SHAME ON NAT GEO for rehashing 1960s OLD clips of endangered animals: panda, snow leopard, Sun bear &Tibetan fox etc, & presenting same outdated clips as "2020" - this is total FICTION. All habitats shown existed PRIOR to 1970s start of global warming, mass deforestation / habitat destruction by humans; rampant poaching & devastating impact of China's anti nature building program - 1 Chicago sized city every month since 2008.

Mammal clips are obviously processed into SD def, mixed with few HD shots of mountain top ranges with zero smog.

More insulting is the non informative RACIST pig-den English, no consonants script & narration. Few basic facts in the biased script is for toddlers. Add stereotyped nonstop repetitive loud "Chinese" annoying score, & result is a sham "must skip" film. NOTHING in this propaganda false film depicts how ALL wild mammals shown have been on the verge of extinction,l for decades, & thus most are kept in zoos, not vast biodiverse sanctuaries.

NOTHING depicts modern 2020 China & it's widespread anti- nature attitude. There have been & exist Chinese conservationists who dare to speak to preserve remaining ecosystems & rare wildlife but tragically their acts/ work/views are silenced.

Following the trend in wildlife film-making, this episode tells us about ecology in the high grasslands of Qinghai, China, by focusing in on a family of Tibetan foxes whose main prey are the pikas (smallish rabbit-like mammals) present in abundance across the steppe. This is a beautiful, flower- (but also mosquito-) filled place of grassland and lakes and wetter bits and drier bits, which is locked down under snow for most of the year, but has a literal "flowering" for maybe 3 or 4. It therefore attracts migrant birds, as well as being home to mammals large (wild asses),medium-sized (Tibetan wolves, gazelles) and small.

The main issue is how the fox family can possibly survive when the mother is killed by wolves and when - very unusually - it consists of 4 cubs (3 male, 1 female). The male (referred to here slightly gratingly as "dad" in the most-Disneylike aspect of this Disney production) at first manages to hunt effectively, but then gradually tires. How he resolves this crisis is an amazing story, and indeed the storytelling is good here, while in no way can we criticise the magnificent filming of this sparsely-populated and amazing world of flowers, grass and water. On the whole there is also no flinching from hard truths of biology and ecology, even if there is actually a happy ending.

Biologist of long standing I may be, but I cannot fault this film-making in any way, and indeed got a great deal out of the programme, particularly given the "corona-world" circumstances in which I watched it.

Interesting how not even a description is written when something is about China...So hypocritical of you, "the world movie database ranking"...independent thinking my ass...you are all about ads and politic.