Best Scenes From The Hunt - Part 1 | Top 5 | BBC Earth

Summary by Krater

This BBC Earth video showcases five impressive hunting strategies used by predators in extreme environments, featuring polar bears, octopuses, flying fish, lions, and wolves.

From the video

Answers: What are some of the most extraordinary hunting strategies in the animal kingdom?

• polar bear hunting seal on ice
• octopus walking on land for prey
• flying fish escaping predators
• lions hunting buffalo in heat
• wolf pack hunting hare in arctic

What it concludes

• Polar bears on average succeed only once in 20 hunts.
• A seal blubber alone contains 100,000 calories, enough to sustain a polar bear for a week.
• As summer continues and temperatures rise, each hunt requires more energy, draining the bears of their reserves.
• Northern Australia has the highest tides in the tropics.
• The gloomy octopus is the only one specially adapted to walk on land.
• Flying fish can glide for hundreds of meters with a good wind, but this makes them easy prey for frigatebirds and dorados from below.