Dangerous encounters

National Geographic Channel Collection

Brady Barr has dodged the crushing jaws of carnivorous crocs to remove them to safety, wrestled six-foot Komodo dragons for a saliva sample and captured venomous cobras with his bare hands in order to analyse their venom. He has spent years in the field studying the most dangerous reptiles in the world. He’ll go anywhere and face off with just about anything if there’s good science in it. Now Brady raises the stakes as he journeys around the world, taking on a series of high-risk missions.

Whether he’s wrangling thrashing crocs, stalking the biggest snakes in the world, or evading bloodthirsty hyenas... each heart-pounding encounter will test Brady’s skills and push his courage to a new level. Will these edge-of-your-seat adventures prove Brady’s invincibility, or force him to face his own mortality?

Witness Barr make history as the first person to capture all 23 species of crocodiles in the wild. Barr compares the bite force of crocs to other predators and gets within snapping distance of the mouths of hyenas, lions, great white sharks, alligator snapping turtles and wild dogs.

In South Africa’s Mala Mala Game Reserve, Brady ventures into the ultimate den of danger: the home of the hyena. He’ll not only have to worry about the hyenas, an animal with one of the strongest bites on the planet, but also an unseen danger — the bubonic plague — a silent but deadly inhabitant of these burrows.

In his hair-raising adventures Dr Brady Barr combines action-packed missions with real science and technology. Brady do another important mission — tangle with some of the most fearsome beasts on the planet to educate the public about these awesome animals, and promote their conservation.