# List of Natural World episodes

The following is a list of episodes of the BBC television series Natural World.

## Series 1

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured/area covered |
| 1 | Save the Panda | 30 October 1983 | Barry Paine | Giant panda |
| 2 | From Aardvark to Zebra | 6 November 1983 | Jonathan Kingdon | Kilimanjaro |
| 3 | Programmed for Flight | 13 November 1983 | Barry Paine | Bird migration |
| 4 | Jungle | 20 November 1983 | David Hughes | Costa Rican rainforest |
| 5 | Secret Weapons | 27 November 1983 | Tom Elsner | Insect chemical defences |
| 6 | Birds of Paradox | 4 December 1983 | | |
| 7 | Jet Set Wildlife | 11 December 1983 | Barry Paine | Introduced species |
| 8 | Pelican Delta | 18 December 1983 | Barry Paine | Pelicans in the Danube |
| 9 | Winter Days | 25 December 1983 | Robert Powell | British wildlife in Winter |
| 10 | God's Acre | 2 January 1984 | Barry Paine | Wildlife in a British churchyard |

## Series 2

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured/area covered |
| 1 | Plight of the Bumble-Bee | 6 May 1984 | Barry Paine | Bumblebees |
| 2 | Salim Ali's India | 13 May 1984 | Barry Paine | Salim Ali and the wildlife of India |
| 3 | The Kiwai - Dugong Hunters of Daru | 20 May 1984 | David Attenborough | Dugong |
| 4 | Commandos of Conservation | 3 June 1984 | Trevor Philpott | Greenpeace |
| 5 | Long Point | 10 June 1984 | Barry Paine | Wildlife of Long Point, Lake Erie |
| 6 | Beneath the Keel | 17 June 1984 | Barry Paine, Jeff Goodman, Laurie Emberson | Marine life of Devon |
| 7 | Treasures of the Gulf | 1 July 1984 | | Wildlife of the Persian Gulf |
| 8 | Fragments of Eden | 22 July 1984 | Barry Paine | Wildlife of the Seychelles |

## Series 3

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Among the Wild Chimpanzees | 4 November 1984 | Barry Paine, Jane Goodall | Eastern chimpanzee |
| 2 | One Man's Island | 11 November 1984 | Anthony Quayle, Keith Brockie | Isle of May |
| 3 | Invaders of the Truk Lagoon | 18 November 1984 | Barry Paine | Wildlife of Truk Lagoon |
| 4 | The Desire of the Moth | 25 November 1984 | Barry Paine | Moths |
| 5 | A Question of Space | 2 December 1984 | Iain Guest | Satellites monitoring land use for conservation in Kenya |
| 6 | Peacocks, Parasites and the Puzzle of Sex | 9 December 1984 | | Evolution of sexual reproduction |
| 7 | Land of Ice and Fire | 16 December 1984 | Anthony Valentine | Wildlife of Yellowstone |
| 8 | The Lost World of Medusa | 23 December 1984 | Barry Paine | Wildlife in Jellyfish Lake, Palau |
| 9 | Kinabalu, Summit of Borneo | 6 January 1985 | Barry Paine | Wildlife of Mount Kinabalu |
| 10 | Wild Ireland | 13 January 1985 | Barry Paine | Wildife of Ireland |
| 11 | Water - A Fresh Look | 20 January 1985 | Barry Paine, Walter Sigl | Fresh water wildlife |
| 12 | Battle of the Leaves | 27 January 1985 | | Leaves |
| 13 | The Year of the Rat | 3 February 1985 | Barry Paine | Brown rat |
| 14 | Through Animal Eyes | 10 February 1985 | Andrew Sachs | Animal eyesight |
| 15 | Within a Garden Wall | 17 February 1985 | Peter France | Wildife in a Cotswold dry stone wall |

## Series 4

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured/area covered |
| 1 | Land of the Tiger | 15 September 1985 | | Bengal tiger |
| 2 | Namaqualand, Diary of a Desert Garden | 22 September 1985 | Barry Paine | Botany in Namaqualand |
| 3 | Horns of Dilemma | 29 September 1985 | John Hedges | Trade in rhino horn |
| 4 | On the Verge of Life | 6 October 1985 | Martin Jarvis | Wildlife on British motorway verges |
| 5 | The Man Who Loves Frogs | 13 October 1985 | Barry Paine | Frogs |
| 6 | Emas, The High Plains of Brazil | 20 October 1985 | Barry Paine | Wildife of Emas National Park, Brazil |
| 7 | The Flight of the Whooping Crane | 27 October 1985 | Barry Paine | Whooping crane |
| 8 | White Rock, Black Water | 3 November 1985 | Richard Mabey | Wildlife of the Yorkshire Dales |
| 9 | Never Stay in One Place | 10 November 1985 | Robyn Williams | Wildlife of Kakadu, Australia |
| 10 | City of Coral | 17 November 1985 | Barry Paine | Coral in the Caribbean |
| 11 | Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Frozen Ocean | 24 November 1985 | Hywel Bennett | Polar bear and wildlife of the Arctic |
| 12 | Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Land of Beyond | 1 December 1985 | Hywel Bennett | Polar bear and wildlife of the Arctic |
| 13 | Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Final Challenge | 8 December 1985 | Hywel Bennett | Polar bear and wildlife of the Arctic |
| 14 | Aspen, A Dance of Leaves | 22 December 1985 | Siân Phillips | Aspen in Canada |
| 15 | The Plant Hunters | 29 December 1985 | Barry Paine | Hunting for new plant species |
| 16 | Shortgrass Country | 5 January 1986 | Barry Paine | Wildlife of the Canadian prairie |
| 17 | The Forgotten Garden | 12 January 1986 | Barry Paine | Wildlife in an abandoned English garden |
| 18 | Inside Stories | 19 January 1986 | Barry Paine | Animal physiology |
| 19 | Masked Monkeys | 26 January 1986 | Jonathan Kingdon | Guenons |
| 20 | Sky Hunters | 2 February 1986 | Libby Purves | Vultures |

## Series 5

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured/area covered |
| 1 | Leopard, a Darkness in the Grass | 5 October 1986 | Hugh Miles | Leopard |
| 2 | Where the Parrots Speak Mandarin | 12 October 1986 | | Chinese relationship with animals |
| 3 | The Mystery of Laguna Baja | 19 October 1986 | Barry Paine | Wildlife of a lagoon in Baja California |
| 4 | Have Fish Had Their Chips? | 16 November 1986 | Julian Pettifer | Overfishing |
| 5 | Why Dogs Don't Like Chilli But Some Like It Hot | 23 November 1986 | Jeremy Churfas | Animal diets |
| 6 | The Elephant Challenge | 30 November 1986 | Iain Guest | African elephant |
| 7 | Ichkeul, Between the Desert and the Deep Blue Sea | 7 December 1986 | Barry Paine | Wildlife of Lake Ichkeul, Tunisia |
| 8 | Man-Eaters of Kumaon | 14 December 1986 | Dramatisation | Man-eating big cats in India |
| 9 | A Cactus Called Saguaro | 21 December 1986 | Barry Paine | Saguaro cactus |
| 10 | A Wilderness Like Eden | 11 January 1987 | Peter France | Wildlife of the Holy Land |
| 11 | Sweet Water, Bitter Sea | 18 January 1987 | Peter France | Wildlife of the Holy Land |
| 12 | Bats Need Friends | 25 January 1987 | Andrew Sachs | Bats |
| 13 | Cockatoos at Three Springs | 1 February 1987 | Robyn Williams | Cockatoos |
| 14 | The Volcano Watchers | 8 February 1987 | Barry Paine | Volcanoes |
| 15 | The Deciding Factor | 15 February 1987 | Barry Paine | Animal decision making |
| 16 | Reflections of a River Keeper | 22 February 1987 | Barry Paine, Tom Williams | Wildlife of River Avon, Hampshire |
| 17 | Towers of Wax and Paper Palaces | 1 March 1987 | Barry Paine | Animal builders |

