Frozen Planet
Summer
Season 1 Episode 3 of 7
How animals in the polar regions adapt to the summer weather. In a colony of 400,000 king penguins the adults go surfing and the chicks take mud-baths to cool off, while polar bear cubs take their first swimming lessons as the ice they inhabit melts away. A minke whale is hunted by a family of killer whales, succumbing to their battering after two hours, and Adelie penguins try to prevent their chicks being snatched by skuas
Frozen Planet airs on U&Eden at 6:00 PM, Saturday 26 October. (Subtitles, audio description.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
Nature ➝ Animals ➝ Environment
David Attenborough
Actor
Miles Barton
Producer
Vanessa Berlowitz
Series Producer
Alastair Fothergill
Executive Producer