Natural World - Season 33 (2015)

Wildlife documentary about the trials and challenges faced by young animals.

BBC description: In what turns out to be an explosive year, witness Iceland through the eyes of the animals and people that have made this wild island home. An arctic fox family must eke out a cliff-top living, an eider farmer has his hands full playing duck dad to hundreds of new arrivals and Viking horsemen prepare to saddle up for the autumn round-up. But nature's clock is ticking, and the constant volcanic threat eventually boils over with one of Iceland's biggest eruptions in more than 200 years. This land of ice and fire will not be tamed.

Famous naturalist David Attenborough spotlights the ostrich, the kiwi and their prehistoric ancestor, the elephant bird. Being flightless, these birds must rely on speed and camouflage to escape predators and protect their younglings.

Follow a year in the life of two Wyoming mountain lion families. David Attenborough narrates this study which has provided a great deal of previously unknown insight into the behaviors of these big cats.

Cameraman Colin Stafford-Johnson explores Ireland's river Shannon on a canoe trip and films the wildlife he encounters along the way.

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In southern Africa, a pride of lions has rewritten the rules - by learning to take down elephants. In this follow up to Africa's Giant Killers, we join the pride at the start of the rainy season. As the elephants depart, a catalogue of dramatic events unfolds. The pride males turn against each other, an inexperienced mum puts her new born cubs in mortal danger, a rival group of lions challenge the pride for its territory and, when lightning strikes, fires burn day and night. When the dust eventually settles, the pride is left with only one choice - to face their old ...