Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 Welcome to the Future
- Season 1 Return of the Ice
- Season 1 The Vanished Sea
- Season 1 Prairies of Amazonia
- Season 1 Cold Kansas Desert
- Season 1 Waterland
- Season 1 Flooded World
- Season 1 Tropical Antarctica
- Season 1 The Great Plateau
- Season 1 The Endless Desert
- Season 1 The Global Ocean
- Season 1 Graveyard Desert
- Season 1 The Tentacled Forest
The Future Is Wild - Season 1 Episode 5 Cold Kansas Desert
7.40 325 minutes The episode is set in North America, 5 million years into the future. The episode focusses on three species: (1) Deathgleaner, a massive carnivorous false vampire bat that spends the day hunting for prey in the desert and spends the night in a communal roost; (2) Spink, a descendant of the quail whose wings have become digging blades. The species lives much like the naked mole-rat of our time; (3) Desert Rattleback, a descendant of the agouti, when lives in the cold regions. The episode explains that the onset of the ice age caused the agricultural belt of the USA to turn into a desert where temperatures at night regularly reach freezing. The episode shows how the animals have evolved to cope with the harsh features of this forbidding landscape.
