:00:11. > :00:18.These images are coming to you live from Alaska, look at that brown bear
:00:19. > :00:22.surrounded by the seagulls, 11 o'clock in the morning in Alaska and
:00:23. > :00:29.all of the animals are making the most of this summer feast. We will
:00:30. > :00:36.have a live action as a largest predators come together in fierce
:00:37. > :00:38.competition. I would explore the inside of this magnificent glacier.
:00:39. > :01:13.This is Wild Alaska Live! Hello and welcome to all of you in
:01:14. > :01:17.the UK, welcome to Wild Alaska Live as he watched this beautiful brown
:01:18. > :01:23.bear fishing in the shallows up the coast from where we watch these
:01:24. > :01:30.pictures at the time this National Park, the mother is feeding these
:01:31. > :01:34.cubs, magical images. All of this is going on on the other side of the
:01:35. > :01:41.world as you are sitting watching this. We can enjoy the Temple of
:01:42. > :01:47.what is going on and it is just remarkable scenes to witness, the
:01:48. > :01:52.young cub learning from its mother, such a critical time in the year
:01:53. > :01:56.because the summer is short here, we have teams all across the wilderness
:01:57. > :02:02.in Alaska doing their best to bring you this footage and as we are all
:02:03. > :02:08.enjoying. Last time we introduced you to all of the animals, soberly,
:02:09. > :02:13.as the feast continues to build we will take you even closer to those
:02:14. > :02:18.huge predators as they make the most of this summer feast. We can see
:02:19. > :02:24.what else is going on because we have cameras on the creek. It is not
:02:25. > :02:31.far away from here. Lots of Eagle footage we can bring you, we have a
:02:32. > :02:35.live Crew, the classic icon of America, the bald eagle, a proud
:02:36. > :02:39.bird, that is just over five years old, because of that white skull,
:02:40. > :02:48.look at those fish struggling in the background. More bears, this is all
:02:49. > :02:52.live, look at the size of them. And as the summer goes, they grow with
:02:53. > :02:59.all of the goodness the salmon rings, all of that fat and protein.
:03:00. > :03:04.We also have live pictures from the sky, courtesy of Debbie and Daniel
:03:05. > :03:11.and Danielle straightaway has this live wolf! We had a television first
:03:12. > :03:15.on Sunday, the first ever live pictures of the world and you can
:03:16. > :03:21.see this one prowling along the shoreline. Debbie, thank you for
:03:22. > :03:29.finding this wonderful wildlife footage! You have just gone up!
:03:30. > :03:33.Daniel, you had a high benchmark last time but you have surpassed
:03:34. > :03:40.this in just than two minutes! We will come back to you very shortly.
:03:41. > :03:46.I am just mesmerised, you can see this, transfixed on the salmon, he
:03:47. > :03:52.will leave that. Herding the salmon into the shallows and then pounce.
:03:53. > :03:56.That is a good glimpse of the geography on the coast and look at
:03:57. > :04:02.that! The three animals in that shot, the Wolf, the bear and her
:04:03. > :04:11.cubs and the seagulls waiting for those easy pickings. It is not just
:04:12. > :04:16.Debbie and Daniel in the helicopter, Steve is already out there, we are
:04:17. > :04:21.looking at some pre-recorded footage of you in the helicopter because you
:04:22. > :04:28.have read on quite the mission? That is an understatement! I have
:04:29. > :04:34.explored pretty much every inch of this glacier, from above and from
:04:35. > :04:39.below but those shots, Adebayor and the wired world in the middle of the
:04:40. > :04:45.I cannot underestimate how special that is and how much this shows what
:04:46. > :04:50.an incredible sanctuary for life Alaska really worlds have been
:04:51. > :04:54.persecuted over the world, to see them in broad daylight in the open,
:04:55. > :04:59.it shows this is one of the last places where they are truly safe and
:05:00. > :05:05.have a very good future. One of the most positive things about Alaska.
:05:06. > :05:10.This incredible spectacle, this glacier, this is somewhere we want
:05:11. > :05:16.to talk about in detail, I got right into the inside of this glacier, I
:05:17. > :05:22.will show you some order that later. We also have cameras in the water so
:05:23. > :05:26.we can watch lots of salmon making their way back to this spot and
:05:27. > :05:33.these salmon are making the most of this rising water level. And this is
:05:34. > :05:38.a critical time because millions of salmon, millions of them are taking
:05:39. > :05:44.an incredible journey on this side of the world, from where you are
:05:45. > :05:49.watching in the UK and they are born here in these rivers, they spend one
:05:50. > :05:52.year right here and win this location gets imprinted on their
:05:53. > :05:58.brain and then they head to the Pacific Ocean, look at this map,
:05:59. > :06:03.once they are in the sea they grow up, they feed, travelling as far as
:06:04. > :06:07.Japan before heading back home and this happens between the ages of two
:06:08. > :06:14.and five years old and this is bizarre, they have to get back, they
:06:15. > :06:18.become a feast once they enter these rivers and that is wife all of the
:06:19. > :06:24.cameras are picking this up, this huge feeding frenzy and to get some
:06:25. > :06:29.idea of the numbers, five different species of salmon and in this area
:06:30. > :06:36.alone, this is Bristol Bay and in this area, just one species, the
:06:37. > :06:43.numbers are already as far as the season are concerned over 50
:06:44. > :06:50.million, sockeye salmon, there are five species and if we look at this
:06:51. > :06:53.map, this brown water mark, this is the Katmai National Park and these
:06:54. > :06:58.pictures we have seen in the programme, the Wolf and the brown
:06:59. > :07:03.bears, those signals, that is coming from this part and this is where Liz
:07:04. > :07:10.Bonnin has been making her home for the past week and the question is,
:07:11. > :07:18.we have seen from your area, the trouble you are in, what is the
:07:19. > :07:22.plan? To continue immersing ourselves in this most glorious
:07:23. > :07:29.place, we cannot quite believe what we can see every day, every day the
:07:30. > :07:34.feast intensifies and as you can see, the mother is teaching her cubs
:07:35. > :07:39.to get a real taste, they are not quite ready to fish very well but
:07:40. > :07:43.they mimic their mother, they do not know what they are doing but once
:07:44. > :07:47.she gives them a taste of the salmon, like those cubs, they are
:07:48. > :07:54.joining the dots and I understand how important it is to learn how to
:07:55. > :07:59.hunt and what the reward is. There is a wolf skirting around, waiting
:08:00. > :08:06.to see if he can pick off some of the bits left over but he is not
:08:07. > :08:11.going to get anything, as are the seagulls, those players will eat
:08:12. > :08:15.everything, this is thrilling and electrifying. And every day we spent
:08:16. > :08:21.here, it gets even more intense and even more exciting so we shall bring
:08:22. > :08:27.you as much of this action live during the show and on Sunday. On
:08:28. > :08:35.Sunday, last Sunday, we were treated to magnificent scenes of the bears
:08:36. > :08:40.surfing in the shallows and less than right now but wonderful to see
:08:41. > :08:45.them getting that first taste of the salmon but right now, millions of
:08:46. > :08:50.salmon make their way up referring and that means that more bears are
:08:51. > :08:54.arriving. It was sunny right then, it is very different right now, the
:08:55. > :08:59.weather has turned but in this cooler weather with the rain, the
:09:00. > :09:03.bears are much more active and that is potentially IB shall see what
:09:04. > :09:09.action today, it is cooler and they enjoyed this month, they get to do
:09:10. > :09:14.more fishing on a day like today. Because millions of salmon are
:09:15. > :09:19.coursing up the rivers, the feast intensifies and those bears are
:09:20. > :09:23.sizing each other up so we will find out today what happens when they
:09:24. > :09:28.meet and compete for the best possible fish and we will bring all
:09:29. > :09:33.of that to you live! Does live television get any better? I have
:09:34. > :09:39.done a lot of this and I cannot believe that we are seeing, we know
:09:40. > :09:44.this has got to talking and asking lots of questions, and you can send
:09:45. > :09:51.more questions to the Facebook page, or you can use #AlaskaLive on
:09:52. > :09:56.Twitter. We can answer all of your questions and analyse what is going
:09:57. > :10:03.on with the very best that this forest has to offer, we are
:10:04. > :10:09.interrupting Pete Schneider and John Neary, the head ranger, John, we
:10:10. > :10:15.have a mission. We are going to try to bring black bears to the UK live.
