm's way and be safe.
This is their first year on Earth.
It's almost like seeing your kid ride a bike for the first time.
It's the end of Northern Kenya's dry season,
and a family of African elephants gather to protect
a vulnerable new arrival.
Scientists call her Safina.
She is just a few hours old.
Almost a metre tall, 100 kilos in weight,
she is the biggest baby born on land.
Her mother, Cyclone, with the single task,
is the herd matriarch.
Safina was in her womb for almost two years.
From the minute she is born, she is in a race for survival.
She must muster the strength to stand and suckle.
And within hours she must start to walk to keep up with the herd
as they search for food and water.
In this family, there is another baby two weeks older.
She has already developed the coordination to keep up
with the herd for hours at a time.
But the herd won't stop for newborn Safina for long.
Her survival relies on keeping up from her first day.
If she falls behind or is separated from her mother,
she could be a target for predators.
Sue Gibson is a wildlife camerawoman.
She will be filming Safina over her first
and most vulnerable year.
This is a really, really critical time for these babies and mums,
because it's when those strong bonds between them are made.
And it's when those lessons are taught to the babies,
these lessons of survival, the lessons of life.
The herd walk up to 15km a day looking for food.
Safina may cover 3,500km in her first year.
In her first days, she has to get used to keeping up.
But it's not as simple as putting one foot in front of another.
Cyclone is usually close enough to help.
Cyclone's baby...
..couldn't walk across the muddy floor.
Poor little thing!
It's so undignified.
One of the most fundamental survival skills Safina must learn
is how to use her trunk.
She won't be able to drink, feed or communicate without it.
150,000 bundles of muscle fibres allow it to stretch,
contract and twist through 360 degrees with precision.
An adult can lift up to 350 kilos, so her mother can tear a branch
from a tree or pluck a single blade of grass.
She's flicking it around and almost surprised to see it sometimes.
It will take Safina a year to learn how to gather food and water,
but she can already use her trunk to touch and smell,
which is how she forms bonds.
And in such social animals, survival depends on forming
these bonds quickly.
There are three mothers in the herd, and their young.
All the females will help protect the babies, but males do not.
Safina has a 1.5-tonne adolescent brother.
He doesn't know how to behave around vulnerable babies.
And at just four days old,
she hasn't learnt that he could be dangerous.
16 times her weight, a kickback in irritation
could severely injure her.
The females surround Safina with a wall of muscle and tusk.
ELEPHANTS GROWL
It's important that Cyclone keeps her within touching distance
in these first crucial weeks.
Safina is now 12 days old.
Sue is tracking her family with the help of David Daballen,
from conservationists Save the Elephants,
pioneers in GPS tracking.
The herd spent the night on rocky uplands,
but their coordinates show they're descending.
Stop.
Thank you.
Perfect.
Finally, they find the herd.
But there is something wrong.
ELEPHANTS GROWL
Their calls indicate they are agitated.
WHISPERS: I mean, that's very close.
In the commotion, Safina wanders away
from her mother's protection again.
ELEPHANT CALL
Suddenly another herd of elephants emerges from the scrub.
We've got our herd that's come down from the mountains.
And we've got another herd here, and they're calling
to each other.
And this other herd has an elephant called Monsoon in it,
who's Cyclone's...sister?
Yeah, they're sisters. And they're getting...
I think there will be something that will happen.
Something really interesting. This is lovely, it's lovely.
I think, guys, we should be ready.
There will be an amazing thing that will go on there.
ELEPHANTS CALL
Cyclone and her sister Monsoon perform a greeting ceremony,
using their trunks to call and touch,
communicating their affection.
This is gorgeous.
We've got Cyclone calling with her little baby underneath.
Safina is being exposed to this complex and intricate
display of communication.
Scientists believe she will memorise their smells and sounds to recognise
Monsoon and her family as friends in the future.
You know, they really look like they're happy
to see each other.
And it's proper greetings.
It's like the hug with the trunk going over each other's heads.
It's like someone coming home from a long stint away,
and meeting them at the airport or something, and you can't wait
to wrap your arms around them.
This tangible emotion.
Safina is using her trunk to touch and smell.
It's the process by which she makes the bonds
that she'll remember for a lifetime.
