![Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A pride of lions known as 'Swamp Cats' have learnt to hunt in the flooded swamps of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. But they have met their match in an adult male buffalo who weighs more than all the lions combined. - (C) BBC - Photographer: screen grab]( "Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A pride of lions known as 'Swamp Cats' have learnt to hunt in the flooded swamps of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. But they have met their match in an adult male buffalo who weighs more than all the lions combined. - (C) BBC - Photographer: screen grab")
Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A pride of lions known as 'Swamp Cats' have learnt to hunt in the flooded swamps of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. But they have met their match in an adult male buffalo who weighs more than all the lions combined. - (C) BBC - Photographer: screen grab (Image: WARNING: Use of this copyright image is subject to the terms of use of BBC Pictures' Digital Picture Service (BBC Pictures) a...)
The documentary is best known for travelling to unexplored and hard to reach corners of the globe, but this week's episode sees scenes shot a little closer to home in the meadows of Norfolk.
Footage was taken from grasslands across the county including Pensthorpe Nature Reserve in Fakenham
The location was chosen because of Norfolk's conservation groups which are releasing harvest mice back into the wild.
During the episode a harvest mouse is filmed climbing to the top of its grassland canopy using it's prehensile tail which David Attenborough says 'is just like having a fifth limb so it is as agile as monkey.'
Whilst feeding on the flower heads at the top of the grass a barn owl is seen swooping around the meadow.
But the harvest mouse is just to quick for the predator and uses its tail to swing down to the ground.
The Grasslands episode also looks at Asia's saiga antelope, anteaters in Brazil and lions battling buffalos in the fludded Okavango in Botswana.
You can watch the episode at 8pm on BBC One.
![Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A giant ant-eater on the cerrado plains of Brazil uses powerful claws longer than a velociraptor's to tear open a termite mound. The ant-eater has a two foot long tongue covered in microscopic hooks enabling it to devour up to 30,000 insects a day. - (C) BBC - Photographer: screen grab]( "Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A giant ant-eater on the cerrado plains of Brazil uses powerful claws longer than a velociraptor's to tear open a termite mound. The ant-eater has a two foot long tongue covered in microscopic hooks enabling it to devour up to 30,000 insects a day. - (C) BBC - Photographer: screen grab")
Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A giant ant-eater on the cerrado plains of Brazil uses powerful claws longer than a velociraptor's to tear open a termite mound. The ant-eater has a two foot long tongue covered in microscopic hooks enabling it to devour up to 30,000 insects a day. - (C) BBC - Photographer: screen grab (Image: WARNING: Use of this copyright image is subject to the terms of use of BBC Pictures' Digital Picture Service (BBC Pictures) a...)
![Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A one-horned Asian rhino emerges from the tall grass of Kaziranga National Park, northeast India. She has poor eyesight but uses her sensitive hearing to listen out for danger. - (C) BBC NHU/Chadden Hunter - Photographer: Chadden Hunter]( "Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A one-horned Asian rhino emerges from the tall grass of Kaziranga National Park, northeast India. She has poor eyesight but uses her sensitive hearing to listen out for danger. - (C) BBC NHU/Chadden Hunter - Photographer: Chadden Hunter")
Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A one-horned Asian rhino emerges from the tall grass of Kaziranga National Park, northeast India. She has poor eyesight but uses her sensitive hearing to listen out for danger. - (C) BBC NHU/Chadden Hunter - Photographer: Chadden Hunter (Image: WARNING: Use of this copyright image is subject to the terms of use of BBC Pictures' Digital Picture Service (BBC Pictures) a...)
![Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A pair of carmine bee-eaters migrating through Botswana in search insect prey. They rely on larger animals such as ostrich and elephants to flush insects out of the long grass. - (C) BBC - Photographer: screen grab]( "Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A pair of carmine bee-eaters migrating through Botswana in search insect prey. They rely on larger animals such as ostrich and elephants to flush insects out of the long grass. - (C) BBC - Photographer: screen grab")
Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A pair of carmine bee-eaters migrating through Botswana in search insect prey. They rely on larger animals such as ostrich and elephants to flush insects out of the long grass. - (C) BBC - Photographer: screen grab (Image: WARNING: Use of this copyright image is subject to the terms of use of BBC Pictures' Digital Picture Service (BBC Pictures) a...)
![Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II voiced by Sir David Attenborough - (C) Ruth Peacey - Photographer: Ruth Peacey]( "Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II voiced by Sir David Attenborough - (C) Ruth Peacey - Photographer: Ruth Peacey")
Planet Earth II voiced by Sir David Attenborough - (C) Ruth Peacey - Photographer: Ruth Peacey (Image: WARNING: Use of this copyright image is subject to the terms of use of BBC Pictures' Digital Picture Service (BBC Pictures) a...)
![Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) Grass-cutter ants on the pampas grassland of Argentina harvest more grass than all other local herbivores combined. They can't digest the grass but instead ferment the blades in their own unique underground fungal farm. The grass feeds the fungus and the fungus feeds the ants. - (C) BBC - Photographer: screen grab]( "Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) Grass-cutter ants on the pampas grassland of Argentina harvest more grass than all other local herbivores combined. They can't digest the grass but instead ferment the blades in their own unique underground fungal farm. The grass feeds the fungus and the fungus feeds the ants. - (C) BBC - Photographer: screen grab")
Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) Grass-cutter ants on the pampas grassland of Argentina harvest more grass than all other local herbivores combined. They can't digest the grass but instead ferment the blades in their own unique underground fungal farm. The grass feeds the fungus and the fungus feeds the ants. - (C) BBC - Photographer: screen grab (Image: WARNING: Use of this copyright image is subject to the terms of use of BBC Pictures' Digital Picture Service (BBC Pictures) a...)
![Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A serval cat in South Africa leaps three meters through the air to catch her prey – rodents. She sports the largest ears and longest legs of any cat in the world relative to body size. - (C) BBC NHU/Chadden Hunter - Photographer: Chadden Hunter]( "Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A serval cat in South Africa leaps three meters through the air to catch her prey – rodents. She sports the largest ears and longest legs of any cat in the world relative to body size. - (C) BBC NHU/Chadden Hunter - Photographer: Chadden Hunter")
Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A serval cat in South Africa leaps three meters through the air to catch her prey – rodents. She sports the largest ears and longest legs of any cat in the world relative to body size. - (C) BBC NHU/Chadden Hunter - Photographer: Chadden Hunter (Image: WARNING: Use of this copyright image is subject to the terms of use of BBC Pictures' Digital Picture Service (BBC Pictures) a...)
![Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A female harvest mouse climbs through grass blades in a wild meadow in Norfolk. Weighing less than a two pence piece harvest mice are the lightest rodent in Europe. They live almost entirely amongst the grass canopy, rarely coming to ground. - (C) BBC NHU/Chadden Hunter - Photographer: Chadden Hunter]( "Eastern Daily Press: Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A female harvest mouse climbs through grass blades in a wild meadow in Norfolk. Weighing less than a two pence piece harvest mice are the lightest rodent in Europe. They live almost entirely amongst the grass canopy, rarely coming to ground. - (C) BBC NHU/Chadden Hunter - Photographer: Chadden Hunter")
Planet Earth II airing on 04/12/2016 - Episode: Grasslands (No. 5) A female harvest mouse climbs through grass blades in a wild meadow in Norfolk. Weighing less than a two pence piece harvest mice are the lightest rodent in Europe. They live almost entirely amongst the grass canopy, rarely coming to ground. - (C) BBC NHU/Chadden Hunter - Photographer: Chadden Hunter (Image: WARNING: Use of this copyright image is subject to the terms of use of BBC Pictures' Digital Picture Service (BBC Pictures) a...)
Comments: Our rules
We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.
Please report any comments that break our rules.
Read the rules here