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Dinnertime is a gamble for Pallas’s cats, and this one’s hangry. Relative to their body size, they have the shortest legs of any cat, which makes attacking prey in a timely fashion somewhat tricky… Meet the animals inhabiting our fragile frozen worlds. This is life on thin ice. ❄️

A huddle of penguins is formed to protect each other from the cold - but young chicks can end up crushed or frozen.

When a petrel attacks them, emperor penguin chicks stand together against it. Watch out for a cameo from a particularly feisty Adelie penguin! Exclusive preview from #SpyInTheSnow, out in the UK December 30th.

Shelton and Kopral are two orangutans with one thing in common: disabilities so serious, it’s unlikely they’ll ever be released. Naturally, they’ve become the best of friends.

Two young orangutans show signs of affection towards each other – much to the chagrin of a third male orangutan who proceeds to disrupt their very public display of affection.

It’s snack time at the orangutan jungle school in Nyaru Menteng. But one lovable male, Beni, is on a very strict diet. Undeterred, he’ll try every trick in the book to get past his keepers.

A pair of young orangutans, confined to sick bay with broken bones, are finally ready to rejoin their classmates. One of them, Beni, immediately taking to the trees, proving his injury hasn’t left any mental scars!

Today is a very important lesson at the Orangutan Jungle School: teaching young orangutans to fear snakes. It involves a prop, a fake treat, and a lot of acting skill by the human minders.

In primates, recognition of snakes is instinctive, but fear of snakes is learned. Today, caretakers of the jungle school set about teaching them.

After four months of darkness, two Polar Bear cubs emerge from their arctic den and gaze out into their new world for the very first time. Taken From Planet Earth: Series 1, Episode 1.

A new study from BBC Earth and the University of California has revealed that watching nature documentaries can make you happier, so we're on a mission to bring real happiness to as many people as possible by improving their connection to nature. You can find out more here www.realhappinessproject.com

Trying to drag a teenager out of bed in the morning and get them into school on time is a battle most parents would love to avoid - and they may soon be able to! The concept of delaying classes until the afternoon, to allow older pupils to get a lie-in, is being trialled in a number of English schools. Graham Satchell has been to one of them.

A special vault has been built in the Arctic to store thousands of seeds, as scientists fear the impact of climate change and prolonged conflicts could have devastating consequences on food crops around the world.