Whale with Steve Backshall

Steve Backshall explores our changing understanding of whales and how much we have in common, from complex family lives to advanced communication, and asks how a new golden age of discovery can allow us to better protect them.

Steve Backshall comes face to face with the largest and most sophisticated hunters on the planet to reveal their skills, teamwork and ingenious strategies, and how these now put them at risk from bycatch and entanglement.

Steve Backshall seeks out Earth’s greatest voyagers, including migratory humpback whales and calves, to explore why they swim across oceans to feed, breed and raise their young, and reveals the new challenges they now face.

Steve Backshall explores the British Isles, home to a third of the world’s whale species, and joins researchers discovering the surprising ways whales and dolphins are adapting to survive in oceans we are changing.