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A study of individual development and group dynamics in a troop of rhesus monkeys in the natural observable environment of Cayo Santiago near Puerto Rico.
The cliff-dwelling Dogon farmers and their unique culture are studied in their homeland near the Niger River in Mali.
The current efforts in both the United States and Canada to harness the sun as a major resource of heat and power are examined.
The activities of the economic and social center of Sololá, located on Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, are viewed.
Volunteers undergo an experiment at the Montefiore Sleep Lab in New York which monitors their sleeping-awakening cycles in an attempt to learn more about the body's biological time system.
Analysis of dreams is viewed at several institutions established expressly for that purpose, and those who participate in the experiments are shown as they make notations and give recollections of what they dreamed.
"Charlie," a profile of paleontologist Charles Sternberg, who discovered and catalogued dinosaur fossils in the Badlands of Alberta. Footage shows early digs near Red Deer River Valley, where the paleontologist and other workers unearthed lizard and dinosaur remains. Now in his 90s, Sternberg still lectures.
"The Search" follows World Health Organization medical teams on their campaign to vaccinate the Somali against smallpox. Most of the natives of this African country are nomads, and the program focuses on the difficulty of containing outbreaks of the deadly disease, a chore that involves house-to-house searches in which everyone is treated.
The history and culture of the descendants
Acadians from Nova Scotia living along the Bayou Lafourche in Louisiana. Established Caluns was there since the mid-18th century after being deported have still kept their French language and their traditions despite the US pressures that live there.