:10:16. > :10:21.What are the chances? We are right you are amongst them. Good chance?
:10:22. > :10:25.We have a chance, this is a forest and they are creatures of the Forest
:10:26. > :10:31.so they disappear as soon as they take just a few steps. We have seen
:10:32. > :10:39.them already, let us keep everything crossed they turn up on air. And it
:10:40. > :10:42.is not just the UK that has been amazed, even this team has been
:10:43. > :10:51.surprised by what is turning up and what the cameras have captured. We
:10:52. > :10:59.are going to witness some credible sites. This could be the first time
:11:00. > :11:03.this has been seen live on camera. I cannot quite believe what I am
:11:04. > :11:12.looking at, almost surreal to see these magnificent creatures so close
:11:13. > :11:32.up. No way! Incredible! That is a shark!
:11:33. > :11:38.We have to give a massive shout out to the technical teams managing to
:11:39. > :11:44.bring all of this to you, really quite remarkable but Liz, you have a
:11:45. > :11:47.question to a presenter, what precautions must you take to ensure
:11:48. > :11:56.presenters do not get eaten by the bears? That is from Sarah. Thank you
:11:57. > :12:01.for that! It is all about understanding behaviour from bears,
:12:02. > :12:05.as was explained on Sunday and we have never felt in danger, we have
:12:06. > :12:09.been pretty close and once you are in the safe hands of a guide and you
:12:10. > :12:14.listen to everything and you act like a bear and understand never to
:12:15. > :12:19.threaten them and move away or behave in a certain way, that is all
:12:20. > :12:24.you seem to need in a place like this, we do not have any guns, we
:12:25. > :12:30.don't have to use any flares and I have felt very safe hands, as long
:12:31. > :12:36.as you understand and respect the wild animals, this place is a
:12:37. > :12:42.magical experience. We are in Katmai National Park, 700 miles away from
:12:43. > :12:46.their base in Tongass National Park, one of the most protected areas in
:12:47. > :12:52.Alaska and we have images of the wild bears, here is one of them
:12:53. > :12:57.closer to the mouth of the river and this is interesting because at this
:12:58. > :13:02.time of the few weeks when the salmon run happens, the bears moved
:13:03. > :13:06.to key positions along the river and that is what we will look at today.
:13:07. > :13:13.As the salmon moved upriver people follow them and find out what
:13:14. > :13:17.happens when brown bears, Normandy solitary, anti-social animals, what
:13:18. > :13:21.happens when they come together and get their fill without this place
:13:22. > :13:26.becoming a battlefield. And the social interaction of bears is far
:13:27. > :13:34.more complex and fascinating and you can imagine. We are in the hands of
:13:35. > :13:39.an expert, Samarra, and we are walking down wildlife highway, this
:13:40. > :13:43.has been carved out by thousands of bear footprints and moose and links
:13:44. > :13:51.and foxes and we are following in their footsteps. The brilliant?
:13:52. > :13:56.Incredible, we're in a meadow, a very important place for the bears,
:13:57. > :14:05.what do they feed on? Sage grouse in the meadow and the mothers and cubs
:14:06. > :14:10.come here. They benefit the most from the young shoots? With
:14:11. > :14:16.lactating mothers, that helps, the mother teaches the cubs what to eat.
:14:17. > :14:22.The bears here are also known as the gardeners of Katmai? When they eat
:14:23. > :14:29.the grass, it goes through their system and when it comes out, it is
:14:30. > :14:38.good. They are planting miniature gardens as they move through the
:14:39. > :14:44.landscape! This place does transform once the men have their minds set on
:14:45. > :14:49.the salmon, they move on the meadow, what happens? It is a playground,
:14:50. > :14:55.the mothers feed on the grass and the little clubs play and it is
:14:56. > :15:00.pretty cute. We did spot a mother and her cubs earlier on, they have
:15:01. > :15:05.headed to the shoreline, there is a lot of fish and also the position of
:15:06. > :15:08.this meadow is pretty handy for mothers and cubs? By the river? The
:15:09. > :15:18.river is by the long grass? There is nothing to obstruct their
:15:19. > :15:21.view. Their mums can see if they're still fishing at the creek and once
:15:22. > :15:25.they're gone she can start fishing and can hear the fish coming up the
:15:26. > :15:28.creek, as well. Before this happens this place is an arena for courtship
:15:29. > :15:33.behaviours during the mating season. Tell me what this place looks like
:15:34. > :15:37.at that time of year. You have the big dominant males pursuing specific
:15:38. > :15:45.females and then other dominant males trying to vie for those
:15:46. > :15:49.particular females. OK. Bears are not monogamous, so it gets heck
:15:50. > :15:54.hectic sometimes? The competition happens when the two big males spar
:15:55. > :16:00.with each other to get that female. As you can tell from the role of
:16:01. > :16:04.places like this, the meadows and the rivers, a different times of
:16:05. > :16:08.year, everything changes. There is a gear shift all along the year. It
:16:09. > :16:14.is. It's a fascinating place and I am still learning so much about
:16:15. > :16:17.bears. I completely underestimated how complex and intricate their
:16:18. > :16:22.social lives are. We are going to move towards the river next for you
:16:23. > :16:26.and we are going to find out when these bears come together, what
:16:27. > :16:30.exactly happens as they compete for the freshest, best quality fish. We
:16:31. > :16:35.will see you soon. In this forest I should remind you
:16:36. > :16:39.it's a temperate rainforest, it's the black bears that tend to be seen
:16:40. > :16:43.rather than the bigger brown bear cousins that are seen on the
:16:44. > :16:50.mountains. We are making our way through here.