## Series 6

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured/area covered |
| 1 | Spirits of the Forest | 20 September 1987 | Andrew Sachs | Wildife of Madagascar |
| 2 | Land of the Kiwi | 27 September 1987 | Barry Paine | Wildlife of New Zealand |
| 3 | Lions of the African Night | 4 October 1987 | Martin Jarvis | Lion |
| 4 | Forest of Fear | 11 October 1987 | Barry Paine | Wildife of the Sundarbans |
| 5 | Icebird | 18 October 1987 | Tony Soper | Penguins |
| 6 | Ticket to the Wild | 25 October 1987 | Barry Paine | Wildlife of British railway verges |
| 7 | Grizzly! | 1 November 1987 | Barry Paine | Grizzly bear |
| 8 | Islands of the Fire Goddess | 15 November 1987 | Jack Watson | Wildife of the Hawaiian Islands |
| 9 | Paradise Reclaimed | 22 November 1987 | Tom Conti | Rainforest regrowth |
| 10 | Battle for the Eagles | 29 November 1987 | Tony Soper | Eagles |
| 11 | Okavango, Jewel of the Kalihari: Search for the Jewel | 6 December 1987 | Barry Paine | Wildlife of the Okavango Delta |
| 12 | Okavango, Jewel of the Kalihari: The Living Jewel | 13 December 1987 | Barry Paine | Wildlife of the Okavango Delta |
| 13 | Okavango, Jewel of the Kalihari: A New Challenge | 20 December 1987 | Barry Paine | Wildlife of the Okavango Delta |

## Series 7

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured/area covered |
| 1 | Ice Pack | 18 September 1988 | Barry Paine | Wildlife of the Canadian Arctic |
| 2 | Beyond Timbuktu | 25 September 1988 | Bruce Pearson | Wildlife of the Niger River |
| 3 | Nighthunters | 2 October 1988 | Judi Dench | Owls |
| 4 | Twilight of the Dreamtime | 9 October 1988 | David Attenborough | Wildlife of Kakadu, Australia |
| 5 | Search for the Yeti | 16 October 1988 | Chris Bonington | Yeti |
| 6 | A Passion for Grouse | 23 October 1988 | Sally Magnusson | Red grouse |
| 7 | Nuts in Brazil | 30 October 1988 | Anthony Smith | Travel down the Amazon River |
| 8 | Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon | 6 November 1988 | | Wildife of Bhutan |
| 9 | The Journey of Gerald Through Wales | 13 November 1988 | | Wildlife of Wales |
| 10 | Coral Triangle | 27 November 1988 | Barry Paine | Wildlife of Philippines |
| 11 | Wild Waterfalls: The Natural History of Cascades | 1 January 1989 | Jenni Murray | Waterfalls |
| 12 | Atlantic Realm: Island Arks | 8 January 1989 | Martin Jarvis | Wildife of the Atlantic Ocean |
| 13 | Atlantic Realm: Ocean Of Light | 15 January 1989 | Martin Jarvis | Wildife of the Atlantic Ocean |
| 14 | Atlantic Realm: Into The Abyss | 22 January 1989 | Martin Jarvis | Wildlife of the Atlantic Ocean |

## Series 8

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured/area covered |
| 1 | Gorillas in the Midst of Man | 1 October 1989 | Brian Blessed | Gorilla |
| 2 | Ivory Wars | 8 October 1989 | Julian Pettifer | Trade in African Elephant ivory |
| 3 | Gran Paradiso | 15 October 1989 | Anthony Valentine | Gran Paradiso National Park, Alps |
| 4 | Fear of the Wild | 22 October 1989 | Anthony Valentine | Phobias of wild animals |
| 5 | Splashdown: A Diver's Natural History | 29 October 1989 | Martha Holmes | Marine life off the British coast |
| 6 | Island in the Air | 5 November 1989 | Christopher Reich | Wildlife of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia |
| 7 | Amazon, the Flooded Forest: Part 1 | 19 November 1989 | Anthony Hopkins | Amazon rainforest |
| 8 | Amazon, the Flooded Forest: Part 2 | 26 November 1989 | Anthony Hopkins | Amazon rainforest |
| 9 | A Tramp in the Darien | 3 December 1989 | Jonathan Maslow | Darien National Park, Panama |
| 10 | The Taming of the Ewe | 10 December 1989 | Joe Henson | Sheep domestication |
| 11 | Under the Ice | 17 December 1989 | | Life under the Antarctic ice sheet |
| 12 | The Sisterhood | 7 January 1990 | Richard Goss | Spotted hyena |
| 13 | Erin Through the Mists of Time | 14 January 1990 | Eamon de Buitlear | Wildlife of Ireland |
| 14 | The Serpent's Embrace | 21 January 1990 | Christopher Reich | Snakes |
| 15 | Haida Gwaii, Islands of the People | 28 January 1990 | May Russ | Haida Gwaii, Canada |
| 16 | La Loire Sauvage | 4 February 1990 | | Campaign against dam on the Loire, France |

## Series 9

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured/area covered |
| 1 | Running for their Lives | 6 January 1991 | Hugh Miles | African wild dog |
| 2 | Scandinavia: Lands of the Midnight Sun | 13 January 1991 | Martin Jarvis | Scandinavia above the Arctic Circle |
| 3 | Scandinavia: Fresh Waters, Salt Seas | 20 January 1991 | Martin Jarvis | Waters around Scandinavia |
| 4 | The Cat That Came in from the Cold | 27 January 1991 | | European polecat |
| 5 | Portrait of the Planet | 3 February 1991 | | Nature around the world |
| 6 | Two Weeks to Save the Planet | 10 February 1991 | Anthony Smith | Earthwatch Institute |
| 7 | Cranes of the Grey Wind | 17 February 1991 | | Sandhill and Whooping cranes |
| 8 | Even The Animals Must Be Free | 3 March 1991 | | On safari in Africa |
| 9 | Marathon Birds | 10 March 1991 | | Albatross |
| 10 | The Great Karoo, a Secret Africa | 17 March 1991 | Janet Suzman | Karoo, South Africa |
| 11 | Big Oil: in the Wake Of Exxon Valdez | 24 March 1991 | Julian Pettifer | Exxon Valdez oil spill |
| 12 | Wings Over the Holy Land | 31 March 1991 | | Bird migration in Israel |
| 13 | Hawaii, Beyond the Feathered Gods | 14 April 1991 | | Wildlife of the Hawaiian Islands |

## Series 10

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured/area covered |
| 1 | Vietnam: the Country not the War | 24 November 1991 | Brian Gear | Vietnam |
| 2 | Arctic Wanderers | 1 December 1991 | Barry Paine | Caribou migration in the American Arctic |
| 3 | The Wonderful World of Dung | 8 December 1991 | Tony Robinson | Dung |
| 4 | Monkeys on the Edge | 15 December 1991 | Rula Lenska | Endangered monkeys in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest |
| 5 | Sounds of the Islands | 22 December 1991 | Isla Blair | Outer Hebrides |
| 6 | Sharks on their Best Behaviour | 9 February 1992 | Mike DeGruy | Shark |
| 7 | Land of Wild Freedom | 16 February 1992 | Fred Trueman | North York Moors |
| 8 | The Monk, the Princess and the Forest | 1 March 1992 | | Thailand rainforest |
| 9 | New Guinea, an Island Apart: Beyond The Unknown Shore | 8 March 1992 | Tim Pigott-Smith | Coral reefs off New Guinea |
| 10 | New Guinea, an Island Apart: Other Worlds | 15 March 1992 | Tim Pigott-Smith | Rainforests of New Guinea |
| 11 | Birds Nuts: The Magnificent Obsession | 22 March 1992 | Martin Wainwright | Birdwatching |
| 12 | For Queen and Colony | 29 March 1992 | | Bees and wasps |
| 13 | Mpingo, the Tree that Makes Music | 3 May 1992 | David Attenborough | Mpingo trees |

