Jonathan Scott and Simon King follow the real life day-to-day activities of five families of lion, leopard and cheetah on location in Kenya's Masai Mara. Half-Tail the leopard and her cub deal with streams in spate and fail to catch any impala. Fundi the cheetah has 10-month-old cubs, who chase a fox and an aardwolf. Kidogo the cheetah has playful 12-week-old cubs. The lionesses of the Marsh pride put up with torrential rain and aggressive males.
What do the big cats do in the dead of night? Equipped with night-vision goggles and using special infra-red cameras, the Big Cat Diary team are able to unravel some of the answers as they move around the bush in complete darkness.
Kidogo the cheetah relaxes with her cubs and successfully hunts a gazelle. One of Kidogo's cubs traps its paw in some branches. Half-Tail the leopard stores her kill up one tree - and her cub falls out of another one. A lioness mates with three different males.
Simon King and Jonathan Scott have been tracking the big cats for four weeks. With every day the individual animals and their habits are becoming more familiar. Simon introduces us to Young Girl, Old One and the Outcast, all lionesses. The female leopard, Half Tail, and her surviving cub hunt, feed and play by day and night. Kidogo, the cheetah mother, must keep clear of the neighbouring lion pride as she seeks out food for her two young cubs.
Simon King and Jonathan Scott spend every daylight hour unravelling the character and habits of the big cats they have followed for the last five weeks. With the aid of infra-red light, they continue their vigil into the night. Half-Tail the leopard and her cub have become more mobile, both by day and by night. The Big pride of lions can also be elusive, but with so many young cubs in the group, the effort to track them down pays off. Fundi the cheetah and her cubs are in good shape.
The heavy rains disperse the prey on the Masai Mara; hungry lionesses and their cubs face uncertainty.
Simon King and the BBC Natural History Unit film crews return to Kenya's Masai Mara game reserve to film the lives of the four big cat families they first captured on camera four years ago.
Amber's cheetah cubs learn to fend for themselves; leopards Half-Tail and Shadow remain elusive.
Half-Tail is found; the cheetah cubs strive for independence; the marsh pride reaches a milestone.
Half-Tail has become a mother again; a Marsh pride male plays with his cubs; wildebeest and zebras cross the crocodile-infested Mara River.
Serval family; the marsh pride encounters vultures; Half-Tail's cubs are timid; a new pride encounters a buffalo herd; Amber and her cubs find a wildebeest calf.
The marsh pride stalks a zebra foal; Shadow stalks a wildebeest; the cheetahs attempt ambitious kills; an elephant herd threatens the cubs.
Amber's cubs spy a gazelle family; the marsh pride encounters a buffalo herd; Shadow patrols her territory; Half-Tail watches dueling impalas.
Amber's family chases gazelles; a lioness is injured; the social relationship of the marsh pride; Shadow makes a double kill.
The cheetahs grow hungry; gazelles and warthogs thwart Shadow; the pride has an unsuccessful hunt; the marsh cubs encounter a buffalo herd.
A buffalo herd kills a cub; the lioness eats her dead cub; Amber's cubs display inexperience; a baboon troop catches a gazelle, which the cheetahs try to steal; wildebeests mob Shadow.
Amber's cubs use unorthodox hunting techniques; Shadow is restless; Half-Tail's cubs remain playful; the marsh pride faces uncertainty; wildebeest crossing south to Tanzania face crocodiles; anthology review.
The Masai Mara is suffering from a terrible drought but Shadow has a cub and Solo the young lion cub is with his mum.
Worrying news for Shadow and her cub Safi as a male leopard is hunting nearby as Solo plays with mum.
The Marsh Pride teenagers attack a Hippo whilst Solo's mum is found having been attacked.
After being attacked, Solo's mum rejoins the Ridge Pride with Solo as Amber struggles to hunt.
Solo becomes the playmate of the rest of the pride but a male leopard attacks Shadow and Safi.
The search is on for Shadow and Safi following the attack but where are they and is Safi still alive.
