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- Actress Julia Roberts turns naturalist to discover the endangered great ape of Asia, the Orang-utan, as she goes on an expedition with conservationists and ventures deep into the jungles of Borneo.
- In the last film Christopher Reeve made before the tragic accident which left him paralyzed, the 'Superman' actor searches the oceans for the mysterious Gray Whale. All his life he has been intrigued by the sea and its mammals. The gray whale in particular has always fascinated him because of its gruelling 10,000 mile annual migration. His search takes him from St Lawrence in Alaska to the lagoons of Baja California, where the whales traditionally spend the winter. Together with wildlife cameraman Bruce Reitherman he watches the whales at a distance as they mate and give birth. The whales' curiosity finally brings them close enough for Christopher Reeve to touch them, but the highlight comes on the very last day when a mother and her calf appear by the boat, allowing Christopher Reeve to get eye-to-eye with them. Reeve's riding accident occurred just before he was due to record the commentary for this film and he asked his close friend Stephen Collins to record the narration for the program.
- Richard Dreyfuss explores the Galapagos Islands while attempting to understand "The Origin of Species."
- The heat is on for the world's biggest population of cheetahs. Namibia, in Southern Africa, is home to 3,000 cheetahs but here they face the greatest challenges. In the north, a remarkable family of seven cheetahs struggle to survive the endless desert droughts on the scorched pans of Etosha. Meanwhile on the ranchland of the south, a lone female tries to scrape a living on the fringes of civilisation. If she gets caught by a farmer, more likely than not he will shoot her. But help is at hand.
- Strung out along 5,000 kilometers of the Equator, between Asia and Australia, Indonesia's 17,000 islands make up the largest and most varied archipelago on earth. From freezing glaciers to coral reefs, orangutans to Komodo dragons, the sheer diversity of landscapes and life defies the imagination. This series tells the story of one of the world's most fascinating regions and its magical wildlife.
- Kangaroos in trees and flying foxes - nowhere else are there animals as weird and wonderful as in the forests of Indonesia. The forests are home to the World's largest flower, Rafflesia, and Amorphophallus, which has an 11ft flower spike. Up in the canopy are the people who live in fragile homes perched precariously in the highest branches.
- In Indonesia's underwater wonderland, flamboyant reef fish, huge manta rays and shimmering schools of barracudas ride the strong currents that flow between the 17,000 islands that form stepping-stones between Asia and Australia. The coral reefs are the rainforests of the sea, home to huge variety of life including whale sharks and the bizarre mimic octopus. While off the island of Sulawesi, the Bajau people, known as sea gypsies, live on the water.
- Indonesia was created by volcanic eruptions 150 million years ago. Today, there are 155 active volcanoes in Indonesia, and one erupts every day. Heavyweight Komodo dragons throw themselves at each other as they do battle for a mate. On Sulawesi, weird maleo birds incubate their huge eggs in hot volcanic sand and on Borneo proboscis monkeys leap across rivers, trying to avoid falling into the mouths of waiting crocodiles.
- As the dry season grips southern Tanzania, a pride of lions is faced with a shortage of prey. A big kill is essential for the pride's survival. One buffalo would provide enough meat to sustain a pride for several days. But it's not as easy as it sounds. Weighing more than a ton, the male buffalo is a daunting prospect for a hungry lion. Their herds are made up of many sub-groups of closely related individuals, and unlike other prey who run randomly in the presence of predators, buffaloes close ranks and face their adversaries head on. Many a buffalo bears the tell-tale signs of a failed lion ambush, thick scars running down their backs or parts of their tails missing. More often than not, however, it is the lion that is injured in these confrontations. It would take a certain amount of tenacity, foolhardiness and teamwork on the lions' part to bring this mighty beast down. Intimate Enemies is a film about the relationship between these two great animals as a drought forces them into a titanic battle.
- Naturalist Mike Dilger is on a mission to seek out Britain's natural invaders. He's off to find out a bevy of botany and beasts, here by accident or design and now mingling with our native wildlife. A surprising array of plants and animals make this island far richer than you might think. Colonies of Indian scorpions, Tasmanian wallabies and giant American Bull frogs are obvious intruders. And yet rabbits, horseradish, doves and goats are also ancient invaders. This is the story of how Britain's wild invaders came here and how in some cases they've changed the face of Britain. On a journey from London to Loch Lomond, Mike will shed new light on our own backyard - British wildlife, sometimes exotic and sometimes familiar, but always surprising. Wildlife anyone can see once you know what to look for and where to start looking.