## Series 11

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured/area covered |
| 1 | Echo of the Elephants | 3 January 1993 | David Attenborough, Cynthia Moss | African elephant |
| 2 | Shadows in a Desert Sea | 10 January 1993 | | Gulf of California |
| 3 | Cougar, Ghost of the Rockies | 17 January 1993 | | Cougar |
| 4 | Kimberley, Land of the Wandjina | 24 January 1993 | | Kimberley region |
| 5 | Journey to the Dark Heart | 31 January 1993 | Martis Jarvis | Western lowland gorilla |
| 6 | Ice Fox | 7 February 1993 | Bob Peck | Arctic fox |
| 7 | The Great Bears of Alaska | 21 February 1993 | | Kodiak bear |
| 8 | The Little Creatures who Run the World | 28 February 1993 | Edward Wilson | Ants |
| 9 | Strandwolf, Survivor of the Skeleton Coast | 7 March 1993 | | Brown hyena |
| 10 | Ibera, the Land of Shining Water | 14 March 1993 | John Waters | Iberá Wetlands, Argentina |
| 11 | The Ghosts of Ruby | 21 March 1993 | Julian Pettifer | Ruby, Arizona |
| 12 | Sanctuaries of Defence | 28 March 1993 | Christian Rodska | Wildlife on Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) land |
| 13 | Treasure of the Andes | 4 April 1993 | John Shrapnel | Torres del Paine National Park, Chile |
| 14 | Cheetahs and Cubs in a Land of Lions | 11 April 1993 | Rula Lenska | Cheetah and lion |
| 15 | The Burning Question | 18 April 1993 | | Wildfire in Yellowstone National Park |
| 16 | Secrets of the Golden River | 25 April 1993 | | Rio Negro (Amazon) |

## Series 12

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured/area covered |
| 1 | Sex, Hot Eruptions and Chilli Peppers | 20 February 1994 | Barry Paine | Looking back at 25 Years of the Natural World |
| 2 | Firebird | 27 February 1994 | Josette Simon | Lesser flamingo |
| 3 | Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea | 6 March 1994 | David Attenborough | Killer whale |
| 4 | Toadskin Spell | 13 March 1994 | Robert Lindsay | Frogs and toads |
| 5 | Island of the Ghost Bear | 20 March 1994 | John Sparks | American black bear |
| 6 | Webs of Intrigue | 27 March 1994 | | Gladiator spider, Australian funnel-web spider |
| 7 | Vampires, Devilbirds and Spirits: Tales of the Calypso Isles | 3 April 1994 | Paul Keens-Douglas | Trinidad & Tobago |
| 8 | Pandas of the Sleeping Dragon | 4 April 1994 | John Shrapnel | Wolong National Nature Reserve, China |
| 9 | The Witness Was a Fly | 17 April 1994 | Zakaria Erzinçlioğlu | Forensic science using animals and plants |
| 10 | Untangling the Knot | 24 April 1994 | Ian McShane | Red knot |
| 11 | Snowdonia: Realm of Ravens | 8 May 1994 | | Common raven |
| 12 | Race for Life: Africa's Great Migration | 15 May 1994 | John Shrapnel | Wildebeest |
| 13 | Islands in the African Sky | 22 May 1994 | John Hurt | Mount Kenya, Aberdare Range and Mount Kilimanjaro |
| 14 | Comrades of the Kalahari | 29 May 1994 | Marco Visalberghi | Yellow mongoose, Cape ground squirrel |

## Series 13

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured/area covered |
| 1 | Mysteries of the Ocean Wanderers | 27 November 1994 | David Attenborough | Albatross |
| 2 | Badlands | 4 December 1994 | | Prairie dog |
| 3 | Hunters of the Sea Wind | 11 December 1994 | Christian Rodska | Marlin, sailfish, sea snake, dolphin, tuna, turtle |
| 4 | Parrots: Look Who's Talking! | 15 January 1995 | Tony Robinson | Parrot |
| 5 | Avenue of the Volcanoes | 22 January 1995 | | Mountain range in Ecuador |
| 6 | Ytene, England's Ancient Forest | 29 January 1995 | John Nettles | New Forest, Hampshire |
| 7 | Gentle Jaws of the Serengeti | 12 February 1995 | Barry Paine | Spotted hyena |
| 8 | Monkey in the Mirror | 19 February 1995 | Geraldine James | Bonobo |
| 9 | Ocean Drifters | 26 February 1995 | Tony Soper | Loggerhead sea turtle |
| 10 | The Call of Kakadu | 5 March 1995 | David Curl | Kookaburra |
| 11 | The Riddle of the Sands | 19 March 1995 | Bill Paterson | Ythan Estuary, Scotland |
| 12 | Jewels of the Caribbean | 2 April 1995 | Joss Ackland | Caribbean Sea |
| 13 | Survival of the Fittest: a Natural History of Sport | 16 April 1995 | Des Lynam | Wildlife on sport grounds |
| 14 | Sulawesi: an Island Bewitched | 23 April 1995 | Ian Holm | Sulawesi |
| 15 | The Little Creatures of Africa's Hidden World | 30 April 1995 | Andrew Sachs | Dung beetle, tick, termite |

## Series 14

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Echo of the Elephants: The Next Generation | 14 January 1996 | David Attenborough, Cynthia Moss | African elephant |
| 2 | Incredible Suckers | 21 January 1996 | David Attenborough, Mike DeGruy | Cephalopod, nautilus, vampire squid |
| 3 | Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge | 28 January 1996 | Tony Soper | Polar bear, narwhal, guillemots |
| 4 | Fifi's Boys: a Story of Wild Chimpanzees | 4 February 1996 | Bernard Cribbins, Jane Goodall | Chimpanzee |
| 5 | Last Feast of the Crocodiles | 7 February 1996 | John Shrapnel | Crocodile, baboon, hippopotamus |
| 6 | Rhythms of Life | 11 February 1996 | | Influence of the Sun and Moon on life |
| 7 | Lions: Pride in Peril | 18 February 1996 | David Attenborough, John Sparks | Masai lion |
| 8 | Monsoon | 25 February 1996 | | Indian Monsoon |
| 9 | Crossroads of Nancite | 3 March 1996 | Andrew Sachs | Crocodile, monkey, coyote, turtle |
| 10 | Bowerbird: Playboy of the Australian Forest | 17 March 1996 | Barry Paine | Satin bowerbird, Australian brushturkey, echidna |
| 11 | Hightops of Scotland | 24 March 1996 | | Deer, hare, rock ptarmigan |
| 12 | Attenborough in Paradise | 8 April 1996 | David Attenborough | Bird-of-paradise |