But, in the constant search for food,
she will discover that there are some dangers
even the closest family cannot protect her from.
Parental protection is essential to surviving the first year.
But for some babies, the support of a sibling can also
increase their chances of surviving in the wild.
10km from the border between Kenya and Tanzania,
one of Africa's most successful predators
is in the middle of a baby boom.
A dozen cubs have been born in the past three months
to this spotted hyena clan.
They all live with their mothers at the den.
Males don't play any part in parenting.
They are often misrepresented as scavengers,
but this clan hunt for most of their food.
Hyenas are dedicated mothers.
And they nurse their cubs for twice as long as
their arch-rivals - lions.
They live in a female-led hierarchy with a queen in charge.
They are the Amazons of the Savannah.
Scientists have recently discovered
they are highly socially intelligent.
They call this mother Soup.
She is second in command.
She has twin daughters - Bisque and Chowder.
They are 12 weeks old and the highest-ranking cubs.
Only half of hyena cubs survive their first year.
But if the twins work together as a team,
that could dramatically increase their chance of survival.
And that teamwork first develops around now.
Wildlife cameraman is in the Masai Mara to see if these sisters
have what it takes to survive in such a competitive environment.
In their hierarchy, there is going to be rules.
And those rules, you have to get them right from this age.
This is just the start of the process.
12 weeks old is the age when they begin to learn
how to enforce the rank they inherit from their mother.
Working as a team, they soon make their presence known.
It's really great to see that with the other cubs,
throwing their weight around.
But to survive unscathed, they must learn the rank
of all 60 hyenas in the clan.
It's really complex to understand how their social structure works.
The sisters learn by watching their mother's body language.
When she rises and goes into a tall stance with a bristle tail,
it signifies dominance.
The signals for submission include a bobbing head,
flattened ears, and backing off.
This is the etiquette that holds the clan together.
So, the sisters have to get it right every time
they encounter another hyena.
Thing is, to keep that position, in the rank,
you have to fight for it, pretty much.
This youngster is six months old -
twice their age, but his mother has a lower rank than theirs.
So, he is subordinate.
The twins must both give him a clear,
dominant signal of their status.
With their mother's support, the older cub submits.
They're sending out the right signals.
Day by day, the sisters' confidence is growing at the den.
But they know little of the dangers lurking outside it.
Lions patrol the same territory.
They are the biggest rival for food and greatest threat to their lives.
More hyenas are killed by lions than anything else.
And they kill cubs to eliminate competition.
Lions are not their only enemies.
Hyenas sometimes hunt weak or young elephants.
And occasionally, the elephants strike back.
The twins must get underground to stay safe.
Now, this is quite intense because they are starting to charge.
But there was one female who stood her ground
between cubs and elephants.
The mothers call tells them to stay down.
When the mother gave that grumbling signal,
they understood it and they stayed in.
And that's very important for their survival in
this very dangerous environment.
I just have to remind myself
that half of those cubs won't make it.
This is the most dangerous year of their lives.
At 13 weeks old, the twins are learning to combine forces
to dominate the den.
But they must learn they cannot use aggression
against every hyena in their clan.
This two-year-old male will put them to the test.
He's the queen's son,
so he outranks the cubs and their mother.
Bisque and Chowder must get this right.
They must.
They need to show respect.
If they get this wrong, they could get badly beaten.
Hyenas have been known to kill others in the clan to maintain rank.
He's spotted the two sisters.
Because of his superior status,
their mother cannot defend them if they get it wrong.
With their ears back and heads bobbing,
they're making all the right signs of submission.
From reading his body language, they calculate he is one of the few
hyenas that ranks higher than them.
Bisque and Chowder are learning really fast.
One minute, they pick on the other cubs because they learn they can.
And the next minute, he turns up -
they learn that he's higher than them.
And they are all submissive and sweet.
From watching their mother, Bisque and Chowder have mastered
an important step in negotiating into clan politics.
But as they grow up, they have to move outside the den
and into unknown enemy territory...
..where there are lions.
15,000km away, another baby is growing up.
This one shares his environment with hundreds of thousands of people.
The Pacific coast of North America
is home to around 3,000 Southern Sea otters.
Wildlife cameraman is here to reveal the high risks
and rewards for an otter pup trying to survive so close to humans.
