Nature Shock

In 2001 biologists in Australia's island state of Tasmania found that the Tasmanian Devil, an iconic species unique to Tasmania, was afflicted with a new, fatal kind of cancer. The mystery was how thousands of Tasmanian Devils could have the same cancer at the same time.

On April 16th 2006 an American sports hunter, Jim Martell from Boise, Idaho, happened upon the rarest bear on earth. Martell had purchased, for forty thousand US dollars, the right to hunt on remote Banks Island, high above the Arctic Circle.

The East African nation has the largest lion population in the world but until recently attacks were far and few between. All of that has changed. Entire prides now consider humans fair game. Over six hundred people have been killed in the last fifteen years in the South East of the country.

At 0630 in the morning the journey turns into a disaster. As the city wakes up, it is greeted by an enormous explosion- intestines, blubber and blood blow out of the whale with the force of a bomb. Four years later, a team of international scientists investigate the mystery of the exploding whale and explain the cause of this unprecedented explosion.