7pm THIS WILD LIFE: Elephant Baby Boom - Nature/Documentary - Wildlife expert Saba Douglas-Hamilton with her husband Frank and their three young children, move to the romantic Samburu National Preserve in Kenya to run a Safari Camp for the first time.
The team gear up to celebrate the end of the tourist season Samburu style. With the rains on their way, Saba and the team watch over elephant mothers about to give birth as Frank and David try to safeguard the future of Samburu's spectacular wildlife.
7:30pm WONDER OF ANIMALS: Bats - Nature/Documentary
Bats have colonized remote corners of the planet to become one of the most widespread mammals on earth. Chris Packham explores their incredible anatomy, physiology and senses to understand what enables them to thrive in some surprising places. Tiny hairs on their wings give them a detailed airflow map during flight, heat sensors on the nose of vampire bats means they can sense the most blood rich areas of a prey's body and iron oxide particles in the bat brain may act as a compass allowing them to find the most direct route back to the roost.
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8pm NATURE: Nature's Miracle Orphans: Wild Lessons - Documentary
Growing up is hard enough on young animals when they have parents to rely on for protection and guidance, but what happens when they lose their parents? How do they survive? Over the past few years, great strides have been made in understanding how to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned wildlife. In this episode we are introduced to an eastern gray kangaroo named Harry, flying foxes Hannah and Bugsy, and a two-toed sloth named Pelota.
9pm WILD SCHOOL: Kangaroos - Nature/Documentary
Join a cast of cute and cheeky animal orphans as they learn the vital lessons they need to leave captivity and survive in the wild. Making the transition from baby to youngster to adolescent and right up to adulthood is tough enough if things go well. It is even harder if you are left to fend for yourself. In those moments a helping hand is sometimes needed to give these young animal heroes a fighting chance. Filmed in an immersive and intimate way, Wild School provides inspiring survival stories with the rollercoaster lives of these animals' wild cousins and neighbors, to offer a series of tales that are both inspiring and full of jeopardy.