:16:51. > :16:54.Watch yourself there, Bob. We have been seeing a lot of black bear
:16:55. > :16:58.action. We have seen this huge female fishing just around the
:16:59. > :17:05.corner from where we are. They're not camera shy. Look at that
:17:06. > :17:09.for a shot, John. It's 153. She's got a great sockeye. We want to go
:17:10. > :17:12.one stage further, our mission is to try to bring you a black bear live,
:17:13. > :17:15.whether it's going to happen we don't know. We have cameras
:17:16. > :17:20.everywhere. We have this place rigged. Where that bear was fishing
:17:21. > :17:25.there we have a remote camera underneath the bridge so we can
:17:26. > :17:28.capture footage. That's not a bear, that's Ian, our cameraman! Can you
:17:29. > :17:31.hear us, Ian? You are going to pan across the forest and fingers
:17:32. > :17:36.crossed, we will capture something and if a bear turns up, I mean,
:17:37. > :17:40.obviously we will bring you those pictures straightaway. Although some
:17:41. > :17:46.are - summer here, it's lush and green as we look around, in Alaska
:17:47. > :17:49.there are many months of subzero temperatures, this place is covered
:17:50. > :17:58.in snow and ice. You have to be tough to call this place home.
:17:59. > :18:04.Winter bites hard in North America. For six months every year ice and
:18:05. > :18:09.snow take hold and temperatures can plunge below minus 50.
:18:10. > :18:14.Under ground sheltered from the deep freeze, black bear cubs are born.
:18:15. > :18:17.While they can guzzle mum's rich milk, she can't eat again until she
:18:18. > :18:22.decides to leave the safety of their den.
:18:23. > :18:28.As the days lengthen, her desperate need to feed eventually draws her
:18:29. > :18:31.out. It's a risky decision. Emerge too early, and the cubs risk
:18:32. > :18:37.freezing. Emerge too late, and her milk will
:18:38. > :18:47.dry up, causing them to starve. Only 60% of black bear cubs make it
:18:48. > :18:52.through their first winter. By early June, in Tongas Nash Forest, more
:18:53. > :18:55.and more hungry black bears begin to appear. This mother has lost almost
:18:56. > :19:02.half her body weight whilst in the den. As her cubs grow, they become
:19:03. > :19:07.increasingly demanding, competing for her milk.
:19:08. > :19:14.Until the salmon arrives, she needs to eat ten kilos of vegetation a
:19:15. > :19:20.day. Fortunately, black bears aren't fussy eaters and will munch through
:19:21. > :19:25.anything to shrubs and shoots down on the ground. But feeding isn't the
:19:26. > :19:32.only concern for females. They raise their cubs alone and must avoid
:19:33. > :19:38.hungry neighbours. Adult males would kill and eat a cub this size. This
:19:39. > :19:44.mother and her cubs have almost made it through the toughest time of the
:19:45. > :19:50.year. But they're not out of danger yet.
:19:51. > :19:58.Competition for the fishing will be fierce as these normally solitary
:19:59. > :20:03.bears come together to feast. Well, John, our viewers in the UK
:20:04. > :20:08.are watching some helicopter shots of a brown bear nursing her young.
:20:09. > :20:12.You spent 30 years working with brown bears s this unusual to see
:20:13. > :20:18.this? Yeah, especially because they won't do that unless they feel
:20:19. > :20:21.comfortable and safe. That tells us Debbie and Dan are high in the
:20:22. > :20:25.helicopter? It tells me there is a good zoom on that lens. You are
:20:26. > :20:28.concentrating on the temperate rainforest here and the black bears.
:20:29. > :20:32.Let's focus on some of the families that we may see turning up, either
:20:33. > :20:39.tonight or in our last programme on Sunday. The first family is this
:20:40. > :20:43.ginger-backed female, what's the story with her, we have footage of
:20:44. > :20:49.her wandering along the beaver dam. There is the cubs. Two cubs, she had
:20:50. > :20:54.three earlier, she had a mark on her back and that's grown in with that
:20:55. > :20:58.brownish ginger spot you mentioned. 153, another chance for 153, as
:20:59. > :21:00.well. Yeah, she is up in this stream. She spent all morning
:21:01. > :21:04.yesterday up there. The cubs are behind her too. She had four
:21:05. > :21:08.earlier, down to three but she is doing really well with the salmon in
:21:09. > :21:12.the stream. She's so calm and cool and
:21:13. > :21:16.collected, you would never really think she's wandering up towards the
:21:17. > :21:20.fish. But there is one down there in the water. She will just pounce any
:21:21. > :21:25.second. Three, two, one...
:21:26. > :21:31.Readjust and any second now. Oh, well! There it is.
:21:32. > :21:36.There is the pounce! Very good fishing. Finally, lone
:21:37. > :21:40.female. You know she had four cubs because of the footage you took,
:21:41. > :21:43.John. This is something we took in the meadow a month ago when she had
:21:44. > :21:48.her fourth cub. That cub is dead now. It got sick. But this is what
:21:49. > :21:52.happens in bear country, she lose them sometimes. A few others, as
:21:53. > :21:56.well. We will keep everything crossed we may see some signs of
:21:57. > :22:02.black bear life here. On that note, when you were on the glacier, Steve,
:22:03. > :22:06.yesterday, did you see signs of life at all up there?
