Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

Jim Fowler joins Dr. Steve Amstrup to observe the impact on polar bears on the pack ice of the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska by the recent exploration of oil in that area.

Jim Fowler and Peter Gros enter the bayous of Louisiana in the dark of night to capture alligators using a spotlight and their loop nooses to subdue the huge reptiles, some of which measure up to 15-feet long. These dangerous alligator captures are made so the animals can be translocated to the bayous of Arkansas where hunting and poaching have all but eliminated the ancient reptile.

Toward the end of autumn, in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming, a pair of two-year-old black bears are in their final activities prior to entering hibernation for the winter. The show is about the exploring, playing with and encounters with other animals of their habitat.

Tom Allen joins marine scientist Julia Whitty to study a school of wild spotted dolphins in the tropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the west end of the Grand Bahama Island.

In a delightful species story, a young lynx who has been moving through the Canadian Rockies, is looking for a territory to claim as its own. He roams peaks and valleys and finally locates a high valley in the mountains that has a multitude of rabbits -- his favorite prey. This is a wonderful scenic and active show.

Tom Allen and Jeremiah Sullivan go in search of great white sharks 300 miles off Baja Ca near the island of Guadalupe. They also conduct two research experiments. The first attempts to determine if sharks are more attracted to light or dark colors. The second in a "food preference" test. Sharks are offered the flesh of ocean fish as well as red mammal meat to see which is preferred.

A species show about the three principal cats of Africa -- the cheetah, the lion and the leopard. All three of these cats, who are predators living in the same area, but who also compete for the same food are able to co-exist in the same area because of they way the cats live and hunt. It also shows glimpses at fish eagles, martial eagles and wading birds. A rather remarkable flight and chase between two Thompson gazelles is also a highlight.

Jim Fowler and primatologist Ann Pierce visit Sumatra to look over a government field station in the tropical rainforest where once-captive orangutans are being reintroduced to the wild.

Laura Grove, a girl scout from Milford, Nebraska, goes to Kenya with Jim Fowler to observe how women are instrumental in wildlife conservation in that country. Here she also observes wildlife at Amboseli National Park at the base of the spectacular Mount Kilimanjaro.

Wild Kingdom goes to the country of Tanzania in east Africa to observe the amazing research being done among chimps and baboons in the Gombe Stream National Park by a famous primatologist, Dr. Jane Goodall.

Every year for two weeks in November, Jim following the hurricane season, a huge migration of marine animals occurs in the Pacific Ocean. Hordes of large sharks and giant manta rays migrate southward past Clarion Island. To learn the answer to this secret of the Pacific, Tom Allen and marine biologist Bob Johnson board the research vessel, Ambar III to reach the area and tag the large sharks and giant rays.