Natural World - Season 32 - Eps 9: Giant Otters of the Amazon

Name: Eps 9: Giant Otters of the Amazon
Released: 2013-02-09
Rating: 3.7

2013-02-09 • ? min • ⭐ 7.3/10

Diablo the giant otter lives in a lake in the jungles of Peru, with his unruly family of six cubs. Even at the tender age of six months, they need to learn how to survive in this dangerous paradise. Their dad teaches them to swim and eventually to catch piranha for themselves, but they must also learn to stay away from the neighbours from hell - the giant caiman. These large members of the crocodile family are a real threat to the giant otter family and Diablo must go to extraordinary lengths to try to protect his cubs. Renowned cameraman and otter specialist Charlie Hamilton-James returns to the place he first filmed Diablo thirteen years ago. Following the family over several months, sometimes in very difficult conditions, he discovers how perilous a home this is for the cubs and watches them develop under the careful guidance of their father. He also films remarkable scenes of the giant otters fighting the caiman.

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About Natural World

Title: Natural World

First Air Date: 1983-10-30

Last Air Date: 2020-03-20

Status: Returning Series

Rating: 7.3/10 (from 28 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 40

Total Episodes: 543

Network: BBC Two

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: BBC Studios, BBC Studios Natural History Unit, BBC

Synopsis

Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.