Many animals live by a simple natural law, kill or be killed, and have their own strategies for survival. The first of three programmes exploring their world focuses on the ambush and the chase.

Stealth, strength, cunning and speed are the qualities required by the solitary hunter to outwit and overtake its wily and often agile prey. Great white sharks, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, polar bears, cheetahs and leopards are the supreme exponents.

A Wildvision production for BBCtv