Battle of the Alphas

2 seasons available

The quest for real estate causes a lot of conflict.
Social
S2 E3

Meeting alphas who get by with a little help from their friends; the inescapable gang mentality of mating male dolphins; ant colonies' unique scents; female geladas always get the last word; wolves hunt family-style.

Scrappy
S2 E4

Celebrating small but mighty animal warriors armed with sheaves of scary weapons; admiring nutrias' stink bombs; honey badgers' needlelike choppers; black-tailed gulls' razor-sharp beaks; the killer talons on dive-bombing peregrine falcons.

Scroungers/Scavengers
S2 E6

Tasmanian devils get into food fights with rivals; how dung beetles roll over the competition; wild boars' fierce mating strategies; hyenas' bone-crushing teeth demolish any meal.

Colors & Patterns
S2 E7

The blonde manes of golden snub-nose monkeys; pink flamingo feathers brought on by an all-crustacean diet; the markings of gemsboks and cheetahs.

The Big Ones
S2 E8

A gorilla wrestling match, pushy moose antlers, long pelican bills that snap at any enemy within range, and a megashark's stereo sniffer.

Power
S2 E9

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 Savanna with an iron paw.

Loners
S2 E11

A glacial stroll alongside a Galápagos tortoise; dancing with venomous European adders; a battle between Lacerta lizards; leopard seals' stealth attacks.

Chatty/Communicative
S2 E12

Chatty capuchin monkeys; Eurasian river otters' chilling screams; fruit bats' loud complaints; orcas' human-scale speech systems.

Savannah
S1 E3

The African savanna is an epic landscape, and whether it's head-bashing hippos, hormone-crazed elephants or dueling lions, battles that rage on the savanna are just as epic.

India
S1 E4

Welcome to India - a land of exotic animals and exotic warfare; monkeys stage dusty dust-ups, blackbucks wage open war on the open plains, and peacock dandies swing switchblades: these are colorful battles worthy of a vibrant land.

Canada
S1 E6

Canada, where summer is short and time is tight, any time is the right time to fight; the mighty North provides the setting for bison, bald eagles and polar bears to wage some of the most heavy-duty fighting in the animal kingdom.

South America
S1 E7

Learning to fight dirty with a guanaco, head-butting a fellow iguana to claim a piece of prime territory, and meeting a hermit crab who forcibly evicts a tenant from its shell.

Southeast Asia
S1 E8

With real-life dueling dragons, giant sumo-wrestling beetles, street-fighting monkeys, and sea turtles that play king of the hill - on top of another sea turtle, Southeast Asia boasts a wide range of wildlife warriors.

USA
S1 E9

Bighorn rams rattle the mountaintops; Brown bears battle, desperate to fatten up for winter; Sharp-tailed grouse shake their tail-feathers; Wild stallions rumble with beauty and grace.

Europe
S1 E10

From the Highlands to the Alps, Europe's evocative landscapes are the backdrop for epic wildlife drama; normally stoic red deer go wild during the rut; wolf packs clash over territory, and foxes do the foxtrot, but it's not as nice as it sounds.

South Africa
S1 E11

Wildebeest battle for herd hierarchy, meerkats live the thug life, floppy fish fight it out on land and locusts give up their vegetarian ways in a frenzy of cannibalism; it all happens on the wild and wide-open landscape of South Africa.

Sub Sahara
S1 E12

The latitudes south of the Sahara offer vastly different battlegrounds for a wide range of warriors; male giraffes swing their heads like wrecking balls, zebras boast the most powerful kick in the animal kingdom, and chimpanzee warfare is familiar.