:22:07. > :22:12.Well, we didn't actually see life apart from birds. But the glacier
:22:13. > :22:17.itself is a living, moving thing. Down here at the snout of it is
:22:18. > :22:24.somewhere you feel very small as a human being. It towers above you,
:22:25. > :22:29.sky skriepers of ice. It is almost the most active part. A calving
:22:30. > :22:34.event was filmed days ago and you can see the enormous tonnes of ice
:22:35. > :22:37.tumbling off into the water. These are forming ice-bergs which are an
:22:38. > :22:40.important part of the water cycle and this process is dramatically
:22:41. > :22:45.speeding up with climate change which here in Alaska is an absolute
:22:46. > :22:48.reality. I have had an opportunity to get up here on to the ice but,
:22:49. > :22:52.sadly, we have been waiting here today for the helicopters to have
:22:53. > :22:57.the last word as to whether we do it live and it's had to be called,
:22:58. > :23:00.unfortunately. There is danger of thunder and lightning. Yesterday I
:23:01. > :23:02.had a rather remarkable experience, a couple of hundred metres above me
:23:03. > :23:13.now. So, we are up here on the ice, which
:23:14. > :23:18.is the most powerful force of nature right at the heart of this summer
:23:19. > :23:22.feast here in Alaska, for a bit of geography, base camp is just down
:23:23. > :23:27.there behind me. But it might as well be a world away. You can also
:23:28. > :23:33.see that in the summer this glacier is melting. It's forming on the
:23:34. > :23:37.surface little ponds and lakes which eventually make their way into
:23:38. > :23:41.rivers which cut across the top of the glacier searching for a
:23:42. > :23:50.weakness. Water is a very, very persuasive force. Eventually, they
:23:51. > :23:57.find a crevace or hole and bury down into it in waterfalls forming one of
:23:58. > :24:02.these. This is a molan that heads down to
:24:03. > :24:06.the bedrock, it's a massive part of what is breaking this glacier apart
:24:07. > :24:09.and pretty soon I am going to be dangling like a spider on a web
:24:10. > :24:13.right down into the very guts of this glacier.
:24:14. > :24:18.We will bring that to you shortly. Pete and I are about to go on a
:24:19. > :24:21.little boat trip to observe the work of an animal that really does change
:24:22. > :24:25.the way the landscape looks here. While we get out there, here is a
:24:26. > :24:34.lovely introduction to the rodent lumber jacks of this forest. Right,
:24:35. > :24:39.Pete, I am coming on board. Beavers, the largest rodents in
:24:40. > :24:43.North America. These toothy builders have an attitude to match.
:24:44. > :24:53.At just four feet long, they're capable of building dams almost a
:24:54. > :24:59.kilometre in length. This Herculean effort is to create a safe lodge.
:25:00. > :25:04.Complete with underwater entrance and food store. Territorial, they're
:25:05. > :25:08.think nothing of chasing off a moose that strays too close to home. Their
:25:09. > :25:14.giant back feet are webbed and a broad tail is perfect for life in
:25:15. > :25:23.the water. Whilst on land, it keeps their
:25:24. > :25:29.balance, felling 30 foot trees. Right now, with their water ways
:25:30. > :25:32.free of ice, they're stockpiling food and making essential repairs,
:25:33. > :25:39.but as water flows will their dams hold in order to keep their lodges
:25:40. > :25:43.safe? Well, this beautiful, tranquil and
:25:44. > :25:47.calm scene has all been created by the beavers. Until we start to talk
:25:48. > :25:50.about what it is they're doing you don't realise how incredible this
:25:51. > :25:58.animal is. So, Pete, if you could give us a depiction of the geography
:25:59. > :26:04.and it's a full estate they've created. This place was a bare slate
:26:05. > :26:07.and the river came straight out here, dumped into the lake, until
:26:08. > :26:13.the vegetation popped in there was nothing for the beavers. Now there
:26:14. > :26:16.is vegetation, the beavers, as you can see, have created this entire
:26:17. > :26:20.pond right with that dam they built behind me. They've a dam here. This
:26:21. > :26:25.calm pond, we have the beaver lodge that's behind us. They've almost got
:26:26. > :26:29.little summer houses that are positioned around the estate. This
:26:30. > :26:31.is all about their food and adjusting the water levels
:26:32. > :26:36.accordingly. That's correct. The dam, a couple of things, obviously
:26:37. > :26:40.it creates this ponded area that brings water in, foods areas and
:26:41. > :26:47.that creates more growth, which is the food base for these animals. It
:26:48. > :26:50.creates growth and habitat for willow, and Alder which is what they
:26:51. > :26:54.need. They need that material to use to build the dams and their lodge.
:26:55. > :26:57.Let's talk about the characters that are actually in the lodge at the
:26:58. > :27:01.moment. Who are they, who is in there and how old are they? Right,
:27:02. > :27:06.right now we have a pair of beavers in the lodge. They seem to be fairly
:27:07. > :27:10.young. We don't know a lot about this pair.
:27:11. > :27:13.But based on the size to me it looks like they're maybe, three,
:27:14. > :27:17.four-year-old, maybe five-year-old beavers. As far as this place is
:27:18. > :27:20.concerned, because it is quite a thing they have actually built over
:27:21. > :27:26.time, will they pass it on from generation to generation? How does
:27:27. > :27:31.it work? It does get passioned on. What happens, they'll use it -- it
:27:32. > :27:34.does get passed on. What happens, they'll use it as long as they can.
:27:35. > :27:38.Often times they can challenge parents for the habitat. We are
:27:39. > :27:43.making our way over to the dam which is key to this whole area. When you
:27:44. > :27:48.look at the way they've actually created it... We are run aground,
:27:49. > :27:52.Pete! It's quite interesting this, because
:27:53. > :27:58.actually if we look down here we can almost see the salmon coming in, as
:27:59. > :28:03.well. There is very deep sections. I am touching the bottom here, Pete.
:28:04. > :28:06.But, yeah, the dam itself, is that a problem for the salmon? It isn't.
