Nature's Perfect Partners

Pictured: Killer whale pair spy-hopping to observe Weddell seal in preparation to knock it from the ice by creating a wave. Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula, summer.

Credit: Courtesy of Doug Allan

It won’t come as any surprise that survival is the number one goal in the animal kingdom. But to ensure success on a continual basis, many creatures have opted to form alliances rather than go it alone. There are all kinds of partnerships to fulfill different needs, but as this film explains, these relationships are not only between animals of the same species. What is really astonishing is that completely unrelated species also form unlikely collaborations to succeed in the wild. Nature’s Perfect Partners, airing Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 8 p.m.,travels around the world to profile an array of such animals who have joined forces.