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An enormous saltwater crocodile attacks a group of tourists swimming in the Australian outback. One of them, a 23 year old German woman, disappears below the surface of the water, never to return alive. Why were these people swimming with crocodiles? Who took them there? And who will find the killer? Hunter Hunted returns to the remote scene of the attack, interviewing eye witnesses and examining forensic evidence to discover some surprising and disturbing answers.
In Ecuador's remote Amazonian village of Jatun Molino, something is mysteriously attacking and killing people. Within one month, two adults and five children are dead. The two victims that make it to the hospital are found to have rabies. The analysis indicates that it is the type of rabies comes from vampire bats. Vampire bats are known to feed on livestock when jungle prey is scarce. Why would the shy nocturnal creatures suddenly be targeting human beings? An international team probes further into the tragedy that grips the Quichua community. A comparison to similar cases other South American countries provides possible reasons why vampires would be forced to turn their thirsty attention to people.
On the banks of the Rufiji River, in Southern Tanzania, a horrifying epidemic of man-eating Lions is spreading terror throughout rural villages. Over the course of eighteen months, a lion consumes and kills 49 people. An autopsy on the man-eater reveals a possible motive: the lion has badly damaged teeth. Every bite may have caused excruciating pain and would have made it impossible to catch or eat tough wild meat. But the day after the lion is killed, another human is attacked by a different lion. Is something else turning these lions into man-eaters?
Reaching as big as three and a half meters and 450 kilos and equipped with 88 teeth and superior intelligence, dolphins have the ability to be effective predators. Have we been lulled into a false sense of security around these powerful marine mammals? An investigation of dolphin attacks on humans, both in the wild and in captivity, reveals that dolphins are not always the friendly playmates we have made them out to be. But what would make a dolphin lash out at a human, causing serious injury and even death? For answers dolphin experts and animal biologists go beyond the dolphins' smile and enter a complex world of intelligence, sexual aggression, body language and social hierarchy.
On an ordinary morning in June of 2003, on a farm in South Africa, a young mother responds to the cries of her three month old baby. She discovers the infant has been taken from its bed by a baboon. Chacma Baboons, some of the world's largest monkeys, have been known to enter parked cars and invade homes. Adult males can weigh 45 kilos and run at top speeds of 65 kilometers/hour. But the great monkeys are generally known as foragers, not predators, preferring to search for roots and leaves than stalk for meat and blood. So why has this baboon taken a 3 month old child? Could a clue lie in a disturbing practice observed in baboon society? Female baboons have been known to kidnap the infants of other baboons.
Experts are called to investigate the mysterious and brutal death.Detailed analysis implies everything isn't as it seems.
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