Dangerous Encounters

All Episodes 2005 - 2012
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  • 2005-05-28T01:00:00Z
  • 1h
  • 1d 9h (33 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
Which of the most feared predators on the planet packs the most powerful bite? Expert Brady Barr finds out. As National Geographic’s resident herpetologist, Dr Barr is the first person to ever capture and study all 23 species of crocodilians in the wild. With one-third of all crocodile species endangered, Dr Barr’s extraordinary achievement brings much needed attention to their plight. Dr Barr made worldwide headlines last year when he wore a custom-designed crocodile suit to get up close and personal with these cold-blooded denizens of the Nile. This year, he’s gone one step further, creating a life-like hippo suit to get close enough to these deadly African giants to scrape the sweat off their backs.

39 episodes

2009-01-18T02:00:00Z

Special 3 Slimy Monsters

Special 3 Slimy Monsters

  • 2009-01-18T02:00:00Z1h

Brady Barr searches for giant salamanders in Minnesota, Japan and the Florida Everglades.

2009-06-21T01:00:00Z

Special 6 Venomland

Special 6 Venomland

  • 2009-06-21T01:00:00Z1h

The host studies Australia's most lethal creatures, including the Sydney funnel-web spider; the Irukandji jellyfish; and the duck-billed platypus.

Season Premiere

2005-05-28T01:00:00Z

2005x01 Bite Force

Season Premiere

2005x01 Bite Force

  • 2005-05-28T01:00:00Z1h

Reptile expert Brady Barr sets out to measure the bone-crushing capacity of a wild Nile crocodile whose jaws may be the most powerful on earth.

2005-05-28T01:00:00Z

2005x02 Countdown Croc

2005x02 Countdown Croc

  • 2005-05-28T01:00:00Z1h

The False Gharial of Borneo, the Chinese Alligator and the Philippine Crocodile are incredibly shy creatures. Merely seeing one in the wild is rare, but catching one? Brady Barr faces his toughest assignment yet.

2005-08-19T01:00:00Z

2005x03 Super Snakes

2005x03 Super Snakes

  • 2005-08-19T01:00:00Z1h

National Geographic reptile expert Brady Barr is on the trail of a mysterious beast some say is a dinosaur, a brontosaurus-like creature reminiscent of Scotland's Loch Ness monster. Brady's research pays off in a face-to-face encounter.

Season Finale

2005-08-19T01:00:00Z

2005x04 Dens Of Danger

Season Finale

2005x04 Dens Of Danger

  • 2005-08-19T01:00:00Z1h

NGC herpetologist Brady Barr searches for the dens of the most deadly animals: Chinese alligators, American black bears, snakes in South Africa and sharks off Maui's coast.

Season Premiere

2006-12-26T02:00:00Z

2006x01 Deadliest Snakes

Season Premiere

2006x01 Deadliest Snakes

  • 2006-12-26T02:00:00Z1h

Herpetologist Brady Barr examines seven of the planet's most dangerous and venomous snakes to determine which is the deadliest. Included: king cobras; black mambas.

Season Premiere

2007-02-17T02:00:00Z

2007x01 Closest Encounters

Season Premiere

2007x01 Closest Encounters

  • 2007-02-17T02:00:00Z1h

Reptile expert Brady Barr designs a unique protective suit that will allow him to work closely with unrestrained crocodiles in Tanzania. But first, he tests the suit on other animals like grizzly bears, wolves and rodeo bulls.

2007-02-17T02:00:00Z

2007x02 Undercover Croc

2007x02 Undercover Croc

  • 2007-02-17T02:00:00Z1h

Reptile expert Brady Barr heads to Tanzania to test a specially designed suit that will allow him to approach Nile crocodiles. Will it pass the test?

2007-05-15T01:00:00Z

2007x03 Monster Crocs

2007x03 Monster Crocs

  • 2007-05-15T01:00:00Z1h

NGC reptile expert Brady Barr goes in search of the biggest wild crocodile. A specially designed laser device with a built-in HD camera let's Brady measure these huge creatures.

