Sky Nature HD Saturday

Part one of two. Investigating the reasons why young animals enjoy playing and how it can teach them to survive in the wild

Part two of two. The secrets behind animals' group games, revealing the benefits they gain from their playful behaviour

Cameras venture underwater with a whitetip reef shark and a pelagic thresher shark as they hunt using heightened senses and killer instincts

Cameras follow nomadic sharks thriving in the ocean's depths, a lone blue shark in the Atlantic and hundreds of hammerheads in the Pacific

The stunning underwater world of sharks, examining what makes these apex predators so successful and so deadly

A look at how when weaver birds, aardvarks and termites build homes in the African savannah, they find other animals moving in - creatures that all contribute something to the home

Wildlife biologist Lizzie Daly embarks on an exhilarating journey in which she traverses air, land and sea to encounter Alaskan wildlife and explore the world's most remote corners

The remarkable ways that animals speak to one another, from the trumpeting of enormous elephants to the chatter of seal colonies

Through sense, scent and sight, animals can communicate in ways that are outside of the reach of humans. Here, scientists dig further into their secrets

Part one of two. A look at the marsupial native only to the Australian island, revealing how the mating season is a chance for males to show who is dominant

Tasmanian Devils might have infamous reputations, but these spirited scrappers are committed parents and heroic defenders of their pouch-reared young

David Attenborough employs the latest technologies to explore the violence, rivalries and deadly weaponry existing within the world of bugs

How creepy-crawly predators defuse the defences of their prey, featuring the cockroach wasp, the whirligig beetle and the sophisticated jumping portia spider

Courtship in the bug world, from scorpions that shake their behinds and the perfume-wearing nasonia wasp to the tropical cricket, which is forced to bribe its potential partners

The mating habits of various bugs, watching the male orb spider as it sneaks up on its intended, and the lothario-like butterfly

Bugs that prefer co-operation to conflict, including the burrowing cockroach, the green ant, the social spider, and the queen bee overseeing her happy hive of workers

The broadcaster concludes his close-up examination of the bug world with a look at insect colonies, some of which can span entire continents

The struggle for dominance in the natural world, beginning in Madagascar, where fighting creatures include a neck-wrestling weevil and a lemur mum

The conflicts between the animals of Australia, where a diverse range of creatures fight hard and weird, using the beach as their duelling ground and the outback as a boxing ring

How predators have evolved formidable means of surviving, with strategies ranging from fearsome size and speed to sophisticated teamwork

The keen eyesight, razor-sharp talons and other adaptations that help raptors like the peregrine falcon and bald eagle hunt

Documentary revealing the secrets and ingenious tactics of nature's toughest fighters in their battles for survival. Narrated by Sean Bean

The secrets and ingenious tactics of Australia's toughest fighters, from a kangaroo's deadly boxing moves to the redback spider's precision-engineered trap

The struggle for dominance in the natural world, beginning in Madagascar, where fighting creatures include a neck-wrestling weevil and a lemur mum

The conflicts between the animals of Australia, where a diverse range of creatures fight hard and weird, using the beach as their duelling ground and the outback as a boxing ring

How predators have evolved formidable means of surviving, with strategies ranging from fearsome size and speed to sophisticated teamwork

The keen eyesight, razor-sharp talons and other adaptations that help raptors like the peregrine falcon and bald eagle hunt

Never-before-seen underwater footage of marine life, seascapes, and animal behaviours of the Great Barrier Reef

Audiences are introduced to seven beloved wildcats, including one who was caught in a trap, who can't wait to be released into their new home

A weasel and her tiny kittens have gone AWOL at the rehab, and Dr Mikaela performs a rare medical procedure on a raccoon's injured tail

The staff tries to find a place for each of the orphaned skunks, raccoons, and groundhogs that are streaming through the rehab's doors

Life in the Arctic Circle, where food is abundant but animals and plants alike face great challenges such as sleep deprivation, pests and predators