Animal Tales

The Arctic’s beluga whales are so vocal they’ve been nicknamed the “canaries of the sea.” No one knows how many of the unusual animals still exist because they’re so difficult to study, but researchers believe the population around the St. Lawrence River is in grave danger of vanishing.

New Zealand is a place of incomparable beauty, and home to rare and ancient birds like flightless kiwis and the kea parrot. We’ve taken over their habitat and introduced predators and the last of them may vanish before long. Researchers are working to save New Zealand’s unique birds from extinction.

People in Australia’s cities can’t decide how they feel about their closest neighbors, the brush-tailed possums. Melbourne has become a battlefield between those who love possums, those who don’t, and even the possums themselves. Possums are living so unnaturally close their behavior is changing.

When our busy days wind down, a secret world of wildlife begins to wake up. Dramas unfold at night in our forests and farmlands captured for the first time by special cameras that work with the light of the full moon while we are asleep.