Adventurer and naturalist Steve Backshall has one mission; to travel the globe in search of 60 of the world's deadliest animals. Travelling across six continents, Steve searches through trees, deserts, swamps and seas to find them all...Steve is in South Africa, home to a huge number of animals on the Deadly 60. This time he's exploring the plight of the rhino. Sought after for their horns, these animals are on the verge of being poached to extinction...Steve gets strangled by a python on a night-time river expedition, climbs a 40-metre tree and finds out why our thirst for palm oil is threatening bears and orangutans...Steve is back in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. In a marshy lake, he helps catch and measure a rare crocodile with super soft skin, which still has a crushing bite. Next in the ocean, he dives among a giant shark, which occasionally even swims deep into wide rivers. On land, Steve visits a partially collapse volcanic cave, the home of two million bats, nine species, all but one predatory, which eat their weight in insects daily...Steve is back in Sri Lanka. It's the world's best place to observe wild leopards, the food chain top feline on an island without tigers, which have become a special panther race her. In the Indian Ocean, Steve checks out one of the rare sea serpent species which actually can endanger people with a venomous bite. Back on land, herpetologist Steve is delighted by the abundance of deadly reptiles...
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