Behind the Lens | Exploring a Meerkat's Burrow
Learn how the "Animals with Cameras" team designed cameras small enough to be worn by a meerkat and capture unprecedented footage of a meerkat burrow.
Animals with Cameras | Episode 1
The astonishing collar-camera footage reveals newborn Kalahari Meerkats below ground for the first time, unveils the hunting skills of Magellanic penguins in Argentina, and follows the treetop progress of an orphaned chimpanzee in Cameroon.
Wearable Camera Reveals Newborn Meerkats
Newborn meerkats are typically hidden from view, only emerging from their burrow when two to three weeks old. In a filmmaking first, a camera-wearing meerkat goes underground to reveal her colony's newest pups.
Tour the Treetops from a Chimp's Point of View
Kimbang is a four-year-old female chimp who had a difficult start in life. Poachers killed her mother and she's had to learn how to be a chimp from human caregivers. Donning a wearable camera, Kimbang climbs high amongst the treetops and reveals what exactly she's been snacking on. Will this prove she's ready for the wild?
Wolf Pack Teams Up to Fight Off Intruder
Appearing out of nowhere, a rogue female wolf tries to kill and eat the pups of a rival pack. Outnumbered and surrounded, the stranger’s assault is pure madness. Will the pack succeed in fighting off this bedraggled intruder?
Wolf Pup Nursed by Two Mothers
Snow White and Blackspot, two female arctic wolves, share a deep and meaningful bond. Blackspot cares for Snow White's pups and even nurses them! Having two females nurse the same litter is exceedingly rare – it’s a behavior that’s never been filmed before.
Arctic Wolf Pack
Discover the white wolf, one of the most hardened predators on the planet, in Ellesmere Island's unforgiving ice and snow. In a fight for survival, these roaming hunters must travel far from the den to feed their cubs, putting them at risk.
Shark Avoids Death by Walking to Safety
The epaulette shark's small size allows it to thrive in shallow coral reefs. But when the tide rolls out it can be left high and dry. To avoid baking in the hot sun, the epaulette utilizes an extraordinary strategy - it walks to water.
Nature's Miniature Miracles
Great things come in small packages. This film tells the epic survival stories of the world’s smallest animals, from a tiny sengi, the “cheetah” of the shrew world, to a small shark that walks on land. For these animals, size does not matter.
Peacock Spider Performs Colorful Dance to Attract Mate
The male peacock jumping spider must dance for his life. In order to woo a female and avoid being eaten, he performs an intricate dance using a brilliantly colored fan attached to his abdomen. If the female approves, he is allowed to mate. If not, he becomes her next meal.
Cameraman Discovers Five Baby Cheetahs
On Malilangwe Game Reserve in Zimbabwe a female cheetah has been keeping a secret--she’s the mother of five new cubs. The new mom has just over a year to teach them how to survive in the wilderness without her. Follow this cheetah family through the eyes of conservationist and cameraman Kim Wolhuter.
Cheetah Mom Teaches Cubs to Hunt
Watching mom is the best way for cheetah cubs to learn how to hunt. She stalks and takes down a ram almost twice her weight, but 'down' doesn't always mean ‘out’ with such a powerful opponent.
The Cheetah Children
For nearly two years in the forested hills of Zimbabwe, wildlife cameraman Kim Wolhuter shadowed a wild cheetah family on foot, to reveal in intimate detail the cubs’ remarkable journey to adulthood and their mother’s dedication in raising them.
Author Helen Macdonald on "H is for Hawk"
Author Helen Macdonald talks about her role in the upcoming NATURE episode "H is for Hawk: A New Chapter".
First Meeting Between Helen Macdonald and Goshawk 'Lupin'
People have trained hawks for thousands of years and a hawk must always be tamed from scratch. Witness a tense first meeting between "H Is for Hawk" author Helen Macdonald and her new trainee--a goshawk she has named Lupin.
Falconer Helen Macdonald Takes Goshawk Out for Test Flight
Author and falconer Helen Macdonald takes her new goshawk Lupin out for a first test flight. As a precaution, the hawk is tethered with a long line of braided cotton called a creance and outfitted with a radio transmitter should it fly out of sight.
H is for Hawk: A New Chapter
Helen Macdonald’s best-selling book H Is for Hawk told the saga of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. Now she digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild and raising a goshawk of her own.
Giant River Otters Defeat Large Black Caiman
Giant river otters, with vulnerable young cubs, discover a large black caiman in their territory. Identifying it as a threat they work together, systematically attacking it and eventually defeating it.
Adorable Otter Orphans Learn to Swim
At only eight weeks old, otter cubs need to tackle an essential survival skill; learning to swim. Curiously, baby otters don’t really like water, so their caregiver needs to teach them an most important life lesson--water isn’t something to be afraid of.
Charlie & the Curious Otters
Filmmaker Charlie Hamilton James follows the story of three, curious river otter orphans in Wisconsin and visits otters all over the globe. Join Charlie as he uncovers the secrets to the otter’s survival with innovative experiments, cameras and CGI.
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