Steve travels to Guyana, one of the most undiscovered and untouched corners of South America, and home to pure wilderness and giant jungle predators.

In Mexico he handles a huge rattlesnake, swims with crocodiles and goes diving to find bull sharks.

Steve visits Queensland where he tracks a venomous box jellyfish, the fearsome stingray and the elusive coastal taipan snake.

Steve Backshall visits Namibia, where he tracks two hungry cheetahs as they hunt in the bush and stakes out a carcass to get up close to some vultures.

Steve is in South Africa in search of a pack of rare and endangered African wild dogs and gets up close to the highly unpredictable hippopotamus.