PBS Nature - Fellowship of the Whales (2009) 720p HDTV ORENJi
PBS Nature - Fellowship of the Whales (2009)
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In Hawaii, where new land is born as volcanic rock, another birth takes place. A baby humpback enters the world and joins the 3,000 or more whales that congregate in the warm waters off Hawaii each winter to mate and give birth. This is the story of her first year of life. Over twelve months she will learn many skills from her mother, and eventually they will make the several-thousand-mile journey together to Alaska’s southeast coast.
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PBS Nature - The Venom Cure (2005) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - The Venom Cure (2005)
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Poisons, toxins and venoms are the defense and attack mechanisms of the natural world. Gila monsters are armed with toxic saliva, cone shells use poison harpoons, scorpions sting, snakes and spiders inject their victims with venom, blue-ringed octopuses and poison dart frogs kill anything that touches their skin. Almost any of these deadly weapons could kill a human in moments. Yet scientists are finding impressive new possibilities for them - new drugs, new cures, new ways to save lives.
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PBS Nature - The Beauty of Ugly (2007) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - The Beauty of Ugly (2007)
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In the animal world, as in our own, looks aren't everything. In fact, some of the most aesthetically challenged creatures -- from warthogs and proboscis monkeys to bull elephant seals -- are also the most fascinating. A stunning variety of these ghastly yet glorious forms are explored in NATURE's 'The Beauty of Ugly'. On the Web site for the program, you'll get an in-depth look at some of these intriguing creatures. You'll learn about the remarkable sensory abilities of the weird little star-nosed mole and the unusual social system of naked mole-rats and their imperious mole-rat queen, discover the threats faced by the Cape Griffon vulture, and get a fish-eye's view of the needle-toothed viperfish and other deep-sea creatures, as photographed by a unique undersea camera called the Eye-in-the-Sea, designed by ocean researcher Dr. Edith Widder.
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PBS Nature - Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions (2009) 720p HDTV ORENJi
PBS Nature - Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions (2009)
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Acclaimed wildlife filmmaker Ginger Kathrens has been filming the life of the remarkable wild stallion, Cloud, since the day of his birth in 1995, allowing NATURE viewers to watch as he grew from tiny foal to the powerful leader of the largest band of wild horses in the Arrowhead Mountains that he is today. Along the way, much has been learned about wild horse society and the importance of family and loyalty in their dangerous and unpredictable world. In this chapter of his story, Cloud is one of two fathers who bring up each other’s sons. Bolder is Cloud’s son by birth – beautiful and golden, but raised by Shaman, a rival band stallion. Flint, dark and determined, was sired by Shaman, but became Cloud’s adopted son. The two sons mature and progress from playful youths into valid contenders for mares and bands of their own. Will one of them rise to take Cloud’s place?
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PBS Nature - The Vanishing Lions (2006) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - The Vanishing Lions (2006)
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Africa's lion population appears to be declining at an alarming rate. NATURE's THE VANISHING LIONS searches for explanations and solutions to the troubling trend. Across Africa, the King of Beasts is in trouble. In the late 20th century, wildlife preserves were created to curtail safari hunting, but the African lion population continues to decline. Their numbers have dwindled from 100,000 in the early 1990s to no more than 30,000 and as few as 16,000 today. What could be endangering the King of Beasts?
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PBS Nature - Kalahari: The Great Thirstland (2003) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - Kalahari: The Great Thirstland (2003)
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In this land of extremes, only the most determined animals survive in NATURE's KALAHARI: THE GREAT THIRSTLAND. It's been 20 years since the Boteti River has brought substantial water to the grasslands of the Kalahari. Dust, vegetation, and sand dominate the landscape as the wildlife hides from the relentless summer sun and the cold winter nights. Some sleep for years, entombed in protective cases, lying dormant and waiting for water to come. But most live a nomadic existence, surviving by seeking out moisture under the sand, or by making the most of their adaptations.
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PBS Nature - The Queen of Trees (2006) HDTVRip XviD SoS
PBS Nature - The Queen of Trees (2006)
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NATURE reveals the importance of an unlikely partnership between a regal tree and a tiny wasp in The Queen of Trees. It may be one of nature’s oddest couples: a tiny wasp that can barely be seen, and a giant fig tree, the sycomore, which shelters a remarkable menagerie of wildlife among its limbs. The wasp and the fig depend on each other for survival. Without the wasp, the tree could not pollinate its flowers and produce seeds. Without the fig, the wasp would have nowhere to lay its eggs.
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PBS Nature - In the Valley of the Wolves (2007) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - In the Valley of the Wolves (2007)
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Highly recommend this program. Narrated by F. Murray Abraham. In 1995, the first gray wolves were transported from Alberta, Canada to Yellowstone National Park, to repopulate the sprawling landscape with the species, absent for more than 70 years. The following year, a second wave of wolves was brought to the park from British Columbia, Canada; five of them were released together, and they were named the Druid Peak pack. Since the arrival of those first immigrants, wolves have thrived in Yellowstone -- and none more dramatically than the Druids. The epic history of the Druids, one of more than a dozen packs now occupying the 2.2 million acres of Yellowstone, is documented in NATURE's IN THE VALLEY OF THE WOLVES. The program was produced and shot in High Definition by Emmy-award winning filmmaker Bob Landis. On the Web site, you'll learn how the successful reintroduction of Yellowstone's apex predator has changed the entire ecosystem of the park, and about the threats that these majestic animals continue to face on their road to recovery.
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PBS Nature - Cloud's Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns (2003) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - Cloud's Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns (2003)
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NATURE presents the compelling story of a remarkable denizen of the West in CLOUD: WILD STALLION OF THE ROCKIES. America's wild horses lead an exhilarating but perilous existence. The climate can be brutal, mountain lions and other predators stalk the young, and their dependence on public grazing lands for sustenance often puts them in competition with livestock interests. In some places where these magnificent animals roam, it is not unusual for a wild horse to fall victim to an illegal horse shooter. Against this backdrop, NATURE presents Cloud's story. 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.
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PBS Nature - Shark Mountain (2004) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - Shark Mountain (2004)
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NATURE's SHARK MOUNTAIN takes viewers on a dive of a lifetime to reveal underwater creatures unlike anywhere else in the world. 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. These swirling currents carry rich nutrients to a reef teeming with brilliantly colored marine life. Residents include moray eels, hawksbill turtles, leatherbass, bigeye jacks, red-lipped batfish, yellow barberfish, hogfish, and sea urchins, to name only a few. The currents bring more than algae to this island paradise. They also summon an extraordinary abundance of sharks, providing a golden opportunity to observe some of the most surprising and baffling shark behavior ever captured on film. The volume and variety of sharks that visit Cocos on a regular basis is staggering, and includes huge numbers of silkies, hammerheads, black-tip reef sharks, white-tip reef sharks, silver-tip reef sharks, whale sharks, and their distant cousins, the marbled rays. A team of expert and intrepid divers, led by renowned underwater film specialists Howard and Michele Hall, leads viewers into this ultimate domain of sharks.
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PBS Nature - The Dragon Chronicles (2009) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - The Dragon Chronicles (2009)
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Ancient maps, legends and fairy tales all tell of dragons in our world. In nearly every culture, children are taught 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 there any dragons still to be found today? Romulus Whitaker, renowned reptile expert and conservationist, puts a bit of history together with documented science and some compelling contemporary reports, and sets off to find out. He encounters lizards large and small that can breathe life into medieval legends even today.
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PBS Nature - Kalahari: The Flooded Desert (2003) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - Kalahari: The Flooded Desert (2003)
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NATURE's KALAHARI: THE FLOODED DESERT leads you to an oasis in the arid grasslands of Africa. Virtually all of the world's major rivers empty into the sea. The Okavango River in Africa is a notable exception: it empties into a desert. In doing so, it nourishes one of the most unusual ecosytems, in one of the harshest regions in the world.
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PBS Nature - Voyage of the Lonely Turtle (2007) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - Voyage of the Lonely Turtle (2007)
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A solitary loggerhead turtle in the middle of a vast ocean may not sound like an adventure film, but stick with her. Along her 9,000-mile voyage to nest, our loggerhead tour guide in Voyage of the Lonely Turtle encounters hammerhead sharks, deep ocean tempests, and man-made death traps in the form of fishing nets and hooks. Her body of well-suited armor and specialized adaptations for deep-ocean dwelling will help the sea turtle evade many of the ocean’s menaces. But this is just one set of challenges to overcome. Here is another: she must find her way across the Pacific, from Mexico to a small stretch of beach in Japan, a precise location that she has been to just once before, as a two-inch hatchling, decades ago.
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PBS Nature - Silence of the Bees (2007) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - Silence of the Bees (2007)
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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. A precious pollinator of fruits and vegetables, the disappearing bees left billions of dollars of crops at risk and threatened our food supply. The epidemic set researchers scrambling to discover why honeybees were dying in record numbers -- and to stop the epidemic in its tracks before it spread further.
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PBS Nature - Is That Skunk (2009) 720p HDTV SoS
PBS Nature - Is That Skunk (2009)
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It’s a familiar but mysterious creature in woods and neighborhoods all across America. Its infamous weapon is one of the most awful scents in all of nature. Now, intrepid researchers and cameramen track skunks day and night across California, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Ohio, even Martha’s Vineyard, uncovering how they hunt, forage, mate and raise amazingly cute babies — all the things they’re up to when they’re not spraying the local dog. And yes, the remarkable secrets of that stink will be revealed.
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