They're adept at tracking the enemy in the war on terror and tracking a bouncing tennis ball in an open field. They're elite police and military dogs, and this series takes viewers inside a world-famous K-9 training facility -- Vohne Liche Kennels in Indiana -- that prepares both man and man's best friend for battle against the bad guys. Led by owner and founder Kenny Licklider, a retired senior master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, the VLK team teaches both dogs and handlers to leap from helicopters, rappel down buildings, search for explosives, drugs and money, and chase down human targets, among other skills. The training is intense -- any mistake can cost lives -- to make sure no dog or handler graduates from the program unprepared.
Shear Madness takes us on the journey of city-girl-turned-sheep-farmer Natalie Redding, as she juggles her many farm animals and her family of five children with her husband Sean.
Thinking of adopting a dog or just love cute pups? Watch and learn from the successes and mistakes of new puppy parents, from the moment they get their puppies to creating a family together.
From a lifetime of experience living in the harsh conditions of the wild, the animal kingdom is filled with creative ways of survival. From navigation to clever disguises, the series takes a look at creative solutions for staying safe.
A small town in South Africa is overrun by a troop of boisterous baboons, so they’ve come up with an ingenious idea: what if they build a house specially designed to study the baboons? But when they move in and bring their primate ways to a human house, the results are outrageous, outlandish and often unthinkable. Get ready for the simian social experiment of a lifetime.
Sub-Antarctica is where the mightiest current on Earth flows uninterrupted around our plane, and is peppered by tiny islands, crucial to the survival of millions of marine animals including seals, penguins, albatross and southern right whales.
British adventurer and cinematographer Richard Terry travels to faraway jungles and remote islands in search of the truth behind stories of unknown creatures attacking, and killing, humans.
This five-hour exposé tells the story of America's heartland, where wildlife roam across wild swaths of frontier land. It's the woods that Davy Crockett once called home in The Great Valley of Appalachia, and where Wild Bill Hickok saw his last sunset in the Badlands of South Dakota. From bears, bison and burrowing owls, to weasels, wood ducks and wild horses, episodes reveal a cast of critters making themselves at home, whether it's beneath ice sheets in the Land of Lakes, or sharing the abundant ecosystem among farmers and their tools.
Now, in a landmark two-hour mini-series, the secrets of the animal world will be revealed as Animal Impact presents an incredible and revolutionary look at the bioengineering that make these amazing feats possible. Using the latest and never-before seen imaging technologies, computer graphics and advanced medical diagnostics, Moment of Impact will show the natural world as its never been seen before giving viewers a totally new perspective on creatures big and small, both common and exotic and inside and out. In infinitesimal detail well dissect these singular moments to see exactly what is happening, why it happens and how natures engineering allows it to happen.
Program that, thanks to archive images and recreations, delves into the tactics and strategies used by animals to survive and prevail in the wild world.
How do you move monstrous mammals, enormous elephants, restless rhinos, hefty horses and speedy sharks? You call in the services of the big movers. These larger than life characters are working with the ultimate delivery deadline - their cargo must arrive on time, intact....and alive. Follow specialist teams of animal movers, vets and transport engineers as they attempt to relocate animals across the globe by air and road.
This forest is older than the Amazon river. Although Europeans discovered it many centuries ago, it still holds many secrets. A lot of animals live here alone. But most of their lives remain a mystery to us. One of the wonders of the world is locked in the green embrace of the forest.