"There is something missing from our world." "The amazing animals that time has left behind." "But what if we could bring them back?" "What if extinction didn't have to be for ever?" "We 're going back in time on a safari with a difference as wildlife adventurer Nigel Marven plunges into prehistory to rescue creatures on the brink of extinction." "His plan is to bring them back to the safety of the present and give them a second chance." "His next adventure is into the Ice Age where he'll come face to face with a woolly rhino, survive a showdown with a colossal cave bear and solve the mystery of what is killing the last mammoth on Earth." "Welcome to the ultimate wildlife sanctuary." "Welcome to Prehistoric Park!" "Prehistoric Park is starting to come to life." "Amongst the hills and valleys of this huge reserve, dinosaurs are getting used to their surroundings." "(Squawking)" "One day, Nigel Marven plans to breed extinct animals in captivity." "But for now, he's starting off by only bringing a few of each species back to see how they get on in the 21 st century." "The Park's latest newcomers seem to be settling in well." "Stop right there!" "Right, keep the tension at the back." "What an ingenious contraption!" "How are they?" "Not bad, but they're big beasts with big appetites." "Head Park Keeper Bob and his team are facing their first big challenge - keeping the Park's two baby T-Rex happy." "When Nigel found them, they had just been orphaned after their mother was fatally injured in a fight." "Nigel saved them from certain death just before a massive meteorite hit." "T ake it away!" "Y eah, all right, bring that round." "Feeding the T-Rex means meat and plenty of it." "When they arrived at the Park, the T-Rex were half-starved, but they've been making up for it ever since." "I'm not telling Bob everything about T" "Rex feeding habits, and Pete's so depressed!" "T" " Rex babies grow very fast." "Terence and Matilda will double their size every year until they grow to the length of a double-decker bus and weigh five tons." "(N igel) They' re voracious!" "Look at that, leaping for that!" "You see those teeth?" "They've got serrated teeth like sharks and slice off chunks of flesh." "No wonder they eat so much!" "They're polishing that off!" "I wouldn't like to be in there, I tell you!" "(Roars)" "Now Nigel's planning his next adventure." "Hello." "He's decided to rescue one of the most famous of all extinct animals, the woolly mammoth, the long-lost relative of modern-day elephants." "I adore elephants and they have a long history." "There are many species of elephant in the past - the mastodons and mammoth." "People think they had the same social history, but I want to travel back in time and find out whether that's true and maybe bring a woolly mammoth back to Prehistoric Park." "Would you like to meet a woolly mammoth?" "As in any conservation project, it's the most endangered animals Nigel wants to rescue, so he's got to travel back to the time that mammoths were on their last legs." "That was at the end of the Ice Age." "Freezing plains were the home to huge herds of mammoth, but 10, 000 years ago, it all changed." "Their world was turned upside down because of global warming." "The ice was disappearing and so were the mammoths." "This is at the end of the last Ice Age." "It was still cold, but the ice sheets were receding northwards and the mammoths were going there too." "The last surviving mammoths were found here, just east of the Urals in Siberia." "By going back to the brink of extinction, he'll see for himself what killed off these magnificent beasts and get his chance to save the woolly mammoth." "The time portal is set to take him back to the last Ice Age, 10, 000 years ago." "Here in the Ice Age, the warming of the climate has changed this world." "What once was rich, open grassland covered in grazing mammoths has now been invaded by dense forest." "This is no place for a mammoth." "Finding the last ones left alive is not going to be easy." "(Wind howls)" "We've gone for miles and this forest is limitless." "The climate's warming and caterpillars can survive on pine needles, but a six-ton mammoth, no way, there's just not enough nutrition." "It's this lack of good food that's brought the mammoth population to its knees." "It looks like there's nothing but trees here." "But at last Nigel finds something to break the monotony." "A prehistoric cave he can't resist exploring." "(Growling)" "No sudden moves." "(Growls ferociously)" "Nigel has chosen the wrong creature to disturb." "Cave bears stand 13 feet tall, weighing up to three-quarters of a ton, and are more muscular than any other bear." "Get moving!" "Run!" "Drop the camera if