Nature's Microworlds - Season 2
Season 2
Episodes
Canada's Coastal Forests
Steve Backshall reveals why Canada's coastal forest is home to huge trees and some of the greatest aggregations of top predators in North America.
Great Barrier Reef
Steve Backshall visits Australia's Great Barrier Reef to discover the conditions that let a tiny coral building block create Earth's largest living structure.
Namib Desert
Steve Backshall visits the Namib in Africa, where animals use clever tactics to combat the heat. He reveals the unique secret that allows life to survive here at all.
Yellowstone
In Yellowstone National Park, where wolves, bears, coyotes, bison and elk roam vast grasslands, wetlands and forests, Steve Backshall looks for the answer to a puzzle.
The Deep Sea
Steve Backshall plumbs the ocean depths to find an array of beautiful and bizarre creatures, from 40m-long jellyfish to grotesque angler fish and vampire squid.
Australia's Red Centre
Steve Backshall reveals huge kangaroos, the world's most venomous snake and a burrowing toad living among the throng of animals in the harsh environment.
Scottish Highlands
Steve Backshall shows how the two contrasting landscapes of open moor and Caledonian forest are both crucially important to the Highlands' wild inhabitants.
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