Natural World
Natural World is a TV show on BBC4. BBC Two's classic wildlife series which tells in-depth stories of incredible animals, featuring award-winning photography in some of the most extraordinary places in the world. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 37 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in June 2025.
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A pride of lions has rewritten the rules - they have learnt to take down elephants.
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Nature documentary following the efforts to save the pangolin, a little-known scaly mammal with an unfortunate tagline - they are the world's most illegally trafficked animals.
David Attenborough tells the full story of a 20-year study of the meerkat, the longest-running animal behaviour study in the world.
Nature documentary. A pioneering team in Brazil track and follow individual wild jaguars to gain amazing new insights into their lives.
Nature documentary. In the wilds of the Rocky Mountains, a mother moose tends to her newborn calf. Cameraman Hugo Kitching follows the mother and calf through the four seasons.
May 2025
Wildlife documentary. Orphaned baby kangaroos are raised by a tough Aussie living in a tin shack in the desert outback. He has to be mum to a whole family of roos.
Wildlife documentary. An Australian living in the desert outback rescues orphaned baby kangaroos and raises them in his one-bedroom tin shack.
David Attenborough tells the story of the island's exotic but vulnerable wildlife. A team of conservation champions are making it their mission to save the most precious species.
Wildlife documentary. David Attenborough reveals how the unique and bizarre wildlife of the Galapagos Islands is adapting to a human revolution.
Leonora is an orangutan on a pioneering journey back to the wild after spending years in a rescue centre. If she makes it, 600 more orangutans could soon follow her.
Documentary. Big beasts have always captured the imagination, but being large comes with sizeable challenges. These are the epic survival stories of the world's largest animals.
April 2025
Jonathan Scott narrates the extraordinary story of the leopard, investigating what it is about the natural history of these cats that makes them born survivors.
How bears across the world have overcome the challenges of life - from finding food and raising cubs to confronting rivals and habitat loss - all thanks to brains, brawn and amazing adaptability.
The touching story of a rescued giant otter cub being raised by a Brazilian naturalist.
March 2025
Wildlife documentary following Professor Con Slobodchikoff, who believes prairie dogs use a language second only to humans in its complexity.
The reintroduction of tigers into the Sariska National Park has a deadly impact on the other resident predators.
David Attenborough explores his passion for birds' eggs. Piece by piece, from creation to hatching, David reveals the wonder behind these miracles of nature.
Wildlife documentary. Among the yachts of a millionaire's marina on the coast of California, a sea otter mum teaches her pup to survive.
Documentary. A look at Iceland through the eyes of the animals and people that have made this wild island home. The constant volcanic threat boils over in this explosive year.
A professor develops an extraordinary relationship with an octopus when he invites it to live in his home to learn about its intelligence.