you have to!" "J ust move, move, move!" "Move!" "Cave bears may be huge, but luckily they can't climb trees." "There you are, I'm up here!" "I'm sorry about that." "I was sure they were extinct... at this time." "But what an exciting find!" "We've got to go and see it." "As long as we don't startle it, we can watch it foraging." "There he is." "I can tell he's a male cave bear." "The female has much smaller proportions." "I'm certain he was hibernating in that cave and he's packing in berries and the early spring vegetation." "Bears are not very carnivorous." "They feed on anything." "He wasn't hunting us." "Because we disturbed him, he chased us." "Cave bears won't be around for much longer." "(Growls)" "Nigel can't save every endangered animal he finds, so this time he lets sleeping bears lie." "It's time to get back to the business of finding a mammoth." "Nigel decides the best way to spot a mammoth is to get up high to scout the terrain." "It's so disappointing to come back 10,000 years to mammoth country and all I can see is trees, trees, thousands of them." "Mammoth, they need plains and grasslands and there's none of that anywhere here." "The changing habitat is not the only reason Nigel can't find a mammoth." "He knows that another factor has driven them to the brink of extinction." "Mammoths are hunted by Ice Age Man." "I think our only chance is a break over there at the base of the mountains." "There may be some grassland and we may find them there." "And then a clue that mammoth may not be too far away." "It's the most exciting find yet." "I just saw it gleaming." "This has been carved from a mammoth tusk." "(High note)" "Some kind of instrument." "The hunters could still be around." "And if they're around, the mammoths could be too." "And before long, there is a sign that at last Nigel's getting warmer." "Quick, here, look!" "At last, vital clues!" "Look at these massive footprints!" "Can only be a woolly mammoth." "This is the front footprint going that way." "Now look..." "Look at this!" "A concrete clue at last." "Mammoth dung." "Looks gross, but it's not." "Plant vegetation goes through the stomach virtually unchanged." "They're useless at digesting plant cell wall cellulose, so they have to feed for 16 hours a day." "And the crucial thing is it's still warm, so this is fresh." "The mammoth can't be far away." "Ssh!" "(Distant trumpeting)" "I can hear something." "Over there, I think." "But Nigel's in for a shock." "At last, mammoth!" "And there could be more than one." "There's two." "There's one down." "It looks like there's a mammoth trap." "The second one's not moving at all." "We'll try to get in closer, but there's something not right." "It looks like Ice Age hunters have beaten him to it." "(Mournful cries)" "I thought as much." "This is a killing field." "The hunters, they've dug a pit, covered it with snow." "The mammoth's fallen in, they've speared her to death." "There's another one staying by her dead herd mate." "This could be one of the last mammoths remaining on Earth." "Listen." "Oh, that is heart-rending!" "She's making this grumbling sound with her stomach." "She's trying to communicate to her dead herd mate." "It's a stomach rumble they do." "She won't get a response." "And she looks sick." "Head held low, ears close against her head." "(Rumbling)" "You're OK, sweetheart." "Keep calm." "OK, OK." "(Distressed cry)" "(Grumbling roar)" "We've got two females - hair, dainty, straight." "Tusks on... all mammoths, much bigger tusk, corkscrew curve... at the end." "What's happened is this one has stayed behind to defend her herd mate and she's been injured as well." "Hello, girl." "She's so weak, she can hardly lift her trunk." "And it's likely that the one that's been killed is this one's sister." "Mammoth populations got smaller because of climate change, but this drove them to extinction - over-hunting by early peoples." "The most horrifying thing is they didn't know any better, but we're still doing this sort of thing to rare animals in the 21 st century." "I'm sure this is why she looks poorly." "It's a broken-off spear." "She was probably defending the one in the pit and was attacked." "There's a wound in the shoulder." "We've got to do something quickly or it could flare up to a serious infection." "Nigel is faced with a dilemma." "Right now, the mammoth is too weak to walk through the time portal, but if he leaves, the hunters could come back to finish her off." "Somehow he needs to get her back on her feet." "He calls in his team who are scouting nearby." "We've got a very sick mammoth who needs rescuing, so get here as soon as you can." "'OK, we'll be straight over. '" "Back at the Park, Bob's busy with problems