00:1424-hour cameras,
00:16wildlife sitcom and drama,
00:19emotional cliffhangers,
00:21reality TV at its best.
00:23The difference?
00:24The actors, African wildlife.
00:27The set, the African bush.
00:29The scriptwriter and producer,
00:31Mother Nature.
00:37The Curugui Conservancy,
00:40situated at the foothills
00:41of the majestic Drakensberg Mountains
00:43of Southern Africa,
00:44has tasked the research team
00:46to monitor the intimate lives
00:47of Africa's finest creatures
00:49around the clock.
00:50Never before have human beings
00:52witnessed such riveting characters
00:54and intense dramas.
00:56Rolani is a leopard whose quest
00:58goes way beyond mere survival.
01:00He longs for female company,
01:02but he has many enemies,
01:04not just in the game of love,
01:05but in the game of life.
01:07Meet brothers Felix and Zero,
01:09two powerful and fearsome specimens
01:11of lionhood.
01:12Master hunters.
01:13Felix's roar is worse than his claw,
01:16but Zero has zero tolerance.
01:18Rare African wild dogs,
01:19Alf and Biggles,
01:20are locked in a struggle for dominance.
01:23Alf has ownership of the pack,
01:24but heavy is the head
01:25that bears the crown.
01:26The delinquent Flippy
01:28has rebelled against elephant ways.
01:30He's grown up without suitable role models.
01:33The boy is insecure and aggressive.
01:35Can he turn his life around?
01:38High-speed cheaters,
01:39Koba and Shungu,
01:40share everything,
01:41including their women.
01:42They hunt as a unit.
01:44But what will happen
01:45to this perfect partnership
01:46should an accident
01:47before one of them?
01:49Teenage Tia has royal blood.
01:51This spotted hyena
01:52has inherited her mother's
01:54dominant status.
01:55Watch this princess
01:56discover her power
01:57and become wise
01:58in the ways of the night.
02:00Sisters Maggie and Lisa
02:02may be powerful predators
02:03and great hunters,
02:04but even they suffer tragedy
02:06and hardship
02:07while raising cubs
02:08in an unforgiving wilderness.
02:12Motherhood is never easy
02:13in the Karongwe.
02:14Melissa has failed
02:15in every attempt
02:16to raise a litter
02:17as she's too slight
02:18to fend for her little ones.
02:19Will she ever succeed?
02:22Karongwe's researchers
02:23are ever-present,
02:24using their expertise
02:25to gather important
02:26zoological data.
02:28Ivan Killian
02:28is a man on a mission.
02:30We've got certain characters
02:31that we follow
02:32every single day.
02:33We see what they are doing,
02:34what their life is all about.
02:36These are dedicated
02:38conservationists
02:38passionately observing
02:40and monitoring behaviours
02:41seldom seen by human eyes.
02:43And as head researcher
02:44Kayleigh Owen and her team
02:45track Karongwe's wild heroes,
02:47they are creating
02:48an unprecedented film phenomenon,
02:51the Wildlife Diary.
03:19that we see in the next week.
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