The Edge

12th August 2004 30 mins Season 1 Episode 5

When thousands of young Adelie penguins leave the colony to start their adult life at sea, they face a terrifying ordeal. A huge predatory leopard seal is waiting for them just offshore. But which penguin chicks will get through? Is survival down to luck, or can past actions influence a penguin's fate?

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Season 1 · Episode 6

The Exodus

Every year the world's biggest flock of membranous mice, bats, - 40 million no less - swarm from a cave in Florida. Half are babies precariously taking wing on their maiden flight straight into the path of snakes and hawks with big appetites. How do they survive?

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