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The Australian outback is the location of Jamie’s adventure to find out how animals survive with little water, find prey and escape predators.
Taking his lead from the rock-tailed wallabies that move at incredible speeds up and down the sheer rock faces, Jamie attempts to outdo them by having a go at a forward abseil. He comes pretty close but is just not quite fast enough.
Next he turns his attention to crocodiles and tries to measure their bite. They have the strongest bite in the animal kingdom so getting close enough to take a measurement is pretty daunting.
Then Jamie discovers just how quick a death adder can strike, how fast kangaroos can move through the outback, how thorny devils find water and how they can eat thousands of ants in one sitting. Jamie has a go at ant eating himself, with predictably unsettling results.He then discovers a bird called a black-breasted buzzard that uses a rock to break into emu’s eggs for food.
Finally, Jamie finds the animals with the ultimate adaptation, the bandy bandy snake. After seeing the bandy bandy snake’s optical illusion, which it uses to confuse prey, Jamie goes into air combat. One plane is the bandy bandy snake (Jamie is in this one) and it has a black and white ribbon coming off it to represent the reptile. The other plane is the predator. The predator plane attempts to cut through the black and white ribbon coming off the bandy bandy snake plane while the bandy bandy plane attempts to confuse the predator using bandy bandy snake moves! Jamie ends up feeling very sick. Again!
