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Cape Town - In this episode we visit the world’s deserts, a land of extremes that pushes life to the limit.
Animals here have developed ingenious ways of dealing with the hostile conditions – giving rise to the most incredible survival stories on Earth.
A pride of desert lions are so hungry they risk hunting a giraffe several times their size, whilst male sand grouse fly nearly 200 kilometres each day from their nests to the nearest waterhole, simply to collect water for their chicks – and when they arrive there are predators waiting for them.
And, never filmed before, a tiny bat takes on one of the world’s deadliest scorpions just to get a meal.
Watch a trailer here:
Tune in for the episode on Sunday, 16:00 on BBC Earth (DStv 184).
(Photos: BBC Earth)