:28:07. > :28:09.That's a great question, a lot of people think the dam will block the
:28:10. > :28:13.salmon from being able to get in, but what it does, it allows this
:28:14. > :28:17.habitat, makes for a perfect rearing habitat for the young. The salmon
:28:18. > :28:21.still have to work to get in here, especially when the water is low,
:28:22. > :28:24.but they can do that. It works out perfectly, if the dam wasn't there
:28:25. > :28:27.all the salmon could get in all the time. That's not best for the
:28:28. > :28:30.species, right, what is best for them is the hardest have to make it
:28:31. > :28:37.in and they're the most successful. I want to pick up on some of the
:28:38. > :28:42.footage we saw in that film. A rodent like this, felling a 30 foot
:28:43. > :28:46.tree, that's quite an achievement. Yeah, what happens is that is cotton
:28:47. > :28:50.wood right there. That makes for a great food source, they strip the
:28:51. > :28:53.bark off and get to the sweet layer underneath. That's what they're
:28:54. > :28:55.after for food. Then once they do that they still use this as
:28:56. > :29:01.material, whether they use it to patch holes in their dam or whether
:29:02. > :29:07.they use it to build their lodge up a little bit, none of it goes to
:29:08. > :29:11.waste. If we were here 100 years ago there is no way we would be paddling
:29:12. > :29:15.out here, we would be covered in a massive glacier and I don't know if
:29:16. > :29:18.you can see this time lapse footage here that we are seeing, Steve, but
:29:19. > :29:24.we are going to watch now the glacier as it is melting, retreating
:29:25. > :29:30.back. The rate at which it is disappearing
:29:31. > :29:37.before our eyes, it really is something, Steve. Yeah, this place
:29:38. > :29:41.has an etheral quality about it, it is gorgeous but it's somewhere you
:29:42. > :29:44.have to be cautious. Because this is the place where the glacier is
:29:45. > :29:48.essentially dying. If you look closely you can see there is a chunk
:29:49. > :29:54.over there, there is a fresh huge chunk of ice that's come out here
:29:55. > :29:59.and forced an ice-berg and we have seen carving events. Some are very,
:30:00. > :30:04.very active and receding at a great speed. Certainly this particular
:30:05. > :30:10.glacier is almost unrecognisable from the first time I came out here
:30:11. > :30:13.and Alaskan people absolutely can see their glaciers disappearing
:30:14. > :30:17.before their eyes. But not so long ago I was right up there on top
:30:18. > :30:23.standing above a big blue hole and about to head inside.
:30:24. > :30:32.I am standing on the brink of this abyss and down there, it is where
:30:33. > :30:41.this gets kick-started. OK, here we go. These are a latticework of
:30:42. > :30:47.tunnels, like Swiss cheese, through the glacier, very few have been
:30:48. > :30:51.explored and the second you go below the surface, this is an alien
:30:52. > :30:57.environment, this chill wind blows in from the waterfall but it is
:30:58. > :31:05.quite beautiful, mesmerising, look at that! To begin with, crampons
:31:06. > :31:11.sink into the ice very easily because it is full of air but right
:31:12. > :31:21.down here, it is so compressed, it feels like steel! I am trying to
:31:22. > :31:27.think of something to compare this to, but I do not think there is any
:31:28. > :31:33.other blue like this in nature and it sounds obvious but it is very
:31:34. > :31:40.cold down here! Like many degrees colder than above because we have
:31:41. > :31:46.this error being carried by the waterfall, itself not much above
:31:47. > :31:52.freezing... But the water is cutting its way through the glacier in
:31:53. > :31:56.several directions and it looks like it heads that way and I can hear the
:31:57. > :32:02.water going that way, thundering into the distance and that is
:32:03. > :32:12.probably the way that it head on. Absolutely glorious, if cereal in
:32:13. > :32:19.colour. And it is so compressed, this ice, I guess it is like a cave
:32:20. > :32:27.system. -- very if cereal. There is a channel and this cuts to the
:32:28. > :32:36.bedrock. Until it can go no further. And that is where the action really
:32:37. > :32:43.happens. And also, there is a tunnel that way, in fact, that looks like a
:32:44. > :32:52.better way for me to go. Next... It is time to do some exploring. This
:32:53. > :32:57.is awesome! Well done, what a magnificent place and speaking of
:32:58. > :33:03.magnificent! I don't know what to say! For the last minute, this
:33:04. > :33:09.incredible bear has been fishing, so close to me I lost my breath, he was
:33:10. > :33:14.snorkelling, his face was submerged in the water looking for a fish in
:33:15. > :33:20.the deeper pools, and then he started running around, chasing the
:33:21. > :33:23.salmon coursing up the river and of course there are some on here that
:33:24. > :33:29.are sitting stationary in the current of the river, getting
:33:30. > :33:34.acclimatised to the fresh so this bear spot of those, they were
:33:35. > :33:39.dashing away and he was moving after them, moving up river, looking for
:33:40. > :33:43.these precious sources of protein and fat and it has been the most
:33:44. > :33:49.breathtaking experience for all of us at the mouth of this river.
:33:50. > :33:54.Completely worth the difficulties in getting here, the weather and
:33:55. > :33:58.everything, this is what we came for, bears coming together like this
:33:59. > :34:03.and showing their -- showing off their best fishing skills at the
:34:04. > :34:09.beginning of the salmon run, hotting up every day. He has not finished.
:34:10. > :34:14.He will be fishing up river, there are shallow sand bars further up
:34:15. > :34:19.where those fish are getting caught, it might even be easier for him to
:34:20. > :34:23.catch them and we have a camera team right above, you perhaps can see
:34:24. > :34:30.them in the distance and we will keep this place covered. You might
:34:31. > :34:36.have become fond of a six-year-old male that you saw on Sunday, we
:34:37. > :34:41.have, we called him scrawny but he is doing very well, he is fishing
:34:42. > :34:49.and on Monday he walked right past the river bank so look at this. This
:34:50. > :34:58.is the snorkelling behaviour, when the river is deep and the tide is
:34:59. > :35:05.high, the bears that are about the age of despair, years old, they are
:35:06. > :35:09.not big enough to pay and down the fish in the Deepwater so they
:35:10. > :35:14.submerge their faces, snorkelling, they look for a slower, dying or
:35:15. > :35:19.dead fish in the branches and they feed on them, any source of protein
:35:20. > :35:24.is worried that so this is what he was doing on Monday on the river
:35:25. > :35:29.bank, he did not succeed. Don't worry, we caught up with them later
:35:30. > :35:34.on when this river was at low tide, which means there are more fish in
:35:35. > :35:38.this shallow sand bars and it is easier for the bears to catch, they
:35:39. > :35:45.can use those powerful pause and here he is again, there is a wolf on
:35:46. > :35:50.the bank and checkout his behaviour, he can hear that bear, he knows they
:35:51. > :35:55.are very good at fishing, he is thinking about picking up the
:35:56. > :36:01.scraps. Look at how close he is too that six-year-old bear! He will
:36:02. > :36:05.watch him intently as he goes into those shallow sand bars, running
:36:06. > :36:11.around, dashing and grabbing, trying to get a fish and this time,
:36:12. > :36:19.luckily, he was successful and he caught the salmon. The wolf followed
:36:20. > :36:24.him after he caught it. There he is, he misses it, it falls from his
:36:25. > :36:30.mouth, but he catches it again. Quite a small fish but right now,
:36:31. > :36:34.that will do very well, thank you. He is subordinate, he will take the
:36:35. > :36:39.fish away because bigger, more dominant males might take that away
:36:40. > :36:45.from him. He is still on the hunt for salmon, and all of these bears
:36:46. > :36:54.use different techniques, we could see that six-year-old using his
:36:55. > :36:58.tools, what do the others employ? At this time of year as brown bears
:36:59. > :37:12.gather at rivers, competition for the spots is fierce. -- the best
:37:13. > :37:14.spots. As the river is filled with fish, these expert predators adopt
:37:15. > :37:31.different fishing techniques. In shallow water, they use speed to
:37:32. > :37:37.run and jump and ambush the fish, pinning them with their giant claws.
