Nature: Season 8

Episodes

1. 1. The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley

   Oct 8, 1989 · 53m

   The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.

2. 2. The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes

   Oct 15, 1989 · 53m

   The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.

3. 3. The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent

   Oct 22, 1989 · 53m

   Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.

4. 4. Under the Ice

   Oct 29, 1989 · 53m

   Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.

5. 5. Land of Dragons

   Nov 12, 1989 · 53m

   Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong

6. 6. The Great Wood of Caledon

   Nov 19, 1989 · 53m

   An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.

7. 7. Gorillas

   Dec 10, 1989 · 53m

   A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.

8. 8. Forest of Fear

   Dec 17, 1989 · 53m

   A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.

9. 9. Gran Paradiso

   Jan 7, 1990 · 53m

   Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.

10. 10. Cranes of the Grey Wind

    Jan 21, 1990 · 53m

    Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.

11. 11. King Solomon's Mountains

    Feb 4, 1990 · 53m

    The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.

12. 12. Hunters of the Sky

    Feb 11, 1990 · 53m

    A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.

13. 13. A Wolf in the Fold

    Feb 18, 1990 · 53m

    The relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the creature other canines prey upon.

14. 14. The Colorado

    Mar 4, 1990 · 53m

    Tracing the course of the Colorado River.

15. 15. The Emerald Isle

    Mar 11, 1990 · 53m

    Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.

16. 16. Giant Otters

    Mar 18, 1990 · 53m

    The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.

17. 17. The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People

    Mar 25, 1990 · 53m

    Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.

18. 18. Presque Isle: Land in Motion

    Apr 1, 1990 · 53m

    An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.

19. 19. Yellowstone on Fire

    Apr 8, 1990 · 53m

    The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.

20. 20. Serpents

    Apr 15, 1990 · 53m

    A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.

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