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Namibia's Etosha National Park can be a barren place where water is scarce and precious. In this week's episode, we look at how jackals, birds and ground squirrels survive in this harsh environment.
They're tiny, very cute and ready to meet the world! In this week's episode, young meerkats take a curious peek out of their underground burrow - under the watchful eyes of their vigilant babysitters.
A lioness shows her formidable strength in this week's episode as she drags her zebra kill into a shady spot. Not far off, vultures wait for their chance to scavenge a few scraps.
This week's episode is all about nature's most vibrant and alluring insects: butterflies. The Earth-Touch crew films colourful clouds of these tiny animals as they extract salt and minerals from the ground at a wildlife sanctuary in Thailand.
This weeks wildlife podcast takes a look at at one of the most beautiful birds on earth, The carmine bee-eater. Living in a huge colony in the Okavango delta these beautiful birds display their stunning colors as we witness natural behavior from them in a pristine environment.
This week's episode is all about elephants. A herd of these huge animals takes time out to wallow by a pool of water. The adults cover their bodies with mud to ward off parasites while the youngsters learn some important dexterity lessons.
There's a tense standoff in this week's episode as hyenas clash with a leopard over a kill. In the harsh African environment, giant elephant bulls spend an afternoon near the water and massive flamingo flocks face the surging tides at a Mozambican estuary.
A pride of lions show off their teeth in the Okavango Delta, while a host of colourful crabs forage in a muddy mangrove. We end off on a tropical reef in the Seychelles, where our wildlife camera crew explore some incredible underwater rock formations.
A young elephant makes his shaky way amongst the rest of the herd at a watering hole in South Africa's Addo Elephant National Park while zebras spar and graze on the plains of the Okavango Delta. Finally, we join the crew as they film terns on a tiny Seychelles island.
We experience a day in the life of a leopard on the floodplains of the Okavango Delta before travelling to the edge of an Indonesian rainforest to explore a captivating cave system. Finally, we visit a beach in the Seychelles where some curious-looking crustaceans comb the white sand in search of a meal.
Our crew goes in search of hawksbill turtles on a tropical island in the Seychelles before taking a closer look at some strange marine creatures in an intertidal rock pool off the coast of South Africa. Finally, we travel to Indonesia's Sumatra Island where Thomas's leaf monkeys forage for food on the forest floor.
Animals with shells big and small feature in this week's episode. Crabs feast on a beached whale in Mozambique, while hundreds of snails gather on a tree beside a pool of water in Indonesia's Moyo Island. We end off with a journey to the Seychelles where giant tortoises feast on fallen berries.
It's winter here in the southern hemisphere so we're tracking changes in the animal kingdom as the mercury drops. We start with sardines in the chilly waters off the coast of South Africa, follow lions in Botswana and dive with crocs in the murky water channels of the Okavango Delta.
With their complex social structures and sophisticated communication strategies, dolphins have earned a reputation as some of the most intelligent animals in the ocean. This week, we're taking a closer look at these iconic animals and examining the role they play as primary predators in South Africa's annual Sardine Run.
Our crew searches for wolves on the snow-covered mountains of Romania before taking to the air to capture some aerial shots.