:37:38. > :37:42.They stand on their hind legs, scanning the water to get a view
:37:43. > :37:47.from above. And as a river deepen, some sunlight to die for the river,
:37:48. > :37:58.even picking up dead or injured fish from the bottom. -- as the rivers
:37:59. > :38:02.deepen. Extremely sensitive pores allow them to feel for the salmon
:38:03. > :38:07.and they hold their breath whilst snorkelling to look under deeper
:38:08. > :38:20.water for the fish. Many methods have been passed from mother to
:38:21. > :38:27.come. Some will master if few of them whilst others stick to one of
:38:28. > :38:32.them that works. And some will not fish at all, simply sitting back and
:38:33. > :38:35.waiting for leftovers. Whatever the conditions, these bears are some of
:38:36. > :38:42.the most highly skilled and versatile hunters on the planet.
:38:43. > :38:46.Just incredible to see those brown bears kicking the salmon from the
:38:47. > :38:54.riverbed, we can pick up on some of those tools of the trade. In context
:38:55. > :39:00.with the size of my hand, this is that brown bear claw, look at the
:39:01. > :39:05.weaponry, this is a fishing hook but also if they get into competition,
:39:06. > :39:13.using this as a weapon and there are five of those on their paws, look at
:39:14. > :39:17.this, the black bear claws, smaller in size, used for fishing but a key
:39:18. > :39:24.ingredient when claiming these huge trees in this temperate rainforest
:39:25. > :39:29.and we are still hoping to bring the black bear live during the
:39:30. > :39:34.programme. Let me just get this other little weapon also. As you can
:39:35. > :39:47.see, this one, against my jacket, what do you think this belongs to? I
:39:48. > :39:54.will give you a clue... ... The bald eagle, an American icon, the
:39:55. > :40:00.national bird of the United States. Found only in North America, there
:40:01. > :40:07.are 30,000 in Alaska alone. Weighing in at six kilos, they glide on
:40:08. > :40:13.massive metre long wings, super-sharp eyesight five times as
:40:14. > :40:23.powerful as a human's and they are on the lookout 24/7. Soaring up to
:40:24. > :40:30.10,000 feet, they dive at 75 mph. Performing aerial acrobatics to
:40:31. > :40:35.steal food. They build the biggest nests in the world, some as heavy as
:40:36. > :40:43.one time in weight. It will eat anything. Rodents, carrion and even
:40:44. > :40:52.other birds. And fish is by far their remains stable. And right now,
:40:53. > :41:00.with the rivers brimming with salmon, it is easy pickings for
:41:01. > :41:05.these spectacular birds. It is obvious it is not just mammals
:41:06. > :41:10.feasting, the birds are also and we have a life eagle nest for you to
:41:11. > :41:14.look at. Just above the creek readies live eagle 's are feeding
:41:15. > :41:21.also but we hope we have a shot at the nest with an eight-week-old
:41:22. > :41:26.young eagle, there it is. This is turning out to be a very wet summer
:41:27. > :41:31.in this part of Alaska, Sidney Campbell is from the American Bald
:41:32. > :41:37.Eagle Foundation, this wet summer, how does this affect eagles? These
:41:38. > :41:45.are sea eagles so they are built to be in the wet. Still pretty downy,
:41:46. > :41:48.no covering feathers, he has dampened cold but that is par for
:41:49. > :41:54.the chorus in a temperate rainforest. You live here, is it
:41:55. > :42:02.unusual to see a wealth? Very unusual, I have never actually seen
:42:03. > :42:07.one of them! Not live! Is much interaction between wildlife like
:42:08. > :42:12.eagles and Wolves? If they have been feasting, will eagles take the rest?
:42:13. > :42:20.Definitely, and is so much food available from the bears, they just
:42:21. > :42:25.eat their heads and the eggs sacs, that is a feast for the bald eagle.
:42:26. > :42:31.What does the future hold for that young eagle? When will it go off to
:42:32. > :42:34.try to live its own life? He has around six weeks left before he
:42:35. > :42:37.flies on his own and he will spend the first five years of his life
:42:38. > :42:46.before he reaches sexual maturity meandering, being nomadic. We have
:42:47. > :42:55.to comment, seeing that wolf live but feeding! Really incredible,
:42:56. > :43:01.exciting stuff. There is a hive of activity as far as bald eagles are
:43:02. > :43:08.concerned, 30,000 of them, why is it so good here for them? We have
:43:09. > :43:12.salmon, the key to everything, the ecosystem relies heavily on them and
:43:13. > :43:15.that is what they love to eat. And the younger ones are learning from
:43:16. > :43:21.the parents, the younger ones with those brown head, it was
:43:22. > :43:28.interesting, you talked about them swimming? They are not built to be a
:43:29. > :43:33.multiple themselves from the water so if they do end up in the water
:43:34. > :43:38.they must make their way back to the shore by swimming so they tried to
:43:39. > :43:44.get as close to the surface as they can, snatching that fish and then
:43:45. > :43:49.right back out. Seeing that footage, standing on the back of the salmon.
:43:50. > :43:55.When you think of the obstacles they have to overcome to breed, it is a
:43:56. > :44:02.miracle there are so many. Only one in every 1000 makes it back to the
:44:03. > :44:03.rivers where they are born and there are predators everywhere, from the
:44:04. > :44:20.air, land and water. Alaska has more than its fair share
:44:21. > :44:28.of vast wilderness. And Prince William Sound is one of the most
:44:29. > :44:34.dramatic. Home to perhaps the least known but most surprising predator
:44:35. > :44:37.in Alaska. The salmon shark. At three metres long, these last fish
:44:38. > :44:42.are only one of a handful of fish that venture into the cold waters of
:44:43. > :44:46.Alaska. Being cold-blooded, these predators should not be able to
:44:47. > :44:51.thrive in the water here and they are often close to 0 degrees.
