Natural World

  • : 1983
  • : 536
  • : 20
  • BBC Two
  • 21
  • Documentary

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Otters in the Stream of Life
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08, 2000
This film follows a year on the exquisite west coast of Scotland, in the intimate company of a family of otters. Guided by their mother, the otter cubs survive the wildest storms of the .. show full overview
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Camels Down Under
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15, 2000
Introduced to Australia in the 1840s by European settlers, camels were the only reliable form of transport in the country's harsh interior. Replaced by motor vehicles and abandoned at .. show full overview
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Deadly Vipers
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22, 2000
Predators with the largest fangs of any snake and venom containing up to 50 deadly ingredients, vipers kill more people than any other animal. But now that medical science is beginning .. show full overview
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The Tigers' Fortress
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29, 2000
The chequered history of a tiger conservation park in Rajasthan, northern India, from its success in the 1980s through its battles with corruption and poaching in the early 1990s to its .. show full overview
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Big Red Roos
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05, 2000
A red kangaroo mother and baby belong to one of the hardiest species of animal athletes - but as this documentary shows, even they must battle to survive in the vast and inhospitable .. show full overview
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Killer Whales: Up Close and Personal
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19, 2000
The intimate lives of a family of killer whales that hunt elephant seals and penguins off the storm-blasted Crozet Islands of Antarctica. French scientists study younger members of the .. show full overview
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Madagascar: Land of Lemurs
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26, 2000
Isolated from the rest of the world for hundreds of thousands of years, Madagascar has become a treasure trove of unique wildlife. This programme follows the lives of its charismatic lemurs that are to be found nowhere else in the world.
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Seychelles: Jewels of a Lost Continent
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10, 2000
The epic story of how giant tortoises, silver lizards, the coco de mer tree and other extraordinary species came to be stranded on the tiny islands of the Seychelles, far out in the .. show full overview
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Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction
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17, 2000
David Attenborough travels to the remote highlands of New Guinea and the rainforests of Australia to explore the little-known world of the bower bird, a fascinating creature which .. show full overview
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The Last Tusker
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21, 2001
A colourful feature on Sri Lanka's elephant population, focusing on one of the last wild bulls. On this Buddhist island, elephants may be sacred, but they kill over people a year, and .. show full overview
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Seals: Invaders of the Sea
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28, 2001
Wildlife programme in which state-of-the-art camera techniques reveal the sophisticated underwater world of the seal - an animal capable of surviving in every ocean corner of the world.
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Killer Bees and Magic Trees
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04, 2001
Austrian scientist Gerald Kastberger studies the aggressive giant honeybees of Assam, in particular their unexplained annual migration from the Himalayan foothills to specific trees .. show full overview
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Hippo Beach
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18, 2001
Insight into the bizarre behavioural habits of the African hippo, a creature which spends most of its lifetime in water but cannot swim, and eats mainly grass yet thinks nothing of .. show full overview
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Timeless Thames
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25, 2001
This is a journey along the River Thames, England's most famous river, from its source to the sea. The Thames may seem tame today but it is still wild at heart and just waiting to .. show full overview
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Coyote: the Ultimate Survivor?
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18, 2001
Documentary on the coyote, cousin to the wolf and one of America's most charismatic animals. The film explores how this elusive and intelligent creature with a spine-chilling call .. show full overview
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Transylvania: Living with Predators
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25, 2001
Andrew Sachs narrates a documentary focusing on the large predators which live alongside humans in the beautiful forests and mountains of Transylvania, where shepherds always have to be .. show full overview
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Danube Delta: Europe Untamed
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15, 2001
The delta of the river Danube is home to half a million wild geese, the greatest concentration of pelicans outside Africa, and the world's largest freshwater fish. Despite the previous .. show full overview
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Buffalo: The African Boss
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31, 2001
A study of the buffaloes of Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania, where they are prey to lions but will also attack them, and even kill their cubs. This dangerous side, which makes them .. show full overview

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