Safi is found alive and well but there is no sign of Shadow as Solo spends time with the male lions.
As the series comes to an end, Shadow starts to spend less time with Safi but Solo the lion cub has gone missing.
Shadow is showing signs of being a new mum whilst Marsh Pride mum's try to keep their cubs away from the pride.
Looking for Solo, Jonathon finds him with a buddy as they deal with other lions as Honey the cheetah teaches her cubs hunting skills.
Honey is teaching her cubs to kill at a younger age as Solo continues live as a nomad.
As Saba sets out to find the marsh pride, she discovers they are within camp as hyena's are close to Shadow and her cubs.
With only one cub left, can Shadow raise it like Safi as the lionesses keep the males away from their cubs.
Honey's cubs are ambitious and take on an adult bull elephant as a bush fire errupts in Shadow's territory.
As Honey plays with her cubs, buffalos try to kill the Marsh Pride.
The series comes to an end with a rare sight of a male leopard, a relaxed pride and a happy cheetah family.
The Marsh Pride are strong; Bibi becomes a mother; Simba only male to protect the pride whilst the leopard team search for a leopard, Kike tries to find food for her cubs.
The leopard team find Bella who has two young cubs, Kike struggles to find enough food whilst the Marsh Pride are in disarray.
Bella's cubs have survived the storm whilst Bibi's have escaped the male lions as Kike and her cubs relax.
As Kike's cubs learn the hunt, Bella's have escaped the baboons but Bibi's have an encounter with the older lions in the pride.
As Bella and her cubs relax in a tree, Kike and her cubs are hunting in Marsh Pride territory causing trouble.
The cheetah cubs finally make a successful kill and hang on to it. Four new lions appear and they seem to be in constant trouble.
Aired under the name Big Cat Diary Family Histories. The fascinating story of two very different lion cubs growing up in Kenya's Masai Mara - Cheza and Sala.
Aired under the name Big Cat Diary Family Histories. Saba Douglas-Hamilton follows the life of Bella the leopard and her family.
Aired under the name Big Cat Diary Family Histories. The story of a lone cheetah cub being raised by her mother in the Masaai Mara in Kenya
Since 1996, the BBC's Big Cat team have been following the daily dramas of some of Africa's biggest feline stars: lions, leopards and cheetahs. This 10th anniversary show finds out how the presenters felt filming unique and truly heart-stopping moments in the Masai Mara.
Saba is on the trail of Bella the leopard, who has got rid of her overgrown son Chui and is being courted by all the male leopards in the area. Life's a battle for single mums Tamu the lion and Honey the cheetah. Keeping her four cubs fed means Honey must make some life-threatening decisions, while Tamu has to protect her family from a buffalo herd.
Tamu the lioness has once again lost one of her cubs. Bella the leopard is still trying to hunt, but must beware of other predators around her. Honey the cheetah mum and her cubs are confronted by lions.
The drama starts immediately - harrowing confrontations with the Marsh pride and an invasion of her den by buffalo. And Tamu has to fend off an attack by a rogue adult male. After heroically repelling the male she returns to her cubs to find two instead of four. Tamu must make a difficult decision. She's reluctant to leave the two, but desperate to search for the others. Will Tamu be able to find and protect her cubs? This is a moving and emotional tale of one mother's struggle for survival.
The complete story of the Marsh Pride lions, from the beginning of Big Cat Diary in 1996. The lion is the biggest of Africa's big cats. But sometimes even the King of the Beasts can fall on hard times. We follow the fortunes of the Marsh pride and the Big pride.
The story of the cheetah families in the Masai Mara over eight years. Over six weeks we follow the fortunes of two adult female cheetahs, Kidogo and Fundi. Cheetahs are high-specification hunters designed for performance, unrivalled for elegance and sheer speed.
Over eight years, rare and intimate insights into the lives of a Leopard family were captured. The leopard is Africa's shyest and most elusive big cat. Simon King narrates the story of Half-Tail and her cub, leopards in the Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya. The programme follows them as they stalk prey and are stalked by larger predators such as lions.
