Steve travels to the wild islands of Indonesia. He has a close call being chased by the world’s largest lizard, the legendary komodo dragon, rescues a three metre venomous king cobra, goes diving in the treacherous seas that surround the islands getting hands on with the world’s most poisonous fish and he has his first ever encounter with an unusual predator, the aptly named flamboyant cuttlefish.

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.