Battle of the Alphas

Watch as animals bite, claw, wrestle, and kill peers on their way to the top.

Journey to this island continent, where exotic locales are brutal battlegrounds for survival. Learn to throw punches with a kangaroo, dance with peacock spiders trying to get attention, and meet tiny fiddler crabs just itching to get in a fight.

Stomp around vast African grasslands with the planet’s largest mammals. Face a challenger with a lazy hippo, train for a life of violence with a pack of wild dogs, go berserk with an infatuated elephant, and plot with a lion who wants to be king.

Battle for dominance and mates with fierce animals in this incredible, ancient land. Join a langur army as it invades a harem, prowl with a solitary tiger waiting for a challenger, lock horns with blackbucks, and shake a leg with deadly peacocks.

Travel to coastlines around the world, where conflict over food and accommodations leads to desperate battles for survival. Watch as penguins’ delightful dispositions turn toward murderous rage, and join a humpback whale trying to protect her calf.

Visit a cold, unforgiving land that’s home to the most vicious wildlife battles. Meet a bison who smashes its head to prove its might, join a polar bear standing its ground against an intruder, and compete for the attention of female salmon.

Witness animals struggling with their own kind over the choicest real estate. Learn to fight dirty with a guanaco, head-butt a fellow iguana to claim a piece of prime territory, and meet a hermit crab who forcibly evicts a tenant from its shell.

Experience the ultimate animal battleground as monstrous Komodo dragons fight using prehistoric strength. Flip rivals off trees with a beetle built to bash, start a street fight with a macaque over a wrong glance, and ride on a green sea turtle.

Explore a land of big horns, huge claws, flowing manes, and dance moves that could cut a dozen rugs. Smash skulls with bighorn rams, fight over lunch with a hungry bear, go hoof-to-hoof with wild stallions, and get a dance floor bloody with a grouse.

Referee savage battles for dominance from the Scottish Highlands to the Alps. Chase rivals with a bleating red deer buck, keep intruders at bay with a wolf pack, join a red fox’s deadly dance, and steal a neighbour's home with a nasty alpine marmot.

Learn the clever ways animals avoid becoming a meal in a deadly land where everything is on the menu. Meet a fish designed to fail, fight crazed wildebeests, join a murderous mob of meerkats, and become a destructive force with a swarm of locusts.

Travel to a spectacular land full of violent animals. Observe giraffes wielding their long necks as weapons, grab a meal with nature’s flying undertakers, feel the force of the deadliest kick in nature, and form alliances with ill-tempered chimps.

Steer clear of these alphas, whose horns, claws, and other protective gear keep them ready for battle, no matter what the weather dishes out. Examine killer Highland cow horns, plucky mallard bills, razor-edged wolverine claws, and more.

Check out some fancy footwork and killer alpha moves. Catch a male brown hare throwing punches at his beloved, admire a sandhill crane dance battle, watch ibexes butt heads (literally) during mating season, and see why leopards are stealth masters.

Meet alphas who get by with a little help from their friends. Discover the inescapable gang mentality of mating male dolphins, ponder ant colonies’ unique scents, find out why female geladas always get the last word, and see wolves hunt family-style.

Celebrate small but mighty animal warriors armed with sheaves of scary weapons. Admire nutrias’ stink bombs; honey badgers’ savage, needlelike choppers; black-tailed gulls’ razor-sharp beaks; and the killer talons on dive-bombing peregrine falcons.

Avoid the swords, spikes, and deadly hood ornaments on these alpha hunters. Observe elands locking corkscrew horns, storks rattling sabre-shaped beaks, rhinos scaring the competition with massive horns, and striped marlins spearing unsuspecting prey.

Go scavenging with nature’s cleanup crew. See Tasmanian devils get into food fights with rivals; learn how dung beetles roll over the competition; view wild boars’ fierce mating strategies; and watch hyenas’ bone-crushing teeth demolish any meal.

Get a front-row seat to nature’s most spectacular fashion show. Admire the luxuriant blond manes of golden snub-nose monkeys, stunning pink flamingo feathers brought on by an all-crustacean diet, and the meaningful markings of gemsboks and cheetahs.

Learn why bigger is definitely better for these alphas. Go ringside for a gorilla wrestling match, stay away from pushy moose antlers, steer clear of long pelican bills that snap at any enemy within range, and marvel at a megashark’s stereo sniffer.

Power up with alphas who use might to subdue enemies. Marvel when sea lions throw their weight around to win a mate, Cape buffalo deliver knockout punches, Canada geese hit hard with their wings, and lionesses rule the savannah with an iron paw.

Confront alphas with faces only a mother could love. Inspect warthogs’ lumpy armour, giant African bullfrogs’ outsized jumping and biting skills, wild turkeys’ sharp beaks and razorlike spurs, and Nile crocodiles’ crushingly powerful jaws.

Sidle up to lone wolf alphas who’d rather go solo. Take a glacial stroll alongside a Galápagos tortoise; dance with venomous European adders; watch a face-tearing battle between Lacerta lizards; and gasp at leopard seals’ amazing stealth attacks.

Connect with Earth’s most talkative species. Meet capuchin monkeys, who definitely don’t take a vow of silence; endure Eurasian river otters’ chilling screams; face angry fruit bats’ loud complaints; and explore orcas’ human-scale speech systems.