Darwin's Amazing Animals

Japan's fabled ninjas have met their match in the chubby hazel grouse. This fluffy ball of feathers has lots of tricks up its wings including feigning injury and vanishing acts to make your head spin!

Declared extinct in the wild in Japan in the 1980s, the crested ibis has made a dramatic comeback following an artificial breeding and release program. But in the end, Mother Nature has the last word.

New Guinea is a haven for butterflies with nearly 1,000 species. Moving through dense jungle in search of the largest of them all, the Darwin team wonders how something so big can be so hard to find!