Here are some fascinating facts about the creatures that play a part in the food chain featured in the programme:
-A five-tone elephant is six million calories of fat, muscle, bone and guts. It would feed 300 people for a week.
-An elephant eats its own body weight every 25 days.
-An elephant has 450 litres of blood.
Hyenas have a sense of smell 40 times stronger than ours.
-An elephant's skin is 2.5cm thick. Vultures and hyenas get through the skin by attacking the soft, anal region of any carcass first followed by the mouth, the genitals and any wounds.
-The high-pitched chattering of the spotted hyena is responsible for its common name, the laughing hyena, and is a signal to other hyenas that there is fresh food. It can be heard up to five miles away.
-Hyenas have special bone-crushing teeth to extract the calcium inside.
-Female hyenas have penises and give birth through them. They have testosterone levels six times higher than the males.
-Leopards (and other nocturnal animals) have a reflective layer of cells behind their retinas which bounces light back through the retina, giving it a second chance at imaging. Their night vision is six times better than ours.
-Leopards can eat 20kg of meat in one go - more than 25,000 calories and the equivalent of 70 cheeseburgers.
-Maggots can consume 150kg of dead elephant flesh a day.
-Vultures have exceptionally corrosive stomach acids that allow them to safely eat rotten meat that would kill other animals.
-Hundreds of thousands of maggots feeding on a carcass can raise the surrounding temperature by 10 degrees celcius, creating the perfect humid conditions for them to thrive.
-The safari ant is totally blind and lives underground until it detects a carcass. It is not known how they do it.
