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True stories from the animal world that shocked naturalists and scientific experts. In this first programme scientists discuss the gruesome discovery in the Florida Everglades of a 6ft Burmese python undone by an unusual meal of decomposing alligator. Tests proved the snake had swallowed the creature whole, but that it soon proved to have bitten off more than it could chew

Documentary examining a spate of violent cattle and rhino deaths which took place across a large area of Africa in the early 1990s. Locals and scientists came to believe that the perpetrators were elephants seeking revenge against Maasai villagers who had previously been responsible for barbarous behaviour towards elephants, as evidence suggested they being specifically targeted for retribution

Examining evidence that four black bears killed in Yellowstone Park in 1990 were victims of their larger cousins, grizzly bears, who had hitherto shied away from confrontation despite their physical superiority. Although the cases were unrelated, they demonstrated the rise in numbers of one of North America's most fearsome predators, showing the effect of changing habitat and increasing hunger