In All About Animals we meet every child's favourite - the giraffe, elephant, gorilla, lion, shark, rhinoceros, tiger, dolphin, polar bear, chimpanzee, kangaroo, hippopotamus and seal - to name but a few! But this is no ordinary wildlife series. Each episode is an investigative quest. The animals are under constant surveillance as we discover surprising facts about their everyday lives and the creatures that surround them - their friends and their foes. Stories unfold as we learn all about their world.

Morris lives in South Africa's Kalahari desert with his forty-strong meerkat gang. Mum and Dad might be the leaders of the gang, but Morris still has to learn how to dig, how to keep watch for eagles, and even how to babysit naughty youngsters. Then there are the other inhabitants of the desert - he might be able to make a snack of a feisty scorpion but he'll have to learn to play his part when the gang confront poisonous snakes and lizards.

In Kenya's Masai Mara, twelve-week-old Chiku has discovered how to hide in the grass using her spots as camoufla......