Nature Shock

Mammal fights mammal and nature-loving families look in horror. But this was just the start of the killing. An investigation into a spate of gruesome attacks that rocked a small community spreads wider to reveal a chilling warning of global significance.

In Kenya, elephants are targeting and killing Masai tribe's cattle. In South Africa, 58 rhinos are killed in a single park over just two years. And in Western Uganda a village is suffering indiscriminate and violent attacks by local elephants.

Macabre scenes of severed heads, disarticulated remains and dismembered bodies turned inside-out. The investigation that follows these chilling discoveries changes the way Yellowstone bears are viewed forever.

In the South Indian state of Kerala, game wardens are horror-struck: they discover multiple female dead elephants, each brutally killed in suspicious circumstances.

In 2001 biologists in Australia's island state of Tasmania found that the Tasmanian Devil, an iconic species unique to Tasmania, was afflicted with a new, fatal kind of cancer. The mystery was how thousands of Tasmanian Devils could have the same cancer at the same time.

On April 16th 2006 an American sports hunter, Jim Martell from Boise, Idaho, happened upon the rarest bear on earth. Martell had purchased, for forty thousand US dollars, the right to hunt on remote Banks Island, high above the Arctic Circle.