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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
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 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...
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
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Armed with powerful beaks and talons, raptors are nature2s killing force6winged predators whose beauty belies their speed. Dramatic footage from cameras mounted on their backs show why falcons, owls, eagles, and hawks are masters of the sky, and why engineers use their abilities and body designs as the basis of aircraft technology.
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.
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.
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.
11) 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.
12) 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
Appears on list
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...
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When you've clawed your way to the top of the food chain, you have to fight to stay there. Experience this harsh reality through the eyes of the determined predators that rely on skill, instinct, and evolution to survive. But while they may be masters of their domains, that doesn't mean things always go their way, and with young mouths to feed, the pressure is on.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Explores how animals understand the world around them through the eyes of three iconic creatures: dogs, birds, and dolphins. Examines how scientists are pushing the animal mind to its limits, and uncovers surprising similarities to, and differences from, the human mind.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Enter stories of the most unlikely cross-species relationships imaginable: a chimp bottle-feeding tiger cub, a giant tortoise snuggling with a baby hippo, a black crow parenting a meerkat. Look at these remarkable relationships first hand, and through caregivers, biologists, and animal behaviorists. Explore what they suggest about the nature of animal emotions.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Earth's Natural Wonders are parts of the natural world that nature has carved on an almost unbelievable scale, from vast mountain ranges to impenetrable rainforests and dazzling tropical islands, where nature is visible at its most primal, most powerful, and most extraordinarily beautiful. For human beings, survival within these wonders can pose extraordinary challenges.
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