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Nature

Season 5 1986 - 1987
TV-G

  • 1986-10-20T00:00:00Z on PBS
  • 50m
  • 17h 42m (20 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, Family
Transport viewers to faraway places ranging from the steamy plains of Africa to the splendors of cold Antarctica. The main focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world.

20 episodes

Season Premiere

1986-10-20T00:00:00Z

5x01 Alyeska: The Great Land

Season Premiere

5x01 Alyeska: The Great Land

  • 1986-10-20T00:00:00Z53m

Examines how the plants and animals of Alaska’s Alyeska wilderness have adapted to the regions harsh climate.

1986-10-27T01:00:00Z

5x02 Baja Lagoon

5x02 Baja Lagoon

  • 1986-10-27T01:00:00Z53m

An examination of the plants and animals that make their home in a shallow lagoon found on the Western coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula.

This exploration of the Galapagos Islands, located in the Pacific Ocean West of Ecuador, examines theories explaining the arrival of wildlife to the archipelago.

Marine iguanas, cormorants, green turtles, sea lions, and sperm whales are among the animals that thrive in the cold waters surrounding the equatorially located Galapagos Islands.

A look at the Galapagos Islands’ many birds, include the waved albatross, blue-footed booby, frigate bird and the ground finch; also, man’s relationship with the islands’ changing environment.

A look at how the Pantanal's wildlife species cope with the annual cycle of flood and drought which transforms the marshy prairie from a dry savannah into the world's largest freshwater wetland – a 36,000 square-mile area that encompasses Southwestern Brazil and parts of Bolivia and Paraguay.

1986-12-08T01:00:00Z

5x07 Cats

5x07 Cats

  • 1986-12-08T01:00:00Z53m

An examination of the behavior of man’s feline friends.

The activities of an elusive female leopard are traced over a two-day period on the hot plains of Africa.

1987-01-19T01:00:00Z

5x09 The Elephant Challenge

5x09 The Elephant Challenge

  • 1987-01-19T01:00:00Z53m

A look at the survival of the African elephants, as ivory and foraging land became more valuable.

A freshwater lake in Tunisia that turns salty every summer.

The Japanese take efforts to save an indigenous monkey.

A look at the crane, Japanese symbol of longevity, true love and happiness.

Hunters and egg poachers threaten the existence of the giant loggerhead turtle.

1987-03-16T01:00:00Z

5x14 America's Wild Horses

5x14 America's Wild Horses

  • 1987-03-16T01:00:00Z53m

Following the wild mustangs of America’s West.

An exploration of the Rift Valley that sweeps North from Kenya to Turkey, where prophets said their god first planted a garden.

The unusual life in the salty Dead Sea, where the desert plunges 1,200 feet below sea level.

1987-04-27T00:00:00Z

5x17 The Forgotten Garden

5x17 The Forgotten Garden

  • 1987-04-27T00:00:00Z53m

What happens when a finely maintained garden is abandoned.

1987-05-11T00:00:00Z

5x18 Lords of Hokkaido

5x18 Lords of Hokkaido

  • 1987-05-11T00:00:00Z53m

A year on a Japanese island following a family of red foxes.

Season Finale

1987-05-18T00:00:00Z

5x19 Designed for Living

Season Finale

5x19 Designed for Living

  • 1987-05-18T00:00:00Z53m

The tunnelers, thatchers, weavers, dam builders, sculptors, potters and spinners of the animal kingdom.

1987-05-25T00:00:00Z

5x20 Masked Monkeys

5x20 Masked Monkeys

  • 1987-05-25T00:00:00Z55m

Echoing hoots and trills, bandit masks, feathered tufts and orange noses distinguish African forest monkeys called quenons.

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