Program Catalog
| In the Company of Whales The ultimate New Zealand whale-watching experience, presented by Dr Roger Payne. | |
 | Kea - Mountain Parrot Meet the ultimate lead character in a nature film - a cheeky parrot that lives high in the mountains amidst rock and snow. An intelligent and bold creature, dubbed by many 'clown of the Alps', this bi... |
 | Monkeys of Hanuman A temple, nestled in a secluded valley in India's arid northwest, is dedicated to the revered langur monkeys and Hanuman, the god they represent. Following the troop for a year we uncover less than pi... |
 | Sex on the Reef Special filming techniques reveal a coral reef's most intimate moments. Unearthly and disturbing dramas in the miniature world of the coral polyp and cutting-edge CGI illustrate how coral reefs have s... |
 | Solid Water Liquid Rock Icy blizzards and fiery lava bombs collide at the world's southernmost volcano, Antarctica's Mount Erebus. Deep below the sea ice are giant sea spiders and century-old sponges. On the 3500m high summi... |
| Spirit of the Sound Puget Sound is America's largest estuary and home to a spectacular community of fish and wildlife. The sound holds a myriad of seabirds, waterfowl, waders, harbour seals and killer whales hunting ... | |
 | Animal Musicians Bellowing alligators and howling lemurs may seem unlikely musicians, but they play important parts in a symphony that uses only animal calls. British composer Nick Glennie-Smith collects performan... |
 | Castles of the Underworld A spectacular look at the strange and wonderful world of New Zealand's limestone areas. Crafted over thousands of years, the rocks and caves hold a bewildering variety of decorations, wildlife and... |
 | City Under the Sea Beneath the sea lie complex urban societies that parallel our own. At the Poor Knights Marine Reserve off New Zealand's Bay of Islands there are four seasons of fish society, and fascinating custo... |
 | Emperors of Antarctica The emperor penguin's breeding cycle runs through the harsh and bitter Antarctic winter. Loyal male emperors suffer vicious blizzards, temperatures as low as minus 50 degrees Celsius and a complete la... |
 | Endless Summer - The Birds of Broome Each year, nearly a million migrants arrive in North Western Australia. They're wading birds on an extraordinary trans-global migration, flying up to 15,000km from their Russian breeding grounds to es... |
 | Flamingo - The Last Dance? In the baking heat of the small Caribbean island of Bonaire, over 2000 Caribbean flamingos maintain a crowded and noisy colony among the salt pans. |
 | Gull City On a dangerous and uninviting section of New Zealand's coast, 20,000 red-billed gulls clamour for mates, stealing eggs, harassing chicks and scavenging around the neighbourhood. |
| Islands 1: Splendid Isolation Throughout the vast Pacific Ocean lie islands colonised by plant and animal species that have survived journeys across oceans and through evolution. A type of gecko species which has only females who ... | |
| Islands 2: Strangers in Paradise Discover the carnivorous caterpillars of Hawaii, the Komodo dragons of Indonesia, and the world's largest skinks, living in the Solomon Islands. The isolation of Pacific Islands has allowed many s... | |
 | Kaikoura - A Short Piece of Track New Zealand's Kaikoura is famous as one of the whale-watching centres of the world. Tipene O'Regan presents a short train trip south down the railway track to the coast. |
 | Masters of Inner Space Masters of Inner Space takes a designer's-eye view of fish, investigating how their physical makeup and use of colour and sensory equipment equips them for life in the ocean. |
 | Norwester - Wind of Contrasts Born far out in the Tasman Sea, the Norwester assaults New Zealand with torrential rain, snow and hail, and searing heat. In the path of the onslaught, nothing is spared. This is a unique insight into... |
 | Rainforest Warrior One of the most striking birds in the world is also one of Australia's most endangered. The brightly-coloured cassowary, up to 2m tall, is threatened by rainforest fragmentation. But not only does the... |
| Reef Fish - Where Have They All Gone? Around the world, reef fish communities are being over-fished. Hook, line and sinker, spearfishing and monofilament set nets have swept the reefs and are causing devastation to reef ecology. | |
| Sex and Greed - The Bowerbirds The Bowerbirds of Australia and Papua New Guinea symbolise sexuality in a very human way. The males build elaborate bowers to 'seduce' as many females as possible. The birds are promiscuous: n... | |
| Shipwrecks - A Natural History It is not often that we can record the marine colonisation of shipwrecks from day one. The 'Rainbow Warrior', Greenpeace's flagship, was sabotaged by French agents and sunk. It now provide... | |
 | The Longest Night More than 3500 km from civilization, the team at New Zealand's Antarctic Scott Base faces the longest night - four months of total winter darkness. For the dozen "Kiwis" wintering at... |
 | Wanted Alive New Zealand's fauna includes birds and reptiles found nowhere else in the world. But destruction of habitat plus the introduction of predators by European settlers has left many species in a criticall... |
 | Young Mountains There is no such thing as silence in the young mountains of New Zealand's Southern Alps. Even on the calmest day, the scream of a distant kea, the buzzing of a tiny fly and the stamping of a startled ... |
 | Everest After the Party In an attempt to lessen its impact on the tourist industry, a group of New Zealand school children try to clean up the rubbish left on Mount Everest. |
 | Grandma Grandma is the affectionate name given to a very special bird - a Northern Royal Albatross who breeds near Dunedin, New Zealand at Taiaroa Head, the only mainland albatross colony in the world. At ove... |
 | Kiwi - A Natural History The kiwi is unique to New Zealand and is one of the most unusual animals on earth. It is flightless, nocturnal, has hair-like feathers, and burrows into the ground to lay an egg representing 25% of it... |
 | Battle for Breaksea Island New Zealand's Department of Conservation marshalled its limited resources and chose the battleground: the island of Breaksea. Their opponent? The seemingly indomitable predator of the island&#... |
 | Cold Water Warm Blood A great upwelling of nutrients off the coast of New Zealand has produced a bounty for the most diverse collection of seals, whales and dolphins anywhere. Three species of dolphins and fur seals inhabi... |
