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 BBC Four HD at 7:00 PM, Wednesday 23 October. (Subtitles, audio description.)
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Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
Nature ➝ Animals ➝ Environment
David Attenborough
Actor
Miles Barton
Producer
Vanessa Berlowitz
Series Producer
Alastair Fothergill
Executive Producer