:44:52. > :44:56.Despite the fact that they always come here to see the salmon run,
:44:57. > :45:01.there is a part of me did not believe it was real. That you could
:45:02. > :45:06.get sharks in a place like this. But this is no ordinary shark. It has
:45:07. > :45:11.the rare ability to raise its body heat above that of the surrounding
:45:12. > :45:16.water. Meaning every summer, thousands come here to join the
:45:17. > :45:20.feast. And it is not long before a local expert spots a familiar shape.
:45:21. > :45:30.We have a shark in front of us here. Got it, no way! That's a fin, it's a
:45:31. > :45:36.shark! That's incredible. Just not what you expect streaking
:45:37. > :45:39.through the surface of an Alaskan lagoon with snow-capped mountains
:45:40. > :45:45.all around it. You see that classic dark dorsel
:45:46. > :45:49.fin. The sharks have gathered from all over the Pacific. As they wait
:45:50. > :45:53.for the fish, they've evolved to swim slowly in circles using muscles
:45:54. > :45:58.which not only keep them moving, but also produce heat. It's this
:45:59. > :46:02.self-generated heat that sets them apart from many other sharks keeping
:46:03. > :46:08.them limber in these cold waters and allowing them to power after salmon
:46:09. > :46:12.in bursts of up to 50mph. Boone has thrown in a couple of herring, we
:46:13. > :46:17.are hoping she will change course to grab hold of one of them. Coming
:46:18. > :46:24.back towards us... And diving. Wow. That's my first
:46:25. > :46:28.close-up glimpse of a salmon shark. Staying warm isn't their own
:46:29. > :46:34.adaptation to cope in these extreme conditions. With summer melt water
:46:35. > :46:40.running into the lagoons the waters are muddy with sediment making
:46:41. > :46:49.visibility almost non-existent but their giant supersensitive eyes suck
:46:50. > :46:52.in light, enhancing their vision. With most shark encounters, they use
:46:53. > :46:56.a sense of smell to draw them in, but these are so driven by their
:46:57. > :47:00.incredible eyesight, it's all about creating a flash of silvery scales
:47:01. > :47:07.and they see it, and they just come hammering in towards the bait.
:47:08. > :47:10.She is quick! To really understand the challenge salmon sharks face
:47:11. > :47:15.here, I am getting in. But I do need to be careful, as
:47:16. > :47:22.these sharks are distant relatives of the Great White. Steve, when you
:47:23. > :47:31.jump in, remember, slow movements, these sharks are quite skittish. Go
:47:32. > :47:37.that direction. And go about 20 feet. This is so spooky.
:47:38. > :47:42.Can't see the sharks at all. I know one was almost on me, and still
:47:43. > :47:46.couldn't see it. Can't even see my own feet and knowing that out there
:47:47. > :47:52.in the gloom... Is that one coming towards us now? Yeah, right behind
:47:53. > :47:58.us. Right behind us. Finally, out of the gloom, I catch sight of glosly
:47:59. > :48:02.shadows. It might not look like much but this is a privileged glimpse
:48:03. > :48:07.into the murky world of these extraordinary predators -- ghost. I
:48:08. > :48:10.guess that shows quite how specialised the senses are of this
:48:11. > :48:18.shark. It can still hunt something as fast as a salmon in water where
:48:19. > :48:23.you can't see anything at all. Well, Boone, we have been in contact
:48:24. > :48:31.with him, they've already seen 35 salmon sharks so numbers are already
:48:32. > :48:34.up as far as this year is concerned. Karla Casalucan joins us now, you
:48:35. > :48:39.made a big impact on Sunday, that's why you are here! You are a good
:48:40. > :48:44.omen for us, you were saying the wolf is... Here we go again, we have
:48:45. > :48:48.more live wolves, feeding this time. My relatives coming to show you a
:48:49. > :48:52.good time! Yeah, I mean, your tribe, it seems to have caused real
:48:53. > :48:59.interest back home. Could you give us a bit of history of the tribe.
:49:00. > :49:03.Well, they've been the original owner occupiers of Alaska for well
:49:04. > :49:06.over 10,000 years and our culture is still here thriving in this modern
:49:07. > :49:09.day age. We heard about the importance of Wolves and also the
:49:10. > :49:13.importance of eagles, they're a very important bird for you. Yeah, eagles
:49:14. > :49:20.are very important for us, as well. Aside from being our national symbol
:49:21. > :49:27.in this country, before our people here in the south-east community,
:49:28. > :49:32.they represent to the people one of the major - the society is divided
:49:33. > :49:36.into equal halves of the eagle and raven. People back at home are
:49:37. > :49:39.interested in how your tribe managed to survive before modern technology
:49:40. > :49:44.but you were saying interesting things earlier on. Modern technology
:49:45. > :49:49.learned a thing or two from traditional ecological knowledge. A
:49:50. > :49:55.lot of modern medicines come from native traditional medicines.
