• Premiered: May 2009
  • Episodes: 110
  • Followers: 4
  • Running
  • BBC One
  • Monday at 17
  • Children Documentary

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Season 6
6x1
Cheetah Special
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 08, 2025
Steve Backshall tracks cheetahs across Zambia by motorbike, witnessing epic hunting and the challenges faced by this endangered predator.
6x2
Saving Sharks
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 09, 2025
Steve dives with 100 grey nurse sharks - aka ragged-tooth sharks - a wobbegong and a gigantic whale shark, and he joins a mission in Indonesia to save sharks from over-fishing with eco-tourism.
6x3
Ocean Oddballs
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 10, 2025
Steve is underwater in Indonesia with funny-looking frogfish, a stargazer, flamboyant cuttlefish, a mimic octopus and a Bobbit worm.
6x4
Bat Spectacular
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 11, 2025
Steve Backshall is in Zambia to witness ten million fruit bats undertake the world’s largest aerial migration. However, these bats are a buffet for Africa’s top three eagles.
6x5
Dragons and Death Adders
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 12, 2025
Steve Backshall is in Sydney, Australia, searching for the world’s most venomous spider, the fastest striking snake and an ocean dragon that is a camouflaged assassin.
6x6
Jaguar Special
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 15, 2025
Steve Backshall is in Brazil searching for the world’s most elusive cat: the jaguar. He sees them swimming, meets mothers and cubs, and even witnesses one jaguar hunting a caiman. 
6x7
Camouflage Killers
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 16, 2025
Steve Backshall is in Australia to search for the world’s most freaky and venomous fish: the stone fish. He also finds trapdoor spiders and a snake that hunts bats. 
6x8
Meerkat Madness
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 17, 2025
Steve Backshall is in the Kalahari to search for its weirdest residents. From aardwolves to aardvarks and mischievous meerkats, Steve is hoping for some Deadly firsts. 
6x9
Otter Hide and Seek
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 18, 2025
Steve Backshall dives into the world of the caiman, learns about the plight of the world’s biggest parrot and tries to find his nemesis - the giant river otter. 
6x10
Snake Island
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 19, 2025
Steve Backshall heads to a place very few people ever go: Snake Island in Brazil, where the concentration of snakes is higher than anywhere else on earth. 

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