Nature - Season 8
Run Time: 53 mins
Air Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1989
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.8 (39 votes)
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The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley
Season 8 - Episode 1
The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes
Season 8 - Episode 2
The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent
Season 8 - Episode 3
Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.
Under the Ice
Season 8 - Episode 4
Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
Land of Dragons
Season 8 - Episode 5
Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong
The Great Wood of Caledon
Season 8 - Episode 6
An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.
Gorillas
Season 8 - Episode 7
A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.
Forest of Fear
Season 8 - Episode 8
A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.
Gran Paradiso
Season 8 - Episode 9
Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.
Cranes of the Grey Wind
Season 8 - Episode 10
Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.
King Solomon's Mountains
Season 8 - Episode 11
The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.
Hunters of the Sky
Season 8 - Episode 12
A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.
A Wolf in the Fold
Season 8 - Episode 13
The relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the ...
The Colorado
Season 8 - Episode 14
Tracing the course of the Colorado River.
The Emerald Isle
Season 8 - Episode 15
Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.
Giant Otters
Season 8 - Episode 16
The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.
The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People
Season 8 - Episode 17
Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.
Presque Isle: Land in Motion
Season 8 - Episode 18
An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.
Yellowstone on Fire
Season 8 - Episode 19
The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
Serpents
Season 8 - Episode 20
A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.