Episodes

• Borneo's Secret Kingdom: Weird And Wild

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  Borneo's Secret Kingdom: Weird and Wild introduces the Kinabatangan River. Between the deluge of wet season flooding and daily tides, this is a place of extremes.

• Forest of The Flying Snakes

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  The first episode of Borneo's Secret Kingdom introduces the Kinabatangan River - a powerhouse of nature flowing from the heart of Borneo. Fuelled by yearly monsoons it courses through a hub of diversity. A nexus of powerful forces has created the most species-rich area on the planet. Clouded Leopards stalk primates, and Flying Snakes perform death-defying leaps.

• Empire of The Sun

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  At the heart of South East Asia, in Borneo's steaming jungles, evolutionary forces churn out the beautiful and bizarre. Taking form as condensed vapor in distant mountains, the waters of the Kinabatangan River have passed over rapids, through hilly country, and into floodplains. But this is an El Nino year, which means the rains are unusually late. From the unusual nesting practices of Hornbills, to the jungle skills of Orangutans, life rises to meet nature's challenges. On fickle floodplains the river's nourishment fuels herds of elephants, cave dwellers in their millions and miniature bears of the canopy. It's another day for life on Borneo's...

• King of The Swamp

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  On Borneo's coast lies the vast Kinabatangan-Segama Wetlands. At over 50 000 hectares it's one of the largest and most pristine coastal ecosystems in South East Asia. But this world is about to get shaken up. The wet-season has arrived. On the front lines of this battle ground, proboscis monkeys squabble for control over harems, Oriental short clawed otters scour the river for fish, and pint sized predators hatch from crocodile nests. Forming a rich nursery for both freshwater and marine species this final habitat of the Kinabatangan is perhaps its most productive.