of his own." "Lovely." "He's having trouble looking after some of the dinosaurs" "Nigel has brought back." "He decided to treat Ornithomimus like ostriches and put them in a paddock, but they aren't doing well here." "They just won't eat the grass." "I thought they look like an ostrich, they've got a mainly vegetarian diet, so I put them in an ostrich enclosure." "That was an easy mistake because although an Ornithomimus might look like and act like an ostrich's prehistoric cousin, they don't like ostrich feed." "But Bob has noticed that these dinosaurs have more in common with Daffy Duck than Emu." "The answer lies in their teeth or lack of them." "An Ornithomimus hasn't got any teeth." "The inside of its mouth is very rough." "That's very similar to ducks and geese, so I thought, "Well, ducks, geese... ponds." ""Why don't I give them their own pond, then they can find their own food?"" "All he has to do now is to convince THEM it's a good idea." "(Squawking)" "Come on." "That's it now." "Out you come." "Come on." "(Excited squawking)" "Look at them go!" "Hopefully, the Ornithomimus will love the pond, if they can calm down long enough to find it!" "Back in the Ice Age, the team arrive soon with some antibiotics." "It's the only way to fight the infection that is rapidly taking over the mammoth's body." " We' re just gonna have to try it." " OK." "It's really desperate." "We'll lose her if we don't do anything." "One in four elephants, once they go down, they never get up." "We have to hope she's back on her feet in the morning and we can get her back to Prehistoric Park." "(Anguished cry)" "Nigel!" "Nigel!" "Nigel!" "Just there in the woods." "It's evening and the hunters are back to claim their prize." "Everyone's a bit nervous." "We think the hunters are coming in closer." "We were gonna take it in shifts to watch her through the night, but I'm gonna..." "She's so sick, you just feel she needs some companionship." "(Wolves howl)" "As night falls, the prospect of easy meat attracts some more unwanted visitors." "There's hyenas prowling." "I can see their yellow eyes shine." "If the wolves come closer, their eyes will shine green." "And the worst predator of all, the human hunters know that the kill is there." "And humans have no eye shine at all, so they're the hardest to spot." "It's going to be a long night." "(Howling)" "No!" "Get away, get away!" "Leave her!" "Leave her!" "Nigel's managed to ward off the wolves, but he knows his job is far from done." "The mammoth is only safe if he can keep the rest of the predators at bay." "The hunters are at the edge of the forest." "I knew they'd return for the kill." "Perhaps it's just the sight of Nigel, but fortunately they don't come in any closer." "You're all right, baby." "You're all right." "Dawn." "She's still alive, but will she be strong enough to get back on her feet?" "You can tell a dog's healthy by a wet nose." "You've got a wet trunk." "Ohh... (Moans)" "OK, keep calm." "The ears are coming forward." "Back off, back off." "Even though she's woozy, she can still charge." "Keep calm." "She's not showing any aggression towards us." "She's going back with her dead sister." "(Anguished cry)" "It's so exciting she's up, but we've got to get her away from her sister and that's going to be difficult." "The big question is will the mammoth leave her Ice Age world and follow Nigel back to the 21st century?" "There's only one way to find out." "(Trumpets)" "Walk on." "That's it." "Walk further." "Come on." "Come on, you can do it." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on, then." "Come on." "She's made it back to Prehistoric Park, but she's in urgent need of help." "Suzanne, I've got a mammoth." "She's injured!" "Get here fast!" "Prehistoric Park's head vet Suzanne hasn't looked after a mammoth before, but she's hoping that what she knows about elephants will help." "We're just giving her a light sedative so she'll lie here and let me do this." "She's got a really deep, horrible infected wound with this thing stuck in it." "I'm seeing if I can get it out." "An important difference between mammoths and elephants is the layer of fat beneath the skin." "In mammoths, it's an incredible three inches." "She's got this really thick layer of fat." "She's an Ice Age creature, so it's to keep her warm, but it means this is really hard to get out." "It's like a spearhead or something." "We'll treat it like an elephant wound, just leave it open, not stitch it." "Elephants, they just heal up." "It takes a long time, but she'll form a scar there." "OK..." "I'll need to give her another shot of antibiotics in a couple of days." "The camera's working." "With the spear tip removed and the mammoth