A journey through time and space to reveal
Australasia’s natural wonders.

Australia is an island continent with a breathtaking wealth of wildlife found nowhere else in the world. As the driest inhabited continent on Earth, it is a world apart, a place where successive invasions of people have made the greatest impact on its wildlife and wilderness areas.

Each film is a detective story, delving into Australasia’s hidden secrets to
explain why its wildlife is so special. The continent’s top predators are
giant snakes and lizards, not mammals, and it is the only place on Earth still dominated by marsupials. Its wildlife is an astonishing mix of the surprising, the strange and the deadly. It is home to:

• giant birds that can’t fly and possums that do
• the box jellyfish that can kill a person with its deadly tentacles
• mammals that lay eggs
• platypuses that detect food by electricity
• marsupials from the matchboxsized planigale to the giant red
kangaroo

Australasia is one of the world’s great melting pots for both people
and wildlife. When people invaded, they brought dingoes, starlings,
rabbits, cats, cane toads, camels and feral horses, as well as a great range of cultures and traditions.

DURATION
6 x 50 minutes