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Wildlife shorts. In this aerial encounter Steve gets airborne, paragliding with the incredible black eagle. Unlike the eagle, Steve comes down to earth with a bump.
The Deadly 60 crew are on a mission to find our closest cousins, the chimpanzees. Steve catches up with them early one morning as they feast in a fig tree, before trying to follow them on foot through the deep forest.
Steve and the crew are high up in the Virunga Mountains, spending an hour with huge mountain gorillas. One cheeky black back tries to show Steve who is the boss.
Steve heads to a research station in Norway, where he gets up close and personal with a group of his favourite animals - wolves. This pack might be used to people but they are certainly not tame, as Steve finds out. All ends well when Steve ends up howling with the pack.
On a tiny island in the Philippines, Steve has one of the closest encounters he has had with any animal as he literally goes nose-to-nose with a monitor lizard. He then entices it up a tree and even gets the lizard to show its skill underwater.
Steve is in Thailand in search of one of the world's deadliest climbers, the tokay gecko. With its ability to cling effortlessly to vertical surfaces and lunge at moths that stray too close, Steve attempts to demonstrate its hunting abilities by scaling a nearby building.
Steve and his trusty crew explore the Argentinean marshes, cowboy-style, and Steve goes fishing with a spectacled caiman to investigate whether these ancient reptiles truly deserve their deadly reputation. He quickly learns that they do.
Adventurer Steve Backshall heads to the awesome flooded rainforests of the Amazon. It all kicks off in a flash when the crew spot a group of rare giant otters before they have even unpacked their cameras.
In this truly unbelievable encounter Steve kayaks with killer whales, but even he gets the surprise of his life when a whole group of them start breaching all around him.
Deep into the Costa Rican jungle, Steve comes face-to-face with one of his favourite deadly predators, an eyelash pit viper. The crew set up an experiment that shows just how fast their strike can be. Filmed in super slo-mo, the snake strikes at a water-filled balloon, and even Steve is surprised at the result.
Madagascar is crammed with some of the strangest creatures on the planet. Top of Steve's wish list is the rare and mysterious aye-aye. At a breeding centre Steve has a super spooky experience when he gets to meet this extraordinary creature first hand.
It doesn't get deadlier than big game country and the crew are hot on the trail of Africa's big cats. Steve catches up with a pride of lions and witnesses them hunting right before his eyes proving just how deadly lions are.
The Deadly 60 crew take to the water in Mexico's Sea of Cortez in search of a monster of the deep; the Humboldt squid. Steve takes no chances and wears chain mail to protect him from the squid's razor-sharp beak and its 16 thousand sucker cup teeth - it turns out to be a very good move.
Steve goes diving with the truly awesome Stellar Sea Lion, an experience he thinks is more dangerous than diving with sharks, and becomes understandably nervous when they start nibbling at his wet suit.
Steve Backshall and the Deadly 60 crew head deep into the jungle to search out the best that Costa Rica has to offer, and down by the river Steve has a battle with a giant reptilian predator: a 3-metre American crocodile.
After the sun goes down in the jungle of the Philippines, the Deadly 60 crew go in search of the elusive and strange tarsier,a lethal pint-sized predator who eats his insect victims head-first. Steve gets to witness its awesome arboreal skills first hand.
Steve and his intrepid crew are in the jungles of Costa Rica. A planned run-in with a giant boa shows him just why they're considered deadly. In one of the most jaw-dropping sequences filmed for Deadly 60, the snake tightens its grip until Steve decides that enough is enough.
Steve is in British Columbia, Canada, coming face-to-face with a giant Pacific octopus. Armed with a vicious biting beak, the octopus makes light work of a crab's shell, and Steve quite literally gets wrapped up in his encounter with it.