back on her feet, it looks like she's on the road to recovery." "Nigel hopes that now she'll be ready to start her new life at the park." "Later that day, she is moved to her enclosure." "The team decide to call her Martha." "It's feeding time at Prehistoric Park." "The T-Rex are putting on weight." "And the Ornithomimus love their new pond and their new duck feed." "You like this, don't you?" "The beaks on these creatures allow them to sieve their food, more like ducks than ostriches." "I was right about the pond." "The Ornithomimus love it." "Look at them." "They're dabbling about like ducks." "We've given them a real home from home." "Oh, they love it." "In fact, you could even call them 'duckasaurus'." "Everyone is enjoying their food." "Everyone, that is, except for Martha." "There's a big problem - she hasn't eaten since she got here." "Keep piling it in." "Vet Suzanne is very concerned." " How is she?" " Not too well, unfortunately." "She's just not eating anything at all." "We're trying new hay every day." "And she's not interested." "Can you get Bob to get fresh grass?" "We'll try that." " Yeah, I'll go and see him." " OK, thanks." "I'm not sure what the problem is at all." "We thought this would be a suitable enclosure for her." "The elephants like it, but she doesn't seem very happy." "Her clinical exam's normal, blood tests have been fine, her temperature's normal, her wound is not infected." "I just don't know what the problem is." "If she doesn't eat soon, she'll not be OK." "Martha needs to eat well to regain her strength." "If she doesn't, the infection might take hold again and that could kill her." "Could you sign this, please?" "Back at the surgery, Suzanne does some more research." "This is a fossilised mammoth's tooth and this is a real elephant's tooth." "Really similar grinding and wear patterns." "That's not the problem." "I think it may be the grass or a different digestive system." "I'm just not sure." "Martha's getting weaker." "Something needs to be done." "Martha's seriously sick and we've got to move quickly." "I plan to go back 150,000 years when mammoth populations were flourishing." "There will be lots of healthy animals." "I can find out what makes them healthy and maybe we can save Martha." "150, 000 years ago, the world was in the full grip of the Ice Age." "Woolly mammoths were everywhere from the west of Europe to the east of Asia." "Compared to his last trip, it's even colder and, because it's dry, lots of different kinds of grass grow here." "Nigel should have no problem finding out what mammoths like to eat." "It's a real different feeling." "No trees, perfect climate and vegetation for mammoths." "They're flourishing." "The females have much smaller tusks than the males." "They're following the lead of one animal and she's the matriarch." "She could be 60 years of age." "She maintains cohesiveness in the herd." "They stop when she stops, sleep when she sleeps and feed and drink when she does." "There's a patch of green down there." "That's an area of vegetation where we should go to get these plant samples." "(Trumpet calls)" "There's a commotion in the herd." "The matriarch is leading them away." "I don't know why." "I can't see a predator." "There." "It's a big bull mammoth, a male mammoth, and he's in musk, which means he's ready to mate." "When they're in this state, they've got four times the amount of testosterone and they can be really irritable and aggressive." "He's driving the herd away." "He's investigating all the females, seeing if there's one that's ready to mate." "It's such an enchanting sight." "It's like an extended family - mothers and calves, there's aunties, there's sisters..." "And they all seem to be thriving on their grassland diet." "Look how rich it is." "It's so... diverse." "Grasses and mosses and all sorts of things." "They need a lot of vegetation." "Sometimes they have to have 200kg, twice my weight in food, every day." "And they forage on things like this over here." "They may get vitamins and things from twigs like that." "We need to get a big sample, take it back for an analysis and get Martha feeding again." "He came here to find out about their food, but he's learning a lot more." "Like elephants, mammoths seem to have a strong bond between the herd." "Something's wrong down there." "There's a calf in a muddy pond." "It's on its own and really struggling." "They've noticed." "Mammoths are going over." "The matriarch, she's going as well." "Come on, girl." "He's really in trouble there, a tiny calf." "Can't be more than a month or so old." "(Calf cries out)" "And that's what the matriarch does." "Whenever there's trouble, she helps." "Mammoths aren't the only creatures