Andy's Baby Animals

2016
5.0
3 reviews
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Exploring & Other Stories episodes (5)

1 Talking
2/6/17
Season-only
Talking is important for young animals.Andy sees how lions aren't born with a loud roar. In Antarctica, a penguin chick can be heard by his mum despite the sound of 150,000 others and a baby macaque must learn the value of funny faces if she is to fit in.
2 Teamwork
2/7/17
Season-only
Andy knows baby animals are great at teamwork. In Africa, young meerkats learn to look out for their mob. Emperor penguins work together to keep their chick fed and warm and the young convict fish must stick together to fool all the bigger fish?
3 Hiding
2/8/17
Season-only
Young animals must learn to hide. Andy sees how coatis follow mum's tail to safety in the forest. Eider ducks keep a wolf busy while their ducklings find a safe spot and the big-mouth hap is strangest of all - the young fish hide in its mouth!
4 Exploring
2/9/17
Season-only
Andy knows young animals make great explorers. In Antarctica a seal pup takes its first journey under the ice. Leopard cubs must climb as they explore the river bank with mum and a tiny goby fish faces a huge obstacle - getting up a waterfall!
5 Lunchtime
2/10/17
Season-only
Andy knows young animals all have favourite meals. For meerkats, a scorpion is a tasty desert treat. In Finland, raccoon dog pups stock up before winter arrives and young capuchin monkeys learn how to hammer and roll shellfish to get them open.

About this show

This enchanting series draws on the best of the BBC Natural History Unit archive to how case the world's cutest animal babies as they learn and grow. To survive in the wild, baby animals must learn the same skills as we do - how to climb, swim, play and make friends. Young viewers who are trying out new and exciting things will watch in wonder as their wild cousins do exactly the same in their own peculiar ways. Each episode is themed around a different behaviour that baby animals have to learn and follows three species as they try - with varying degrees of success - to acquire the necessary know-how.

Ratings and reviews

5.0
3 reviews