Wildlife

Land animals behaving as they do when nobody is directing them. We favour footage that shows a whole sequence (searching, waiting, failing, trying again) over highlight reels, and we note when a scene includes predation or injury.

Related guide: Reading animal behaviour without assigning unsupported human motives

• A barred tiger salamander hunts

  National Geographic

  Wildlife

  • Predation
• A brown hyena in a desert ghost town

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

• A cheetah cub learns from its mother

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Predation
• A chimpanzee finds hidden honey

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

• A day in the life of a lion cub

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

• A dwarf chameleon gives birth in the branches

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

• A frog father and a tiger tarantula

  Nature on PBS

  Wildlife

• A frog father climbs 60 feet for his tadpoles

  Nature on PBS

  Wildlife

• A glass frog guards his eggs from wasps

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Predation
• A gliding tree frog escapes a boa

  Smithsonian Channel

  Wildlife

  • Predation
• A golden poison frog looks for a mate

  Smithsonian Channel

  Wildlife

• A leopard hunts from the trees

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Predation
• A lion pride hunts a young elephant at night

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Predation
  • Death
• A lion pride hunts buffalo

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Predation
• A lion surrounded by hyenas

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Injury
  • Animal distress
• A lioness defends cubs from wild dogs

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Animal distress
• A lioness with newborn cubs

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

• A monocled cobra hunts toads in a village

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Predation
• A mugger crocodile waits at the waterhole

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife · Habitats

  • Predation
• A poison frog raises tadpoles in the treetops

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

• A polar bear tries to take a walrus

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Predation
  • Injury
• A puma hunts a guanaco three times her weight

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Predation
• A red fox dives into the snow to hunt

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Predation
• A seal pup takes its first swim

  BBC Earth

  Oceans · Wildlife

• A see-through frog

  Smithsonian Channel

  Wildlife

• A tree frog climbs to find a mate

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

• A young elephant joins a bachelor herd

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

• A zebra and her foal cross a crocodile river

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Predation
  • Animal distress
• Africa: a 50-minute journey across the continent

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife · Habitats

  • Predation
• An African bullfrog guards his tadpoles

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

• An Arctic fox raids a snow goose colony

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife · Birds

  • Predation
• An Arctic wolf among hundreds of hares

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Predation
• An Arctic wolf tests a caribou herd

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Predation
• An elephant calf and a new sibling

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

• An injured calf finds a new herd

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Injury
• Baby caimans cross a drying wetland

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Animal distress
• Bringing back the Iberian lynx

  BBC Earth

  Conservation · Wildlife

• Brown frogs breed as alpine lakes thaw

  Nature on PBS

  Wildlife

• Catfish that catch pigeons

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Predation
• Cheetah cubs try their first hunt

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Predation
• Common frogs race to the breeding pond

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

• Dangers for a lion cub

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Animal distress
• Darwin's frog raises young in its throat

  Smithsonian Channel

  Wildlife

• Darwin's frog releases its young

  Nat Geo Animals

  Wildlife

• Desert lions stalk oryx

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

  • Predation
• Elephant bulls compete for a mate

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

• Elephant calves play in a dry riverbed

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife

• Fifty million red crabs head for the sea

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife