• Premiered: Oct 1982
  • Episodes: 666
  • Followers: 64
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Season 11
11x1
Realms of the Russian Bear: Green Jewel of the Caspian
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 05, 1992
This miniseries starts off by exploring the abundance of wildlife around the Volga Delta in Russia’s Astrakhan region.
11x2
Realms of the Russian Bear: The Arctic Frontier
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 05, 1992
An exploration of the wildlife of the Russian Arctic, and in particular Wrangle Island, featuring polar bears, musk oxen, Ross’s Gulls, reindeer, foxes, walruses, and the Red-breasted Goose.
11x3
Realms of the Russian Bear: The Red Deserts
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 06, 1992
A focus on the wildlife of the Central Asian deserts.
11x4
Realms of the Russian Bear: The Celestial Mountains
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 06, 1992
Between China and Central Asia is the Tian Shan mountain range, home to Marco Polo sheep, white-clawed bears, snow leopards, yaks, and the ibex.
11x5
Realms of the Russian Bear: Siberia, the Frozen Forest
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 07, 1992
A look at the wildlife in the huge Siberia forest reveals bears, elk, wolves, and musk deer among many other creatures in this frozen expanse.
11x6
Realms of the Russian Bear: Born of Fire
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 07, 1992
This last program in the miniseries explores Kamchatka Peninsula where the Russian Arctic meets Southeast Asia. Home to perhaps the highest concentration of volcanoes in the world, this .. show full overview
11x7
Shadows in a Desert Sea
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 18, 1992
Fish, bats, birds, whales, giant squids, sharks, dolphins, sea lions and more flourish in and around the Sea of Cortez.
11x8
The Tree of Music
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 25, 1992
The African Blackwood is prized the world over for its wood in the making of musical instruments. Nature takes you on a journey through the history of this “tree of music” and into modern day efforts in Tanzania to save this ever dwindling resource.
11x9
Slaves to the Queen
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 29, 1992
Get right inside the hives of bees and wasps to see the inner workings of these complex societies.
11x10
Ice Fox: Struggle for Survival
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 10, 1993
A look at two separate families of arctic foxes. One living in the frozen, barren tundra of northern Russia, the other living in the slightly more comfortable surroundings of the Norwegian coastline.
11x11
Cheetahs in the Land of Lions
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 24, 1993
A study of cheetah behavior follows a mother and her cubs on the Serengeti plains.
11x12
Gorilla: King of the Congo
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 14, 1993
A gorilla orphanage and a proposed forest reserve may save the lowland gorilla.
11x13
American Trickster
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 21, 1993
As its numbers increase and its natural range diminishes, the coyote moves into populated regions like Los Angeles.
11x14
Hebrides: The Secret Islands
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 28, 1993
Touring the "Hebrides: The Secret Islands" off the coast of Scotland, "home to only the toughest and most adaptable species.
11x15
Echo of the Elephants
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 14, 1993
In Kenya’s Amboseli National Park is a family of elephants led by its matriarch Echo. Elephant expert Cynthia Moss, takes us up-close and inside the lives of these magnificent animals.
11x16
The Ghosts of Ruby
Episode overview
Air date
May 09, 1993
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11x17
The Bandit and the Builder
Episode overview
Air date
May 16, 1993
Raccoon and beaver lifestyles in the Canadian wilderness.
11x18 Season finale
Spirit of the Sound
Episode overview
Air date
May 23, 1993
Exploration of Puget Sound's ecosystem.

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