2007-05-15T01:00:00Z

2007x04 Bite Force (2)

2007x04 Bite Force (2)

  • 2007-05-15T01:00:00Z1h

2007-10-15T01:00:00Z

2007x05 Snake Bite

2007x05 Snake Bite

  • 2007-10-15T01:00:00Z1h

Dr. Brady Barr is bitten by a large python while filming in a partially underwater snake cave on an island in Indonesia.

Season Premiere

2008-01-21T02:00:00Z

2008x01 Undercover Hippo

Season Premiere

2008x01 Undercover Hippo

  • 2008-01-21T02:00:00Z1h

NGC herpetologist Brady Barr dons a specially designed 200-pound Kevlar suit covered in hippo dung and mud on a mission to extract sweat from a wild hippo.

2008-01-27T02:00:00Z

2008x02 Dragon Hunt

2008x02 Dragon Hunt

  • 2008-01-27T02:00:00Z1h

NGC herpetologist Brady Barr tracks the Komodo dragon, a fierce predator with razor-sharp teeth that can consume 80 percent of its body weight in a single meal.

2008-03-04T02:00:00Z

2008x03 A Life Captured

2008x03 A Life Captured

  • 2008-03-04T02:00:00Z1h

Highlights from some of Dr. Brady Barr's greatest adventures are featured.

2008-06-11T01:00:00Z

2008x04 Blind Croc Mystery

2008x04 Blind Croc Mystery

  • 2008-06-11T01:00:00Z1h

Something is blinding American Crocodiles living in Costa Ricas Tarcoles River and Brady Barr is on the case. What could be causing this devastating condition? Turns out-- the Tarcoles River is one of the most polluted waterways in South America. Could deadly pollutants be the smoking gun or is something even more sinister at work?

Season Premiere

2009-01-04T02:00:00Z

2009x01 Jurassic Shark

Season Premiere

2009x01 Jurassic Shark

  • 2009-01-04T02:00:00Z1h

Plunging to extreme ocean depths, braving frigid waters, and dodging razor sharp teeth, Brady Barr is on a quest to get close up to one of the worlds most mysterious, deep-sea sharks- the giant sixgill shark.

2009-01-11T02:00:00Z

2009x02 Croc Crisis

2009x02 Croc Crisis

  • 2009-01-11T02:00:00Z1h

Journey to Kruger National Park with Dr. Brady Barr and discover how rising water levels in the Olifants River are threatening the largest concentration of Nile Crocodiles in Southern Africa.

Typically they fit in the palm of your hand, but some salamanders grow to human-sized proportions. To determine the king of all salamanders, Dr. Brady Barr goes in search of the "big four" of giant salamanders.

2009x04 Return to the Python Cave

  • 2009-01-25T02:00:00Z1h

Cave ins, flash floods, bats and noxious levels of carbon dioxide couldnt keep National Geographic Herpetologist Dr Brady Barr from his quest for a twenty-foot python. Not even the memory of the traumatic bite from a 12-foot python could keep him away. This time he prepares himself for the dangers that lie in the cave with a visit to Bracken Cave in Texas home to 20 million bats that raise the carbon dioxide levels treacherously high with every exhale, not to mention their guano. Then Bradys back in Indonesia, dodging deadly vipers, trudging through waist deep guano and heading into the cave where he was bitten a year ago in search of a monster python. Hes going deeper, braving the dangers of the cave and using new techniques to try to capture one of the biggest snakes he has ever captured in his career.

2009-06-14T01:00:00Z

2009x05 Wild Hog Invasion

2009x05 Wild Hog Invasion

  • 2009-06-14T01:00:00Z1h

Dr. Brady Barr steps out of his element to study a barnyard animal that's turned into an invader - the feral hog. With a bite force as strong as a wolf's, and a tendency to reproduce like rabbits, these hogs have become an epidemic problem.

