PLANET EARTH II

PLANET EARTH II_ Grasslands Image Name: PLANET EARTH II_ Grasslands Description: A pride of lions known as 'Swamp Cats' have learnt to hunt in the flooded swamps of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. But they have met their match in an adult male buffalo who weighs more than all the lions combined.
PLANET EARTH II_ Grasslands Image Name: PLANET EARTH II_ Grasslands
PLANET EARTH II_ Grasslands Image Name: PLANET EARTH II_ Grasslands Description: A pair of carmine bee-eaters search for prey amongst the long grass of Botswana. They have travelled over 500 miles to feed when the tall grasses are full of insects, but rely on larger animals such as ostrich and elephants to flush their prey into the air
PLANET EARTH II_ Grasslands Image Name: PLANET EARTH II_ Grasslands Description: An African bull elephant swishes his trunk at the carmine bee-eaters following him through the grassland of Botswana. The birds fly skilfully around his legs hoping to catch the insects he kicks up.
PLANET EARTH II_ Grasslands Image Name: PLANET EARTH II_ Grasslands Description: A one-horned Asian rhino emerges from the tall grass of Kaziranga National Park, northeast India. She has poor eyesight but uses her sensitive hearing to listen out for danger.
PLANET EARTH II_ Grasslands Image Name: PLANET EARTH II_ Grasslands Description: Two lion cubs approximately 10 weeks old in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, about to follow their mother into the water. They are the newest members of a pride know as 'Swamp Cats' that specialise in hunting in the flooded Okavango wetlands.
Planet Earth II - Grasslands Image Name: Planet Earth II - Grasslands Description: A male lion in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. His face sports scars from epic watery battles in the flooded swamps with his most formidable foe, Cape Buffalo - who are five times his size.
PLANET EARTH II_ Grasslands Image Name: PLANET EARTH II_ Grasslands Description: Up to 70,000 caribou mothers have congregated on their traditional calving grounds on the barrenlands of Arctic Canada to all give birth within a few days. After only 2 days the calves (40,000 of them sharing the same birthday!) join their mothers on the longest overland migration made by any animal on earth.

Broadcast Details: Sunday 2nd July, 6.30pm

Grasslands cover one quarter of all land and support the vast gatherings of wildlife, but to survive here animals must endure the most hostile seasonal changes on the planet.

Episode 5 – Grasslands

Grasslands cover one quarter of all land and support the vast gatherings of wildlife, but to survive here animals must endure the
most hostile seasonal changes on the planet. From Asia’s bizarrelooking saiga antelope to the giant anteaters of Brazil, grassland animals have adapted in extraordinary ways to cope with these extremes. In the flooded Okavango, lions take on formidable buffalo in
epic battles, on the savannah bee-eaters take advantage of elephants to help catch insects and, on the freezing northern tundra, caribou embark on great migrations shadowed by hungry Arctic wolves.