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Short Versions: Planet Earth: A Lion's Tale
Wildlife documentary telling the story of Moja, a five-month-old lion cub living with his single lioness mum, Nyota, in Kenya's Masai Mara. Together, they face a fight for life.\n
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Short Versions: 22. Penguin Post Office
Nature documentary looking at a post office in Antarctica that is surrounded by 3,000 gentoo penguins.
08-08-2025
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Short Versions: Jungle Animal Hospital
At the jungle animal hospital in Guatemala, the wards are full of exotic patients, many of them orphans rescued from the illegal pet trade.\n\n
07-08-2025
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2009-2010 - Bearwalker Of The Northwoods: Natural World
Wildlife documentary. In the forests of northern Minnesota, biologist Lynn Rogers gains the trust of wild black bears and studies their lives.
26-07-2025
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2017-2018: 8. Attenborough And The Empire Of The Ants
David Attenborough is in the Swiss Jura Mountains to discover the secrets of a giant. Beneath his feet lies a vast network of tunnels and chambers, home to a huge empire of ants ...
25-07-2025
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2018-2019: 5. Pangolins - The World's Most Wanted Animal
The endearing pangolin is a little-known scaly mammal. Found in Africa and Asia, these shy creatures have an unfortunate tagline - they are the most poached and illegally traffi ...
24-07-2025
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2019-2020: Weasels: Feisty And Fearless
Members of the weasel family are often portrayed as the villains of the natural world, but do they deserve this reputation? By following the adventures of a tiny orphaned weasel ...
03-07-2025
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2012-2013: 10. Flight Of The Rhino
In South Africa there is a daring plan to save the rhino by moving a whole population to a secret location. But the only way out is by dangling them underneath a helicopter! Can ...
27-06-2025
BBC 4
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2019-2020: Meet The Bears
From the mighty grizzly bear to the endearing real life Paddington, the spectacled bear, and Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book's Baloo, the sloth bear, this remarkable animal ...
27-06-2025
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Short Versions: Planet Earth: An Elephant's Tale
Wildlife documentary telling the story of newborn elephant calf Maya.
05-01-2025
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2013-2014 - Sri Lanka: Elephant Island
Sri Lanka is home to its own special elephants. Cameraman Martyn Colbeck, of Echo of the Elephants fame, has travelled to Sri Lanka to reveal their world.
08-04-2022
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Short Versions: Jungle Animal Hospital
At the jungle animal hospital in Guatemala, the wards are full of exotic patients, many of them orphans rescued from the illegal pet trade.\n\n
07-08-2025
BBC 4
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2011-2012 - Unnatural History Of London
A portrait of the capital's secret wildlife, from local badgers and foxes to more exotic species like pelicans and seals.
29-05-2022
BBC 4
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Short Versions: 13. Planet Earth: A Tale Of Three Bears
Julia Bradbury presents the live wildlife programme following the progress of three black bear cubs as they follow their mother through the spectacular Northwoods of Minnesota.
27-05-2022
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