episode description
Sometimes hot weather can be a killer. Animals face immense challenges as rivers dry up and fires rage. It creates a hotbed of conflict. In the Sonoran Desert, temperatures peak at eighty degrees celsius. It’s so hot that creatures choose to live and hunt in the night. It’s predator against predator as Giant Hairy Desert Scorpions pitch their stingers against camel spiders. For the bighorn sheep, hotblooded males are the biggest danger, going head to head in skull shattering battles for mating dominance. Australian budgerigars must dodge some of the fiercest raptors in the world as they snatch a drink in the desert. And in Africa, drought and fires keep the big herds moving - right into the jaws of Nile Crocodiles. It’s blood, sweat and tears, in the hot zone.
