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PLANET EARTH II

PLANET EARTH II_ Deserts_Episode Iconic Image Name: PLANET EARTH II_ Deserts_Episode Iconic Description: Sand grouse take to the wing to get out of the way of these fighting Oryx, or gemsbok, at a waterhole in Namibia’s Namib Rand Nature Reserve. The sand grouse may have flown for 60 miles to get to this water, but must wait their turn until the Oryx have departed, to ensure they don’t get trampled.
PLANET EARTH II_ Deserts Image Name: PLANET EARTH II_ Deserts Description: of the southwest United States. They live in bands of between 5-20 horses, mainly breeding females and foals led by a dominant stallion. When two evenly matched stallions come together, such as in the breeding season or around drying up waterholes, the results can often be explosively violent fights.
PLANET EARTH II_ Deserts Image Name: PLANET EARTH II_ Deserts Description: Namibia's arid gravel plains are so incredibly hot then even when rain falls it evaporates before it hits the ground - leaving the land parched and desiccated, even in the wet season.
PLANET EARTH II_ Deserts Image Name: PLANET EARTH II_ Deserts Description: These chameleon never drink, instead they collect all the water they need from the animals they prey upon. They know to wait on the dunes to catch the darkling beetles that have been collecting water

Broadcast Details: Sunday 25th June, 6.30pm

The world's deserts are lands of extremes that force animals to come up with ingenious ways of coping with hostile conditions, giving rise to the most incredible survival stories on earth.

Episode 4 – Deserts

The world’s deserts are lands of extremes that force animals to come up with ingenious ways of coping with hostile conditions, giving rise to the most incredible survival stories on earth.

A pride of desert lions are so hungry they risk hunting a giraffe several times their size, while male sandgrouse fly 120 miles each day to the nearest waterhole and dice with death to collect water for their chicks.

Filmed for the first time, a tiny bat does battle with one of the world’s deadliest scorpions, and in Madagascar, a locust swarm of biblical proportions is seen as never before.