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WILD RECON: Episode Guide
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Alien Invasion
Premiering Tuesday, January 5, at 9 PM e/p
Animal adventurer Donald Schultz goes "Down Under" to Australia, home to some of the most venomous creatures on the planet. His mission is to find animals threatened with extinction by an unassuming toxic invader: the cane toad. He starts in the rugged bush, and when he finds his reptile targets, he takes venom and DNA samples from each one, in hopes of preserving these magnificent animals for future generations. Donald then journeys to the Southern Australia, where he tackles a thrashing emu that weighs as much as he does. His challenge is to avoid the flightless bird's razor-sharp talons long enough to get a blood sample for researchers. Finally, when night falls, he heads into the deadly waters off Queensland for his most dangerous mission of all: to grab rare, venomous sea snakes from a moving boat...by hand.
Frilled Lizard on the Attack | Lace Monitor Venom | Sea Snake Venom | Death Adder Venom | Red-Bellied Black Snake (deleted scene) | Argus Monitor (deleted scene)
MORE: Lace Monitor Venom | Lace Monitor Venom a Life-Saver? | Death Adder Venom | Death Adder Venom an Anticoagulant? | Sea Snake Venom | Sea Snake Venom an Anesthetic? | Cane Toad Profile | Death Adder Profile | Sea Snake Profile
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Rampage
Premiering Tuesday, January 12, at 9 PM e/p
Adrenaline junkie and animal adventurer Donald Schultz literally descends upon the Southeast Asian country of Sri Lanka in the aftermath of a brutal civil war — he becomes the only civilian to skydive into the nation in two decades. Production of antivenin has taken a back seat in this war-torn country, and, as a result, more than 1,200 of its people are dying each year from snakebites. Donald's mission is a dangerous but lifesaving one: capture three of Sri Lanka's deadliest snakes — the spectacled cobra, the krait and the Russell's viper — and milk their venom so researchers can create antivenin. Donald then treks into the lowland forest in search of one of his favorite animals, a slender loris, a tiny primate with a bizarre toxic defense. Before his Sri Lanka mission is complete, Donald joins forces with dozens of men to find and relocate a rampaging rogue elephant that's terrorizing local villagers.
Bengal Monitor Venom | Russell's Viper Venom | Common Krait Venom | Chasing a Tranquilized Elephant | Water Monitor Venom (deleted scene) | A Star Tortoise (deleted scene)
MORE: Indian Cobra Venom | Indian Cobra Venom: Cancer Killer?
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Bounty Hunter
Premiering Tuesday, January 19, at 9 PM e/p
On this mission, animal adventurer Donald Schultz travels to the exotic nation of Belize, nestled between Mexico and Guatemala on the Caribbean coast of Central America. He sets out on a dramatic search for deadly animals that are the targets of poachers, like crocodiles, sharks and rays. His goal is to collect blood and tissue samples needed for research before these endangered animals disappear. He heads into the dense rain forest canopy to track down the loudest animal in the world — the howler monkey — a critically endangered primate that's falling prey to poachers. While there, Donald stumbles on his least favorite creature — a tarantula spider that's nearly as big as his hand. In an unusual "milking" procedure, Donald anesthetizes the spider, then uses a tiny electric shock to draw its rare and understudied venom.
Morelet's Crocodile Relocation | Lionfish Venom (deleted scene)
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Bitten
Premiering Tuesday, February 2, at 9 PM e/p
Animal adventurer Donald Schultz is on a mission in Australia to collect samples from some of the most venomous creatures on Earth, including the deadly taipan and stonefish. His mission is jeopardized when he gets too close to one snake and is bitten, far from any medical help.
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Desert Venom
Premiering Tuesday, February 9, at 9 PM e/p
Animal adventurer Donald Schultz journeys to one of the world's toughest environments: the deserts of Jordan. His mission in this unforgiving terrain is to track down and collect samples from animals that have adapted to life in this harsh landscape — deadly snakes, venomous lizards, camel spiders and hyenas. The samples Donald collects may hold secrets that could one day benefit people.
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Lost Worlds
Premiering Tuesday, February 16, at 9 PM e/p
Adrenaline junkie Donald Schultz travels through Mozambique, South Africa and Tanzania. His mission: track down and collect biological samples from East Africa's biggest animals, including an elephant, a bull shark and a flying fox bat, then explore Pemba, a remote Tanzanian island with a history of black magic and forests that have never been scientifically chartered.
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Hidden Cures
Premiering Tuesday, February 23, at 9 PM e/p
Adventurer Donald Schultz travels to ground zero for biodiversity — the rainforests of Costa Rica. His mission: find and extract toxin, blood and venom samples that may hold keys to human pharmaceutical breakthroughs from a range of animals, including poison dart frogs, a three-toed sloth and a newly discovered species of sea snake.
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Moving Target
Premiering Tuesday, March 2, at 9 PM e/p
Animal adventurer Donald Schultz travels to the mountainous kingdom of Swaziland in search of a snake that has eluded him all his life, the berg adder. As he crisscrosses the country in search of this biological holy grail, Donald will come face to face with a deadly black mamba, tackle a giraffe and examine a lion for a disease which threatens to wipe out the local population — anthrax.
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Ocean Killers
Premiering Tuesday, March 9, at 8 PM e/p
With shark populations plummeting across the globe, scientists are in a race against time to save these fearsome predators from extinction. Animal adventurer Donald Schultz travels to the Bahamas, Florida and California to obtain tissues samples from highly endangered hammerhead populations, elusive reef sharks and a menacing bull shark.
This episode is dedicated to the memory of Ashley Krajca. Charitable donations can be made in her memory to the Ashley Krajca Memorial Scholarship. Mail your donation to:
Dr. Neil Hammerschlag
4600 Rickenbacker Cswy
Miami, FL 33149
Checks should be made out to "University of Miami" with "Ashley Krajca & Sharks" written in the memo.
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