In the first season of Tribes, Animals and Me, wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan walked among wild lions and hunted giant anacondas. This time he's facing his deepest fears, meeting extreme tribes who teach him how to get even closer to the world's most dangerous animals.
Meet the shark people of the Solomon Islands, who hunt underwater alongside the ocean's most terrifying predators.
Discover how the Ethiopian Bodi tribe – who have never been filmed before – face the daily challenge of protecting themselves and their livestock from ferocious pack-hunting hyenas.
Travel to Mongolia's snow-capped mountains to find out how a tribe of hunters have spent 4,000 years developing a unique and powerful bong with golden eagles, taking care of them and training them to hunt for food before eventually releasing them back into the wild.
These inspiring tribes and emotional stories reveal remarkable relationships between humans and nature's most dangerous creatures that are based on respect, bravery and an understanding of wildlife.
In the first episode of the new season: Gordon joins a tribal family on a remote Pacific island to see if it is possible to live near sharks. Sharks are an animal most people find terrifying, but the men of Owarigi island in the Solomon Islands freedive to catch fish and encounter dangerous sharks almost every day, sometimes at night.
Can the islanders teach Gordon to swim and share the ocean with sharks in this tropical paradise?
CHANNEL |
BBC Earth (DStv 184) |
PREMIERE |
19 November 2017 |
TIMESLOT |
Sundays, 16h00 |
REPEATS |
Sundays, 21h00
Mondays, 03h25
Fridays, 17h30 / 23h25
Saturdays, 04h35 / 14h20
Sundays, 03h30 |