Nature — Season 5

Oct 198653m

Examines how the plants and animals of Alaska’s Alyeska wilderness have adapted to the regions harsh climate.

Oct 198653m

An examination of the plants and animals that make their home in a shallow lagoon found on the Western coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula.

Nov 198653m

This exploration of the Galapagos Islands, located in the Pacific Ocean West of Ecuador, examines theories explaining the arrival of wildlife to the archipelago.

Nov 198653m

Marine iguanas, cormorants, green turtles, sea lions, and sperm whales are among the animals that thrive in the cold waters surrounding the equatorially located Galapagos Islands.

Nov 198653m

A look at the Galapagos Islands’ many birds, include the waved albatross, blue-footed booby, frigate bird and the ground finch; also, man’s relationship with the islands’ changing environment.

Nov 198653m

A look at how the Pantanal's wildlife species cope with the annual cycle of flood and drought which transforms the marshy prairie from a dry savannah into the world's largest freshwater wetland – a 36,000 square-mile area that encompasses Southwestern Brazil and parts of Bolivia and Paraguay.

Dec 198653m

An examination of the behavior of man’s feline friends.

Dec 198653m

The activities of an elusive female leopard are traced over a two-day period on the hot plains of Africa.

Jan 198753m

A look at the survival of the African elephants, as ivory and foraging land became more valuable.

Feb 198753m

A freshwater lake in Tunisia that turns salty every summer.

Feb 198753m

The Japanese take efforts to save an indigenous monkey.

Mar 198753m

A look at the crane, Japanese symbol of longevity, true love and happiness.

Mar 198753m

Hunters and egg poachers threaten the existence of the giant loggerhead turtle.

Mar 198753m

Following the wild mustangs of America’s West.

Apr 198753m

An exploration of the Rift Valley that sweeps North from Kenya to Turkey, where prophets said their god first planted a garden.

Apr 198753m

The unusual life in the salty Dead Sea, where the desert plunges 1,200 feet below sea level.

Apr 198753m

What happens when a finely maintained garden is abandoned.

May 198753m

A year on a Japanese island following a family of red foxes.

May 198753m

The tunnelers, thatchers, weavers, dam builders, sculptors, potters and spinners of the animal kingdom.

May 198755m

Echoing hoots and trills, bandit masks, feathered tufts and orange noses distinguish African forest monkeys called quenons.