Jaguars Born Free - A wildlife filmmakers holy grail

Jaguar are a holy grail of wildlife filmmaking, and one that I was lucky to have filmed for myself a few years whilst making 'Secrets of Our Living Planet'. Most of my encounters were from the relative safety of a boat as a jaguar relaxed on a river bank before disappearing into the dense deep jungle. How do you film real, intimate behaviour of such an elusive, rare and dangerous animal? It's an opportunity that producer/cameraman Rob Sullivan couldn't miss - three tiny orphaned jaguar cubs are discovered in a Brazilian forest and a human family decide to take the place of their mother, to train them to become wild again. Over two years the cubs must learn to climb trees, swim, and hunt for their dinner. If they can be successfully released, it will give new hope to these rare animals.