Episode: 2010-12-06 | Airdate: Dec 6, 2010
For 30 years, award-winning filmmakers and National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert have been filming, photographing and documenting the behavior of big cats in Botswana. Witness the Jouberts' journey as they follow lions and leopards through Africa's harshest climatic extremes, gaining unprecedented access and catching some of the most extreme cat sequences ever filmed.
Episode: 2010-12-07 | Airdate: Dec 7, 2010
After filming a wild female leopard for 17 years, filmmaker John Varty reveals an extraordinary glimpse into the lives of Africa's most secretive big cats. Leopard Queen follows the life of "Manana," a wild leopard whose territory spans the Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa. Manana is plagued by other predators that steal her kills, threaten her cubs and hold her hostage in the treetops. Yet despite the hardship of life as a female leopard, she survives for an incredible 17 years, an age few wild leopards live to see, and in the process, provides us with a greater understanding of this extraordinary species.
Episode: 2010-12-08 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2010
On the Great Plains below Mt. Kilimanjaro in Kenya, lions attack Maasai cattle, as they have for hundreds of years. And the Maasai warriors have hunted them in return so that now only about 2,000 remain in the country. If their numbers drop any lower, their populations will not be sustainable. Now the Maasai elders and chiefs are recognizing that the threat to the lions is also a threat to their way of life, and have forbidden the warriors to hunt them. National Geographic captures firsthand the struggle of these modern-day warriors, who are reinventing their traditions to help save the lions they once prided themselves on killing.
Episode: 2010-12-09 | Airdate: Dec 9, 2010
Episode: 2011-12-11 | Airdate: Dec 11, 2011
Naturalist Casey Anderson and his longtime friend and cat expert, Tyler Johnerson, set out to track one of North America's most elusive ghosts: the mountain lion. Armed with specialized camera technology, Casey and Tyler hope to document "never before seen" footage of mountain lions living in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Aided by Tyler's keen hound dogs, the same strategy employed by leading cat researchers, Tyler and Casey get hot on the heels of this formidable and cunning predator - an animal capable of jumping vertically nearly twenty feet in a single leap and taking prey much larger than its distant relation, the bobcat.
Episode: 2011-12-11 | Airdate: Dec 11, 2011
Episode: 2011-12-11 | Airdate: Dec 11, 2011
Episode: 2011-12-12 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2011
Episode: 2011-12-12 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2011
Episode: 2011-12-12 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2011
Episode: 2011-12-14 | Airdate: Dec 14, 2011
Episode: 2012-02-04 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2012
Episode: 2012-12-09 | Airdate: Dec 9, 2012
Episode: 2012-12-12 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2012 (120 min)
Episode: 2012-12-13 | Airdate: Dec 13, 2012
Episode: 2013-11-29 | Airdate: Nov 29, 2013
Episode: 2013-11-29 | Airdate: Nov 29, 2013
Episode: 2013-11-29 | Airdate: Nov 29, 2013
Episode: 2013-11-30 | Airdate: Nov 30, 2013
Episode: 2013-12-01 | Airdate: Dec 1, 2013
Episode: 2013-12-03 | Airdate: Dec 3, 2013
Episode: 2013-12-10 | Airdate: Dec 10, 2013
Episode: 2014-11-27 | Airdate: Nov 27, 2014
Episode: 2014-11-29 | Airdate: Nov 29, 2014
Episode: 2014-11-30 | Airdate: Nov 30, 2014
Episode: 2014-12-02 | Airdate: Dec 2, 2014
Episode: 2015-11-26 | Airdate: Nov 26, 2015
Episode: 2015-11-27 | Airdate: Nov 27, 2015
Episode: 2015-11-28 | Airdate: Nov 28, 2015
Episode: 2015-12-02 | Airdate: Dec 2, 2015
Episode: 2015-12-02 | Airdate: Dec 2, 2015
Episode: 2016-02-22 | Airdate: Feb 22, 2016
Episode: 2016-02-23 | Airdate: Feb 23, 2016
Episode: 2016-02-28 | Airdate: Feb 28, 2016
Episode: 2017-02-19 | Airdate: Feb 19, 2017
Episode: 2017-02-20 | Airdate: Feb 20, 2017
Episode: 2017-02-21 | Airdate: Feb 21, 2017
Episode: 2017-12-09 | Airdate: Dec 9, 2017
Episode: 2017-12-10 | Airdate: Dec 10, 2017
Episode: 2017-12-11 | Airdate: Dec 11, 2017
Episode: 2017-12-12 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2017
Episode: 2018-11-30 | Airdate: Nov 30, 2018
Episode: 2018-11-30 | Airdate: Nov 30, 2018
Episode: 2018-12-01 | Airdate: Dec 1, 2018
Episode: 2018-12-02 | Airdate: Dec 2, 2018
Episode: 2018-12-02 | Airdate: Dec 2, 2018
Episode: 2020-09-07 | Airdate: Sep 7, 2020
The episode follows a young leopard named Toto through the turbulent first three years of her life. Toto has aquamarine-colored eyes, which is an extremely rare trait in leopards. The documentary also uses the thermal-night-vision cameras to capture the seldom-seen night time activities of a young leopard.
Episode: 2022-01-30 | Airdate: Jan 30, 2022
