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The Great Feast

Season 1 | Episode 6 | One | September 16, 2018

Earth and environment

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Every summer in the seas off Alaska, humpback whales, sea lions and killer whales depend on an explosion of plant life; the plankton bloom. But will these animals survive to enjoy the great feast?

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The Great Flood

In the intense heat of the northern Kalahari, at the peak of the dry season when water is scarce, herds of elephants trek towards a life-saving event, while prides of lions and marooned hippos fight to survive around the last remaining waterholes. Their fortunes change dramatically with the annual flooding of Botswana's Okavango Delta, turning thousands of desert miles into a maze of lagoons, islands and swamps.

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The Great Tide

As winter arrives along South Africa's east coast, the inshore waters cool, drawing billions of sardines northwards. The sardine run is the world's largest spectacle, attracting the planet's greatest concentration of predators in any one time - an awe-inspiring array of ocean hunters.

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The Great Migration

Each year more than one million wildebeest and a quarter of a million zebra and gazelle migrate on Tanzania's Serengeti Plains, to graze on the green, short grass plains - one of the most spectacular events in the natural world. But what happens to the predators they leave behind?

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