An owl on the American prairies uses its extraordinary hearing and underground burrows to save its chicks, while two cheetahs in Kenya face record-breaking floods, and a polar bear loses the summer sea ice it relies on.

As the planet's shifting rain patterns rewrite the rules, survival is no longer about strength alone. From the desert to the jungle, three mothers face the ultimate test of survival as monsoon floodwaters tear through pygmy elephant territory in Borneo, a female platypus in Australia watches a flash flood destroy her home river, and a flood in Africa brings prey to a lone lioness.