• Premiered: Oct 1982
  • Episodes: 673
  • Followers: 65
  • Running
  • PBS
  • Wednesday at 20
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Season 5
5x1
Alyeska: The Great Land
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 19, 1986
Examines how the plants and animals of Alaska’s Alyeska wilderness have adapted to the regions harsh climate.
5x2
Baja Lagoon
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 26, 1986
An examination of the plants and animals that make their home in a shallow lagoon found on the Western coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula.
5x3
Galapagos: How They Got There
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 02, 1986
This exploration of the Galapagos Islands, located in the Pacific Ocean West of Ecuador, examines theories explaining the arrival of wildlife to the archipelago.
5x4
Galapagos: Cold on the Equator
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 09, 1986
Marine iguanas, cormorants, green turtles, sea lions, and sperm whales are among the animals that thrive in the cold waters surrounding the equatorially located Galapagos Islands.
5x5
Galapagos: The Ocean Travelers
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 16, 1986
A look at the Galapagos Islands’ many birds, include the waved albatross, blue-footed booby, frigate bird and the ground finch; also, man’s relationship with the islands’ changing environment.
5x6
Pantanal: Prairie of the Great Waters
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 23, 1986
A look at how the Pantanal's wildlife species cope with the annual cycle of flood and drought which transforms the marshy prairie from a dry savannah into the world's largest freshwater .. show full overview
5x7
Cats
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 07, 1986
An examination of the behavior of man’s feline friends.
5x8
Leopard: A Darkness in the Grass
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Air date
Dec 14, 1986
The activities of an elusive female leopard are traced over a two-day period on the hot plains of Africa.
5x9
The Elephant Challenge
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Air date
Jan 18, 1987
A look at the survival of the African elephants, as ivory and foraging land became more valuable.
5x10
Ichkeul: Between the Desert and the Deep Blue Sea
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Air date
Feb 08, 1987
A freshwater lake in Tunisia that turns salty every summer.
5x11
In the Shadow of Fujisan: See No Evil
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Air date
Feb 22, 1987
The Japanese take efforts to save an indigenous monkey.
5x12
In the Shadow of Fujisan: Bird of Happiness
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Air date
Mar 01, 1987
A look at the crane, Japanese symbol of longevity, true love and happiness.
5x13
In the Shadow of Fujisan: Long Live the Turtle
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Air date
Mar 08, 1987
Hunters and egg poachers threaten the existence of the giant loggerhead turtle.
5x14
America's Wild Horses
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Air date
Mar 15, 1987
Following the wild mustangs of America’s West.
5x15
Holy Land: A Wilderness Like Eden
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Air date
Apr 12, 1987
An exploration of the Rift Valley that sweeps North from Kenya to Turkey, where prophets said their god first planted a garden.
5x16
Holy Land: Sweet Water, Bitter Sea
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Air date
Apr 19, 1987
The unusual life in the salty Dead Sea, where the desert plunges 1,200 feet below sea level.
5x17
The Forgotten Garden
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Air date
Apr 26, 1987
What happens when a finely maintained garden is abandoned.
5x18
Lords of Hokkaido
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Air date
May 10, 1987
A year on a Japanese island following a family of red foxes.
5x19
Designed for Living
Episode overview
Air date
May 17, 1987
The tunnelers, thatchers, weavers, dam builders, sculptors, potters and spinners of the animal kingdom.
5x20 Season finale
Masked Monkeys
Episode overview
Air date
May 24, 1987
Echoing hoots and trills, bandit masks, feathered tufts and orange noses distinguish African forest monkeys called quenons.

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