## Series 15

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Sperm Whales: Back from the Abyss | 6 October 1996 | David Attenborough | Sperm whale |
| 2 | Mara Nights | 13 October 1996 | Andrew Sachs | |
| 3 | Penguins In and Out of Water | 20 October 1996 | Tony Soper | Penguin |
| 4 | Mandrills: Painted Faces of the Forest | 27 October 1996 | John Shrapnel | Mandrill |
| 5 | Beetlemania | 3 November 1996 | Thomas Eisner | Beetle |
| 6 | The World in a Wood | 10 November 1996 | | |
| 7 | Himalaya | 17 November 1996 | John Shrapnel | Red panda, snow leopard, Himalayan monal |
| 8 | Wolves and Buffalo: an Ancient Alliance | 19 January 1997 | Jeff Turner | American bison, gray wolf |
| 9 | Benguela and the Burning Shore | 26 January 1997 | Tim Pigott-Smith | |
| 10 | A Lemur's Tale | 2 February 1997 | Zoë Wanamaker | Ring-tailed lemur |
| 11 | Grand Canyon: From Dinosaurs to Dam | 16 February 1997 | Tim Pigott-Smith | |
| 12 | Wings over the Serengeti | 23 February 1997 | Ian Holm | Vulture |
| 13 | New Guinea: an Island Apart | 2 March 1997 | Tim Pigott-Smith | |
| 14 | The Wild Dog's Last Stand | 9 March 1997 | Barry Paine | African wild dog |
| 15 | Postcards from the Past | 16 March 1997 | Anna Grayson | Scorpion, Neanderthal |
| 16 | People of the Sea | 30 March 1997 | Shane Mahoney | |
| 17 | Echo of the Elephants: Africa's forgotten Elephants | 6 April 1997 | David Attenborough, Cynthia Moss | African bush elephant, African forest elephant |

## Series 16

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Puma, Lion of the Andes | 19 October 1997 | Tim Pigott-Smith | Puma |
| 2 | The Temple Troop | 26 October 1997 | Roshan Seth | Toque macaque |
| 3 | Denali: the Great Alaskan Wilderness | 2 November 1997 | Miranda Richardson | |
| 4 | Jungle Nights | 9 November 1997 | Tim Pigott-Smith | Jaguar, margay, kinkajou, ocelot, bat, frog |
| 5 | Paracas and the Billion Dollar Birds | 16 November 1997 | Ian Holm | Pelican, booby, guanay cormorant, penguin, sea lion |
| 6 | Komodo Dragon | 23 November 1997 | John Shrapnel | Komodo dragon |
| 7 | At the Edge of the Sea | 30 November 1997 | Gareth Armstrong | Acorn barnacle, mussel |
| 8 | Beyond the Naked Eye | 7 December 1997 | | |
| 9 | On the Path of the Reindeer | 21 December 1997 | Geoffrey Palmer | Reindeer |
| 10 | The Secret Garden | 27 December 1997 | Patricia Routledge | |
| 11 | The Dragons of Galapagos | 18 January 1998 | David Attenborough | Iguana |
| 12 | Three Monkeys | 25 January 1998 | Emily Richard | Howler monkey, red-faced spider monkey, white-headed capuchin |
| 13 | Borneo: Island in the Clouds | 1 February 1998 | John Shrapnel | Proboscis monkey, Borneo elephant, Sumatran rhinoceros, orangutan |
| 14 | Oman: Jewel of Arabia | 15 February 1998 | Ian McShane | |
| 15 | The Lost Lands of Scilly | 22 February 1998 | Tim Pigott-Smith | Grey seal, great black-backed gull, lesser white-toothed shrew |
| 16 | Fire and Ice: an Icelandic Saga | 1 March 1998 | Magnus Magnusson | Arctic fox, puffin, skua |
| 17 | Metropolis | 8 March 1998 | Nigel Hawthorne | Falcon, raccoon, horseshoe crab |
| 18 | The Otters of Yellowstone | 15 March 1998 | Tom Baker | North American river otter, coyote |
| 19 | The Forbidden Fruit | 22 March 1998 | James Grout | |

## Series 17

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | South Georgia: an Island All Alone | 11 October 1998 | David Attenborough | |
| 2 | Capybara: Swamp Hogs | 18 October 1998 | Stephen Fry | Capybara |
| 3 | Secret Sharks | 25 October 1998 | Christian Rodska, Mike Rutzen | Whale shark, horn shark |
| 4 | Mountain of the Sea | 1 November 1998 | Paul Herzberg | Black eagle, penguin |
| 5 | Orangutans: the High Society | 8 November 1998 | Andrew Sachs | Orangutan |
| 6 | The Fatal Flower | 15 November 1998 | Honor Blackman | Orchid |
| 7 | Vanishing Pools of the Zambezi | 22 November 1998 | Martin Jarvis | African elephant, African buffalo, impala |
| 8 | Manu: Amazon Paradise | 29 November 1998 | Ian Holm | Jaguar, giant otter, sloth, monkey |
| 9 | Impossible Journeys | 6 December 1998 | Peter Jones | |
| 10 | Cheetahs in a Hot Spot | 13 December 1998 | Veronika Hyks | Cheetah |
| 11 | Dolphins: the Wild Side | 17 January 1999 | Ian Holm | Dolphin |
| 12 | Year of the Jackal | 24 January 1999 | Eleanor Bron | Jackal |
| 13 | Everglades: to Hell and Back | 31 January 1999 | Tim Pigott-Smith | |
| 14 | The Man-Eaters of Tsavo | 28 February 1999 | Art Malik | Masai lion |
| 15 | Tough Ducks | 21 February 1999 | Bill Oddie | Duck |
| 16 | Islands of the Vampire Birds | 14 March 1999 | David Attenborough | Vampire finch |
| 17 | The Farm that Time Forgot | 21 March 1999 | Jonathan Dimbleby | |
| 18 | Iran: Secrets of the North | 28 March 1999 | John Shrapnel | |

## Series 18

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Riddle of the Right Whale | 3 October 1999 | | Right whale |
| 2 | Hokkaido: Garden of the Gods | 10 October 1999 | John Hurt | Crane, brown bear, eagle |
| 3 | Elephants of the Sand River | 17 October 1999 | | African elephant |
| 4 | In the Company of Bears | 24 October 1999 | Miranda Richardson | American black bear |
| 5 | The Millennium Oak | 30 December 1999 | Tom Baker | English oak, common raven |
| 6 | Wild Indonesia: Island Castaways | 23 January 2000 | John Lynch | Komodo dragon, tree kangaroo |
| 7 | Wild Indonesia: Underwater Wonderland | 30 January 2000 | John Lynch | Barracuda, manta ray |
| 8 | Wild Indonesia: Magical Forests | 6 February 2000 | John Lynch | Sumatran elephant, flying fox |
| 9 | The Tiger's Tale | 20 February 2000 | Meera Syal | Bengal tiger |
| 10 | The Wolf's Return | 8 May 2000 | Karen Archer, Paul Young | Gray wolf |
| 11 | Monkey Warriors | 15 May 2000 | | Monkey |
| 12 | Dangerous Australians | 22 May 2000 | | Redback spider, Australian funnel-web spider |
| 13 | Crater: Africa's Predator Paradise | 5 June 2000 | John Hannah | Wildebeest |
| 14 | Salmon: The Silver Tide | 19 June 2000 | Denis Lawson | Salmon |
| 15 | Claws | 10 July 2000 | Chris McCalphy | Crab |
| 16 | The Story of an African Wild Dog | ? | | African wild dog |

## Series 19

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Otters in the Stream of Life | 8 October 2000 | Sally Magnusson | European otter, dolphin, shark, whale, puffin |
| 2 | Camels Down Under | 15 October 2000 | | Australian feral camel |
| 3 | Deadly Vipers | 22 October 2000 | Paul Young | Viper |
| 4 | The Tigers' Fortress | 29 October 2000 | Valmik Thapar | Bengal tiger |
| 5 | Big Red Roos | 5 November 2000 | Robert Llewellyn | Red kangaroo |
| 6 | Killer Whales: Up Close and Personal | 19 November 2000 | | Killer whale |
| 7 | Madagascar: Land of Lemurs | 26 November 2000 | | Lemur |
| 8 | Seychelles: Jewels of a Lost Continent | 10 December 2000 | Paul Young | Aldabra giant tortoise, coco de mer |
| 9 | Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction | 17 December 2000 | David Attenborough | Bowerbird |
| 10 | The Last Tusker | 21 January 2001 | | Sri Lankan elephant |
| 11 | Seals: Invaders of the Sea | 28 January 2001 | | Seal |
| 12 | Killer Bees and Magic Trees | 4 February 2001 | Gerald Kastberger | Asian giant honey bee |
| 13 | Hippo Beach | 18 February 2001 | Stephen Fry | Hippopotamus |
| 14 | Timeless Thames | 25 February 2001 | Ian McShane | |
| 15 | Coyote: the Ultimate Survivor? | 18 March 2001 | | Coyote |
| 16 | Transylvania: Living with Predators | 25 March 2001 | Andrew Sachs | Gray wolf, brown bear |
| 17 | Danube Delta: Europe Untamed | 15 April 2001 | | Goose, pelican, beluga sturgeon |
| 18 | Buffalo: The African Boss | 31 July 2001 | | African buffalo |

