The Poles

The Spy Creatures travel to the lands of ice and snow beyond the Arctic and Antarctic circles. From penguin chicks to elephant seals, wolf cubs to polar bears, this episode showcases the hardiest and most charismatic animals in the polar world. In the Southern Ocean, the island of South Georgia is home to 200,000 king penguins. Spy Chick makes friends among a city of chicks and gains an intimate view of life from inside the colony. As winter takes hold, food supplies run out forcing the parents on an epic 1,000-mile fishing trip, leaving the chicks to fend for themselves. At the other side of the world, Spy Walrus, Spy Gyrfalcon and Spy Polar Bear track the retreating polar ice, while further south, on Norway's Hornoya island, thousands of male puffins gather in the snow as they search for their life-long partners. Spy Puffin joins them as they head-bob in an attempt to recognise who's who and find their long-lost loves. But all is not sweetness and light.