7pm THIS WILD LIFE: The Great Lion Hunt - Nature/Documentary
Wildlife expert Saba Douglas-Hamilton, together with her husband Frank and their three young children, move to the romantic Samburu National Reserve in Kenya to run a safari camp for the first time.
It is the busiest week of the season at the safari camp and Saba is on a mission to find newborn lion cubs. Husband Frank races to rescue a lioness in need of help. A power crisis strikes camp and a member of the team is rushed to the hospital with suspected malaria. Can Saba and Frank keep their dream alive and the guests happy during their busiest week so far?
7:30pm WONDER OF ANIMALS: Elephants - Nature/Documentary
Chris Packham explores the anatomy and physiology of the largest land animal on the planet - the elephant. Their size seems ill-suited to surviving the most arid regions of Africa, but their inner workings allow them to defy the extreme heat of the desert and find food and water in seemingly barren landscapes, while their extraordinary memory enables them to repel predators.
8pm NATURE: Animal Homes: The Nest - Nature/Documentary
Bird nests come in all shapes and sizes, crafted from an inexhaustible diversity of materials, including fur, grasses, leaves, mosses, sticks and twigs, bones, wool, mud and spider silk. Quite a few also contain man-made materials – colorful twine, bits of wire, even plastic bags. Each one is a remarkable work of art, built with just a beak! We begin with a museum collection of nests and branch out to scenes in the wild all over the world, where birds arrive at diverse nesting grounds to collect, compete for, reject, steal and begin to build with carefully selected materials, crafting homes for the all-important task of protecting their eggs and raising their young.
9pm WILD SCHOOL: Black Bears - 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. Wild School combines 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.
IN THIS EPISODE: A look at Black Bears and their rival - humans. Three orphaned Black Bear cubs get the help they need in order to survive and get re-released back into the wild.
