Tonight on BBC One from 8.00pm GMT, David Tennant narrates the first episode of Spy In The Wild, the new five-part series from award-winning wildlife documentary makers John Downer Productions. In one of the most innovative natural history series ever presented, Spy In The Wild deploys over 30 ultra-realistic animatronic 'Spy Creatures' to go undercover in the animal world, filming their unique behaviour closer than ever before.
Spy In The Wild
Episode 1 - Love
BBC One, 8.00pm
To discover just how like us animals really are, animatronic
spy creatures infiltrate the animal world to explore their complex emotions.
Spy Pup makes friends with a wild dog pack to investigate their maternal love
and has a dangerous encounter with lions and elephants.
Baby Spy Crocs discover the extraordinary devotion of a
mother crocodile and take a rollercoaster ride inside her mouth as she carries
her babies to water.
Spy Egret and Spy Tortoise are nearly trampled by elephants
as they film a newborn baby sharing the love of his caring family. Spy Monkey
meets a troop of over 120 unruly langurs and finds out how teenage monkeys
comically practise babysitting skills.
Spy Prairie Dog witnesses the most enthusiastic kissers in
the animal world. Spy Chick discovers the extraordinary devotion of hornbills
as a mother is imprisoned for the sake of her brood.
In Antarctica, Spy Adelie Penguin becomes entangled in the
penguins' turbulent love life as they fight to steal pebbles to impress a fussy
female.
On the savannah, giraffes are filmed for the first time
paying homage to an old giraffe that recently passed away.
Spy Bush Baby meets some curious chimpanzees, and Spy
Tortoise is adopted by a 5-year old and is taken on a wild ride through the
jungle canopy before coming down to earth with a bump.
In a thought-provoking scene a chimpanzee shows empathy as
he finds an abandoned wildcat kitten and adopts it as his pet.
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