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The Wonder of Animals: Episode 3: Big Cats

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Big Cats

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Episode 3: Big Cats

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Chris Packham explores what makes big cats such good hunters.

Chris Packham explores what makes animal groups successful. What is it about big cats that makes them such good hunters?

Chris Packham delves beneath the skin of the big cats to explore what makes them such good hunters, and he reveals that it is not all about brawn.

New scientific research shows how subtle adaptations in their anatomy and physiology contribute to the success of all stages of a big cat hunt: the stalk, the capture and the kill.

Leg hairs help the leopard to stalk, and intricate muscle fibres drive the snow leopard to capture its prey. For the jaguar, jaw muscles and whiskers combine to give it a precision bite that can take down a caiman, and an enlarged area of the lioness's brain gives it the edge over all their big cat cousins.

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Chris Packham discovers the unique features that make certain animal groups successful.

Series in which Chris Packham uses groundbreaking science and brand-new behaviour to delve deep beneath the skin and discover the unique features that have made certain animal groups successful.

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