Animal Babies: First Year on Earth

- Season 1

(2019)

The first year of life is the hardest - six baby animals face the challenges of surviving their first three months on Earth.

Six baby animals, between three and nine months old, face growing challenges of how to find food and survive their first year.

Documenting the transition from the playfulness of infancy and maternal care to beginning independence of animal adolescents: a macaque, a pair of sister hyenas, an Iceland wolf cub, an elephant calf, a sea otter and a mountain gorilla.