2009-06-21T01:00:00Z

2009x06 Deadly Australia

2009x06 Deadly Australia

  • 2009-06-21T01:00:00Z1h

Australia is home to some of the most venomous creatures on the planet. In fact, there are more toxic animals per square foot here than anywhere else. What is it about this place? To find out, Dr. Brady Barr teams up with local experts to come face to face with seven deadly creatures and uncover the how and why behind their lethal punch. In countdown format, Brady will rank each animal in four categories: venom, attitude, chance of contact, and death toll. Which animal will he crown the number one venomous culprit in Australia?

2009-10-25T01:00:00Z

2009x07 Instant Death

2009x07 Instant Death

  • 2009-10-25T01:00:00Z1h

Classic ambush predators like crocs and snakes use camouflage and speed to capture their prey - sometimes faster than the blink of an eye. How do they do it? To find out, Dr. Brady Barr goes head-to-head with some of the most dangerous ambush predators on the planet. Hell trigger their strikes and film them on high-speed video. Then hell slow down those strikes, calculate exactly how fast they come at him, and deconstruct their movements to learn the biomechanics of how these ambush predators strike to kill. Brady will compare the strikes of animals like the rattlesnake, crocs, cheetahs, the slingjaw wrasse, and the mantis shrimp, and then hell perform cutting-edge reaction-time tests to find out if he stands a chance of avoiding the strike of an ambush killer.

Season Premiere

2010-03-07T02:00:00Z

2010x01 The Wild West

Season Premiere

2010x01 The Wild West

  • 2010-03-07T02:00:00Z1h

A look at wildlife in the American West, including pumas; western diamondback rattlesnakes; bison; and golden eagles.

2010-06-02T01:00:00Z

2010x02 Speed Kills

2010x02 Speed Kills

  • 2010-06-02T01:00:00Z1h

A look at ambush predators that use speed to capture their prey. Included: snakes; crocodiles.

2010-06-09T01:00:00Z

2010x03 Barr v. Bear

2010x03 Barr v. Bear

  • 2010-06-09T01:00:00Z1h

The host tracks brown bears and polar bears.

2010-06-16T01:00:00Z

2010x04 Shocking

2010x04 Shocking

  • 2010-06-16T01:00:00Z1h

The host studies electric eels in the Central Suriname Nature Preserve in South America.

2010-06-16T01:00:00Z

2010x05 Cannibal Squid

2010x05 Cannibal Squid

  • 2010-06-16T01:00:00Z1h

Huge Humboldt squid, up to six feet long, are expanding into thousands of square miles of new territory, threatening commercial fisheries, and reportedly attacking divers! Yet we know almost nothing about them. Brady collaborates with researchers to undertake a high-risk mission to capture a squid unharmed, and attach National Geographics state-of-the-art Crittercam.

The host tracks brown bears in the Alaskan rain forest.

Season Finale

2010-11-20T02:00:00Z

2010x08 Electric Eel

Season Finale

2010x08 Electric Eel

  • 2010-11-20T02:00:00Z1h

The host visits Suriname to study electric eels and hopefully identify a new species.

2010x09 Robo Snake

  • no air date1h

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Season Premiere

2012-08-23T01:00:00Z

2012x01 Backyard Monsters Raging Bulls

Season Premiere

2012x01 Backyard Monsters Raging Bulls

  • 2012-08-23T01:00:00Z1h

Brady Barr wants to discover what the American bovines are capable of and to understand why they can be so dangerous.

Dr. Brady Barr responds to animal nuisance calls with some of the most notorious pet threat offenders.

Every year, we push deeper and deeper into the wild, creating havoc for other species. But some are turning the tables - making their living not only in spite of us, but off of us. Every night, they raid our suburbs, our dumpsters, even our homes, and find more and more ingenious ways to turn our food - into theirs. Dr. Brady Barr is on the hunt to track down these animals, discover their unique abilities, and test a few theories that just might keep them from becoming backyard bandits.

Dr. Brady Barr plunges into the turquoise waters in search of nurse sharks, sting rays and other beasts of the beach.

Dr. Brady Barr is on a mission to find the alligator snapping turtle, one of the largest freshwater turtles in the world.

Season Finale

2012x06 Phantom Killer

  • no air date1h

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