• Premiered: Oct 1982
  • Episodes: 673
  • Followers: 65
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Season 15
15x1
Sperm Whales: The Real Moby Dick
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 13, 1996
In the NATURE program SPERM WHALES: THE REAL MOBY DICK, the efforts of Jonathan Gordon and other researchers to study the whales' physicality, modes of communication, and social interactions contribute to our understanding of the underwater world.
15x2
The Crater Lions
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 20, 1996
Charting the declining fortunes of a pride of "Crater Lions" that lives in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater. Included: lion attacks on buffaloes; a young cub's encounter with jackals; efforts to repopulate the pride; wildebeests, elephants
15x3
Mask of the Mandrill
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 10, 1996
Delving into the mysteries of the colorful monkeys called mandrills, as a troupe of the creatures are followed through the West African rainforests. Included: the travails of a lead male .. show full overview
15x4
The Joy of Pigs
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 17, 1996
Exploring pigs, described by host George Page as “the world's most cosmopolitan characters,” with a focus on their adaptability to a variety of environments. Included: pigs as pets; hunters stalking a “bearded” pig in Borneo.
15x5
Echo of the Elephants: The Next Generation
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 08, 1996
Following a family of elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park. Included: the family's matriarch giving birth, rescuing her kidnapped daughter and chasing away hyenas. Also: male and female mating rituals.
15x6
Wolves and Buffalo: The Last Frontier
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Air date
Jan 12, 1997
Observing wild buffaloes and gray wolves in the Canadian wilderness. Jeff and Sue Turner spent two years filming the ritual battles between these ancient adversaries in Wood Buffalo National Park, where the drama unfolds in the subarctic winter.
15x7
The Elephant Men
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Air date
Feb 16, 1997
Profiling the mahouts of southern India, who are skilled in the art of training wild elephants. Included: a journey north to stop herds of marauding elephants that are destroying villagers' crops and taking lives.
15x8
A Lemur's Tale
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Air date
Feb 23, 1997
Deep in the thorn forests of Madagascar live troops of ring-tailed lemurs, the most beautiful and most social of Madagascar’s extraordinary primates. Our story follows five baby lemurs .. show full overview
15x9
Extraordinary Dogs
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Air date
Mar 09, 1997
Tales of canine loyalty to humans, including segments illustrating how dogs detect people buried by avalanches, enhance the lives of prison inmates and offer "therapy" for seriously ill .. show full overview
15x10
Bowerbird Blues
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Air date
Apr 13, 1997
Profiling the bowerbird, an ingenious "architect" of the Australian rain forest that builds elaborate bowers of sticks to attract a female. Footage also includes the spiny echidna, which .. show full overview
15x11
Spirits of the Jaguar: The Forging of a New World
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Air date
May 11, 1997
The four-part "Spirits of the Jaguar" explores the human and natural histories of Central America and the Caribbean. Part 1 focuses on the region's animal and plant life, and its .. show full overview
15x12
Spirits of the Jaguar: The Forests of Maya
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Air date
May 12, 1997
Part 2 of "Spirits of the Jaguar" explores the "Forests of the Maya," where 1200 years ago an extraordinary civilization emerged in the Central American jungles. Included: Mayan ruins; .. show full overview
15x13
Spirits of the Jaguar: Hunters of the Caribbean Sea
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Air date
May 13, 1997
Part 3 of “Spirits of the Jaguar” recounts the evolution of the Taino civilization. The Taino were the first inhabitants of the Caribbean some 2000 years ago, and their way of life was .. show full overview
15x14 Season finale
Spirits of the Jaguar: The World of Aztecs
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Air date
May 14, 1997
"Spirits of the Jaguar" concludes with the story of the Aztec empire, which in the 1500s stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific in what is now Mexico. Footage includes scenes of .. show full overview

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