#1
S1E6
Homemaking
To create their hugely varied homes, animals become potters and plasterers, weavers and needleworkers, miners, masons, scaffolders, thatchers and sculptors.
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#2
S1E4
Hunting and Escaping
Kill or die. Escape or perish. Such life and death duels are fought on a daily basis in the wild between assassins and their victims and have fuelled a long evolutionary arms race.
#3
S1E7
Living Together
Whole communities of different kinds of animals have been committed by evolution to live together. We show how some of these animal partnerships are ancient and intricate, whilst others are just being formed and that the delicate balance of benefit and exploitation is ever-changing.
#4
Friends and Rivals
S1E9
#5
Talking to Strangers
S1E10
#6
Finding Food
S1E3
#7
Continuing the Line
S1E12
#8
Growing Up
S1E2
#9
Fighting
S1E8
#10
Courting
S1E11
Lowlights
How do animals find their way around the globe with such extraordinary accuracy - an accuracy which we have only been able to match in recent years with satellite navigation.
#11
Arriving
S1E1
#10
Courting
S1E11
#9
Fighting
S1E8
#8
Growing Up
S1E2
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