- An eight-part exploration of the diverse peoples that make up the African continent.
- One-hundred strong, the herd slowly makes its way through the shifting sands, following the promise of ephemeral desert rains. This is the remarkable, precarious, and untold story of a lost herd of elephants that live near the fabled city of Timbuktu. How the elephants survive in this seemingly barren, desolate landscape is a mystery. It is one however that Anne Orlando, a biologist from the University of California, hopes to unravel. For the first time she will track the elephants to uncharted lands and reveal the relationship they have with Tuareg nomads - a relationship which can be both respectful, and bloody. The lost elephants of Timbuktu are completely isolated from other African elephants - they were cut off from each other as the Sahara turned to desert centuries ago. They have survived in this unlikely setting by having a mental map of scattered temporary lakes and marshes. This is the Sahel in the West African state of Mali - one of the most arid places on earth and becoming more so. As drought has intensified over time, the elephants' wanderings between these vital watering holes have stretched into a remarkable yearly migration of seven hundred miles. The Sahel is changing fast - the climate is becoming drier and many Tuareg people are abandoning their herds and establishing sedentary homes around the traditional waterholes of the elephants. This, unfortunately, can only lead to conflict. THE LOST ELEPHANTS OF TIMBUKTU will be an unforgettable adventure into a lost world.
- Geneticist Steven O'Brien investigates whether a genetic mutation that helped the inhabitants of a village called Eyam in Derbyshire survive the Black Death pandemic in the 14th century help scientists find a cure for AIDS.
- Austin Stevens looks for exotic and sometimes rare snakes and encounters other animals along the way educating us with each encounter.
- When healthy dolphins mysteriously start turning up dead in remote Scottish coastline and Virginia US, a full scale search is launched to find the killer.
- The love affair between the horse and the Irish people has endured for centuries. Almost everyone in Ireland goes to the races. The programme begins with the only horse race in the world to be run where the sea meets the land - on Laytown Beach, a few miles north of Dublin. Over countless generations Man has shaped these racehorses for speed and endurance, fashioned them to his needs - just as he has Ireland's landscape. This small island in the Atlantic Ocean might seem like a land trapped in time, but appearances are deceptive. The Irish landscape has undergone some of the fastest and most profound changes of any in Europe. Change lies at the heart of Ireland's being - not only of its past but also of its present and future. From the enigmatic limestone features of the Burren to the wide, bleak boglands of County Mayo; from the inaccessible cliffs of the island of Little Skellig to the rich wetland meadows of the Shannon Callows Ireland - Sculpted Isle explores some of Ireland's most characteristic landscapes. We look at how they were formed and how natural events and the actions of man have since shaped and sculpted them into what is familiar to us today.
- Every year, without fail, Jane Goodall breaks a grueling schedule of lecture tours and conservation work to go 'home' -- her spiritual home of Gombe National park in East Africa. This film follows her on that journey, returning to Tanzania to see her beloved chimps, some of whom her work has practically made household names - Fifi, Freud and Frodo. We'll hear her thoughts every step of the way during the weeks leading up to Gombe -- as she visits a chimp sanctuary in Congo, delivers a final lecture, attends meetings and continues her work for the Jane Goodall Institute. This film reveals a new side of Jane Goodall, the thoughts and emotions generally hidden from the multitude of film crews that have followed her in the past.
- Deep in the Queensland rain forest lays a remote and inaccessible valley where Australia's biggest snake, the Amethystine Python is rumored to congregate. Austin Stevens embarks on a journey to find this hidden valley and photograph its enormous inhabitants in a race against time. Impending storms will make getting into the valley impossible or could leave him stranded once inside. On his way, Austin encounters some of the world's most deadly snakes and some of its most treacherous terrain on a journey that has cost previous explorers their lives.
