![]() ![]() Season One | Episode 3 | Original Airdate: July 17th, 2016 | 9:00PM The only option for the Arctic’s top predators – the wolf, the Arctic fox and the polar bear – is to continually adapt to their changing world, exploiting the good times and enduring the bad. To a predator, seasonal change is a problem it means that all the parameters of the hunt – the conditions, the strategies, the prey – change too. This episode looks at the challenges of hunting in the Arctic, the most seasonal place on Earth. Season One | Episode 2 | Original Airdate: July 10th, 2016 | 9:00PM Surprisingly, most predators fail most of the time. But even with these finely tuned strategies, the outcome is far from certain. The premiere episode reveals the extraordinary range of techniques predators use to catch their prey – from a leopard using all its powers of stealth to stalk impala in broad daylight to wild dogs, whose tactic is to wear down their prey over long distances from Nile crocodiles, the planet’s most patient predators, to killer whales who use teamwork and intelligence to take on humpback whales. The contests between predators and prey are the most dramatic events in nature. Season One | Episode 1 | Original Airdate: July 3rd, 2016 | 9:00PM The point is, you never know if they will succeed: In the hunt, the outcome is never certain.” So to avoid crying, we’re going to just assume that baby seal escapes the polar bear’s jaws.įull schedule and episode descriptions from BBC America: ![]() People don’t realize how hard it is,” Fothergill says. “What I hope will become apparent is this: Predators usually fail. “What is interesting is the buildup, the strategies adopted by both the predators and prey.” In the arctic episode, viewers will see how a wolf pack hunts hares, how polar bears spring out of holes in the ice to snag snoozing seals, and how foxes wait at the bottom of cliffs for their meals - young auks taking their first flight - to fall out of the sky. “Once animals have killed, the story’s over,” he says. The seven-part series presents stunning footage of animals’ life-and-death struggles to eat or avoid being eaten.Īccording to executive producer Alastair Fothergill, the thrill of this series is in the chase, not the kill. Circle of life.įrom the makers of Planet Earth, The Blue Planet and Frozen Planet comes the new BBC America nature documentary series The Hunt (Sundays beginning July 3 at 9pm ET/PT), narrated by famed natural history filmmaker Sir David Attenborough. In nature, only the strong survive, and it comes at the expense of the weakest (and cutest) creatures. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window).Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window).Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window). ![]()
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