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Created by Thomas Lovejoy, George Page
Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s.
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Log inSeptember 30, 1990 · 53 min
Sharks, rays, squids and blue whales live in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast.
October 7, 1990 · 53 min
Three species of monkeys, the muriqui, the golden lion tamarin and the buffy-headed marmoset struggle for survival in Brazil's coastal Atlantic Forest.
October 14, 1990 · 53 min
A look at how Norway and Sweden are affected by eight months of winter.
October 21, 1990 · 53 min
A look at the Swedish archipelago and Norway's fjords.
November 11, 1990 · 53 min
Africa's spotted hyena is a matriarch dominated, efficient predator.
November 18, 1990 · 53 min
Sight and sound are experienced through animal eyes and ears.
November 25, 1990 · 53 min
Enhanced olfactory sensitivity; unique animal senses.
December 2, 1990 · 53 min
Internal clocks guide life rhythms of eating, sleeping, mating, hibernation, birth and death.
December 9, 1990 · 53 min
This program travels to the island of Cayo Santiago off Puerto Rico to study the behavioral patterns of a colony of feral Rhesus Macaques.
December 16, 1990 · 53 min
Rangers at Denali National Park in Alaska train hikers for planned encounters with grizzlies; Alaskan grizzly bears are seen salmon fishing at Brooks Falls.
January 13, 1991 · 53 min
Penguins, maras, guanacos, sea lions and killer whales highlight this portrait of Patagonia.
February 17, 1991 · 53 min
In light of the Persian Gulf War and the recent oil spills, PBS airs an update of the 1984 episode of Nature, Treasures of the Gulf, that focused on the effects of the Iran-Iraq war on the fragile ecology of the Persian Gulf.
February 24, 1991 · 53 min
The beauty of the African plains and the effects of tourism on the area.
March 3, 1991 · 53 min
Filmmaker Simon Trevor, a former game warden, records the decimation of African elephants.
March 10, 1991 · 53 min
The natural and human history of the Grand Tetons and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
March 17, 1991 · 53 min
Life within a close-knit golden jackal family on the plains of Lemuta in Africa.
March 24, 1991 · 53 min
Biologist Lynn Rogers follows the black bear out of hibernation and into the Minnesota woods.
April 7, 1991 · 53 min
The relationship within a wild dog pack on Africa's Serengeti Plains.
April 14, 1991 · 53 min
A profile of the albatross examines its traits and habitats, as well as the mysteries and myths surrounding it.
April 28, 1991 · 53 min
A polecat winters at a working farm in Wales, along with scavenging foxes, rats and birds.
May 12, 1991 · 53 min
Grizzlies, wolves and cougars roam Montana's rugged, pristine Glacier National Park.
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