Right now, it's winter and when storms hit this coastline,
there is simply no place to hide.
Out here, creatures really are at the mercy of these deep, cold seas.
But, perhaps surprisingly, this is the time of year when some
southern sea otters give birth and raise their young.
Most new mothers raise their pups
in the kelp forests along the wild coast.
This sea otter is different.
She's bringing up her pup
inside the man-made marina at Monterey,
a busy fishing port on the Californian coast,
which lands more than 10,000 tonnes of fish a year.
Here, they can avoid winter storms,
but they are exposed to risks
including boat strike and pollution.
You really see how these otters are very much
growing up in a human-dominated world.
Sea otters were once hunted to the edge of extinction
for their fur.
They are now protected,
but still live with the impact of humans.
This pup has to learn to identify risks
as he grows, to make it through.
I've been racking my brains,
trying to think about a name for this young pup.
I think I'm going to call him Limpet,
cos he's constantly stuck to his mum.
Limpet is six weeks old.
Until now, he's either floated on the surface
or rested on his mother's belly.
But already, he must take his first critical step towards independence
because sea otters mothers leave their pups around six months old.
My real mission is to try and capture an important moment,
a vital moment in a young otter's life,
and that's when it learns to dive for the very first time.
He isn't able to dive beneath the surface as yet -
he's got too much air in his fur.
Otters have the densest fur of any mammal.
There are more strands of hair in a square centimetre of fur
than on an entire human head.
Air trapped next to Limpet's skin keeps him warm and buoyant.
And until they can dispel that air, it's like a little life jacket.
And it means that they can't actually dive down and follow Mum.
If he can't dive, he can't avoid boats or learn to feed himself.
Limpet's fluffy coat will soon moult,
but he also has to practise diving
to build up essential muscle strength.
This marina is just Limpet's nursery.
So, his mother tows him out to practise in the ocean.
But conditions out here are more dangerous.
Well, the pup's going to learn
the sea's got a little bit more inherent movement
and a few more currents and things out here,
so it's going to get that bit of exposure.
His mother spends up to ten hours a day hunting,
leaving Limpet alone to practise.
The youngster's going down.
He's trying.
I mean, I guess when he sticks his head under he's able to watch
and see what his mum is doing and he's desperate to follow her,
but he's just got a little bit too much buoyancy yet.
Limpet is now six and a half weeks old,
but still hasn't built up the stamina to practise for long.
Some mothers find the pressure of raising a pup too great,
so can abandon them.
Next morning, practice begins again.
And Michelle Staedler of Monterey Bay Aquarium joins Colin.
She's been studying the otters here for the past 30 years.
It seems like the pup is quite impatient to get under the water.
Yes. He's also not physically able to dive that way.
His muscles, his bones, much like toddlers when they start to walk,
all of a sudden they can do it.
And the same thing will happen with him.
All of a sudden, he'll be able to dive a little deeper.
There's also a lung capacity issue,
so he can't hold his breath as long and he will be able to go
down for a short time and eventually, over time,
they build up the ability to hold more oxygen in their lungs.
While he can't keep up with his mother underwater, he's at risk.
Only half of sea otter pups make it through their first year.
We've had a lot of sharks in this area.
So, if the pup were on the surface by itself,
the shark may come up and grab it.
Great white sharks bite on objects they spot on the surface to work out
if it's food they want to eat.
Sea otters are not part of their diet,
but the otters are too small to survive the wounds
so, inadvertently, 50% of otter fatalities are from shark bite.
Limpet is now seven weeks old.
His muscles and coordination are improving every day,
but he still hasn't completed his first dive.
It's gone!
He's gone underwater.
Oh!
He's come up again.
That is a moment.
It's a real moment.
It's almost like, I don't know, seeing your kid ride a bike
for the first time.
And that is going to change everything.
That moment means that, from now on,
he's going to learn to follow Mum under water.
But Limpet's next challenge is much more complex.
He needs to learn how to find food
in a crowded and dangerous man-made environment.
On a tropical island 15,000km away,
another baby has been born
into a political hierarchy.
He resides in the ancient capital of Sri Lanka,
Polonnaruwa.
Its regal ruins are now home to a new line of royalty...
..toque macaques,
found nowhere else on Earth.
