The first of a brand new series featuring Stephen Mulhern and Gail McKenna introducing some of the worlds Brilliant Creatures. From giant cats to spitting cobras, cuddly puppies and stampeding elephants, this show will introduce you to the most bizarre and brilliant animals from across the globe.
In todays show a raccoon and a red fox who both love rubbish! There's something to try at home in todays DIY how make a metamorphosis chamber and watch as one creature turns into another! Meet the boy who had a close encounter with a group of gorillas and lived to tell the tale. Plus, the incredibly squishy octopus is put to the test; find out how flexible he can be.
In today's show a raccoon and a red fox who both love rubbish! There's something to try at home in todays DIY how make a metamorphosis chamber and watch as one creature turns into another! Meet the boy who had a close encounter with a group of gorillas and lived to tell the tale. Plus, the incredibly squishy octopus is put to the test; find out how flexible he can be.
Gail meets a boy who had a close encounter with one of the UK's mystery big cats and managed to survive. There are more extremes from the animal kingdom this time meet the little and large of the horse world. Plus is Stephens's fear of snakes something he was born with? We put it to the test and find out.
Find out if black and white stripes work as clever camouflage? Stephen and Gail use lion vision to make a zebra disappear from sight! Stephen faces his terror of snakes and spends a day in a house with more than 750 of them. Plus in Put it to the Test the shocking electric eel that produces enough electricity to power your house!
In todays show meet the kangaroo that could kill you with just one kick and Stephen gets to grips with one of the most dangerous predators on earth when he takes blood from a killer whale. In todays DIY how webcams can take you around the world to meet more Brilliant Creatures. There are also more animal extremes this time it's the little and large of the donkey world.
In todays show the incredible edible crab that can break a finger as easily as it can a pencil. In DIY make a slowworm home to attract some strange looking legless lizards. Gail discovers how to blow the nose and clean the teeth of a top predator when she helps zoo vet David Taylor give a six tonne killer whale a health check.
In todays challenge what happens when Stephen meets a pack of wolves and a wolf man and tries talking to the animals Dr Doolittle style? In DIY we show you how to race homing snails. Gails goes diving with dolphins during a routine health check and in the studio meet a crab that can grow to the size of a car!
In today's show Stephen and Gail meet the cannibals of the deep sharks! Find out how Stephen copes during a shark capture and with feeding time at the shark pool. In DIY find out how to challenge clever garden birds by making a brain teaser. Also in todays show is a creature that can glide more than 100m through the air, it's not a bird or a bat so what is it?
The last in the series featuring Stephen Mulhern and Gail McKenna. In todays show we meet the ferocious crocodile and recreate the death roll in the studio. In DIY we show you how to make a spider ladder for your bath so you never have to pull the plug on one again. Also find out why silvery marmasets need to eat envelope glue and in a final act of madness Stephen and Gail hyptonise chickens.
On today's show Stephen hatches a fantastic baby shark from a Mermaid's purse. There are some brilliant spotty babies in the studio. Two Jaguar cubs, discover why they are one of the least known but most impressive of the big cats. Find out how Stephen gets on capturing a wild and very snappy opossum and in Little and Large you can meet the mini Merlin and the magnificent Golden Eagle.
In the second of our American films find out how Stephen gets on trapping a very cross 2-meter alligator which has made his home in a Miami garden. In the Brilliant But Deadly Top 5 creature countdown discover a whole host of creatures that could kill you in a matter of minutes, today it's the Fat tailed Scorpion there is no antivenom for its sting and death follows in under two hours!
Don't know your stoats from your weasels or your frogs from your toads? Well we'll give you the knowledge to Spot the Difference in an all-new section of the show today its fearsome crocodiles and alligators. In Do it Yourself we'll show you how to build a home for some prickly creatures, the brilliant hedgehog tepee!
The studio is overflowing with puppy power when we meet some of the littlest and largest (and cutest) pups in the world. Gail and Stephen travel to America to track down the biggest cat in the world, he weighs half a tonne, stands 4-meters on his back legs, his dad was a lion and his mum was a tiger it's the magnificent Liger!
In the latest of our American films Gail and Stephen go swimming with the biggest land animal in the world the brilliant and very surprising African elephant. Don't know your frogs from your toads or your crocodiles from your alligators; Well we'll give you the know how to spot the difference, today it's the turn of stoats and weasels.
