New on
Animal Planet in March, 2009:
Meerkat Manor 4Premiere date: Sunday, 8 March 2009 at 19h00
(time to be confirmed)Two half-hour episodes, back to back.TVSA Recommends!
In this fourth season of Meerkat Manor, the Whiskers are a house divided.
Splintered by the bitter rivalry of a powerful pair of sisters, the new families are locked in a struggle for dominance and survival in the Kalahari.
Under the leadership of their matriarch Rocket Dog, the Whiskers are still battling their arch enemies, the Commandos, and also their own sister Maybelline and her mob of rebellious subjects - the Aztecs.
It's an archetypal tale of family feuds and fierce factions which threaten to undo them all.
With two tribes split by squabbling kin, will one sister rise to unite the family, or will fortune see them fall?
Big Cat DiaryPremiere date: Sunday, 8 March 2009 at 20h00
(time to be confirmed)
Big Cat Diary returns to the Masai Mara reserve in south-western Kenya for a seventh season to further follow the lives of the lions, leopards and cheetahs who call it home.
The season joins Jonathan, Saba and Simon as they return to catch up with the big cats from previous seasons.
New to the cast: Toto the five-week old baby cheetah who is so tiny he fits into the palm of a hand. Vulnerable to attacks from lions, hyenas and other predators, his chances of surviving are no more than 50-50.
Another storyline featured: the leopards Bella and Chui, who are are still together. Chui is now a fully grown adult male, bigger than his mum and needs to move out but will he?