Fierce

Season

2016

UK

8.2

Steve Backshall comes face to face with some of the scariest creatures on the planet

Episode List

S1 • E1

Indonesia

Steve Backshall travels to the wild islands of Indonesia where he finds komodo dragons, king cobras and the flamboyant cuttlefish.

S1 • E2

Guyana

Steve Backshall journeys through the rain-forests of Guyana.

S1 • E3

Mexico

This week Steve's in Mexico where he gets hands on with a two metre long rattlesnake.

S1 • E4

Australia

Wildlife expert Steve Backshall travels to Queensland Australia - "home of the deadly" with an awesome variety of animals that have evolved adaptations to hunt or defend.

S1 • E5

Namibia

Naturalist Steve Backshall explores the wildlife in the landscapes of Namibia, southern Africa. He tracks two hungry cheetahs as they go on a hunt, stakes out a carcass to get up close to a group of vultures, and has a close encounter with an agitated lion as he helps a vet at work.

S1 • E6

South Africa

This week Steve is in the vast nature reserves of South Africa. He goes in search of a pack of rare and endangered African wild dogs, he helps capture and tag a magnificent martial eagle. He gets hands on with a venomous spitting cobra and a puff adder as they strike and he risks life and limb to kayak up close to Africa's most dangerous mammal, the highly unpredictable hippopotamus.

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