## Series 20

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | The Lost Elephants of Timbuktu | 7 October 2001 | David Attenborough, Anne Orlando | African elephant |
| 2 | Yellowstone: America's Sacred Wilderness | 14 October 2001 | Paul Schullery | Gray wolf, elk, brown bear |
| 3 | Wild Nights | 21 October 2001 | Simon King | Badger, red fox, owl |
| 4 | Hotel Heliconia | 4 November 2001 | Robert Lindsay | Heliconia, hummingbird, bat, frog, viper, mosquito |
| 5 | Night Stalkers | 18 November 2001 | | Fringe-lipped bat, fruit bat, vampire bat |
| 6 | Treasure Islands | 25 November 2001 | John Nettles | |
| 7 | Leopard Hunters | 2 December 2001 | Andrew Sachs | Leopard |
| 8 | War Wrecks of the Coral Seas | 9 December 2001 | | |
| 9 | The Alps | 16 December 2001 | Andrew Sachs | Brown bear, gray wolf, golden eagle, ibex |
| 10 | A Wild Dog's Story | 20 January 2002 | Tico McNutt | African wild dog |
| 11 | Killer Whales of Monterey Bay | 27 January 2002 | Andrew Sachs | Killer whale |
| 12 | The Canine Conspiracy | 24 February 2002 | Richard Briers | Domestic dog |
| 13 | The Cat Connection | 3 March 2002 | Charles Dance | Domestic cat |
| 14 | Top Bat | 10 March 2002 | Mike Gunton, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rebecca Hosking | Vampire bat |
| 15 | Amazon: Super River | 17 March 2002 | | Piranha |
| 16 | Rhinos: Built to Last? | 24 March 2002 | Robert Lindsay | Rhinoceros |

## Series 21

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Meerkats: Part of the Team | 13 October 2002 | Simon King | Meerkat |
| 2 | Danger in Tiger Paradise | 20 October 2002 | Valmik Thapar | Bengal tiger |
| 3 | Falklands: Flying Devils | 27 October 2002 | Jane Watson, Mark Smith | Striated Caracara |
| 4 | The Crossing | 3 November 2002 | | Zebra, wildebeest, gazelle, crocodile, lion |
| 5 | Death Trap | 17 November 2002 | John Nettles | Whale, seal, shark, brown bear, bald eagle, fish |
| 6 | My Halcyon River | 24 November 2002 | Charlie Hamilton James, John James | European otter, European mink, common kingfisher, mayfly, trout, moorhen, mallard |
| 7 | Killer Ants | 1 December 2002 | | African driver ant, jack jumper ant |
| 8 | A Life with Cougars | 15 December 2002 | Jeff Turner, Sue Turner | Cougar |
| 9 | Cats Under the Serengeti Stars | 1 January 2003 | Charlotte Rampling | Caracal, hyena |
| 10 | Wild Women of Viramba | 15 January 2003 | John Shrapnel, Holly Carroll | Yellow baboon |
| 11 | Killer Bees: Taming the Swarm | 19 January 2003 | | Africanized honey bee |
| 12 | Highgrove: A Prince's Legacy | 26 January 2003 | David Attenborough | |
| 13 | Flying Home | 2 February 2003 | John Peel | Whooping crane |
| 14 | The Elephant, The Emperor and Butterfly Tree | 2 March 2003 | Mark Strickson | African elephant, emperor moth, mopane |
| 15 | Indonesia, Fire Islands | 30 March 2003 | Anthony Valentine | |

## Series 22

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Lost Crocodiles of the Pharaohs | 12 October 2003 | Sean Pertwee | Nile crocodile |
| 2 | Elephant Cave | 19 October 2003 | Kenneth Cranham | African elephant |
| 3 | White Shark/Red Triangle | 31 October 2003 | Bert Pence | Great white shark, elephant seal |
| 4 | Tigers of the Emerald Forest | 16 November 2003 | Raghu Chundawat, Joanna Van Gruisen | Bengal tiger |
| 5 | Dune | 23 November 2003 | Brian Cox | |
| 6 | The Monkey Prince | 30 November, 2003 | Kristin Scott Thomas | Monkey |
| 7 | Five Owl Farm | 7 December 2003 | Robert Hardy | Barn owl, little owl, long-eared owl, short-eared owl, tawny owl |
| 8 | The Eagle Has Landed | 2 January 2004 | | Osprey, red kite, sea eagle |
| 9 | Swamp Cats | 9 January 2004 | Jeremy Northam | Lion |
| 10 | Caribou and Wolves: The Endless Dance | 16 January 2004 | Jeff Turner | Caribou, wolf |
| 11 | Missing... Presumed Eaten | 23 January 2004 | Sean Barrett | Crocodile |
| 12 | A Moose Named Madeline | 8 February 2004 | Richard E. Grant | Moose |
| 13 | The Amber Time Machine | 15 February 2004 | David Attenborough | Bee, midge, long-legged fly, thunder gnat, aphid, ant, mite, giant bean tree, balted tree, seaburn tree, nazareno tree, palm, stingless bee, assassin bug, tadpole, marsh beetle, diving beetle, poison dart frog, bromelia, damselfly, bamboo, minuet worm, fig, fig wasp, nematodes, scale insect, theropod dinosaur |
| 14 | Five Big Cats and a Camera | 22 February 2004 | David Attenborough | Cheetah, leopard, serval, caracal, lion |
| 15 | Ice Age Death Trap | 29 February 2004 | Sean Barrett | Saber-toothed cat, dire wolf, short-faced bear, Columbian mammoth, American mastodon, giant ground sloths, Camelops, Harlan's ground sloth, American lion, ancient bison, Hagerman horse, Teratornis |
| 16 | Ireland: Sculpted Isle | 14 March 2004 | Fergal Keane | |
| 17 | Wolf Pack | 28 March 2004 | Sean Pertwee | Gray wolf |
| 18 | Lion: Out of Africa? | 11 April 2004 | Jonathan Scott | Asian lion, domestic cow |

## Series 23

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Cheetahs: Fast Track to Freedom | 14 October 2004 | Simon King | Cheetah |
| 2 | Norfolk Broads: The Fall and Rise of a Great Swamp | 21 October 2004 | Dan Snow | Avocet, marsh harrier, crane |
| 3 | Desert Wolves of India | 28 October 2004 | ? ( Produced by Mike Birkhead) | Indian wolf |
| 4 | Typhoon Island | 18 November 2004 | Sean Pertwee | |
| 5 | Mississippi: Tales of the Last River Rat | 25 November 2004 | Kenny Salwey | Beaver, snapping turtle, sturgeon, pelican, eagle |
| 6 | Hammerhead | 2 December 2004 | Ian Holm | Hammerhead shark |
| 7 | The Wild Wood | 9 December 2004 | Philippa Forrester | Eurasian sparrowhawk, red fox, buzzard |
| 8 | Andes: The Dragon's Back | 16 December 2004 | Steven Berkoff | Flamingo, puma, penguin |
| 9 | Land of the Falling Lakes | 5 January 2005 | John Shrapnel | Brown bear, lynx, gray wolf, salamander |
| 10 | Echo of the Elephants: The Final Chapter? | 19 January 2005 | David Attenborough, Cynthia Moss | African elephant |
| 11 | Shark Coast | 26 January 2005 | David Attenborough | Pyjama shark, leopard catshark |
| 12 | Serengeti 24 | 3 February 2005 | Michael Praed | Cheetah |
| 13 | Secrets of the Maya Underworld | 9 February 2005 | Simon MacCorkindale | |
| 14 | A Boy Among Polar Bears | 15 February 2005 | Sean Pertwee, Jobie Weetalluktuk | Seal, narwhal, polar bear |

