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Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Packed with ingenious scientific work and spectacular fossils, NOVA's Ice Age Death Trap reveals intimate secrets of the life and death of North America's most exotic and extreme creatures: mastodons, saber tooth cats and camels, giant bison with six-foot horns, and ground sloths as big as elephants. Most tantalizing of all, the team unearths startling and controversial evidence of what may be the earliest humans ever to venture into the untamed wilderness...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough has a remarkable treasure trove of stories following his 60-year career with the BBC. This 3-part series will bring to life some of his most memorable. Also includes: The Ark, David Attenborough chooses ten of the most important, and lesser known, animals he would most like to save from extinction.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Deep in the heart of Africa, the Thornberry's are filming their latest action-packed wildlife show. They are ready for anything, except for the greedy poachers lurking in the jungle. It's up to Eliza, who can talk to animals, to foil their evil plans. To do this, it will take all her courage, strength and exceptional gifts.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Discover the devastating powers of tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, and other earth-shattering forces of nature. Looks at the power and unpredictability of natural disasters: earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods.
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Extraordinary birds": Captures the behavior of extraordinary birds, real-life stories, and their relationships with humankind. "Parrots: look who's talking": Visits some extraordinary parrots and their owners. It also looks at parrots in the wild, to explore their behavior and social skills, and what part their color plays in their survival.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
What happens when a professor invites an octopus to live in his home? NATURE follows Dr. David Scheel as he links behavioral discoveries to amazing octopus stories around the world, from the Day octopus that can change color and texture, to the Coconut octopus who carries around its coconut shell to hide. But most fascinating is Scheel's and his daughter's evolving relationship with 1Heidi.2
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Language
English
Description
Shows how human desires are an essential, intricate part of natural history. The program will explore the natural history of four plants -the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - and the corresponding human desires - sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. This two-hour documentary begins in Michael Pollan's garden, and roams the world, from the fields of Iowa to the apple forests of Kazakhstan, from a medical marijuana hot house to...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan and animal behaviorists join forces to explore stories of animal lives 'told' by the animals themselves. The series explores the secret side of the animal kingdom where human cameramen can't go, and camera-wearing animals film their own stories. Meerkats, penguins, a chimp, cheetahs, seals, baboons, devil rays, brown bears, and sheepdogs are the subjects of this series.
Author
Series
Misunderstood Shark volume 2
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Shark interrupts the filming of Underwater World With Bob, scattering the other creatures (and the audience), but he claims it is all a terrible misunderstanding--that he would never think of eating the fish, the squid, the audience...or Bob.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A four part series that explores the reproductive behaviors of the animal kingdom. Focusing on four species, elephant, dolphin, kangaroo and orangutan, the series takes an in-depth look at how these animals find, fight for, and woo the opposite sex. It also explores how they mate, give birth, and raise their young in extreme environments.
13) Farmyard friends
Series
Publisher
National Geographic Television
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Spin goes on a farmyard safari that proves that tame animals have really rowdy relatives in the wild. Spin also meets with real-life animal rescuers who are keeping koalas safe in Australia, protecting pandas in China, and running with rhinos in Africa.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Journey to Africa's Congo River basin as National Geographic embarks on a treacherous expedition to find out what powerful environmental forces created the tiger fish and to reveal the array of fantastic creatures that also inhabit this underwater Eden.
15) The hunt
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It's a stunning new series that explores the dramatic contests between predators and their prey. Take an intimate look at the remarkable strategies of hunters and in some cases, the hunted, exploring the challenges animals face and the tactics they employ both on land and in the water. It is a celebration of nature2s most determined, specialized and cunning predators and their equally cunning and elusive prey.
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Join spin as he travels from the frozen arctic to southern swamplands, where he meets some amazing animals that make North America home. Watch polar bears and white wolves struggling to survive on the icy tundra, alligators patrolling the swampy waters of the Okefenokee, and ground squirrels battling rattlesnakes in the wild west.
19) Killer quest
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
National Geographic joins veteran wildlife cameraman Andrew Manski and hard-nosed outdoorsman Brian Bildson as they venture into some of North America's most remote and inhospitable regions in an attempt to capture unprecedented and extraordinarily rare footage of wolves, wood bison, and wolverines.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
The hippopotamus has long been an enigma: an aquatic mammal that cannot swim, a vegetarian that is also the most dangerous animal in Africa. All hippos are utterly dependent on water,but in Botswana, hippos face an unparalleled challenge as deep floodwaters dry to dust in a matter of months. The documentary goes beneath the surface to show how hippos protect their families and face their enemies, revealing an animal that is highly sensitive and surprisingly...
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