The whaling battle ignites as The Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon ship collide; Sea Shepard can only track the whaling fleet by helicopter.

With Japanese harpoon ships approaching, Peter finds himself losing control as a storm threatens and crew members defy his orders.

Peter takes the lead as The Sea Shepard launches its 10th anti-whaling campaign in the Antarctic; One misstep could cause hundreds of whales to lose their lives.

Sea Shepherd locates the Nisshin Maru, and must run an eight-mile gauntlet against two harpoon ships to reach its target.

Sea Shepherd sends a helicopter out to identify a large mystery vessel on its radar, but the aircraft quickly disappears after reaching the limits of its fuel range.

Three members of the Sea Shepherds make their way onto a heavily guarded Japanese security ship; Capt. Corneliessen hopes to create an international incident by leading the Yushin Maru 3 into Australian waters.

The Brigitte Bardot's exhausted crew evacuates the damaged ship; Capt. Watson sends a team to board the Japanese security vessel Shonan Maru.

The Brigitte Bardot crew abandons their damaged vessel; the Bob Barker deploys a team to disable a Japanese harpoon ship.

The Steve Irwin and Bob Barker race to assist the Brigitte Bardot, but the storm-battered scout vessel may not survive the night.

An unknown vessel heading toward the Steve Irwin is identified as part of the Japanese whalers' security detail; the Brigitte Bardot encounters a fuel shortage and the wrath of Mother Nature.

Capt. Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherds return for another confrontation with Japanese whalers; the team gambles on a plan designed to intercept the enemy before they reach the whaling grounds.

Featuring Peter Bethune as he shares his experiences on board the ship that took him into custody, held him for nearly a month and his detainment in Japan for months.

The crew continue to engage the Japanese whaling fleet, leading to a chase into an ice field; the Sea Shepherd vessels end their campaign for the season.

Pete Bethune attempts to board one of the Japanese whaling vessels; the engine dies on the Sea Shepherd.

The Sea Shepherd crew deploys new tactics in their effort to stop Japanese whalers.

The ship is assessed for damage; the crew finds a gash in the steel hull and water is pouring in.

The Bob Barker searches for their two small boat crews who were lost at sea.

Damage to one of the small boats forces the crew to spend the night at sea.

The Steve Irwin enlists the help of the Gojira to break free from a harpoon ship; the Bob Barker crew spots a large blip on their radar.

Paul decides to stop engaging the harpoon ships and instead search for the factory vessel.

The Sea Shepherd departs with a new vessel in its fleet, Gojira.

Jeremy Wade is not a fisherman; he's an "extreme angler" in search of the biggest and most dangerous freshwater fish, the kind with a taste for human flesh. This action-adventure series also features Wade illustrating how these river monsters are constructed to kill.

CGI animation helps illuminate stories from around the world that recount how someone's life has been changed forever by an unexpected encounter with an animal, sometimes heartwarming, sometimes utterly terrifying.

Animal Planet dedicates six hourlong episodes to the cause of ocean conservation, spotlighting a global network of activists, journalists and scientists who risk their lives to battle poachers and organized crime on the high seas. These unlikely heroes with a passion for justice engage in high-adrenaline missions to track down a new breed of outlaws threatening not just marine life but the entire planet. In Tanzania, biologists strive to save coral reefs from blast fishing. In Thailand, poachers pillage ancestral fishing grounds. And Greenpeace patrols for illegal shark fishing on the waters of the Pacific. Co-executive producer Robert Redford describes the oceans as in crisis because of climate change, pollution and illegal over-fishing, and he says the series serves as a call to "take up the charge to protect our oceans for future generations."

Ten of the world's top anglers compete in a series of unusual fishing challenges.

Australian host Steve Irwin and his wife Terri run a wildlife refuge. Their shared passion is educating the world about wildlife, including the much feared crocodile and numerous venomous snakes. Steve's speciality is the capture and relocation of crocodiles. No animal appears too threatening to Steve, his true respect for animals is the foundation for everything he does.

The famously tough Mike Tyson cradling a pigeon in the same hands that helped him become an all-time boxing champ is a strange image, indeed. But it's one Tyson cherishes. "The first thing I ever loved in my life was a pigeon," he says. "Pigeons are a part of my life." In "Taking on Tyson," the Brooklyn native goes back to his roots and reconnects with his feathered friends by experiencing the bizarre subculture of pigeon racing. Yes, pigeon racing. Like many aspects of Tyson's complex life, this one is better seen to be believed.

If it's weird, true and freaky and it involves animals, you'll see it on this series, a frenzied documentation of amazing caught-on-tape moments and stories in a world where only the fittest survive. Whether attacking from above, or emerging from the depths, nature's most terrifying confrontations gone awry prove that in the animal kingdom, anything is possible.

Animal Planet expands its family of wildlife law enforcement series, adding to Maine's "North Woods Law" an offering that follows an elite patrol force in Texas. "Lone Star Law" features the men and women of the Texas Game Wardens who protect more than a quarter-million square miles of deserts, lakes, piney woods, bayous, plains and coast in the second-largest state in the U.S. Whether rushing to investigate poaching cases, save flash-flood victims, disrupt illegal smuggling rings, or rescue injured wildlife, the officers are always on the go, defending both animals and citizens.