Nature - Season 26

Run Time: 53 mins
Air Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.8 (39 votes)
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Silence of the Bees
Season 26 - Episode 1
The Season 26 opener probes colony collapse disorder---the dramatic loss of honeybees in North America and Europe. The honeybee is responsib...

In the Valley of the Wolves
Season 26 - Episode 2
Discover the epic history of the Druids, one of more than a dozen gray wolf packs now occupying the 2.2 million acres of Yellowstone Nationa...

The Cheetah Orphans
Season 26 - Episode 3
Documentarian Simon King raises two orphaned cheetah cubs in Kenya's Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. He's seen bottle-feeding them and---to prepa...

The Beauty of Ugly
Season 26 - Episode 4
Nature's ugliest creatures are spotlighted, including the dung beetle, elephant-seal bull, ghost-faced bat, Indian stork, naked mole rat, ne...

The Desert Lions
Season 26 - Episode 5
Dr. Philip Stander, a Namibian carnivore expert, investigates the resurgent lion population in the Namib Desert. Included: the uniqueness of...

Parrots in the Land of Oz
Season 26 - Episode 6
An exploration of Australia's diverse parrot population, including the fig parrot, the golden-shouldered parrot and the palm cockatoo. The o...

Crash: a Tale of Two Species
Season 26 - Episode 7
The link between the horseshoe crab, which has remained the same for some 350 million years, and the red-knot shorebird, is explored. The ho...

Arctic Bears
Season 26 - Episode 8
An examination of what the future may hold for polar bears, which evolved from grizzlies during the last ice age, due to the dramatic change...

What Females Want and Males Will Do (1)
Season 26 - Episode 9
In the animal world females often call the shots. But their decisions may be surprising. In an effort to understand the mating game, NATURE ...

What Females Want and Males Will Do (2)
Season 26 - Episode 10
Apparently, there is nothing a male will not do for the right to mate with a female — dance, sing, fight, change body colors, illuminate, ev...

The Gorilla King
Season 26 - Episode 11
A fascinating profile of a 33-year-old silverback named Titus, the leader of a gorilla clan in the mountainous region between Rwanda and Con...

Superfish
Season 26 - Episode 12
Marine biologist-filmmaker Rick Rosenthal documents billfish (marlins, sailfish and swordfish), whose numbers have dwindled over the past 50...

Prince of the Alps
Season 26 - Episode 13
From the moment he is born, a red deer calf faces a life-long struggle to survive in his new home — the mountain wilderness of the Austrian ...