- For fifteen million years orangutans roamed tropical forests from China to South East Asia. In Borneo, one of their last island outposts, lives one today who is a legend. He's won more than just a kingdom, he's won human hearts. They gave him the name Kusasi. The Orangutan King is the story of Kusasi's life told to us by a remarkable witness. Dr Birute M. Galdikas has been researching orangutans in Borneo for over 40 years. Under the guidance of Louis Leakey, Galdikas joined Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey to become a pioneer of Great Ape field research. Together they were known as the 'trimates', or 'Leakey's Angels'. Yet while Goodall's chimpanzees and Fossey's gorillas were made familiar through films, the orangutans are still largely unknown to television audiences. Their solitary lives high in the tree canopy have made them difficult to follow and film. Now, for the first time, Dr Galdikas will draw audiences deep into the orangutan universe. With enthusiasm and insight she tells us this special story - taking us back 30 years and unfolding Kusasi's story with detail, energy, and the wonder that she still feels for the orangutan species. As a three year old orphan, Kusasi fell under the care of Galdikas in her forest research camp. But driven by a cunning and tenacious spirit Kusasi did not behave as the other ex-captive infants. From the moment he arrived until today, Galdikas has watched Kusasi fight to win back and then succeed at life in the wild. And he's achieved what had once seemed impossible, reaching the top of the power hierarchy and ruling for ten years. The people who work at Camp Leakey enjoy his charisma, and even those who only visit him in his forest kingdom are struck with awe. As Julia Roberts was in 1997. Her encounter with Kusasi was unplanned - becoming a tight clinch with an irritable 140 kilo beast, possessing the strength of ten men. But she was unharmed. Kusasi is not malicious, and he's respected as much for his indifference to humans as for his power over the other orangutans. Today his spirit still burns brightly but his physical strength is fading. His fights with the rogue males who cross his borders are weakening him and The Orangutan King is the last chance for us to see him in power. But the hope of this film is that he will not be the last of his kind to rule with such strength in his forests. If the forest destruction can be stopped, there is a long future for the considerable Kusasi bloodline.
- Travel by air with Mike Fay across Africa as he takes detailed digital still images of the continent to examine the human footprint on the land.
- The program explores communications and relationships between animals and humans. In part one we witness how animals can learn our language and find unique human-animal partnerships working to make the world a better place. Part two will discover how we humans can learn the languages of animals through science and other, less-easily defined approaches. Part three discovers the "conversations" that can take place between animals and humans, and the amazing results that these mutual comprehensions can yield. Dr Goodall's message is that communicating with animals brings humankind closer to another world, and that such liaisons can bring about unexpected benefits.
- In 1967, villagers in Africa's Equitorial Guinea captured a baby gorilla with a coat of pure white. The film tells the story of this amazing animal, from his loving upbringing by humans to his eventual death from skin cancer in 2003.
- Jeff Corwin kicks off the series travelling through the Florida Everglades, by helicopter and boat, in search of a gigantic male gator.
- In Alaska, on the remote Kodiak Island, Jeff is determined to go fishing with the world's biggest carnivore, the gigantic Kodiak Bear.
- Jeff heads into the Simpson Desert with a camel as his travelling companion. He meets many creatures who have adapted to the harsh environment.
- A group of marsupials, orangutans, and a snake are heading for a close encounter with a truly dangerous predator, the saltwater crocodile.
- Jeff is off to look for the bird with the best eyesight in the world. In the wilds of Scotland he hopes to give the Golden Eagle an eye test.
- A herd of elephants, trained to sniff out and catch poachers, set out to capture host Jeff Corwin.
- Jeff heads to Europe to teach a flock of geese the route they need to take to survive the winter and get to their breeding grounds.
- Using spotter planes, boats, and micro lights, Jeff tracks one of nature's most amazing phenomena, a sardine run.
- Climbers arrive at Everest Base Camp and quickly learn the dangers of the mountain.They are shocked to discover how badly their minds and bodies cope as they move to Advance Base Camp. A cameraman collapses with intense stomach pains. A member of an Indian expedition collapses with acute mountain sickness. It is up to expedition physician, Terry, to lead a full-scale rescue mission.
- Jeff Corwin joins an elite hit squad of scientists on an adventurous mission to search out new species in one of the most remote and mysterious regions on Earth - the Himalayas. The mysterious Makalu-Barun National Park, on the shoulder of Mount Everest in Nepal, is a "biodiversity hotspot" - a rugged, forested region that Conservation International has singled out as the destination of an extraordinary expedition. Working day and night, a team of CI scientists will build an inventory of the region's wildlife. They hope, and expect, to come across new species as they work. Makalu-Barun is also a hotspot for yeti sightings. While the CI scientists work day and night, Jeff undertakes his own mission: to search out another, undescribed species - the infamous yeti. Determined to get to the bottom of this enduring mystery, he is guided by the stories of local people, the words of yeti myth experts, the advice of his fellow biologists and the accounts of holy men. He stumbles upon recent photographs and prized yeti relics, and travels to isolated yeti haunts in his search. By the end of the show, he is ready to draw his own startling conclusion about the truth behind the myth.
- Brazil (alone) is a beautiful country surrounded with beaches, jungles, and landscaping mountains. Atlas: Brazil Revealed plunges into this vibrant country and discovers that the native people are just as interesting and colorful as the land itself.