The first three critical months are when our animal babies have to rapidly get to grips with their new family and the challenges of environment that surrounds them.
The Comb-crested Jacanas are unique birds that use their long toes to walk delicately across lotus leaves and catch underwater prey. This episode, filmed between the rainy season and dry season in Kakadu, follows a father bird raising his chicks through their dramatic and difficult first year.
Space. It separates you from me, one galaxy from the next, and atoms from one another. It is everywhere in the universe. But to most of us, space is nothing, an empty void. Well, it turns out space is not what it seems. From the passenger seat of a New York cab driving near the speed of light, to a pool hall where billiard tables do fantastical things, Brian Greene reveals space as a dynamic fabric that can stretch, twist, warp, and ripple under the influence of gravity.
1/4 • The Fabric of the Cosmos • 2010 • Nature
Making Of (Special Fly On The Wall inserts at the end of each programme will explore, in greater detail, how the BBC's Natural History Unit was able to capture such stunning footage for the first time.)
Extra • Life in the Undergrowth • 2005 • Nature
How animals ranging from albatrosses to ants can navigate themselves over long distances.
5/12 • Trials of Life • 1990 • Nature
On the unforgiving frontier of climate change, polar bears, walruses, seals and penguins find their icy Edens in peril.
2/8 • Our Planet • 2019 • Nature
Professor David Scheel takes an octopus into his home to learn about its intelligence and the extraordinary relationship he and his daughter develop with the creature. Named Heidi, the octopus is seen unravelling puzzles, recognising individual humans and even watching TV with the family. The film also looks at the remarkable behaviour of other octopuses around the world, from those that can change their colour and texture in a split second to the octopus that carries around its own coconut shell to hide in.
Natural World • 2019 • Nature
