Nature - Season 15
Run Time: 53 mins
Air Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.8 (39 votes)
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Sperm Whales: the Real Moby Dick
Season 15 - Episode 1
In the NATURE program SPERM WHALES: THE REAL MOBY DICK, the efforts of Jonathan Gordon and other researchers to study the whales' physicalit...
The Crater Lions
Season 15 - Episode 2
Charting the declining fortunes of a pride of "Crater Lions" that lives in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater. Included: lion attacks on buffaloes...
Mask of the Mandrill
Season 15 - Episode 3
Delving into the mysteries of the colorful monkeys called mandrills, as a troupe of the creatures are followed through the West African rain...
The Joy of Pigs
Season 15 - Episode 4
Exploring pigs, described by host George Page as “the world's most cosmopolitan characters,” with a focus on their adaptability to a variety...
Echo of the Elephants: The Next Generation
Season 15 - Episode 5
Following a family of elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park. Included: the family's matriarch giving birth, rescuing her kidnapped dau...
Wolves and Buffalo: The Last Frontier
Season 15 - Episode 6
Observing wild buffaloes and gray wolves in the Canadian wilderness. Jeff and Sue Turner spent two years filming the ritual battles between ...
The Elephant Men
Season 15 - Episode 7
Profiling the mahouts of southern India, who are skilled in the art of training wild elephants. Included: a journey north to stop herds of m...
A Lemur's Tale
Season 15 - Episode 8
Deep in the thorn forests of Madagascar live troops of ring-tailed lemurs, the most beautiful and most social of Madagascar’s extraordinary ...
Extraordinary Dogs
Season 15 - Episode 9
Tales of canine loyalty to humans, including segments illustrating how dogs detect people buried by avalanches, enhance the lives of prison ...
Bower Bird Blues
Season 15 - Episode 10
Profiling the bowerbird, an ingenious "architect" of the Australian rain forest that builds elaborate bowers of sticks to attract a female. ...
Spirits of the Jaguar: The Forging of a New World
Season 15 - Episode 11
The four-part "Spirits of the Jaguar" explores the human and natural histories of Central America and the Caribbean. Part 1 focuses on the r...
Spirits of the Jaguar: The Forests of Maya
Season 15 - Episode 12
Part 2 of "Spirits of the Jaguar" explores the "Forests of the Maya," where 1200 years ago an extraordinary civilization emerged in the Cent...
Spirits of the Jaguar: Hunters of the Caribbean Sea
Season 15 - Episode 13
Part 3 of “Spirits of the Jaguar” recounts the evolution of the Taino civilization. The Taino were the first inhabitants of the Caribbean so...
Spirits of the Jaguar: The World of Aztecs
Season 15 - Episode 14
"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 ...