Wonders of Nature

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  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
A series of short films that uses beautiful imagery and inspiring music to celebrate wildlife and the natural world.

20 episodes

Series Premiere

1x01 Polar Bear - Mother and Baby

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A mother and her baby polar bears explore their habitat. This short film takes a look at a family of polar bears exploring the icy cold surroundings of their Arctic home.

A mother mandarin duck shows her babies how to take their first flight out of the safety of the nest. The ducks show courage and one by one they learn how to flap their wings and land safely on the leaves below.

A look at what happens to different landscapes through the four seasons: summer, autumn, winter and spring.

An emperor penguin watches as her baby is born. It shows the harsh habitat and the climate they live in, the cold Antarctica and the relationship of the family.

A herd of elephants moves across the land in search of water.

Beautiful monarch butterflies fly together around their habitat, creating a wonderful spectacle. The butterflies are filmed in slow motion, capturing their beauty.

This short film shows swarms of flamingos moving around and displaying their long necks - this is the spectacle of their courtship ritual. The flamingos walk around on their long legs and fly together in the air above the mudflats where they live.

This film shows the process of how caterpillars change into butterflies. Caterpillars grow, feed and then transform from chrysalis to beautiful colourful butterflies before our very eyes.

1x09 Feeding - Food/Eating

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This short film shows animals catching their prey and hunting for food. A dolphin catches a fish, a monkey cracks nuts and lots of species in the animal kingdom feed themselves in an array of spectacular and clever ways.

The grass cutter ants work together as a team to carry blades of grass to the ant colony.

1x11 Frogs - Diversity

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The wonder of different frogs moving around their habitat. We see them move and interact with their surroundings, climbing trees, jumping in slow motion and feeding.

This short film shows all the different animals that might be found during the day and night in our gardens, including birds, hedgehogs, insects and foxes.

1x13 Knots - Flocking

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The knot breed of bird flying together in a flock of thousands over the sea. They fly in a beautiful formation which creates a spectacle.

This short film shows a variety of birds of paradise in the wild. Their exotic beauty and colour is revealed as the birds display their feathers and are seen in flight.

1x15 Stoat - Play

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Stoats playing outside in the wild. They interact with each other and move around the habitat they live in.

The dangerous life of the damselfly, how a damselfly keeps itself away from danger, how it moves and what happens when a predator tries to catch it.

Under the sea there are many different fish and plants living together. This film shows how everything interacts together, from whales to the tiny krill, they are seen swimming past each other in a colourful underwater paradise.

Animals who live in a cold climate, including wolves, bears, birds and buffalo.

1x19 Meerkats - Friendship

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This film shows how different family members of meerkats interact together in the wild, and how they support each other and work as a team.

A look at some of the most powerful animals, how they move and what superpowers they have in the animal kingdom. Their movement is shown in detail and slow motion. This includes the lizard, chameleon, insects and a flying squirrel.

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