From the African savanna to be Peruvian desert, lives of predators and prey are closely linked to the moon's cycles and the opportunies they bring.

Mothers with cubs fight to survive and a lonely monkey finds safety in numbers as animals navigate cold landscape to socialize, hunt, climb and crawl.

The oceans' tides ebb and flow in concert with the moon, and so do lives of the creatures below from the largest whale shark to the smallest prawn.

The night unfolds to reveal magic in the air, drama in the deep and danger on the ground as animals across the planet rise with the sunset.

This look behind the scenes shows how worldwide camera crews climbed, dived, sweated and froze, using cutting edge technology to capture the documentary series' groundbreaking night footage.