Wild (2003)

Documentary about a spring day on the Hebridean islands of Colonsay and Oronsay. The islands are alive with wildlife, as seasonal migrants such as the corncrake have arrived from Africa and residents such as otters and the red-billed chough hunt for food. For the hundred or so people who live and work on the islands, spring is a great time of year - oyster fishermen can now work in calmer waters, and farmers are busy with new lambs.

World freediving champion Tanya Streeter goes on an underwater adventure, swimming alongside the fascinating marine life that inhabits the beautiful Caribbean.

The second part of Saba Douglas Hamilton's look at the elephants of Kenya's Samburu reserve. The elephant orphan still on the loose, and as darkness falls his life depends on whether Saba and her team can come to the rescue. Crippled elephant Babel encounters crocodiles in her struggle to survive, and we follow a newborn elephant through her first day of life.

Bill Oddie takes a trip to the hidden part of South America in search of some of the most weird and wonderful creatures on the planet. He encounters underground penguins, burrowing parrots and has a close encounter with whales, before the unexpected climax - a killer whale attacking a baby seal.

Saba Douglas-Hamilton joins the Egyptian Bedouins to experience their way of life and to find out about the animal that has made their existence possible, the camel. She then learns how to race them.

The lives and loves of Africa's elephants are laid bare in the first of two programmes based in Kenya's Samburu reserve. Saba Douglas Hamilton, who grew up among Africa's elephants, is on home ground as she opens up their world. There is rivalry and passion as the biggest male in the park fights over a female, a baby elephant is washed away in a flooded river and an orphaned elephant is found starving, alone and in need of rescue. Show less

Red deer stags fight for a stake in the future while adders and common lizards face their last chance to find a meal before winter. It's also time for one of Britain's answers to the Wild West, as local people saddle up and round up the forest's ponies for their once-a-year health check.