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In this episode, Pele, the youngest female gorilla at Busch Gardens Tampa, is pregnant. But, near the end of her term, the animal care team discovers a dangerous situation developing with her baby. Witness the medical procedures that will hopefully save this baby’s life. Part of The Wildlife Docs series.
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When Genoveva opens her magic book, the screen is filled with feathers, beaks, horns, legs, wings, and snouts. Genoveva's magic book transports her to various habitats where she learns about the animals that live there. In this episode, Genoveva spends time in the African Savannah. While there she visits with the elephants.
When Genoveva opens her magic book, the screen is filled with feathers, beaks, horns, legs, wings, and snouts. Genoveva's magic book transports her to various habitats where she learns about the animals that live there. In this episode, Genoveva meets a huge mammal living in the North Pole: the polar bear.
Throughout the Cenozoic Era, marsupials and their metatherian relatives flourished all over South America, filling all kinds of ecological niches and radiating into forms that still thrive on other continents. Part of the “Eons” series.
The Australian Koala Foundation works diligently to educate authorities about the probable destruction of this familiar animal. Closeup photography reveals its habitat, social structure, characteristics, mating habits, and interaction. Compromises between the needs of people and the eucalyptus habitat needs of the koalas mean hope for its future.
Compares and contrasts the three types of great apes: orangutans, gorillas, and chimps. Focuses on where they live, what they look like, what they eat, how they communicate, and how they survive. Explains that scientists study apes because apes are humans' closest living relative. Looks at characteristics apes and humans share.
Some of the world's best preserved fossils are found in the flat-topped ridges of southwestern Wyoming's cold sagebrush desert. Fossilized fishes, insects, plants, reptiles, birds, and mammals are exceptional for their abundance, variety, and detail of preservation. Most remarkable is the story they tell of ancient life in a sub-tropical landscape.
Sea otters, the ultimate surf bum, are the crucial element for kelp forests and their diverse ecology. Reviews the history of otters on the Pacific coast and their near extermination. Describes the otters' habitat, physical characteristics, behaviors, diet, and use of "tools." This member of the weasel family has the lushest fur in the world.
When Genoveva opens her magic book, the screen is filled with feathers, beaks, horns, legs, wings, and snouts. Genoveva's magic book transports her to various habitats where she learns about the animals that live there. In this episode, Genoveva visits the world of giraffes on the African Savannah.
When Genoveva opens her magic book, the screen is filled with feathers, beaks, horns, legs, wings, and snouts. Genoveva's magic book transports her to various habitats where she learns about the animals that live there. In this episode, Genoveva watches as horses run through open and green meadows.
When Genoveva opens her magic book, the screen is filled with feathers, beaks, horns, legs, wings, and snouts. Genoveva's magic book transports her to various habitats where she learns about the animals that live there. In this episode, Genoveva and her magic book travel to the Australian desert to go jumping with the kangaroos.
What do you know about bats? Are they our friends or enemies? Emphasizes that bats help us with pollination, seed dispersal, and by eating millions of bugs. Discusses their habitats and the foods they eat. Shows that their appearance and size differ. Closes with a warning that bats are wild animals.
A manatee turns up in Trinity Bay near Galveston, Texas. He is named Trinidad, but several rescue groups must work to save him when the water temperature drops. Then, two sea lions in San Diego have life-threatening entanglements around their necks, so the SeaWorld team steps in to save them. Part of the Sea Rescue series.
When Genoveva opens her magic book, the screen is filled with feathers, beaks, horns, legs, wings, and snouts. Genoveva's magic book transports her to various habitats where she learns about the animals that live there. In this episode, Genoveva's magic book transports her to the South Seas, and she visits with the sea lions.
A community of sea lions annually visits an island in the Gulf of California, where the babies are born and must be taught to swim. Compares seals and sea lions. Details physical characteristics, diet, behaviors, and enemies. The only enemy this "grizzly bear of the sea" cannot fight is fishing boats.
When Genoveva opens her magic book, the screen is filled with feathers, beaks, horns, legs, wings, and snouts. Genoveva's magic book transports her to various habitats where she learns about the animals that live there. In this episode, Genoveva visits the anteater and travels with the anteater in the woods looking for ant's nests.
Compares four species of chimpanzees and monkeys in Uganda's Kibale National Park. Looks at the habitats, characteristics, food, and socialization of the chimps, red colobos, black-and-white colobos, and red-tailed monkeys. Discusses the impact of careless logging on the forests these endangered animals call home. NOTE: One brief mating scene.
Pandas in China's Wolong Reserve are in danger after an earthquake destroyed part of their habitat. The epic center of the earthquake was just 20 miles from the reserve. After the earthquake, National Geographic dispatched a team to assess the health of the pandas and deliver needed supplies. Segment of video from Wild Chronicles Series.
Though tool use is not unique to humans, their sophistication and degree of reliance upon them is unique, and sets humans apart from other species. So when did human tool-making begin, and why? And what does the use of tools reveal about the evolution of human ancestors? Paleoanthropologist Tim White reveals the answers in this short video.
Neuroscientist Cindy Moss is investigating how animals use sensory information to guide their behavior. Her team at Johns Hopkins University's "Batlab" is currently focused on bat echolocation. The group aims to better understand how these highly specialized creatures perceive and navigate their world. Part of the "Science Nation" series.
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