Scientists are interested in their complex social interactions
and believe that rank directly affects a baby's chances of survival
in their first year.
And last night, the alpha female of this troupe gave birth to a son.
Sue will film him from his very first day on Earth
to see how critical rank will be in his survival.
A few hours ago, one of the troop's given birth.
It's amazing.
And an excellent opportunity to try and get some shots
of a newborn macaque.
I think I can see it.
This is pretty unreal, actually.
I get treated with a little baby boy who's just a few hours old.
Scientists have named him Jazeer.
He weighs just over 400g but could treble that
if he makes it through his first year.
Jazeer's mum, being the alpha female, means that Jazeer might
one day go off and form a troop of his own and be the alpha male
of that troop.
But Jazeer has been born just before the dry season,
the worst time for macaques,
when the vegetation they eat dries up.
To make it through the next three months, Jazeer must learn
how to exert his authority and use the advantage he's been born with.
Don't look them in the eyes, it's a threat in monkeys.
Sue is working with Dr Wolfgang Dittus
from the Smithsonian Institute.
Head of the longest-running primate study in the world,
almost 50 years,
which has revealed the impact rank has on an infant's chances.
It gives them a sort of priority of access to whatever
contested resources there are,
like figs, like fruit, like water, resting places,
and all those things translate into their body condition
and their ability to survive and ultimately reproduce.
If you're always privileged in getting the best food,
the best water, sitting out of the sun in the shade,
being the first one up on a tree when there's a predator coming,
that sort of translates into survivorship.
So, there's no guarantee that Jazeer will survive
his first year?
No, there's no guarantee.
Only about 60% of babies that are born
survive to their first birthday. Wow!
So, there's a pretty high rate of mortality in the first year.
And only 10% of males go on to make it to adulthood.
The top macaque population is now endangered,
as it loses habitat across Sri Lanka to human development.
Jazeer's forest sanctuary is a fraction of the size
it once was.
The ancient ruins of Polonnaruwa are a small, protected haven
in the middle of a busy, modern city.
Living so close to people can have its upsides.
The temple macaques have more chances to find food
than monkeys living in the wild.
But where there are people, there are dogs.
Feral dogs hunt monkeys, especially babies like Jazeer.
These dogs look like they mean business.
They're looking straight at our troop.
They've got a certain swagger about them, that's for sure.
He's definitely interested because he's salivating.
Low-ranking macaques at the edge of the troop act like sentries.
They are the first to see the threat.
So, I hope Jazeer and his mum are somewhere safe.
Jazeer's mum can always get up a tree first because,
top rank means other monkeys have to wait.
Phew.
So, that was a little bit of a thumping heart moment.
Jazeer's mother has protected him from the dogs.
But they still have to face the challenges of the dry season.
It's June, this tree will provide the troop's last harvest.
It produces their most prized, nutrient rich food, figs.
But the window is short and competition is fierce.
The tree only fruits for three weeks a year.
It will soon be over.
The more fruit Jazeer's mum eats, the richer her milk
and the bigger he grows.
Up to 50% bigger than low-ranking babies.
It could determine who makes it through.
To keep his advantages of birth in the coming months,
Jazeer will have to learn to compete with his peers for limited resources
on his own.
And it all begins by letting go of Mum.
They're right here, your lucky day.
The first steps away from Mum.
That's the first time we've seen that.
So, Jazeer looks like he's trying to...
Explore his world, yes.
..explore a little bit, yeah.
But always going back to Mum after...
Yeah. ..a bit of time.
At just nine days old, he begins to interact.
He has developed the confidence to join in with other baby macaques.
But he must find the skills and strength to assert his dominance
over them if he is to become an alpha like his mother.
Every baby is precious to its mother.
But some babies are precious to us all because they are so rare.
In Uganda, a tiny miracle is hidden in the last fragment of a once giant
forest kingdom called Bwindi, the impenetrable forest.
A baby mountain gorilla, Nyakabara.
Her name means "marked" because she was born
with a white bracelet of fur, never seen before.
Nyakabara is one of perhaps only 50 mountain gorilla babies
in the world.
She is eight weeks old and weighs just over two kilos.
She shares 98% of her DNA with human babies and, like them,
is utterly dependent on her mother.
Within days, she should develop an interest in her family group of 12.
