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Episode Guide
Elephant
Series: Born in the Wild
Series Progress: Episode 1 of 617% Completed
Synopsis
In this new series, veterinary surgeon Mark Evans and comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg explore the wonderful and occasionally weird ways that animals make babies. Each episode explores how a different species - elephants, dolphins, kangaroos and orang-utans - reproduces in a uniquely challenging environment, revealing how they find, fight for and woo a mate; and how they have sex, give birth and raise their young in hostile habitats. In this first episode, Joy and Mark visit Africa to investigate the unique reproduction challenges of the largest animal on land: the elephant. Being so big is an advantage in the predator-ridden savannah, but size can be an obstacle to mating and giving birth. Elephants invest a great deal of time and energy in each individual new-born, and raise their young in a protective family herd led by a matriarch. In South Africa Mark investigates how males find females in vast home ranges and finds out how six-tonne bull elephants manage to mate. In the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Joy examines the remarkable anatomy of a group of semi-wild elephants and sets up night-vision cameras to get a rare look at the birth of a baby elephant. The programme explores how females select the strongest mates, why elephants have the longest pregnancy of any mammal, how they safely deliver a 100kg baby and how quickly a new-born calf takes its first wobbly steps.
📊 Series Binge Profile
Total Content Density: 6 hours 0 minutes (6 episodes)
Intensity Rating: Relaxed Watch - Easy viewing. Perfect for casual watches.
Binge Milestones
1 episode/day: 6 days
3 episodes/day: 2 days
5 episodes/day: 2 days
Episodes (6)
- - Elephant Viewing
- S01E01 - Alaska: Remote and Unassisted
- S01E02 - Utah: The Best Laid Plans
- S01E03 - Arizona: Baby Makes Nine
- S01E05 - North Dakota: Snow Baby
- S01E06 - Tennessee: Birthing Amish