12 Incredible Hunting Scenes | 4K UHD | BBC Earth

they're cover blown Escape seems impossible but these particular fish have a unique ability [Music] they're flying [Music] fish with the extra thrust from their tails the flying fish get airborne once [Music] more with a good wind they can glide for hundreds of meters [Music] [Music] but this is just what the frig birds have been waiting for when frigs join the hunt the flying fish are literally caught between the devil and the deep blue sea [Music] if the flying fish get too much lift they become easy prey for the frigs [Music] [Applause] if they dive to

evade attack from above they could fall into the mouths of the Dorado [Music] [Music] at this time of year polar bears on average succeed only once in 20 hunts if the hunter is skinny like this one that may not be often enough all she can do is keep trying [Music] to prevent her scent betraying her she makes a wide sweep to get down wind of the seal getting close she's now right behind the seal [Applause] incredibly she caught the seal underwater it's only small but even so its blubber alone will contain 100,000 calories enough to

sustain this bear for a week and in that time she might even catch [Music] another but this can't go on forever as summer continues temperatures are rising each hunt requires more energy draining the Bears of their reserves food is so hard to find this far north that a wolf pack must search hundreds of square kilometers if it's to be successful and success means raising the Next Generation [Music] to do that here the Wolves must work together so the young are raised not only by their parents but by their aunts and uncles as well together they

try to ensure that each pup reaches near adult size before the snow returns a growing pup needs more than just a few [Music] Leverett the Wolves need bigger prey and to catch that they must hunt as a pack [Music] [Music] adult hairs may be easy to spot but they're far from easy to catch they run at 60 km an [Music] hour to catch one the Wolves work as a team [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] one of them gets close enough to bite the hair's [Music] tail but a hair can change direction in an [Music] instant if

it can continue to S side step and it may timately Outlast [Music] them finally it gets [Music] away for the next hair the whole pack gives [Music] Chase now numbers count the lead wolves keep up the pace others run on either side so the hair can't change direction [Music] a tiny meal for a whole pack Northern Australia has the highest tides in the tropics which expose vast areas of Shoreline and here lives a truly extraordinary species of octopus [Music] octopuses are marine animals they live and breathe underwater at low tide most octopuses will be imprisoned

in their Rocky pools [Music] but this is no ordinary octopus [Applause] [Music] [Music] it's the only one specially adapted to walk on land it pulls itself along using the hundreds of tiny suckers that line its [Music] arms hunting for crabs it walks from pool to pool [Music] apart for a rather startled fish this one is empty so the octopus moves on a rock pool may seem like a safe Refuge but the octopus's suckers enable it to move just as stealthily in water as out of it [Music] [Music] nowhere is safe when this octopus is around

Lions will normally avoid hunting in such Heat but they're also [Music] opportunists the Lions will need to bring him down quickly before they overheat [Music] [Music] even away from the herd a bull is a formidable opponent he could Gore and kill a lion [Music] [Music] come [Music] [Music] close to overheating they finally succeed in bringing him to the [Music] [Music] ground but the massive bull is not giving up [Music] against the odds and the full weight of the Lions he regains his [Music] feet and it is now that the tables turn the lions are exhausted

after a 20 minute struggle only the bull has the energy to finish the fight [Music] in such exposed and extreme conditions the challenge for predators and their prey is at its most intense even when more sea Lins arrive they can't seem to break down the sardines coordinated defenses [Music] [Applause] [Music] with a sh this big the sea lions need to isolate a smaller more manageable group of fish but with so few Predators the fish still have the advantage [Music] [Applause] all the sea lions can do is keep the sardines at the surface and wait for

others to join [Music] them tuna their arrival changes everything [Music] [Applause] [Music] tuna attack from below cutting off the sardines Escape Route down to deeper [Applause] [Music] water next to appear sheer Waters excellent Flyers but also surprisingly agile underwater with so many predators attacking from all sides the advantage starts to shift away from the [Music] [Applause] [Music] sardines as the fish pack ever Tian their showning strategy now makes it easier for the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hunters copper Shar arks they've scented blood in the [Music] water surprisingly perhaps the Predators never attack one another

they work together to Coral the ball of fish taking turns to grab a [Applause] [Music] mouthful common dophins as the show gets ever smaller each sardine scrambles desperately to hide in the middle but now there's no Escape [Music] [Applause] a Buddha's whale finishes off the feast tons of sardines devoured in less than an hour but leopards are the most versatile of all the big cats Adept at finding cover in the most unpromising places [Music] [Music] the Steep walls of the galy are now her cover for an ambush the male puuku is close enough but he's

too big to tackle she needs to slip past him without being seen if you sponsor he'll blow her cover [Music] slowly does it to succeed here she needs to find prey grazing close to the edge or better still in the galy itself frustration success would have staved off hunger for a [Music] week but while there's prey around There's [Music] Hope peaking over the top is a risk but it's the quickest way to find a new Target [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] a a burst of speed of 65 kilm an hour and it's all over in less

than 6 seconds except it isn't [Music] dazed and disorientated the Impala makes a miraculous escape to help her in her Quest she's equipped with three superpowers first an amazing approach to getting [Music] about Porsche is a jumping spider able to LEAP up to 50 times her own body [Music] length nowhere seems beyond her reach next her second superpower superb eyesight essential if she's to distinguish her prey in all this clutter because her her prey doesn't stray Porsche is a spider eating spider this raises a few problems her lunch is three times her size packed with