And the forest that will dramatically affect
her chances of survival.
The only other group of mountain gorillas
is in the Virunga Mountains, on the border with Congo and Rwanda.
But they have been separated for 5,000 years.
Unlike the Virunga gorillas, the Bwindi apes feed high in trees,
even though some weigh more than 180 kilos.
Nyakabara's family will climb up over 25 metres
to get to seasonal fruit.
It's fraught with danger.
The previous silverback fell to his death.
Another was struck by lightning as he slept in a tree.
A third of babies don't survive their first years.
Falls are a factor.
Vianet is in Uganda to film Nyakabara,
to see how she can stay safe
through her first months as she adapts to life at heights.
He will be helped by researchers from the Max Planck Institute.
20 years of study is gradually unlocking the secrets
of these arboreal great apes.
Vianet is only allowed four hours a day with them,
once he finds them.
Oh! Oh, oh, oh, oh! Gosh!
WHISPERS: I'm just about to go and film mountain gorillas.
And they're my favourite one.
But, as a protocol, I have to wear a mask because one of the biggest
threats to them is human infection.
Especially that little baby I'm going to be following for a year.
The gorillas are endangered.
Fewer than 500 in Bwindi and habitat loss restricts their growth.
Thousands of people live within 15 km of the forest edge.
One of the densest, rural populations in Africa.
Legislation has stopped the forest shrinking
but there is no longer any room for it to grow,
limiting the gorilla's population.
Infanticide is another risk infants face in their first year.
Nyakabara's father is a muscular, young silverback,
the same height as Vianet,
but he's two and a half times his weight.
His role is to prevent a takeover by another silverback
who would kill babies to father his own.
That is the boss.
He knows that and no-one can take that from him.
Males beat their chest to show dominance but
infants of both sexes also go through a phase.
Scientists don't yet know why.
18-month-old Gorodi is in the midst of hers.
VIANET CHUCKLES
You can't get any better than that.
In the first six months, Nyakabara's mother stays close
to the silverback for protection.
She doesn't welcome attention from other gorillas.
It's very hard trying to get a shot of the mother and the baby
at this stage.
And the mother just trying to make sure that baby doesn't get hurt.
They're so weak.
She just wants to make sure she's protecting her little baby.
Not even a potential playmate is allowed near.
And what I'm hoping to see is those beautiful baby's eyes looking out
and taking in their family and their surroundings.
The ancient forest sits on equatorial mountaintops
at 2,400 metres.
Unique microclimates support almost 400 plant species
and the highest diversity of trees in East Africa.
The mostly vegetarian apes seek out
around 100 different plants for food.
RIPPING
It takes at least two to three years to learn them all.
Nyakabara is now eight and a half weeks old
and supporting her own head. Her eyes are just focusing.
This is the first time I've got the little baby's eyes open,
and she looks stunning.
She's got a spark in her eye.
At this stage, she's more advanced than a human baby.
But she's still months away from being able to climb for herself.
Her mother can't hold on to her as she forages.
Nyakabara must cling to her fur.
I can actually see the mother and the baby on the tree.
That's a long way for the baby to be.
I hope that she's fine there.
LEAVES RUSTLE
I can't believe that branch just snapped.
I just hope the baby's still alive!
They have fallen out of sight, down a steep slope.
Just can't see them at all.
Vianet can't get down there.
The next day, Vianet has to track the family from the fall site.
GORILLAS GRUNT
ROARING AND GROWLING
Gorodi is on her mother's back, but there's no sign of Nyakabara.
A flash of white reveals both survived the fall.
Hey, Jack, is the baby OK? And the mother? It looks OK.
Luckily, there's lots of vegetation so it was a soft landing.
That's a big relief.
Nyakabara is now nine weeks old, and is reaching the stage
when - like a human baby - she can recognise family beyond her mother.
BIRD CALLS
NYAKABARA SCREECHES
This is the moment I've been waiting for.
For the first time, Vianet sees Nyakabara show interest
in the group's other infant, Gorodi.
Nyakabara is just starting to connect with her troop.
As curiosity and coordination grow, the biggest challenge
Nyakabara faces is to adapt to life in the trees herself.
She will have to learn to climb in order to feed
and stay safe in the forest.
The fjords of north-west Iceland.
