NICK BAKER's WILD 

In Search of the Polar Bear 
Are polar bears really as cuddly and sweet as they are sometimes portrayed on TV? Nick Baker makes sure he has his thermals with him as he embarks on a quest which sees him come face to face with polar bears as he attempts to discover the truth behind the image.

Nick Baker's Rainforest
Nick Baker explores Costa Rica's rainforests. The country is home to nearly five per cent of all living creatures, despite being only half the size of England, and the forests are filled with billions of insects, flamboyant birds, poisonous frogs and tree-topping monkeys.

Nick Baker's Bears
Nature documentary series. Nick Baker travels to Alaska, home of the grizzly - a bear with a bad reputation. Nick's mission is to discover whether these bears really are the large and ferocious killers of popular belief. He sets off on foot, and gets remarkably close to the bears and their cubs.

Nick Baker's Penguins
Nick Baker goes to the heart of Antarctica to experience life with the Adelie penguins. In temperatures that can reach as low as sixty degrees below freezing, Nick spends the night with a colony of thousands and later swims among their predators - the four-metre long leopard seals.

Nick Baker's Antarctic
Wildlife documentary. Nick Baker crosses some of the world's most treacherous seas to reach Antarctica during its short summer. For the majority of the year this frozen continent is one of the most extreme environments on earth, but for a few months the seas explode with life and seals and penguins come ashore to breed.

Nick Baker's Rattlesnakes
Nick Baker goes on a five-day mission to the Arizona desert to observe rattlesnakes in their natural habitat. After a long search, he finally tracks down a tiger rattlesnake in action, - something even his experienced guide has never seen before.  

Nick Baker's Rhinos
Naturalist Nick Baker journeys to Swaziland in search of both the white and the more fearsome black rhino.

Rock Pools
Nick Baker explores life between the tides, delving into Britain's rock pools to find pipe fish, strawberry sea anemones, tube worms and sea slugs, with every frond of seaweed hiding a surprise.

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