## Series 24

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | The Orangutan King | 19 October 2005 | Paul McGann | Orangutan |
| 2 | Eagle Island | 26 October 2005 | Gordon Buchanan | Sea eagle, golden eagle, otter, seal, dolphin, whale, shark |
| 3 | The Queen of Trees | 2 November 2005 | Ian Holm | Sycamore fig, fig wasp |
| 4 | King Cobra...and I | 9 November 2005 | Romulus Whitaker | King cobra |
| 5 | Return of the Eagle Owl | 16 November 2005 | Roy Dennis | Eagle owl |
| 6 | Cuba: Wild Island of the Caribbean | 23 November 2005 | Christian Rodska | Bee hummingbird, purple land crab and other land crabs, Cuban crocodile, sea turtle, iguana, Caribbean reef shark, Cuban hutia, Cuban parrot, turkey vulture, Cuban trogon, Cuban woodpecker, Cuban trama |
| 7 | Flying with Condors | 30 November 2005 | Judy Leden | Andean condor |
| 8 | Ella: A Meerkat's Tale | 7 December 2005 | Amanda Root | Meerkat |
| 9 | Wild Harvest | 14 December 2005 | Philippa Forrester | Lapwing, skylark, dormouse, barn owl |
| 10 | Australia: Taking the Heat | 28 December 2005 | Jeremy Northam | Red kangaroo, frog, koala |
| 11 | Penguins of the Antarctic | 11 January 2006 | Steven Berkoff | Penguin |
| 12 | Portillo Goes Wild in Spain | 18 January 2006 | Michael Portillo | Lynx, brown bear, vulture, bee-eater, killer whale |
| 13 | Ant Attack | 25 January 2006 | Andrew Sachs | African driver ant |
| 14 | Stalking the Jaguar | 1 February 2006 | Owen Newman, Amanda Barrett | Jaguar, caiman, peccary, capybara, domestic cow |
| 15 | Big Sky Bears | 8 February 2006 | Jeremy Northam | American black bear |
| 16 | The Iceberg That Sank the Titanic | 1 March 2006 | John Lynch | |
| 17 | Bonobo: Missing in Action | 8 March 2006 | Frances White | Bonobo |
| 18 | Satoyama, Japan's Secret Water Garden | 27 July 2006 | David Attenborough | |

## Series 25

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | The Last Lions of India | 18 October 2006 | Dilly Barlow | Asiatic lion |
| 2 | On the Trail of Tarka | 25 October 2006 | John James, Philippa Forrester | European otter |
| 3 | Eye for an Elephant | 1 November 2006 | Martyn Colbeck | African elephant |
| 4 | The Bear Man of Kamchatka | 8 November 2006 | Jeff Turner, Charlie Russell | Brown bear |
| 5 | The Falls of Iguacu | 15 November 2006 | Hugh Quarshie | Toucan, capuchin monkey, jaguar, coati, swift |
| 6 | Africa's Desert Garden | 9 January 2007 | Alan Titchmarsh | |
| 7 | Toki's Tale | 4 April 2007 | Simon King | Cheetah |
| 8 | Battle To Save the Tiger | 11 April 2007 | David Attenborough | Bengal tiger |
| 9 | Buddha, Bees and the Giant Hornet Queen | 25 April 2007 | Geraldine James | Asian giant hornet, bee |
| 10 | Hawaii: Message in the Waves | 2 May 2007 | Iokepa Naeole | Turtle, dolphin, monk seal, albatross |
| 11 | Invasion of the Crocodiles | 9 May 2007 | Sam Hazeldine, Adam Britton | Saltwater crocodile |
| 12 | The Bloodhound and the Beardie | 16 May 2007 | Adrian Edmondson | Bloodhound, Bearded Collie |
| 13 | Saving Our Seabirds | 23 May 2007 | Roy Dennis | Puffin, guillemot, kittiwake, skua |
| 14 | Desert Lions | 30 May 2007 | David Attenborough | Lion |
| 15 | Moose on the Loose | 1 June 2007 | John Simm | Moose |
| 16 | Rainforest for the Future | 6 June 2007 | Jeremy Northam | African elephant, western lowland gorilla, chimpanzee, mandrill |
| 17 | Wye - Voices from the Valley | 13 June 2007 | | |

## Series 26

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Snow Leopard - Beyond the Myth | 4 January 2008 | David Attenborough | Snow leopard |
| 2 | Raising Sancho | 11 January 2008 | Robert Bathurst | Giant otter |
| 3 | Earth Pilgrim - A Year on Dartmoor | 18 January 2008 | Satish Kumar | |
| 4 | Tiger Kill | 25 January 2008 | Simon King | Bengal tiger |
| 5 | White Falcon, White Wolf | 1 February 2008 | Simon Poland | Gyrfalcon, Arctic wolf |
| 6 | Saved by Dolphins | 8 February 2008 | | Dolphin |
| 7 | Badgers - Secrets of the Sett | 15 February 2008 | David Attenborough | European badger |
| 8 | Spacechimp | 22 February 2008 | Jeffrey Schaeffer | Chimpanzee |
| 9 | Elephant Nomads of the Namib Desert | 26 March 2008 | Russell Boulter | African elephant |
| 10 | Lobo: The Wolf that Changed America | 2 April 2008 | David Attenborough | Gray wolf |
| 11 | Reindeer Girls | 9 April 2008 | Stuart McQuarrie | Reindeer |
| 12 | Moose in the Glen | 16 April 2008 | John Hannah | Moose |
| 13 | Naabi - A Hyena Princess | 23 April 2008 | Aicha Kossoko | Spotted hyena |
| 14 | Spectacled Bears - Shadows of the Forest | 6 May 2008 | Stephen Fry | Spectacled bear |
| 15 | Superfish | 14 May 2008 | David Attenborough | Billfish |
| 16 | A Turtle's Guide to the Pacific | 7 August 2008 | Hugh Quarshie | Sea turtle |
| 17 | Jimmy and the wild honey hunters | 10 August 2008 | Jimmy Doherty | |

## Series 27

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Titus: The Gorilla King | 11 November 2008 | Bernard Hill | Mountain gorilla |
| 2 | Whale Shark | 18 November 2008 | Jessica Whittaker | Whale shark |
| 3 | Clever Monkeys | 25 November 2008 | David Attenborough | Monkey |
| 4 | Crocodile Blues | 2 December 2008 | Romulus Whittaker | Gharial |
| 5 | Cork: Forest in a Bottle | 9 December 2008 | Monty Don | Cork oak |
| 6 | Great White Shark - A Living Legend | 2 January 2009 | Peter Firth | Great white shark |
| 7 | Cuckoo | 9 January 2009 | David Attenborough | Common cuckoo |
| 8 | The Mountains of the Monsoon | 16 January 2009 | Sandesh Kadur | |
| 9 | Polar Bears & Grizzlies: Bears on Top of the World | 23 January 2009 | Peter Guinness | Polar bear, brown bear |
| 10 | Man-Eating Tigers of the Sundarbans | 30 January 2009 | Sanjeev Bhaskar | Bengal tiger |
| 11 | Elephants Without Borders | 6 February 2009 | Jeremy Northam | African elephant |
| 12 | Snow Monkeys | 13 February 2009 | Iain Glen | Japanese macaque |
| 13 | Cassowaries | 19 February 2009 | David Attenborough | Cassowary |
| 14 | A Farm for the Future | 20 February 2009 | Rebecca Hosking | |
| 15 | Iron Curtain, Ribbon of Life | 6 March 2009 | Christian Rodska | |
| 16 | Uakari: Secrets of the English Monkey | 26 March 2009 | Jeremy Northam | Red uakari |

