Nature
Nature is a long-running wildlife television program produced by Thirteen/WNET New York. Some episodes may appear in syndication on many PBS member stations around the U.S. and Canada and on the Discovery Channel. Nature is one of the most watched documentary series in the world. It is a weekly one-hour program that consists of documentaries about various animals and ecosystems. The on-camera host of the first season was Donald Johanson, with voice-over narration by George Page. Starting with the 1983 season George Page became both the on-camera host and the narrator until the series' 18th season in 2000. Since then, Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham has frequently narrated episodes. Nature is one of the few programs in television history that has won and has been nominated for the same number of Emmy Awards during its longevity. In 1986, host George Page was nominated for best Outstanding Individual Achievements in Informational Programming.
Genre: Documentary, News
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Episodes
Episode
Springs Eternal: Florida’s Fountain of Youth
aired: Mon, Nov 23, 2009
According to legend, Spanish explorers believed that a fountain of eternal youth existed somewhere in the place we know today as Florida. In a poetic way, they were right. Beneath Florida lies the world's largest known system of springs. These springs shelter strange life forms and dot the land above it with outlets of water [...]
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Fellowship of the Whales
aired: Mon, Nov 16, 2009
Follow a baby humpback whale as she travels from her birthplace in Hawaii, to feeding grounds off Alaska’s coast. Escorted by her mother, this newborn will learn many things along the way. And when the pair returns to Hawaii, this yearling will be ready to take her place in her own community of [...]
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Black Mamba
aired: Mon, Nov 9, 2009
The black mamba is one of Africa's most dangerous and feared snakes. Most people would kill it on sight. But in the tiny country of Swaziland, one husband and wife team has taken a different approach to the mamba. They've initiated a study that they hope will change perceptions of what they feel is the [...]
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Born Wild: The First Days of Life: Video: Full Episode – Expires Nov. 8th
aired: Mon, Nov 2, 2009
From the moment of birth, baby animals in the wild can face almost anything – from a large social group of interested caregivers to complete abandonment. Yet all wild babies share some things in common – they must learn whom to trust, what to fear, and when to act – all in the first days [...]
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Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions
aired: Mon, Oct 26, 2009
The returning saga of Cloud, the wild stallion, finds us back in the Arrowhead Mountains of Montana. Cloud is one of two fathers who bring up each other’s sons. Bolder is his by birth, while Flint, sired by another stallion, is the colt Cloud raised. Now, Bolder has gathered some mares of [...]
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What Males Will Do
aired: Wed, Jun 17, 2009
For males in the animal kingdom, the main goal is to pass on their genes to the next generation. But it takes two to tango, and males will go to extremes to win a mate. They will make music, change body colors, develop astonishing anatomy, even agree to be eaten alive... all in the name [...]
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What Females Want
aired: Wed, Jun 17, 2009
The answers to the age-old question, "What do women want?" just might be found in the animal kingdom. Scientists use unorthodox techniques and the latest technology to probe the mysteries of attraction. What makes a male gelada a good catch? What can a "fembot" tell us about the sage grouse's mating behavior? Discover how females [...]
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The Loneliest Animals
aired: Mon, Apr 20, 2009
The loneliest animals are the most endangered species on the planet. Collected and protected by dedicated scientists, these animals represent the end of the line for their species. In many cases, intensive captive breeding programs have been launched with the aim of sustaining these animals and the hope of returning them to the [...]
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Frogs: The Thin Green Line
aired: Mon, Apr 6, 2009
It is the greatest mass extinction since the dinosaurs. Population by population, species by species, amphibians are vanishing off the face of the Earth. Despite international alarm and a decade and a half of scientists scrambling for answers, the steady hemorrhaging of amphibians continues like a leaky faucet that cannot be fixed or a wound [...]
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Kilauea: Mountain of Fire
aired: Mon, Mar 30, 2009
Kilauea, on Hawaii's Big Island, is the world's most active volcano. Its latest eruption began in 1983 and it hasn't stopped since. Since that time it has created 544 acres of new land and has consumed 200 homes. But as we watch nature's own fireworks display and witness the devastation wrought by flowing lava, we've [...]
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Crash: A Tale of Two Species
aired: Mon, Mar 23, 2009
This is the story of the fabric of life, and how every species is interconnected – each one important, no matter how big or small. At its center is the humble horseshoe crab, a creature which has remained virtually unchanged for 350 million years. Its annual spring spawning produces millions of eggs that are the [...]
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Earth Navigators
aired: Wed, Mar 18, 2009
Seasonal changes impel a wide variety of creatures, from whooper swans to monarch butterflies, to begin their epic migrations to ancient feeding, mating, and breeding grounds, sometimes covering thousands of miles and employing ingenious methods to reach their destinations.
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In the Valley of the Wolves
aired: Mon, Feb 23, 2009
The Druids are the most celebrated wolf pack in North America. For almost a decade, they have held the Lamar Valley in northern Yellowstone. The valley is prime winter grazing for thousands of elk and thus the most coveted wolf country in all the Park. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Bob Landis has chronicled [...]
