Animal

As the human world gathers to stage its greatest athletic contest, the Olympic Games, the animal world does the same, where they too compete for gold, silver and bronze.

Just like us, animals rely on their senses to communicate with each other, to find their way around, to find food and to stay safe.

Animals have to be smart to survive. Chris Packham reveals the natural world's surprising brainboxes and uncovers the clever strategies that give certain species the upper hand.

This heart warming and fascinating returnable series will bring you the most incredible animal friends from around the world. From a duck that won't enter the water without her Labrador retriever guardian, to a very special friendship between a rhino and a lamb, to an elephant who thinks she's a buffalo. We'll travel the globe to track down the cutest, funniest and most unusual animal relationships and bring you the comical and compelling stories behind these bizarre animal bonds, why they have formed and how they've stood the test of time.

Join zoologist Desmond Morris in this fascinating documentary series as he goes out into the field and studies, in its natural habitat, the most interesting and odd animal of all: humans. Six-part series shows that, however much we may think we have evolved from our animal ancestors, our instincts and behaviour are still rooted in our animal past. By denying this inheritance we are in danger of destroying everything we have strived so hard to create. Despite the different skin colours, beliefs and rituals to be found in the 5000 million human beings alive today, we actually all share an almost identical genetic heritage.