This elusive brown hyena has made a home in the ruins in the Namib Desert. She's raised nine generations of cubs, can she provide for her current brood in the most hostile country on the planet?

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If it fits in my cheeks, I eats! Wild hamsters roam the graveyards of Vienna in search of fresh flowers and candle-wax, sometimes with hilarious consequences!

Wild hamster has a graveyard feast

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 At the bottom of the ocean there are brine pools which have a salinity level three - eight times the usual sea level. When a Cutthroat eel gets too close it goes into toxic shock and is lucky to make it out alive.

Eel suffers toxic shock from brine pool

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Usually giant trevally are solitary hunters but they have come in numbers to try their luck at catching potential prey.

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This orca is thought to be one of the first of her kind to use the rising of the tide to her advantage.

Orca's extraordinary hunting technique

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