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Why We Love Cats and Dogs
aired: Mon, Feb 16, 2009
Americans own 73 million dogs and 90 million cats. They become best friends, soul mates, family members, and even surrogate children. Relationships with cats and dogs are some of the longest and most intimate of our lives. Why are we so attached? Animal behavior experts, evolutionary biologists, veterinarians, and pet owners share [...]
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Drakensberg: Barrier of Spears
aired: Mon, Feb 9, 2009
The Drakensberg Mountains are Southern Africa’s Alps, rising more than 11,000 feet into the sky. But beneath their shimmering beauty lies an incredibly hostile environment for the creatures that manage to live there. Each spring, drenching rains destroy the grasslands at the base of the mountains, and those who would survive must climb [...]
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Is That Skunk?
aired: Mon, Jan 26, 2009
Watch as a California town overrun with skunks deals with their furry problem, and see what life is like for an evolutionary biologist in New Mexico who runs one of the few sanctuaries for skunks. Meet a researcher on the sandy shores of Martha’s Vineyard who stalks her striped specimens at night, and a woman [...]
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The Dragon Chronicles
aired: Mon, Jan 12, 2009
Ancient maps, legends, and fairy tales all tell of dragons in our world. In nearly every culture, we are taught as children that dragons are big and fearsome, that they fly, breathe fire, are found in caves and live nearly forever. Where did these stories come from? Are they based on real animals? And are [...]
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The Wolf That Changed America
aired: Mon, Nov 24, 2008
In 1893, a bounty hunter named Ernest Thompson Seton journeyed to the untamed canyons of New Mexico on a mission to kill a dangerous outlaw. Feared by ranchers throughout the region, the outlaw wasn’t a pistol-packing cowboy or train-robbing bandit. The outlaw was a wolf. Lobo, as locals simply called him, was the legendary leader of [...]
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American Eagle
aired: Mon, Nov 17, 2008
Unique to North America, the bald eagle is the continent’s most recognizable aerial predator, with a shocking white head, electric yellow beak, and penetrating eyes. In the 1960s, this symbol of the United States became an emblem of environmental degradation as the pesticide DDT and other human pressures brought it to the brink of extinction. [...]
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Shark Mountain
aired: Thu, Aug 21, 2008
Some 300 miles off Costa Rica is Cocos Island, a tiny Pacific outpost that was once a favorite haunt of pirates. Cocos, a designated World Heritage Site, lies directly in the path of powerful ocean currents that often collide with the island, churning the waters into an undersea storm. Welcome to Shark Mountain. This program premiered [...]
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Under Antarctic Ice
aired: Wed, Jul 2, 2008
Antarctica. On the surface, it's the bleakest of lands, with ferocious winds, flightless birds, and enough ice to flood half the planet's population if it were to melt. But below that frozen mass, a fantastic environment of indescribable beauty teems with life. NATURE takes viewers into the world that is Under Antarctic Ice. This program premiered [...]
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Holy Cow
aired: Wed, Jul 2, 2008
About 8,000 years ago, the relationship between cows and man began with the revolutionary advent of domestication in Mesopotamia, the Indus River Valley, and Africa. Discover how cows have altered human life, human biology, and the geography of the world. This program premiered February 22, 2004.
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Ireland
aired: Wed, Jul 2, 2008
Although green is its emblematic color, Ireland's verdant fields are not the nation's only extraordinary natural features. Sculpted millions of years ago by the advance and retreat of vast shields of ice, the Emerald Isle harbors a wealth of wildlife among its craggy mountains, fog-shrouded coastlines, steep gorges, and vast networks of inland waterways. This program [...]
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Violent Hawaii
aired: Wed, Jun 11, 2008
The Hawaiian chain of islands, made up of six main islands plus two smaller ones, stretches for more than 1,500 miles through the heart of the Pacific Ocean. It is a place of idyllic beauty. But it is also a land of volcanic fury, raging mountaintop blizzards, dangerous rockslides, monster waves, and even tsunamis. This program [...]
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Cloud’s Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns
aired: Fri, Jun 6, 2008
In Cloud’s Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns, Cloud is now a band stallion with a mare and her children, a yearling and a foal. Meanwhile, Cloud’s own child, which has a telltale golden coat, lives with another herd and will never know him as his father. This program premiered November 23, 2003.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Grizzly
aired: Fri, Jun 6, 2008
After a decades-long comeback, the grizzly bears of Yellowstone National Park appear to be thriving. Should they now be removed from the protection of the Endangered Species Act? This question has provoked one of the most emotionally charged wildlife controversies in America today. This program premiered November 21, 2004.
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Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies
aired: Fri, Jun 6, 2008
Filmed in the mountains of Montana, this poignant, engrossing chronicle focuses on an extraordinary stallion, whose life has been recorded since his birth in the wild in 1995 by Emmy-winning filmmaker Ginger Kathrens. This program premiered November 4, 2001.
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Silence of the Bees
aired: Thu, Jun 5, 2008
In the winter of 2006, a strange phenomenon fell upon honeybee hives across the country. Without a trace, millions of bees vanished from their hives, leaving billions of dollars of crops at risk and potentially threatening our food supply. The epidemic set researchers scrambling to discover why honeybees were dying in record numbers — and [...]
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