The great white shark has long been the centre of media hype, but is it really the vicious killer it is made out to be? We take a look at the hunting strategies of this incredible shark and find that it actually is an intelligent, calculative and cunning predator.

The most endearing mammals in the world are the dolphins. We follow a family of bottlenose dolphins as they move in their home waters and over a reef of the southern Indian Ocean. We watch them play, fight, love and ‘cry’.

The sand tiger, or ragged tooth shark, is a sinister-looking humped back creature with a mouthful of wicked teeth – the embodiment of nightmares. Yet it is hardly the vicious killer of our imagination and on a reef off the coast of South Africa divers have grown to love this ugly shark. In this e...

Off the coast of Mozambique there is a small reef which is the castle of an imposing king – Bert the Bass. He is a huge potato bass. Like all basses he has an unusual life history – he began his life as a female and changed sex when he grew into an adult. He now rules over his harem of females as...

Each year, off the coast of Southern Africa, millions upon millions of sardines school together and move en-masse up the eastern coast. They are followed by many marine predators including sharks and bottlenose dolphins. We explore the dynamics of the sardine run and the hunting strategies of som...

Some of the largest fish in the sea feed on the tiniest of marine organisms. Manta rays and whale sharks feed by filtering the water and extracting the tiny creatures that form plankton. But they are able to do this by swimming forward in the water with mouth agape, but there are creatures such a...

A pride of lions on the African bushveld constitute a perfect killing machine. Co-operation, stealth, perfect timing and an acute sense of opportunity work together in synchrony as lionesses surround and harass an old bull giraffe, which is unable to retaliate with the same agility as in his yout...

The Maldive Islands form a beautiful string of coral reefs, popular with divers all over the world. A disused ship forms an artificial reef and is home to the friendliest stingrays you’re ever likely to meet. Tempted by the fish the divers bring the stingrays sometimes get very cheeky and try to ...

The proverbial saying is that there’s safety in numbers and many fish species have found this to be true. Small fish huddle together and move as one through the water hoping to appear larger to a passing predator, while pelagic predators such as barracuda move in vast schools to hunt. We explore ...

Sharks are some of the most fascinating creatures to roam the ocean. There are many species of different shapes and sizes each adapted to its own way of life. Some sharks, like the silvertip and blacktip, prefer to hunt in the open ocean. Grey reef sharks hunt at the edges of the reef. Leopard sh...

In Africa’s harshest environment both hunter and hunted endure the extremes and only the fittest survive. Skillfully the Perengey’s adder buries itself beneath the hot desert surface leaving only its tail as a worm-like lure to entice prey like shovel-snouted lizards or barking geckos. They appro...

For loggerhead turtles, procreation occurs against unbelievable odds - only two of every 1000 tiny turtles hatched survive. They emerge from their subterranean incubation chambers above the high water mark on the same beaches that gave birth to their mothers. Although the little turtles hatch sim...

Conservation culling practices left young orphan elephant bulls undisciplined by the remarkable natural pachyderm matriarchal society. On hot African afternoons these bulls prefer to harass mud-bathing rhino incessantly, determined to dislodge them from their wallow in an absurd display of inter-...

Beneath the tropical waters of our oceans lies one of the most intricate worlds ever evolved – tropical reefs. Although they occupy only one tenth of the earth’s surface they achieve the highest productivity off all marine ecosystems, second only to the tropical rainforests in complexity and rich...

The end of summer on the Serengeti plains heralds the mass migration of millions of wildebeest to fresh grazing in the north. Opportunist predators follow in their wake, targeting the stragglers on the outskirts. The thirst-driven animals reach the Grumeti River in the winter where they meet the ...

The white rhino is gregarious by nature. The complexity of rhino interaction and messaging is multifaceted and valuable in terms of survival. They communicate matters of rank, dominance, territory, courtship and kinship in an assorted vocabulary of vocalization, defecation-middens, urine marking,...

For a juvenile crocodile in the Pongola River system, surviving through the critical period of infancy is a triumph of instinct. After intricate rituals of courtship and nest excavations the female crocodile lays her eggs in a sandy pit and vigilantly keeps guard of her clutch, forfeiting her own...

The white rhino populations of southern Africa remarkably continue to grow despite the sad history of poaching and slaughter. For a species that almost vanished from the earth, the birth of every infant is significant. This event is witnessed by amateur filmmakers who diligently wait out a cow’s ...

This shark has the reputation of being the best and most powerful hunter. Nature’s most feared predator attacks and kills a Cape fur seal basking on the surface of the ocean – reducing her life to a bloody feeding frenzy of sharks and gulls, leaving her newborn offspring abandoned and bleating it...