IN THE DARK: ANIMAL ADVENTURES

Avengers star Tom Hiddleston, 39, looks at the world in a new way as the narrator of Earth at Night in Color (Dec. 4 on Apple TV+), an eye-popping nature documentary series that follows animals at night, thanks to next-generation low-light cameras that are hung 130 feet high in trees, attached to small boats and put anywhere something secret and exciting is about to happen. Here’s a preview of some of the nocturnal drama.

W Cheetahs live solitary lives, but viewers will watch two cheetah brothers playing and hunting together.

S Indonesia’s spectral tarsiers are barely larger than a tennis ball. They tug at their ears in order to prime them for hunting. Their night vision is 100 times better than humans’.

Geckos emerge from the desert in search of mates. Their bark sounds like a cackle. X