## Series 28

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Bearwalker of the Northwoods | 28 October 2009 | Lynn Rogers | American black bear |
| 2 | Victoria Falls - The Smoke that Thunders | 4 November 2009 | Louis Mahoney | African fish eagle, baboon |
| 3 | Andrea - Queen of Mantas | 11 November 2009 | Alisdair Simpson | Manta ray |
| 4 | Black Mamba, White Witch | 19 November 2009 | Lenny Henry | Black mamba |
| 5 | Bringing Up Baby - The Natural History of a Mother's Love | 26 November 2009 | David Attenborough | Chimpanzee, lion, mouse |
| 6 | A Highland Haven | 3 December 2009 | Fergus Beeley | White-tailed eagle, black-throated diver |
| 7 | Radio Gibbon | 10 December 2009 | Adrian Edmondson | Gibbon |
| 8 | Birds of Paradise | 6 January 2010 | David Attenborough | Bird-of-paradise |
| 9 | The Secret Leopards | 20 January 2010 | Jonathan Scott | Leopard |
| 10 | The Chimpcam Project | 27 January 2010 | Stuart McQuarrie | Chimpanzee |
| 11 | Prairie Dogs - Talk of the Town | 3 February 2010 | Rob Brydon | Prairie dog |
| 12 | The Wild Places of Essex | 10 February 2010 | Robert Macfarlane | Common seal, knot, fallow deer, bearded tit, peregrine falcon, bittern, water vole, bluebell, brent goose |
| 13 | A Killer Whale Called Luna | 24 February 2010 | Michael Parfitt | Killer whale |
| 14 | Forest Elephants - Rumbles in the Jungle | 4 March 2010 | Richard Armitage | African forest elephant |

## Series 29

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | The Monkey-Eating Eagle of the Orinoco | 8 July 2010 | Fergus Fawtly | Harpy eagle |
| 2 | Echo - An Unforgettable Elephant | 5 August 2010 | Martyn Colbeck, Cynthia Moss | African elephant |
| 3 | Sea Otters - A Million Dollar Baby | 12 August 2010 | Bonnie Greer | California sea otter |
| 4 | The Himalayas | 19 August 2010 | David Attenborough | Snow leopard, takin, gray langur, gray wolf, eagle |
| 5 | Africa's Dragon Mountain | 2 September 2010 | Iain Glen | Eland, Cape baboon, Cape vulture, Bearded vulture, Cape jackal |
| 6 | The Dolphins of Shark Bay | 3 November 2010 | Rupert Penry-Jones | Bottlenose dolphin |
| 7 | Panda Makers | 7 December 2010 | David Attenborough | Giant panda |
| 8 | Butterflies: A Very British Obsession | 17 December 2010 | Imelda Staunton | Butterfly |
| 9 | Miracle in the Marshes of Iraq | 18 January 2011 | David Johnson | |
| 10 | Elsa: The Lioness that Changed the World | 1 February 2011 | David Attenborough, Virginia McKenna | Lion |
| 11 | Chimps of the Lost Gorge | 8 February 2011 | Adrian Lester | Chimpanzee |
| 12 | A Tiger Called Broken Tail | 15 February 2011 | Colin Stafford-Johnson | Bengal tiger |
| 13 | One Million Snake Bites | 22 February 2011 | Romulus Whitaker | King cobra, saw-scaled viper, common krait, Russell's viper, Indian cobra, green pit viper |
| 14 | The Last Grizzly of Paradise Valley | 1 March 2011 | Jeff Turner | Brown bear |

## Series 30

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | My Life as a Turkey: Natural World Special | 1 August 2011 | Joe Hutto | Wild turkey |
| 2 | Empire of the Desert Ants | 10 August 2011 | Andy Serkis | Honey ant |
| 3 | Heligan: Secrets of the Lost Gardens | 17 August 2011 | Philippa Forrester | Red fox, common toad |
| 4 | Komodo - Secrets of the Dragon | 24 August 2011 | Peter Capaldi, Bryan Fry | Komodo dragon |
| 5 | The Woman Who Swims with Killer Whales | 31 August 2011 | Ingrid Visser | Killer whale |
| 6 | Animal House | 7 September 2011 | David Attenborough | Various |
| 7 | Jungle Gremlins of Java | 25 January 2012 | Anna Nekaris, Paul McGann | Slow loris |
| 8 | Tiger Dynasty | 1 February 2012 | Amerjit Due | Bengal tiger |
| 9 | Grizzlies of Alaska | 8 March 2012 | Chris Morgan | Brown bear |
| 10 | Madagascar, Lemurs and Spies | 15 March 2012 | David Attenborough, Erik Patel | Silky sifaka, bamboo lemur, pygmy stump-tailed chameleon, helmet vanga, Malagasy paradise flycatcher, common sunbird-asity, Madagascar wagtail, ring-tailed mongoose |
| 11 | Zambezi | 22 March 2012 | James Frain | Hippopotamus, African elephant, water buffalo, zebra |
| 12 | Queen of the Savannah | 29 March 2012 | Tamsin Greig | African honey bee |
| 13 | The Real Jungle Book Bear | 5 April 2012 | David Attenborough, Ivo Nörenberg, Oliver Goetzl | Sloth bear, Indian peafowl, mongoose, Bengal tiger, sambar deer, bonnet macaque, Indian palm squirrel, leopard, Asian elephant, Indian chameleon, painted spurfowl, Indian skipper frog, lesser mouse-tailed bat |
| 14 | The Unnatural History of London | 18 June 2012 | Timothy Spall | Fallow deer, grey seal, European hedgehog, feral pigeon, peregrine falcon, grebe, European herring gull, red fox, red deer, great white pelican, mallard, red-eared slider, rose-ringed parakeet, European yellow-tailed scorpion, red swamp crayfish, signal crayfish, European badger |

## Series 31

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Living with Baboons | 19 July 2012 | David Attenborough, Mat Pines | Hamadryas baboon |
| 2 | Tiger Island: Natural World Special | 26 July 2012 | Paul McGann, Alan Rabinowitz | Sumatran tiger |
| 3 | Queen of Tigers: Natural World Special | 19 October 2012 | Colin Stafford-Johnson | Bengal tiger named Machli |
| 4 | A Wolf Called Storm: Natural World Special | 26 October 2012 | Jeff Turner | Gray wolf |
| 5 | Attenborough's Ark: Natural World Special | 9 November 2012 | David Attenborough | Black lion tamarin, Sumatran rhinoceros, solenodon, olm, marvellous spatuletail, Darwin's frog, pangolin, Priam's birdwing butterfly, northern quoll, Venus' flower basket, cane toad |
| 6 | Jaguars - Born Free: Natural World Special | 21 January 2013 | Zoë Wanamaker | Jaguar |
| 7 | Kangaroo Dundee: Part One | 26 January 2013 | Juliet Stevenson | Kangaroo, wombat, camel, emu |
| 8 | Kangaroo Dundee: Part Two | 2 February 2013 | Juliet Stevenson | Kangaroo, wombat, camel, emu |
| 9 | Giant Otters of the Amazon | 9 February 2013 | Charlie Hamilton James | Giant otter |
| 10 | Flight of the Rhino | 16 February 2013 | Sean Bean | Black rhinoceros |

