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Southern coastal areas of Australia is the setting for the expedition as field report Tom Allen joins researchers in a close-up story of the most perfect predator in the world, the great white shark. They observe attack and feeding techniques from a small protective cage beneath the surface. Attracted to bait placed beside the cage, some of the sharks are tagged with radio telemetry devices as they pass closely.
Species story that takes place at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Reserve in Montana where the spring awakening of a great marshland is seen as the migrating species return to establish their territories, build their nests and raise their families. Canada geese have learned a unique method of protecting their nests, eggs and young from predators by building their nests atop nests built during previous seasons by ospreys in dead trees.
Jim Fowler travels to the magnificent north woods of Main to hear the plaintive "Call of the Loon", but Mr. LaRouche refuses to return his calls.
Jim Fowler journeys to Alaska to closely observe the studies being conducted in an effort to preserve and protect the Alaskan moose population.
Jim Fowler and Peter Gros are in the north central part of Namibia, where lions have been making nighttime raids on cattle farms. They along with Jan Oelofse, will capture and relocate the problem lions to a place where they can still roam and hunt as nature meant them to, without disturbing man. If this is not done, the lions will have to be destroyed.
Jim Fowler and Dr. Bart O'Gara try to reestablish mountain goats in an area of the rattlesnake where they once thrived but now no longer exist.
Species story originating in the African country of Mozambique, taking place in a long-abandoned tourist camp in the vast Ngorongosa National Park. In one of the buildings that is still intact, Cabin #3, some lions have taken up permanent occupancy. Here a lioness raises her cubs and teaches them to survive.
Jim Fowler and Peter Gros have a stimulating African adventure on the Zambezi River where it thunders over the famed Victoria Falls. From the base they float downstream in rubber boats thru the great Batoka Gorge and on to Songwe. At last they reach Lake Kariba where they join members of the Zimbabwe Game Department in a project to capture and relocate elephants to establish new herds in areas where elephants once lived but have been exterminated.
Jim Fowler joins a team of Malawi wildlife biologists in a project to capture, study and manage both the large Nyala antelope and the powerful African elephant. The expedition begins in rubber boats and start to descent the Shire River, a treacherous stream never before successfully navigated by man.
Jim Fowler and Peter Gros embark on a rafting expedition down the perilous rapids of the Waghi River. They ultimately reach the object of their journey -- the region called Ubaigubi. Here they closely observe the habits of several different species of the winged gems of the New Guinea rainforests -- the exotic, birtds of paradise.
On Heron Island, offshore from Australia's northeastern coast, Peter Gros and Tom Allen join Colin Limpus to observe the work Limpus is doing to preserve the endangered giant 400-pound sea turtles known as loggerheads.
In this unusual show Tom Allen joins the "shark doctor" and a team of researchers aboard the Betsy-M out of the port of San Pedro, California, to do research on three different shark species they mean to capture by hand. Members of the team include marine biologist Bob Johnson, shark protection researcher Jeremiah Sullivan, and Dr. Stanley Spielman the shark doctor. The divers catch an angel shark from the bottom waters near Catalina Island and a blue shark in open waters 2,000 feet deep. They catch a mako shark at night. The object of the venture is to bring these hand-caught sharks to a testing station the men have established beneath the sea where the eyes of the captured sharks can be tested with electronic equipment to determine what importance vision plays to a shark in its predatory pursuits.
