The weekly strand featuring wildlife stories from around the world. Thisweek's location reports come from Sri Lanka, where Michaela Strachan encounters elephants, langurs and temple macaque monkeys.
Plus how exotic festivals and ceremonies often centre around animal icons, and how Buddhists and Hindus draw inspiration from the natural world.
Editor Sara Ford
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5.30* Watch Out
A look at what's going on in Britain in the world of wildlife. As Halloween nears the programme looks at the eerie sounds made by the territorial calls of tawny owls, and some plants and animals with unusual properties. Plus why this is a sad time of year for bumblebees. With Chris Packham
and Nick Baker.
Producer Karen Walsh ; Series producer Mike Beynon
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5.40* Wildlives
The real lives of individual wild animals, told by the people who know them best. The programme follows Mike Hearn as he spends two weeks tracking the black rhino of the Namibian desert, where a few footprints and broken plants lead the team to the first sightings of some new calves. In Russia Vitaly Nikolaenko films an enormous brown bear fishing for salmon, and there's a chance to catch up on the research programme in Borneo that is tracking a community of wild orang-utans.
Producer Anne-Marie Goodwin ; Series producer Paul Appleby

6.10*-7.00 The Natural World: The Temple Troop
In Sri Lanka's ruined city of Polonnaruwa lives the Temple Troop, the unruliest monkeys around. This film follows an extraordinary year in the life of the troop, and gives the inside story of macaque society-intimate. hilarious and full of the unexpected. Narrated by Roshan Seth. See today's choices. Producer Mark Linfield; Series editor Neil Nightingale
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Cheeky monkeys: page 8