Mike Herd

Each of the twelve 50-minute episodes features a different aspect of the journey through life, from birth to adulthood and continuation of the species through reproduction.

For two-thirds of the year, the Little Rann is a desert. Suddenly, in August, monsoon winds whip up the Arabian Sea and carry it 100 km inland. The desert and these mounds soon become islands and homes to high concentrations of rarely-seen, endangered and spectacular wildlife.

From the swamps of the Sundarbans to the foothills of the Himalayas, there is one creature that commands fear and respect among all living things: the Bengal tiger - the mightiest land predator on earth.