Attack and Defend

With strategies ranging from fearsome size and speed to sophisticated teamwork, the world's top predators have evolved formidable means of surviving in Africa.

Indisputable apex predators and unassuming-but-lethal prey wage war in nature's daily battle royal for the right to live another day. From carnivorous cheetahs, polar bears and sharks to exploding blast ants, vomiting fulmar birds and slime-excreting hagfish, those who attack and those who defend have developed specialized skills in their ongoing struggle to survive. Witness the masters of predator-prey conflict as they showcase their intimidating and extraordinary tactics.

Predators evolved to hunt insects have a plentiful and easy to consume food source.

Hunting is a means of survival, and creatures such as the stealthy tarantula and the prehistoric Komodo dragon have developed deadly adaptations to help them.

In order to avoid predators, animals are bound to apply mimicry, poison and other methods to save themselves from danger.

The clash between predator and prey has a new dynamic in the deep. Experience the adaptations of lethal sharks, clever cuttlefish, and hypnotic shoals of fish.