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Brazil: beautiful, exotic and jam-packed with a host of potentially deadly insect biters, suckers and invaders. Join virologist Dr. Mike Leahy on his mission to meet the maddest and baddest of Brazils prolific beasties. From fire ants and miniscule worms to vampire bats and the legendary candiru fish, Dr. Mike puts his body on the line to reveal what makes human hosts so attractive to these hungry critters. From the back streets of Rio de Janeiro to the forests of the mighty Amazon River, Dr. Mike learns how the tiniest and most innocuous looking animals can sometimes deliver the deadliest punch.

Deep in the heart of Zambia lies one of Africas best kept secrets. This is the home of one of the biggest hippo communities in the world….But this summer will be the toughest ever on record. A dramatic story is set to unfold… Two brothers face a deadly battle over territory… The bond that keeps them together will be tried and tested…Elsewhere - a young mother and her calf - desperate for survival journey to the river in search of water…But first theyll have to face the 3 tonne heavyweight champion who owns this patch of prime real estate. His acceptance is the difference between life and death…Searching for food and water in the dry season is tough at the best of times. But here - there is an unseen and silent killer at work. Bloated and putrefying corpses start to appear. A rare natural outbreak of anthrax has hit the community. Every mouthful of much needed water is a potential death sentence…Unaware of the danger, drinking from the toxic river kills the young mother. Her vulnerable calf faces an uncertain future… For the two brothers the stakes are also higher than ever…Each lick of an infected carcass transfers lethal amounts of anthrax. One of them succumbs but for the surviving brother - its time to face a living, breathing opponent. It will be a fight to the death. During one of the toughest seasons on record…This blue chip, high definition special will follow a family of hippos on an emotional journey…A unique insight into the science of how anthrax kills reveals why some animals survive, while many others perish…The young contender takes over the heavyweight title and the calf looks set to make it. And after 150 unbearable days of heat, the long awaited rains come. The deadly curse of anthrax is swept away - giving hope to this band of survivors… This is a hippo story like no other as we track the lives of those tough enough to live through…hippo hell…

Before it takes its first breath, a human baby has been through an incredible transformation from a single cell to a complex, self-sustaining organism. With ground-breaking photography, computer graphics, and 4-D imaging, In the Womb reveals this amazing process as the first heart cells begin to beat, the nerve cells flicker to life, and the senses develop. In the Womb features pioneering medical imaging technology, called 4-D ultrasound, which shows the fetus as it sucks its thumb, blinks, yawns, smiles, and moves in real time inside the womb as it . In the Womb also includes stunning images from in-utero surgery as a doctor inserts a fetoscope through the mothers womb and into the fetus to correct a congenital defect.