We'll show you how to Do It Yourself and create a Sunflower Shower Feeder to attract fantastic birds to your bedroom window. Gail and Stephen travel to Florida to meet a boy who was bitten by one of America's most deadly snakes on the tongue!
Who do you think would win in a fight between a lion and a porcupine, a meerkat and a scorpion, and a kookaburra and a deadly snake? Find out if you're right in today's show also meet Sweetpea the bike riding owl.
We put the Egyptian Vulture to the test to see if he can crack into the biggest egg in the world an ostrich egg that is strong enough to support the weight of two adults! Find out how Gail and Stephen get on in the second part of their challenge with their training complete they now have to compete in a national sled dog event against 80 of the top teams in the country.
In today's show meet the beautiful bouncing beast of the cat world the incredible caracal can jump 4-meters into the air in a single bound and we've got a whole family of them in the studio. In the Brilliant But Deadly Top 5 creature countdown discover a whole host of creatures that could kill you in a matter of minutes, today it's the tiny blue ring octopus.
In today's programme we'll show you how to Do It Yourself and build a Creepy Crawly Catcher so you never have to pick up a spider again. Gail and Stephen face a new challenge and this time its camel racing. In the Brilliant But Deadly Top 5 creature countdown discover creatures that could kill you in a matter of minutes, today it's the man eating tiger.
Meet the brilliant climbing leopard, and we put the leopard to the test to see if he really can drag a carcass up to a platform 4-meters off the ground. Plus in the first of our South African films meet a girl who was trapped in a toilet by a venomous, spitting cobra and was forced to make an extraordinary decision.
Meet a boy who had a close encounter with a deadly black widow spider that was living in his fridge here in the UK! We travel to South Africa to meet a family that shares their house and their bed with a three-year-old hippopotamus and there are two owls with a very usual sporting ability they skateboard.
In the South African film Stephen helps to track and dart a wild white rhino and gets the shock of his life when it charges his vehicle. Meet a real life monster the biggest rabbit in the world and Stephen is challenged to present part of a bird of prey display to a live audience, find out how he gets on in today's show.
Meet a real life monster of the deep, a fish that can grow as long as a great white shark and which could be living in a lake near you. Gail is challenged to shear an alpaca in the studio, find out how it looks after she's finished! In the South African film meet a man who was trampled by a stampeding 8-tonne elephant and lived to tell the story just about!
Meet the bizarre Mata Mata turtle that sucks up food like a vacuum cleaner and has a head like a wrinkly snorkel. There are three ferocious killers in the studio all of them fish; between them they use lights, ambush and fishing lures to attract and annihilate their victims. And Gail is challenged to perform a routine with a dancing dog.
We take a look at some of the animals people keep as pets, there are loads of do's and don't on animal ownership and the studio is absolutely overflowing with the cutest puppies on earth. Check out one of the most extraordinary bits of behaviour we've ever seen on Brilliant Creatures; can a snake with a head the size of your thumbnail swallow an egg the size of a golf ball?
There are loads of do's and don't on owning a pet rat and you can find out ifs it's true that hospitals are using live maggots to eat rotten flesh. We travel to South Africa to meet a woman who has adopted 300 baboons and find out if the pig really deserves its reputation as a stupid animal when we challenge a pig and a dog to an obedience test and obstacle course.
There are loads of do's and don't on owning a pet snake. We travel to South Africa to meet a man who survived a terrifying 45-minute attack from a wild African buffalo. Stephen is challenged to perform a dance display with two tiny horses and is it true that hospitals are using leeches to suck people's blood?
We've got loads of suggestions on animals you could keep as a pet if you're short on time and space or working to a tight budget. We travel to South Africa to meet Ed Hern who gave up life as a city banker to open his own safari park filled with loads of brilliant creatures including rare white lions and Gail gets a nasty shock. And meet two surprising animals that can both take to the air.
Check out some surprising behavior from an animal with a neck like an umbrella. There are loads of do's and don't on owning a pet chinchilla. We've got three fantastic scaly predators in the studio, a 7-meter python, a tree python and an anaconda all of which kill their victims using ambush. How quickly can a vulture strip a piece of meat to the bone? We put one to the test to find out!