The BEST episodes of Natural World season 31

#1 - A Wolf Called Storm

Season 31 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/2012

Storm is an extraordinary wolf - the head of a pack in Canada's frozen north that hunts the giant buffalo herds. This pack came to fame in Frozen Planet and now cameraman Jeff Turner spends a year with Storm and his wolf family, learning how they survive in this harsh wilderness and whether Storm can pass his hunting skills on to the new generation of wolf cubs.

#2 - Giant Otters of the Amazon

Season 31 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/9/2013

Diablo the giant otter lives in a lake in the jungles of Peru, with his unruly family of six cubs. Even at the tender age of six months, they need to learn how to survive in this dangerous paradise. Their dad teaches them to swim and eventually to catch piranha for themselves, but they must also learn to stay away from the neighbours from hell - the giant caiman. These large members of the crocodile family are a real threat to the giant otter family and Diablo must go to extraordinary lengths to try to protect his cubs. Renowned cameraman and otter specialist Charlie Hamilton-James returns to the place he first filmed Diablo thirteen years ago. Following the family over several months, sometimes in very difficult conditions, he discovers how perilous a home this is for the cubs and watches them develop under the careful guidance of their father. He also films remarkable scenes of the giant otters fighting the caiman.

#3 - Attenborough's Ark

Season 31 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/2012

David Attenborough chooses the animals that he would most like to save from extinction. He shows why they are so important and shares the ingenious work of biologists across the world who are helping to keep them alive.

#4 - Jaguars - Born Free

Season 31 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/21/2013

In this Natural World special, three tiny orphaned jaguar cubs are discovered in a Brazilian forest. A family decide to take the place of their mother and train them to become wild again. Over two years they must learn to climb trees, swim, and hunt for their dinner. If they can be successfully released, it will give new hope to these rare animals. Narrated by Zoe Wanamaker.

#5 - Kangaroo Dundee (1)

Season 31 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/26/2013

#6 - Living with Baboons

Season 31 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/19/2012

The wild Hamadryas Baboons of Ethiopia have a friend in biologist Mat Pines, they even pick the nits from his hair. He's been studying and living with them for five years in the remote and arid Awash National Park. Now in his final year, we follow the fortunes of his favourite baboon 'Critical' as he tries to find a family and fend off his aggressive male rivals. But the local gun-toting Afar tribe have a traditional hatred of the baboons. Before Mat leaves, he hopes to broker a peace between the baboons and the tribe.

#7 - Flight of the Rhino

Season 31 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/16/2013

In South Africa there is a daring plan to save the rhino by moving a whole population to a secret location. But the only way out is by dangling them underneath a helicopter! Can they be moved before the poachers reach them and will it work at all?

#8 - Queen of Tigers

Season 31 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/2012

The story of Machli, the world's most famous tiger, a legendary fighter and a wise mother of nine cubs who has founded a vast dynasty of tigers and is now in the last season of her life.

#9 - Tiger Island

Season 31 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/26/2012

Jungle tigers are turning into man-eaters in the exotic island of Sumatra. Now a maverick millionaire is catching the killers and releasing them on his land. Is this madness, or could it save them from extinction?

#10 - Kangaroo Dundee (2)

Season 31 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/2/2013