• Air date: 17 Feb '20 11 episodes
      Wildlife presenter Steve Backshall tracks down 60 of the world's deadliest animals.
  • List of Episodes (11)
    • 1. Rhino Rescue Special

      17 Feb '20
      Steve joins teams trying to prevent the rhino from being hunted to extinction.
    • 2. Bali

      24 Feb '20
      Steve sets sail to Bali for a diving adventure to find a giant ocean sunfish. He rescues fish trapped in an abandoned net and meets the teenagers fighting to ban plastic bags on the island.
    • 3. Gabon Jungle

      02 Mar '20
      Steve travels to Gabon for the first time. Exploring Loango National Park, Steve goes in search of crocodiles, surprisingly deadly chimpanzees and feisty forest elephants.
    • 4. Norway

      09 Mar '20
      Steve heads to Norway to dive with the planet’s ultimate predator - the orca. He also witnesses the northern lights and gets up close to the mighty mouth of a humpback whale.
    • 5. South Africa

      16 Mar '20
      Steve witnesses a serval hunting in the weird surroundings of a power station at night, puts snakes to the test in a chomp-off and meets a rare spider.
    • 6. Ecuador Oceans

      23 Mar '20
      Steve heads to Ecuador to dive with the giant manta ray. He also gets a unique view of the biggest baby on Earth and rescues a turtle caught in a fishing line.
    • 7. Borneo

      30 Mar '20
      Steve gets strangled by a python on a night-time river expedition, climbs a 40-metre tree and finds out why our thirst for palm oil is threatening bears and orangutans.
    • 8. Shark Rescue Special

      06 Apr '20
      Steve dives in the shark capital of the world, meets hammerhead and tiger sharks nose to nose and passionately explains why sharks need friends.
    • 9. Ecuador Jungle

      13 Apr '20
      Steve heads to the Amazon rainforest in search of some of the deadliest critters on Earth, from deadly snakes to freaky spiders.
    • 10. Gabon Coast

      20 Apr '20
      Steve finds out who is boss as he faces a real-life King Kong. He gets up close to Africa’s largest snake and stakes out a crocodile nest to try and catch a sneaky thief red-handed.
    • 11. Unseen

      27 Apr '20
      Deadly special featuring some of the best moments from the series. Steve races a cheetah, rescues a king cobra and shares some of those rare times when things go wrong.