Venom and surrounded by a sticky trap mission impossible not at all because of her third superpower Porche is a genius she can map her world in three dimensions and formulate a plan of attack she can have an idea [Music] the web Builder is blind it won't have a clue that she's coming [Music] [Music] Right On Target and safely behind those [Music] fangs but a m as active as Porsches can always do with more brain food here there's no Anchor Point for the [Music] abale but Porsche has another idea instead of going to the [Music] spider

she will bring the spider to [Music] her she plucks the strands to imitate struggling [Music] prey drawing the spider in to its [Music] death the Namib Desert one of the most exposed places on Earth as the sun climbs High everybody takes cover from the extreme heat everybody except the hot rod ant as others take refuge their dead day is just [Music] beginning cleaning out the [Music] nest the sand can reach a scorching 70 Cade the ant's long legs raise their bodies above the surface where it's 10° cooler but if they stand still they will fry

they must keep moving or risk the same fate as their Quarry the creatures that have collapsed from heat stroke too deeply buried but a good place to cool [Music] off foraging decisions must be fast too big perfect back to the nest before they also die but they've strayed into a [Music] Minefield each of these strange cone-shaped pits is a death trap with a brutal predator at its Center here lie ant lion lari tiny Ambush Predators with Venom filled Pincers [Music] some ants manage to escape but the antline has other tricks flinging sand into the air

it creates an avalanche in this cone of death the walls are so angled that the sand slips beneath the ant's feet as Boulders rain from the sky Escape seems almost [Music] impossible pH the Army ant this may look like a ball of a million individuals but make no mistake The Colony acts as one a super organism with a sensory system of 2 million and ten a skeleton made from the living bodies of workers a defense system of soldier ants ready to act at any sign of danger a digestive system processing piles of food deep inside

even a coordinated system for dealing with all the waste these are insects that by working together transcend individual [Music] size The Colony can search the entire jungle Le and flush out its [Music] wildli each day it sends out a silent probe into the forest in quest of [Music] food it doesn't use Scouts like other ants instead a vast search party pushes into Virgin Territory seeking out the signs of anything [Music] alive they spread out along a 10 m front sweeping across the forest [Music] flooor to find prey the ants must first touch it the iron

is that this the most successful hide and seek player in the forest is almost completely blind it distinguishes the living only by their movement as long as an animal remains still it is safe but the slightest twitch will give it away within seconds the prey is pinned down within minutes it's torn apart at its joints the more the prey struggles the more the ants engage [Music] age right across the raid front prey of all sizes are driven from their hiding [Music] places even wasps must abandon their homes when the ants [Music] arrive everything alive in

the path of the Raiders overwhelmed by sheer numbers hunting is only possible for 3 hours around low tide when the mud banks are exposed razor sharp oysters cover much of the shore beaching here could be lethal [Music] the hunters need to find a stretch of Shoreline with just the right slope to level and the Dolphins risk stranding too Steep and they can't force their prey from the water working as a team the Dolphins surround the fish driving them towards the shore [Music] [Music] attacking in perfect synchrony the Dolphins create a bow [Music] wave it carries

their prey onto the Muddy Banks [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] other fish eers profit from their daring herons and gulls follow every [Applause] hunt to get to the fish first the Dolphins drive themselves high up the bank but if they go too far they risk the [Music] stranding to prevent fish escaping between them the dolphins all beat themselves on the same side always the right but this has a cost each time they grab a fish they also take in a mouthful of mud the grit gradually wears down their teeth but on one side only in time

these teeth get so worn down that older Dolphins can no longer longer hunt like this and must find other ways to catch fish it's called Darwin's bark spider and the female has a remarkable [Music] [Music] strategy like a real life Spiderwoman she sprays strands of silk in one long continuous [Music] flow the threads fan out like a sail and drift on air currents blowing across the water every few seconds she crimps the strands together to stop them spreading too widely the breeze will do the rest blowing the threads into a single line and a 25

M bridge now she must reinforce her Bridge because her web will hang from it but there's something bouncing the line at the other end another Darwin spider is trying to take advantage of her hard work [Music] she must deal with the Intruder [Music] headon the cut line is an inconvenience but no more than that with hooks on the tips of each leg she gathers in the [Music] thread it won't go to waste as she'll eat it later [Music] when it's all reeled in she sprays again out streams another 25 M bridging [Music] line how a

spider no bigger than a thumbnail can produce so much much silk so quickly has baffled [Music] scientists and it's no ordinary silk it's the toughest natural fiber on the planet tougher than steel and it needs to be tough to span the wide river with the bridge Tor and the ground anchor in place it's time to construct her trap [Music] these spiders can build the world's largest orb webs up to 2 m wide a few hours from the first spray of bridging line the job is done [Music] now her strategy is simple sit and [Music] wait

and there's one final bout of silk production shrink wrapping her food for later