Dangerous Encounters

- Season 2

(2009)

Something is blinding American Crocodiles living in Costa Rica's Tarcoles River, one of the most polluted waterways in South America. Could deadly pollutants be the smoking gun or is something even more sinister at work?

Plunging to extreme ocean depths, braving frigid waters, and dodging razor sharp teeth, Brady Barr is on a quest to get close up to one of the world's most mysterious, deep-sea sharks--the giant sixgill shark.

Journey to Kruger National Park with Dr. Brady Barr and discover how rising water levels in the Olifants River are threatening the largest concentration of Nile Crocodiles in Southern Africa.

Typically they fit in the palm of your hand, but some salamanders grow to human-sized proportions. To determine the king of all salamanders, Dr. Brady Barr goes in search of the "big four" of giant salamanders.

Cave-ins, flash floods, bats and noxious levels of carbon dioxide can't keep Brady Barr from his quest for a twenty-foot python--one of the biggest snakes ever captured in his career.

Australia is home to the most venomous creatures on the planet. In fact, more toxic animals per square foot live here than anywhere else. Why? To find out, Dr. Brady Barr teams up with local experts to countdown the seven deadliest creatures.

Dr. Brady Barr steps out of his element to study a barnyard animal that's turned into an invader - the feral hog. With a bite force as strong as a wolf's, and a tendency to reproduce like rabbits, these hogs have become an epidemic problem.

Huge Humboldt squid, up to six feet long, are expanding their territory, impacting commercial fisheries, and reportedly attacking divers! To learn more, Brady Barr undertakes a high-risk mission to capture a squid unharmed.

Intrigued by the camouflage and speed used by ambush predators, Dr. Brady Barr goes head-to-head with rattlesnakes, crocs, cheetahs, and more to learn the biomechanics of how these ambush predators strike to kill.

Brady Barr saddles up and ventures into America's Wild West in search of the region's roughest and toughest creatures: the elusive puma, legendary bison, venomous western diamondback rattlesnake and iconic golden eagle.

Dr. Brady Barr comes face to face with earth's largest land-based predators. Brady tracks brown bears armed with incredible strength deep in the Alaskan rain forest and later enters towns where polar bears are a common threat.