Trials of the Wild - Season 1

It's spring on the desolate Falkland Islands, which is suddenly crowded with animals converging to breed and raise their young over the short summer.

Each year, the seemingly delicate monarch butterflies undertake a multi-generational migration from Mexico all the way to Canada and back again.

Tracing ancient paths, wildebeests become a moving feast. But the biggest threat is the gauntlet, the saltwater crocodile filled Mara River crossing.

When you've got it all, why give it up? We expect animals to choose the easiest option for food and comfort, but that's not always predictable.

Once a year land bound Christmas Island red crabs are called back to the sea to birth their young, encountering obstacles in the forest along the way.

To many animals in the wild finding a mate is blood sport, driving to make long journeys, let down their guard, and even fight each other to the death.

An army ant colony in the forests of Costa Rica stalks its prey. This super-organism of tiny individuals is as deadly as any beast on four legs.

In the Sahara Desert, a herd of elephants struggles to thrive. But with the help of caring people and their own resilience, they just might make it.

Welcome to the canopy of the Borneo rainforest, where the best action is high in the air, swinging from branches and leaping through the treetops.

Life is risky, and no stage of life is riskier than the very beginning. If these babies can survive childhood, they can survive almost anything.