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  • QUEENS

  • Saturday 3 May 2025 at 8:00PM
  • National Geographic

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In six remote and beautiful places on our planet are queendoms run by the most powerful leaders in the animal world. These queens are sisters, single mothers, grandmothers. ‘Queens’ tells their stories of resilience, strength, love and loss for the first time. A final episode celebrates the women going to great lengths to document and protect our animal queens.

EPISODE GUIDE

  • Queens: Savanna Queens
    A baby is born into the ultimate animal sisterhood; a family of elephants. She will need all their experience and protection if she is to survive.
    Next Showing:  
    Saturday 3 May 2025 at 8:00PM - National Geographic
    Repeats:  
    Sunday 4 May 2025 at 12:00AM - National Geographic

    Sunday 4 May 2025 at 10:00AM - National Geographic
  • Queens: Episode 1
  • Queens: African Queens
    In the towering walls of Tanzania’s Ngorongoro crater, the sisters of a lion pride clash with a hyena clan ruled by an all-powerful queen.
    Next Showing:  
    Saturday 10 May 2025 at 8:00PM - National Geographic
    Repeats:  
    Sunday 11 May 2025 at 12:00AM - National Geographic

    Sunday 11 May 2025 at 10:00AM - National Geographic
  • Queens: Episode 2
  • Queens: Tiny Jungle Queens
    Under the rainforest canopy two tiny insect queens build their empires. One through great sacrifice, the other betrayal.
  • Queens: Episode 3
  • Queens: Rainforest Queens
    In the Congo Forest, a young bonobo must leave behind everything she knows to find her place in a world where friendship means survival.
    Next Showing:  
    Saturday 24 May 2025 at 8:00PM - National Geographic
    Repeats:  
    Sunday 25 May 2025 at 12:00AM - National Geographic

    Sunday 25 May 2025 at 10:00AM - National Geographic
  • Queens: Episode 4
  • Queens: Coastal Queens
    An orca family’s success relies on the experience of their sixty-year-old matriarch; while a first-time bear mother must raise her three cubs alone.
    Next Showing:  
    Saturday 31 May 2025 at 8:00PM - National Geographic
  • Queens: Episode 5
  • Queens: Mountain Queens
    A gelada monkey and an Ethiopian wolf fight for their families and their legacy in a world of ancient Ethiopian mountain peaks.
  • Queens: Episode 6
  • Queens: Behind the Queens
    A celebration of the extraordinary women filmmakers and game changing conservationists behind the Queens series.
  • Queens: Episode 7
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