Islands: Nature's Wild Laboratories

Name: Islands: Nature's Wild Laboratories
Released: 2023-07-23T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Nicola Hurst

TV Show · Documentary · Special Interest

Featuring tropical K'gari, Borneo, Sri Lanka, the wild Okavango Delta, plus Canada's Arctic Baffin Island and Vancouver Island, revealing how these islands' unique geology forces the animals who have evolved there to interact in exceptional ways.

2023 · 43m

Starring Nicola Hurst

EPISODE 1

Vancouver

Encountering coastal sea wolves, endangered marmots, western toad tadpoles, and more while exploring the island of Vancouver, one of the most extraordinary ecosystems on the planet.
EPISODE 2

K'gari

Touching down on the largest sand island in the world, K'gari, as stingrays hunt soldier crabs in the tidal shallows and acid frogs evade vicious predators along Australia's south-eastern coast.
EPISODE 3

Baffin

Journey to the largest island in the Canadian Arctic and encounter Arctic foxes, white beluga whales, a never-before-filmed two-tusked narwhal, and other remarkable animals.
EPISODE 4

Borneo

In Borneo, an unnamed species of spider is filmed for the first time as it hunts other spiders on the Southeast Asian island where evolution is in overdrive, resulting in an explosion of life.
EPISODE 5

Okavango

Hyenas claim the largest island in Botswana's Okavango Delta, but they must defend it while elephants and hippos sculpt the waterways and make new homes for smaller creatures.
EPISODE 6

Sri Lanka

Never-before-filmed leopards stalk Sambar deer in the highlands of Sri Lanka, while territorial mudskippers and fiddler crabs compete for homes and mates in this diverse ecosystem.