Season 1 Plot
Nat Geo WILD brings you closer than ever before to the world's most extraordinary big cats in this collection of special programs. Combining visually stunning imagery and powerfully resonant stories, these programs showcase nature's fiercest felines and the people working to save these majestic cats from extinction.
Big Cat Week Collection Season 1 aired on December 6th, 2010.
Season 1 Episodes
1. Big Cat Odyssey
2. Leopard Queen
3. Lion Warriors
4. Lions on the Edge
5. Stalking the Mountain Lion
Naturalist Casey Anderson and his longtime friend and cat expert, Tyler Johnerson, set out to track one of North America's most elusive ghosts: the mountain lion.
6. American Cougar
American Cougar tells a unique story of a community of cougars whose skills are illustrated and tested as they struggle to survive in the severe landscape of the Northern Rocky Mountains.
7. Cat Wars: Lion vs. Cheetah
After filming an unusual attack, filmmaker Reinhard "Leo" Kuenkel and world-renowned lion expert Craig Packer explore the dark relationship between lions and cheetahs.
8. Hunt for the Shadow Cat
To reveal the secrets of the most mysterious of all big cats, a team of conservationists hire one of the U.S.'s finest trackers to locate, capture and film wild jaguars using all means necessary.
9. Night Stalkers: Jaguar Ambush
Expedition leader and wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn leads an expert team of night filming specialists into the jungles of Costa Rica on the hunt for Central America's big cats.
10. Swamp Lions
After the death of their mighty male, the swamp pride is being hunted by two young male lions seeking to kill the pride's cubs. Their mothers must fight tooth and claw to ensure that doesn't happen.
11. Return of the Clouded Leopards
Return of the Clouded Leopards follows the unique rehabilitation of two orphaned clouded leopard cubs to their natural jungle habitat.
12. Snow Leopard of Afghanistan
Afghanistan, one of the most dangerous places on earth, is home to a population of endangered and elusive snow leopards.
13. Relentless Enemies
Observe the habits of the hunter and the hunted in this National Geographic program that takes you to the center of a fight for survival between lions and Cape buffalo in Botswana's Okavango Delta.
14. The Unlikely Leopard
From acclaimed filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert, The Unlikely Leopard is the coming of age story of a young male leopard with a distinct personality. Join National Geographic as we follow this leopard through his life stages, from clumsy cub and stubborn teenager to independent adult.