:49:56. > :50:02.Water-proofing. And yes, water-proofing, we use the animal
:50:03. > :50:05.fats or intestines. What do you make of porcupines? Fun little creatures,
:50:06. > :50:09.but boy, they are a nuisance sometimes. They like to get into
:50:10. > :50:13.people's gardens and chew things up that they probably shouldn't be
:50:14. > :50:18.eating up. You see this socket here, that's the work of a porcupine. They
:50:19. > :50:22.do interesting things, like rolling up carpet, would you believe? It's a
:50:23. > :50:25.fact, they roll up carpets and chew lots of sockets, as well. Don't know
:50:26. > :50:32.if they want us here, it's fun to have them. They are fun to watch
:50:33. > :50:34.actually. The mischief they can cause, eating people's bicycle tyres
:50:35. > :50:39.and chewing on brake lines for cars, yeah. It's time to join Steve again
:50:40. > :50:40.on his mission to get into the heart of the glacier. Let's catch up with
:50:41. > :51:00.him. I love the way that the waters
:51:01. > :51:05.sculpted the wall of this cave, there are marks running down the
:51:06. > :51:12.length of it. The thing that reminds you of quite what is so special
:51:13. > :51:16.about this place is the ice itself. Although, you know, it's very, very
:51:17. > :51:20.blue. When you look at one particular chunk of ice, it is
:51:21. > :51:26.see-through, it's like glass. The reason for that is that this fell as
:51:27. > :51:33.snow on the fields above us 250, maybe 300 years ago. Over that time,
:51:34. > :51:36.it's been squeezed down into this solid chunk of ice. Sometimes if you
:51:37. > :51:43.take particularly ancient ice and put a lump into a drink it starts to
:51:44. > :51:47.fizz with the gas, the air that's been held inside it for hundreds of
:51:48. > :51:58.years. Right, let's push on and see what we have beyond. I will have to
:51:59. > :52:02.squeeze past you, sorry! So this tunnel goes on for quite a
:52:03. > :52:08.way. Some of these will go for hundreds and hundreds of metres, all
:52:09. > :52:20.the way down through the glacier. And there will be lots and lots of
:52:21. > :52:25.ponds like this one. This is what is really important for the feast here
:52:26. > :52:30.in Alaska. This glacial silt, it's incredibly fine. It's kind of almost
:52:31. > :52:36.like toothpaste underneath your fingers. This has come from the
:52:37. > :52:39.bedrock and it's full of silt which is full of phosphates and iron and
:52:40. > :52:46.other minerals and eventually this will be swept out to sea along with
:52:47. > :52:52.all the pure water in the glacier, 50,000 billion gallons of it. That
:52:53. > :52:58.will drive down into the deep sea and drive up any trients that makes
:52:59. > :53:03.the planks of blue and eventually feeds everything else here in this
:53:04. > :53:06.Alaskan feast obviously this whole thing is changing as climate change
:53:07. > :53:10.breaks away these glaciers and it's frightening to think of what could
:53:11. > :53:13.happen in the future if these glaciers disappeared, certainly
:53:14. > :53:19.they're receding at a frightening rate. For now, it is really... Look
:53:20. > :53:24.at that up there! It's like a skylight above us! Bringing down
:53:25. > :53:31.light into this cave. Honestly, it is a real honour to be
:53:32. > :53:37.in here and see what has to be one of the most special places on the
:53:38. > :53:43.whole planet. I reckon there is still more clambering to go, up in
:53:44. > :53:53.that direction. Oh! It's still so cool!
:53:54. > :53:58.So, absolutely everything here in Alaska is interconnected in a
:53:59. > :54:02.complex web, even from these mighty skyscraper ice to the marine beasts
:54:03. > :54:08.at sea, and that's going to be my next mission.
:54:09. > :54:12.Oh, that's great. Look at that. Have a little scratch under the chin
:54:13. > :54:16.there, from that brown bear up the coast from where we are watching
:54:17. > :54:21.this, John. Beautiful. You can't get enough of this stuff. You have
:54:22. > :54:26.dedicated these life to your creatures. I took your quiz and I
:54:27. > :54:29.wound up a brown bear! Why have you decided to dedicate your life to
:54:30. > :54:34.them, John? They're amazing creatures. We can learn so much from
:54:35. > :54:37.them. Just getting along in the forest and understanding how to get
:54:38. > :54:41.along on a stream and share resources, that's amazing in itself.
:54:42. > :54:46.Yeah. We will go back. She's been finding out exactly what you are
:54:47. > :54:57.talking about here, we can cross to Liz live right now in Katmai
:54:58. > :55:00.National Park. Watching Daniel's shots there.
:55:01. > :55:05.That's the bear that was fishing right by us. Anything can change
:55:06. > :55:09.here. We were expecting more bears to congregate at the river but the
:55:10. > :55:13.tide is so far out today, it means the bears are following where the
:55:14. > :55:16.salmon are and where the best chances of catching them is really.
:55:17. > :55:21.The hierarchy is important here, isn't it, how do they establish the
:55:22. > :55:27.hierarchy? Well, it's body language, that's how they learn from each
:55:28. > :55:31.other, who is dominant. And what is the pecking order, the big males and
:55:32. > :55:35.then who follows next and who is at the bottom? The big males and then
:55:36. > :55:38.the males that are eight to ten years old and then the juveniles,
:55:39. > :55:41.but the mums with older cubs will have priority over the juveniles and
:55:42. > :55:45.then mums with the spring cubs will be last on the list. How important
:55:46. > :55:49.is your position in the hierarchy if you are a bear? It's extremely
:55:50. > :55:52.important, I mean, the dominant males are going to be at the mouth
:55:53. > :55:56.of the creek where the fish are fresher and the bears that have to
:55:57. > :56:00.fish further up the creek are getting the dead and spawned out
:56:01. > :56:05.fish that does not have a higher fat content. I am thinking about Aana
:56:06. > :56:09.and her cubs and how important it is to feed them, it's a trade-off for
:56:10. > :56:12.mums and cubs, you want the best possible fish but you can't get too
:56:13. > :56:15.close to the males or you risk them killing your cubs. Exactly. She has
:56:16. > :56:18.to take that chance. Sometimes she will come out here, but for the
:56:19. > :56:23.majority of the time she will be further up the creek. It goes to
:56:24. > :56:27.show how important this whole social hierarchy is as a salmon run plays
:56:28. > :56:33.out. We will look at that more on Sunday's show, particularly what
:56:34. > :56:38.happens when the males... That's a seagull. Who is top bear here and we
:56:39. > :56:41.will find out what happens when bears and wolves come together. We
:56:42. > :56:48.will see you then. I am going to ask you a cruel
:56:49. > :56:54.question here that's come in, is there one - is there a most
:56:55. > :56:57.important animal? It is the salmon. It's the heartbeat of the native
:56:58. > :57:02.people in the state. We have seen, of all the animals we have seen,
:57:03. > :57:07.goodness me, these pictures of live wolves, we never, ever thought we
:57:08. > :57:10.would get these. Brown bears in abundance, all sorts of wonderful
:57:11. > :57:14.creatures that do live here. Don't forget there is a live question and
:57:15. > :57:18.answer on the BBC One Facebook page right after the show. You are all
:57:19. > :57:22.welcome to join in. It's entirely up to yourselves, don't forget Wild UK
:57:23. > :57:31.is on tomorrow morning here on BBC One. Sunday is our final show. It is
:57:32. > :57:35.the big one! We are hoping to bring you all of
:57:36. > :57:39.the Alaskan animals descending on this feast, from land, from sky, and
:57:40. > :57:55.from sea. Please don't forget to join us at
:57:56. > :57:58.8pm on Sunday night. From all of our teams across the Alaskan wilderness,
:57:59. > :58:00.wherever they are, whatever they're bringing, it's goodbye from all of
:58:01. > :58:09.us. Good night.