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In the animal kingdom, there's no shortage of creepy, bizarre creatures who crawl on this planet. They range from horned lizards, who shoot blood from their eyes in self-defense to creatures that raise their offspring in the carcasses of dead animals. Some creatures are so bizarre they defy imagination. Komodo dragons use a sixth sense, a 'smell-o-vision' from the roof of their mouth, to seek out prey and cannibal black widow spiders sense movement...
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Migrations are ticking clocks: every day, countless animals must move or die, driven by changing seasons and a changing climate; they are racing to reach their destination, before it's too late - to breed, feed or simply stay alive. Every spring in Botswana, hundreds of zebras make a desperate 150-mile slog so their bodies can take in much-needed minerals. Shot by the award-winning filmmakers Beverly and Dereck Joubert, the journey is documented as...
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In bio-diverse Southern Sudan, a massive migration of white-eared kob survives 20 years of civil war. An aerial survey by Mike Fay reveals possibly the largest land migration on Earth. In Antarctica, Crittercam follows emperor penguins as they blast through the icy sea, surviving frigid waters, jagged ice fields, and hungry leopard seals. Biologist George Schaller has studied - and saved - the giant panda, an enigmatic wild bear of China. Discover...
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Seals dive to half-mile depths and cover the earth from dramatic polar icecaps to balmy tropical reefs. On islands and ice shelves, in impressive masses sometimes millions strong, seals make an uneasy truce with diverse lands - and the creatures that live there. In this episode, we'll use Crittercam technology to unveil the seals' streamlined mastery of their true realm. You will witness historic first glimpses of these amazing creatures faring the...
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The sawfish is one of the rarest, weirdest, and most endangered fish Dr. Brady Barr has ever encountered-its massive body can reach lengths up to 20 feet and its snout, studded with razor-sharp teeth, resembles a hedge trimmer. But scientists aren't sure what the saw is for or why this fish needs teeth outside its mouth. Determined to better understand this bizarre creature, Dr. Barr embarks on a mission to track down two equally oddball fish-the...
86) Bear Man
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In 1996-97, bear rehabilitator Ben Kilham raised three tiny orphaned cubs into powerful, wild adult bears. He used an unconventional approach and National Geographic filmed the dramatic and touching tale of the survival that followed. Now one of Kilham's bears, a female he calls 'Squirt', has cubs of her own. This new generation underlines the success of Kilham's maverick methods. The story, as well as Kilham's work, continue. Now Squirt and her cubs...
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In this episode, meet the bold animals who dare to live within the developed worlds of humans. As the most successful and adaptable creature on the planet, man has spread to all ends of the globe. Wherever humans go, they alter the environment in ways that can spell disaster for some creatures and can provide food and water for others. Some wild animals are drawn in to live in the human world, but creatures that manage to thrive in a human environment...
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Every day, migrating creatures around the world wage incredible journeys; risking it all in pursuit of the one thing more precious than themselves: the creation and caretaking of their precious young - the next generation of global wanderers. The insatiable need to breed will lead to viscous battles in the African heat and on South Atlantic shores. From the rocky beaches of the Falkland Islands to the dense forests of Costa Rica and Australia, to...
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In a remote part of southern Africa, the crippling drought of the early 1980s caused a quiet but significant upheaval. In the African country of Botswana there was once a paradise. But as the continent was seared, rainwater pans dried and quite mysteriously the Savuti Channel itself shrank, drained away, and died. United by a common instinct to survive, scores of animals set out in search of water. This film follows their journey, which proved to...
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This 2nd collection of multi-award winning series delves into animal behaviour around the world. 30 exquisitely-shot short-form videos are devoted to recent discoveries in understanding the how and why of the behavior of different species of animals in their daily lives. The videos are grouped with a geographical theme and cover fascinating topics such as the paradox of blue eggs, infantici- dal behaviour in bears, the power-play for wolf dominance...
91) Growing Up
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Believe it or not, what you feed your baby and when you feed her, certain foods can determine whether she will have allergies. The way you approach her early forays into solid foods and her first attempts at feeding herself, will influence her eating habits. The general menu you offer her may well predict her lifelong dietary choices. Surely, all her choices come with consequences, but that three-times-daily habit of eating is most basic to and therefore...
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Australia is home creatures to some of the most bizarre creatures on Earth. Many of the questions the animals pose to science remain unanswered. Animals once dubbed "living fossils" have been properly identified and categorized, and their evolutionary relationships better understood. See the extraordinary wildlife of Australia, most of which exists nowhere else in the world, and the scientists struggling to preserve this unique resource. Featuring...
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"Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, readers travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and drought, then to Yellowstone National Park to observe...
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Stretching from the North Pole to the tropics, Asia is the largest continent on Earth, where people must compete with some of the world's most impressive animals and survival is harsh. In this episode, powerful predators stalk the snowy Siberian landscape and patrol the tropical waters of the Pacific. To survive, the animals that inhabit this continent have evolved into the toughest of the tough. Journey into their domain for a closer look at their...
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Boyd Matson travels to Egypt's Western Desert, once an immense ocean, where 400 whale skeletons are buried beneath the sand, including the basilosaurus, an archaic whale species which may further the evolutionary story of whales. Off Sable Island, Nova Scotia, female harbor seals wait to give birth to their pups. Crittercam explores the male serenading call and the potentially harm that man-made sounds have on their music. Join a 24-hour inventory...
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Australia is home to 180 different kinds of snakes and a third of all the venomous snakes on the planet. In this video, Dr. Brady Barr teams up with famous snake expert Brian Bush and ventures into the wilds of western Australia. On their journey, they make a dangerous attempt to capture the rare and lethal western death adder.