## Series 32

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Leopards - 21st Century Cats | 17 May 2013 | Romulus Whitaker | Leopard |
| 2 | Giant Squid: Filming The Impossible - Natural World Special | 13 July 2013 | David Attenborough | Giant squid |
| 3 | The Mating Game | 19 July 2013 | David Attenborough | Gorilla, wolf, flamingo, kagu |
| 4 | Sri Lanka - Elephant Island | 9 August 2013 | Martyn Colbeck | Asian elephant |
| 5 | Meet The Monkeys | 6 September 2013 | Colin Stafford-Johnson | Macaques |
| 6 | Orangutans - The Great Ape Escape | 4 October 2013 | Juliet Stevenson | Orangutan |
| 7 | Meerkats - Secrets Of An Animal Superstar | 11 October 2013 | David Attenborough | Meerkat |
| 8 | Walrus - Two Tonne Tusker | 18 October 2013 | Geoffrey Palmer | Pacific walrus |
| 9 | Killer Whales - Beneath The Surface | 25 October 2013 | Alec Newman | Killer whales |
| 10 | Vultures: Beauty in the Beast | 31 January 2014 | Charlie Hamilton James | Vulture |

## Series 33

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Africa's Giant Killers | 11 April 2014 | Imogen Stubbs | African bush elephant, African lion |
| 2 | Honey Badgers: Masters Of Mayhem | 18 April 2014 | Toby Jones | Honey badger |
| 3 | France: The Wild Side | 25 April 2014 | Paul McGann | Wolves, wild boar |
| 4 | Nature's Misfits | 2 May 2014 | Bill Bailey | various |
| 5 | The Pygmy Hippo - A Very Secret Life | 9 May 2014 | David Harewood | Pygmy hippo |
| 6 | The Bat Man Of Mexico | 13 June 2014 | David Attenborough | Lesser long-nosed bat |
| 7 | Penguin Post Office | 24 July 2014 | Juliet Stevenson | Gentoo penguin |
| 8 | Beavers Behaving Badly | 31 July 2014 | Rob Brydon | Beavers |
| 9 | A Bear With A Bounty | 7 August 2014 | Tamsin Greig | Black bear |
| 10 | Attenborough's Fabulous Frogs | 28 August 2014 | David Attenborough | Frogs |

## Series 34

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Africa's Fishing Leopards | 24 February 2015 | David Attenborough | Leopards |
| 2 | Super-Powered Owls | 3 March 2015 | Paul McGann | Owls |
| 3 | Galapagos: Islands of Change | 10 March 2015 | David Attenborough | Various |
| 4 | Growing Up Wild | 26 March 2015 | David Tennant | Tiger, mountain gorilla, polar bear |
| 5 | Iceland - Land of Ice and Fire | 1 May 2015 | Juliet Stevenson | Arctic fox, eider duck |
| 6 | Attenborough's Big Birds | 16 June 2015 | David Attenborough | Ostriches, kiwis |
| 7 | Mountain Lions: Big Cats in High Places | 23 June 2015 | David Attenborough | Mountain lions |
| 8 | Ireland's Wild River - The Mighty Shannon | 16 July 2015 | Colin Stafford-Johnson | River Shannon, kingfishers, red squirrels, pike |
| 9 | Ghost Bear Family | 23 July 2015 | Jeff Turner | Kermode bear |
| 10 | Return of the Giant Killers - Africa's Lion Kings | 19 August 2015 | Imogen Stubbs | Lion |

## Series 35

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Jungle Animal Hospital | 14 April 2016 | John Hannah | Spider monkey, scarlet macaw |
| 2 | Nature's Perfect Partners | 19 May 2016 | Bill Bailey | Various |
| 3 | Meet the Moose Family | 28 April 2016 | Hugo Kitching | Moose |
| 4 | Kangaroo Dundee and Other Animals Part I | 5 May 2016 | Juliet Stevenson | Camel, wombat, emu and kangaroo |
| 5 | Kangaroo Dundee and Other Animals Part II | 12 May 2016 | Juliet Stevenson | Camel, wombat, emu and kangaroo |
| 6 | Giraffes - Africa's Gentle Giants | 23 June 2016 | David Attenborough | Giraffe |
| 7 | My Congo | 7 September 2016 | Vianet Djenguet | Chimpanzees, elephants, gorillas |
| 8 | Jaguars - Brazil's Super Cats | 14 September 2016 | David Attenborough | Jaguar |
| 9 | Cheetahs: Growing Up Fast | 2 February 2017 | David Attenborough | Cheetah |

## Series 36

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Puerto Rico: Island of Enchantment | 20 March 2017 | David Attenborough | Manatees, iguaca, turtles |
| 2 | Hotel Armadillo | 7 April 2017 | David Attenborough | Giant armadillo |
| 3 | Nature's Wildest Weapons: Horns, Tusks and Antlers | 18 April 2017 | Nina Sosanya | Various |
| 4 | Nature's Miniature Miracles | 15 May 2017 | Hugh Dennis | Various |
| 5 | Supercharged Otters | 20 June 2017 | Charlie Hamilton James | Otter |
| 6 | Sudan: The Last Of The Rhinos | 28 June 2017 | David Harewood | Northern white rhinoceros |
| 7 | H is for Hawk: A New Chapter | 19 October 2017 | Helen Macdonald | Goshawk |
| 8 | Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants | 28 December 2017 | David Attenborough | Ant |

## Series 37

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Attenborough's Wonder of Eggs | 31 March 2018 | David Attenborough | Various |
| 2 | Nature's Biggest Beasts | 19 April 2018 | Miles Jupp | Various |
| 3 | Super Fast Falcon | 26 April 2018 | Peter Capaldi | Peregrine falcon |
| 4 | Red Ape: Saving the Orangutan | 10 May 2018 | Ivanno Jeremiah | Orangutan |
| 5 | Pangolins - The World's Most Wanted Animal | 15 May 2018 | David Attenborough | Pangolin |
| 6 | The Super Squirrels | 19 June 2018 | Olivia Colman | Squirrels |
| 7 | Humpback Whales: A Detective Story | 8 February 2019 | | Humpback whale |
| 8 | Tasmania: Weird and Wonderful | 31 March 2019 | David Attenborough | Various |

## Series 38

| Episode | Title | Original air date | Presenter/narrator | Principal species featured |
| 1 | Florida: America's Animal Paradise | 7 April 2019 | Paul McGann | Gopher tortoise, Red-cockaded woodpecker, Florida manatee, American alligator, Florida panther, Burmese python, Key deer, Swallow-tailed kite |
| 2 | Hippos: Africa's River Giants | 26 July 2019 | David Attenborough | Hippopotamus |
| 3 | The Octopus In My House | 22 August 2019 | David Scheel | Day octopus |
| 4 | Weasels: Feisty and Fearless | 25 October 2019 | Julie Walters | Mustelidae |
| 5 | Meet the Bears | 4 November 2019 | Hugh Bonneville | Bear |
| 6 | Tigers: Hunting the Traffickers | 4 March 2020 | Aldo Kane | Tiger |
| 7 | Wild Cuba: A Caribbean Journey - Part 1 | 6 March 2020 | Colin Stafford-Johnson | Various |
| 8 | Wild Cuba: A Caribbean Journey - Part 2 | 13 March 2020 | Colin Stafford-Johnson | Various |
| 9 | Super Powered Eagles | 20 March 2020 | Alec Newman | Golden Eagle |

## Footnotes

* ↑ Cameraman Hugh Miles won an Emmy Award (Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Cinematographers) for this episode.