Animals Like Us
Animals Like Us: Season 1

Air Date

May 5, 2024

Episodes

6 episodes

Animals Like Us

Season 1

Overview

A unique insight into the everyday lives of animals and how they compete, cooperate, love, and cry, just as humans do, from snuggling giraffes and honeybees dancing to a chimpanzee with a pet.

Episodes

A Penguin Proposal

1. A Penguin Proposal

May 5, 2024
50 min

An Antarctic gentoo penguin uses a small pebble as a token of love to symbolise his proposal, while a lemur in Madagascar uses poisonous millipedes as a form of pest control.

House Hunting Hermit Crabs

2. House Hunting Hermit Crabs

May 12, 2024
50 min

Join a line of hermit crabs as they prepare for a very orderly house swap on a beach in Belize, and meet a chimpanzee in Senegal who has found a genet cat to keep as a pet.

Meerkat Survival School

3. Meerkat Survival School

May 19, 2024
50 min

Tenacious meerkat pups show their determination to devour deadly scorpions in the vast Kalahari Desert, while a group of lionesses' demonstrate their seduction tactics in Kenya.

Pirate Birds

4. Pirate Birds

May 26, 2024
50 min

Go rogue with frigate birds who steal meals from smaller seabirds, relax in a mongoose-run spa with a grateful warthog, decode an African elephant's secret message, and watch lovelorn capuchin monkeys hurl rocks to attract prospective mates.

Lion Daycare

5. Lion Daycare

June 2, 2024
50 min

Discover why it takes a village to raise lion cubs in Kenya, sniff out the mating strategy of fragrant lemurs in Madagascar, cut a rug at a honeybee dance party, and listen up as a forked-tailed drongo tricks other birds out of their dinner.

Shark Dentist

6. Shark Dentist

June 9, 2024
50 min

Marvel at a toothy fish that helps sharks maintain their pearly whites, discover the signature calls of dolphin families, examine a capuchin monkey's nut-cracking stone tools, get the warm fuzzies when giraffes snuggle, and meet a meerkat mobster.