In winter, the sun barely rises.
And temperatures can plummet 22 degrees below zero.
But it is home to the island's only native land mammal...
..the arctic fox.
FOX CALLS
Half the size of a red fox, they are perfectly adapted
to live in this hostile environment.
With one of the warmest coats of any animal,
its highly insulatory fur even covers the pads of its feet.
In June, the Icelandic summer brings a spectacular contrast to winter...
..with 24-hour daylight.
This is the time arctic fox cubs emerge.
But they will only have three months to fatten up before
most of their food disappears
and the harsh winter returns.
Only half of the cubs survive their first year.
Colin has come to the Hornstrandir Nature Reserve to see what it takes
to survive with such limited time to develop.
But first...he has to find the cubs.
Arctic foxes vary in colour.
This male will keep his dark coat throughout the year.
While his mate turns the classic white in winter.
Their cubs will stay hidden in a den under rocks for up to five weeks.
Lots of places to hide amongst the boulders.
But it really does look like a typical arctic fox den site.
But there's no way of knowing exactly when they'll emerge.
DISTANT BARKING
FOX BARKING
That could well be Dad calling, not too far away.
BARKING CONTINUES
That's a good sign.
Oop! Oh...
That was a fox cub.
Little, fluffy, brown back moving amongst the boulders.
So they're definitely here.
The five-week-old cub weighs around 700g
and is about the size of a kitten.
Wow!
Looked to be the very same colour as the dad.
Dark brown...but tiny.
At this size, they're still vulnerable to cold
despite their warm fur.
They will only emerge for about an hour at a time.
WHISPERS: There's at least six or seven.
Oh, there's a little white one!
CUBS CHIRP
That's the one we're going to have to follow...
..because I can't tell any of the others apart.
I'm going to call him Fela.
In Icelandic, I think it means to hide or hidden.
Something like that.
Been hiding from me for a while, so...
What a wonderful little animal.
In some countries, arctic foxes have up to 14 cubs in a litter.
But in Iceland, they have fewer as there is so little food.
There won't even be enough food for this litter of eight.
They will have to fight for it.
CUBS CHIRP AND SQUEAK
There is intense sibling rivalry between them.
And although this just looks like play -
and I guess that's what it is - it has a very important function.
The stronger you are, the feistier you are,
the more chance you have of accessing the food that
the parents deliver to the site.
The better chance you have of growing up.
And it looks like, so far...
..Fela looks boisterous,
and that's a good sign.
Because they have so little time to learn,
the fox cubs are already born with the instinct to hunt.
Arctic foxes practise a very particular hunting technique.
When they detect the tiniest movement of rodents
under the snow...
..they pounce.
RODENT SQUEAKS
The last patches of snow act as a trigger for the cubs' instincts.
CUBS CHIRP AND YELP
I find intriguing...
..how they know just how to jump,
how to do that, sort of, arctic fox leap.
These things are just ingrained and in-built.
But Fela isn't pouncing.
With seven siblings as rivals for limited food,
he cannot afford to fall behind.
The only way to get through the winter - when they could face
a month between meals - is to lay down fat from now on.
Their parents are catching breeding sea birds
from nearby cliffs to feed them.
But the birds will leave by the end of summer...
..and then there will not be enough food to go around.
Survival is not guaranteed in this part of the world.
Summers are very short.
And the litter of eight is going to need a lot of food,
a lot of food deliveries, every day.
If they don't get them, they won't make it.
And the sad thing is, if they just miss out on
a few meals, they get weak.
And then they just lose out on that competition.
Life will always be a struggle for Fela.
Out here, only the toughest survive.
But his ability to get to food first and bulk up in the race
towards winter will ultimately determine if he makes it
through his first year on Earth.
As the babies grow more independent,
they start to run into new challenges.
With only a month to learn how to forage,
Limpet mistakes waste plastic for food.
It's always a shame to see
wild animals playing with things that we have discarded.
In a race to get the best food,
Safina's mother gambles with her daughter's safety
and leads her into the midst of armed conflict.
I just want them to come back over here,
out of harm's way, and be safe.
And as Bisque and Chowder's confidence grows,
the time comes for them to venture into new territory,
where they'll discover new threats.
I'm quite nervous because...
..lions don't like hyenas.