YouTube animal expert Nathaniel ‘Coyote’ Peterson, like several creators before him, is venturing onto linear TV via a just-announced partnership with Animal Planet.

Peterson has amassed 13 million subscribers and 2.3 billion lifetime views on his Brave Wilderness channel, which sees him showcasing an impressive array of wildlife -- and, in some of his most popular clips, getting purposefully stung by exotic insects. He says that while his channel isn’t going anywhere, Animal Planet will provide Peterson and his team with added resources and a bigger platform to explore more exotic locales and broadcast their bigger message of conservation.

The ensuing show, dropping sometime next year, will take audiences on expeditions to see bizarre and iconic creatures while promoting compassion and welfare. Peterson’s Wilderness Productions will produce the venture, and Peterson will be joined on TV by his crew: director Mark Vins and biologist Mario Aldecoa. Discovery Communications-owned Animal...