Starting on
Animal Planet this October, 2009:
Animal Cops Phoenix 15Premiered: Monday, 5 October, 2009 at 21h55
Runs: Mondays to Fridays at 21h55
Animal Cops Phoenix returns for a 15th season to follow the work of the Arizona Humane Society investigators and emergency animal medical technicians.
The show mixes police-style investigation with real wild animal emergencies set against the Arizona backdrop. The field team is backed up by a fully operational animal hospital, and an ‘adoptions team’ provides rescued animals with a happy future.
Austin Stevens Adventures 2Premiere date: Thursday, 8 October 2009 at 17h15 (repeats at 21h00).
Wildlife photographer and adventurer Austin Stevens goes on more perilous trips around the world to find and photograph rare and deadly animals.
He covers some of the globe’s most extreme terrain, including Western Canada's Great Bear Rainforest as he searches for a full-grown grizzly bear.
He also goes in search of one of the most elusive snakes in the world, and has a close-up encounter with the notoriously deadly spotted hyena.
Untamed and Uncut 2Premiere date: Saturday, 10 October 2009 at 20h10
Thereafter, runs: Mondays to Fridays at 20h10.
Untamed and Uncut returns for a second season and once shares animal encounters on camera.
Creatures featured include: a great white shark that crashes into a shark cage trapping two divers, a K9 that risks life to save a deputy sheriff and a wildlife photographer who ventures too close to a leopard.
Animal Planet is on DStv Channel 264.