Wildlife
Nomadic animals wander from place to place, using no particular fixed routes - unlike a migration - rather than staying in one tightly defined area. There are boundaries to their wanderings and some species, wolves for example, are still territorial. Often, animals may be nomadic only part of the time, during particular seasons, like badgers, or particular life cycle phase, as with young male lions. Nomadism in these cases has reproductive advantages, allowing males to visit different groups of females and ensure a healthy gene pool.
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Moving home
The Dolgan must move home regularly to find new feeding grounds for their reindeer.
The Dolgan must move home regularly to find new feeding grounds for their reindeer.
Painted ladies that lunch
The travelling butterflies that won't wait for food to come to them.
The travelling butterflies that won't wait for food to come to them.
Bactrian camels
Surreal images of the last of the truly wild Bactrians in Mongolia's extreme winter.
There are few of these nomadic camels left in the vast Mongolian wilderness. They're so acutely sensitive they take fright when you're more than 4km away but a powerful HJ40 lens enabled the crew to film from a distance. Aerials were filmed from a Russian M18 helicopter using a conventional Tyler mount to dampen the shake. Increasing the film speed to 40fps rather than 25fps made the images smoother.
Giant anteater
African wild dog
Banded mongoose
Black bear
Brown bear
Common seal
Grey seal
Grey wolf
Leopard seal
Lion
Polar bear
Southern Elephant Seal
Weddell seal
American bison
Argali sheep
Bactrian camel
Dromedary camel
Giraffe
Mongolian gazelle
Springbok
Thomson's gazelle
Wild boar
Red kangaroo
Human
Olive baboon
Sumatran orangutan
Yunnan snub-nosed monkey
African bush elephant
Asian elephant
Forest elephant
Mammoths
Beluga whale
Common bottlenose dolphin
Lesser flamingo
King penguin
Macaroni penguin
Demoiselle crane
Ostrich
Long-eared owl
Short-eared owl
Snowy owl
Common crossbill
Waved albatrossOther Behavioural pattern behaviours
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Thorny devil
Olive ridley turtle
Whale shark
Tiger shark
Basking shark
Great white shark
Army ant
Desert locust