tucking in to the rich grassland." "(Growl)" "I've seen these in the textbooks." "It's an Elasmotherium, a prehistoric rhinoceros, twice the size of modern rhinos, weighs up to five tonnes." "The Elasmotherium will soon be extinct, dying out as the climate gets warmer and its habitat disappears." "I can feel the breeze on my face." "We're downwind of him." "Very, very poor eyesight." "He's got to get very close to see us." "But if he does, he could charge, and that horn is formidable." "It's as long as I'm tall, nearly two metres." "And he'd have no hesitation about charging and impaling me with that." "That would really spoil my weekend." "But you wouldn't want to be trampled on by an angry bull mammoth either." "(Mammoth roars)" "(Fierce cry)" "(Roars)" "Although safe from the bull mammoth, Nigel needs to retrieve the plant bag, but now he's got his eye on something much bigger to take back to the park." "This is his chance to save the Elasmotherium from extinction, but it means taking a huge risk and using himself as bait." "(Growls)" "Get these veg samples!" "(Roar)" "Ohh!" "Close the gate!" "(Bellowing roar)" "OK, let him through!" "We've got it!" "The large male Elasmotherium is now the latest addition to Prehistoric Park." "All right, Nigel?" "What's going on?" "I don't believe it!" "Only you could go away to collect a few grasses and get that!" " He's magnificent, isn't he?" " Suzanne?" "You'd better get over here." "Nigel's got a little surprise for us." "Look at that!" "Nigel heads straight over to see whether he can tempt Martha with his Ice Age grass samples." "Come on, Martha." "Come on." "This is prehistoric salad." "Come on." " (Growls)" " Come on." "This is salad from the Ice Age." "Come on." "She just won't be enticed." "She just won't feed at all." "It's anthropomorphic to say it, but she looks lonely." "The mammoths I saw, the females at least, were always in big groups." "There were aunts, grandmas, mums, calves, sisters." "I would have brought another one back, but her sister was killed by the hunters." "In elephant societies, only bulls are on their own." "Cows are always with others." "So maybe she needs some companionship." "Could that be the answer - the reason that Martha's not eating is the fact that she's all alone?" "Some creatures are well-suited to being on their own, like the Elasmotherium, who is settling in well to his new home." "But just as elephants need to be close to their family, so do mammoths." "Martha, barely able to stand up, is dying of loneliness." "Nigel calls a meeting to propose a radical idea." "She's literally pining to death." "They're herd animals." "She's stuck on her own, she's got no companionship, they're closely related..." "Could we put them together?" "The precedent has been set to put elephants in with established herds." "I don't think it's a bad idea to see how we go with Martha." "Our herd's established, it's got a pecking order, a matriarch." "What if Martha becomes the dominant female?" "Surely we can just do it slowly." "If there's a big problem, split them up." " If we don't do something, she'll die." " It's a risk we've got to take." "It's a team decision, but will it work?" "It's an important day at Prehistoric Park." "Nigel and his team are about to introduce an Ice Age mammoth to an elephant herd." "I ' m petrified about this." "It's difficult enough putting a strange elephant into an established herd, but when you try to do it with a mammoth..." "But it's Martha's last chance." "Nigeljust hopes he's doing the right thing." "The plan is to introduce Martha to the head of the elephant herd." "If she's accepted by the matriarch, then she'll be accepted by the rest of the herd." "While it has its risks, it could save Martha's life." "There we go." " It's gonna be OK." " Bit risky, innit?" "It's our only chance." "Elephants can be very unpredictable when faced with the unfamiliar." "Nerve-racking, isn't it?" "She's sensing everything, smelling everything that's going on." "I'm pleased she's walking up." "She doesn't seem to be really apprehensive." "She seems really good, really happy." "It's a good start, though." "Better than we thought." "The way with her trunk she's making overtures of friendship, at least." "This looks like it's working." "It's amazing." "Matriarchs have been known to kill elephants trying to come into the herd," " but nothing like that." " It's great." "Look at that." "(Both call)" " What do you think?" "Should we...?" " Yeah, I think we should go for it." "OK, Bob." "Open the gate, please." "All the signs are good." "Good girls." "It looks as though Martha the mammoth has been accepted by the elephant herd." "It's working!" "Next time on Prehistoric Park,"