Season 1
6 episodes · 2016
1Indonesia
Steve travels to the wild islands of Indonesia. He has a close call being chased by the world’s largest lizard, the legendary komodo dragon, rescues a three metre venomous king cobra, goes diving in the treacherous seas that surround the islands getting hands on with the world’s most poisonous fish and he has his first ever encounter with an unusual predator, the aptly named flamboyant cuttlefish.
2Guyana
Steve travels to Guyana, one of the most undiscovered and untouched corners of South America, and home to pure wilderness and giant jungle predators.
3Mexico
In Mexico he handles a huge rattlesnake, swims with crocodiles and goes diving to find bull sharks.
4Australia
Steve visits Queensland where he tracks a venomous box jellyfish, the fearsome stingray and the elusive coastal taipan snake.
5Namibia
Steve Backshall visits Namibia, where he tracks two hungry cheetahs as they hunt in the bush and stakes out a carcass to get up close to some vultures.
6South Africafinale
Steve is in South Africa in search of a pack of rare and endangered African wild dogs and gets up close to the highly unpredictable hippopotamus.