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Elephants of Samburu (The)

  • Eléphants de Samburu (Les)
© BBC
Genre : Social
Type : Documentary series
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Format : Short
Running time : 26 (in minutes)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0078spd

Saba Douglas Hamilton looks at the elephants of Kenya's Samburu reserve.

Episode 1
The lives and loves of Africa's elephants are laid bare in the first of two programmes based in Kenya's Samburu reserve. Saba Douglas Hamilton, who grew up among Africa's elephants, is on home ground as she opens up their world. There is rivalry and passion as the biggest male in the park fights over a female, a baby elephant is washed away in a flooded river and an orphaned elephant is found starving, alone and in need of rescue.

Credits
Presenter Saba Hamilton

BROADCASTS
Sun 17 Jun 2007 - 17:00 - BBC Two
Tue 21 Aug 2007 - 19:00 - BBC Two (England, Scotland only)
Wed 22 Aug 2007 - 19:00 - BBC Two (Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales (Analogue) only)
Tue 21 Oct 2008 - 19:00 - BBC Two (England, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland (Analogue) only)
Fri 24 Oct 2008 - 19:30 - BBC Two (Scotland only)

Episode 2
The second part of Saba Douglas Hamilton's look at the elephants of Kenya's Samburu reserve. The elephant orphan still on the loose, and as darkness falls his life depends on whether Saba and her team can come to the rescue. Crippled elephant Babel encounters crocodiles in her struggle to survive, and we follow a newborn elephant through her first day of life.

Duration: 29 minutes

BROADCASTS
Wed 22 Aug 2007 - 19:00 - BBC Two (England only)
Thu 23 Aug 2007 - 19:00 - BBC Two (Wales (Analogue) only)
Fri 24 Aug 2007 - 19:00 - BBC Two (Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland (Analogue) only)
Fri 14 Sep 2007 - 19:30 - BBC Two (Scotland only)
Mon 27 Oct 2008 - 19:30 - BBC Two (Scotland only)
Tue 28 Oct 2008 - 19:00 - BBC Two (England, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland (Analogue) only)
Not available on BBC iPlayer.

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust

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