National Geographic Channel

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  • BUILT FOR THE KILL

  • Every Saturday 23:00 IRI 00:00 AFG 22:30 UAE

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See how the world’s animals and insects have evolved into cunning killers.

 From the jungle's big cats to the garden spider, these creatures have learnt to survive by outrunning or outwitting their prey and by using some of nature's cleverest and most deadly tools. Some have developed the speed and dexterity for the CHASE; a golden eagle swoops in for the kill at breakneck speed, just as a penguin dives deep below the surface, tucking in its feathers for minimum resistance against the water.

 Less speedy animals have developed the skills to lure their prey to them. Take the crab spider, perfectly camouflaged on a leaf, camping out and ready to AMBUSH his unlucky insect dinner. But the killer instinct lurks in the unlikeliest of places. Even the exotic Venus fly trap plant - an UNLIKELY CARNIVORE - has developed a taste for beetle juice. Meanwhile the rattlesnake silently lifts its head in the shadows, using STEALTH as its deadly weapon, waiting for the right moment to sink its teeth into an unsuspecting rat.

 Other creatures have bulked-up bodies to enhance their own fighting skills. Beetles and ants carry around their solid outer shield for protection and these MACRO GLADIATORS can draw swords for battle. And then there’s POISON. One of nature’s most feared weapons. In one poison dart-frog, there is enough venom to kill ten human beings, and like all poisonous creatures they know when to use it. So different in shapes and sizes, all these creatures have one thing in common. They are built for the kill.


 

EPISODE GUIDE

  • Built For The Kill: Bird Of Prey
    Every young animal gets the lessons it needs for adult life as it plays with its siblings, or watches & learns from older animals.
  • Built For The Kill: Flying Insects
    There are over 100,000 types of flys in the world. They range from the tropics to Antarctica. Each fly can lay 1000 eggs; in six weeks these eggs can multiply to 260 million individuals - and almost all flies are killers.
  • Built For The Kill: Jaws
    Predators wear armory in their mouths. We look at how birds & insects use their jaws & investigate the gaping toothy maw of the shark.
  • Built For The Kill: Rainforest
    Witness the incredible life-or-death interactions between predators and prey in the Amazon rainforest.
  • Built For The Kill: Unlikely Carnivore
    Nature's most improbable predators, come in all disguises, and few would suspect tha the most innocent of plants possess killer traps.
  • Built For The Kill: Grassland
    Each of grassland killers has its own strategies and challenges, & its ways of surviving. The question is which one will come out on top.
  • Built For The Kill: Night
    Every night the sun sets, plunging our world into pitch-blackness. The day shift retreats to find safe places to sleep the night away. And from the murky shadows emerge the creatures of the night. Ambush hunting cats, echolocating bats, super-sensitive ow
  • Built For The Kill: Coral Reef
    Witness the reef creatures struggle for survival, including predatory sea stars, deadly barracuda, cannibalistic sea slugs, and more.
  • Built For The Kill: Desert
    Witness incredible life-or-death interactions between desert creatures in a dramatic second-by-second analyses of the moments leading up to a kill.
  • Built For The Kill: Packs
    Take a look at the way animals hunt en mass: from simple feeding to choreographed violence, designed to bring down the biggest and strongest of prey.
  • Built For The Kill: Unlikely Carnivores
    Nature's most improbable predators, come in all disguises, and few would suspect tha the most innocent of plants possess killer traps.
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