Original air date: 19 December 1990
Introducing the next round of the series, starting with the first episode the final words to this one (sitting by a much studied albatross): “This albatross is over 30 years old. She’s already a grandmother, and this year, once again, she’s produced a chick. She’ll devote the next ten months of her life looking after it. She has faced the trials of life and triumphed. For her little two-day-old chick, the trials are just beginning.”