Nature

Science and Nature Series / 38 Seasons

NATURE brings the beauty and wonder of the natural world into your home, becoming in the process the benchmark for natural history programs.

53m 8s / TV-14

Hippos Fight Off Hungry Birds

3m 1s

When water runs low during the dry season, thousands of hippos are forced to share the same pool, where tensions run high. The stress hits its peak when flocks of hungry birds attempt to use this pool as a feeding ground, getting in the way of the hippos and turning the pool into a war zone.

Inside NATURE – Hippos: Africa's River Giants

7m 28s

Hippos have a formidable reputation, killing about 500 people across Africa every year. Few filmmakers have attempted to capture their lives in detail, but director Brad Bestelink was determined to take up the challenge.

Watch A Team of Heroes Save an Entangled Whale

3m 17s

Whales face major threats from plastic and fishing gear entanglements and have been turning up injured or dead in record numbers, with a 300% increase in humpback entanglements in the last 5 years. In a never-before-filmed sequence, witness a group dedicated to disentangling whales as they undergo the dangerous process of trying to cut free a whale trapped by a rope while not harming themselves.

How to Identify Individual Whales

2m 1s

Determined to find the whale that breached on his kayak in a viral moment, Tom Mustill enlists the help of the founder of Happywhale, a citizen science database that collects thousands of whale tail photos. A humpback’s life story is written in the unique pattern of scars on its tail flukes.

The Island of Whale Autopsies

2m 51s

When dead whales turn up in San Francisco, they’re towed to an uninhabited island for autopsies. Whale scientist Dr. Joy Reidenberg hopes to better understand why these animals died and how to prevent similar incidents in the future.

The Whale Detective Preview

35s

A filmmaker investigates his traumatic encounter with a 30-ton humpback whale that breached and almost landed on him while he was kayaking. What he discovers raises far bigger questions about humans’ relationship with whales and their future.

Meet the Real-Life Paddington Bear

2m 2s

The spectacled bear is the species on which the character Paddington Bear is based. And just like the fictional character's love for marmalade sandwiches, this spectacled bear has a sweet tooth.

Bears Preview

35s

Follow the adventures of bears across the globe, from grizzlies to pandas to sloth bears, as they draw on their brains, brawn and unique adaptations to survive. Find out what it really takes to be a bear in today’s ever-changing world.

How Drinking Giraffes Avoid a Head Rush

1m 46s

When you're this tall, getting a drink of water can be challenging. With their high blood pressure, one would think giraffes should get a head rush when they bend down to drink from a watering hole. Luckily, their anatomy is tailored to combat this very issue.

Witness a Massive Coral Spawning

2m 57s

On nights when the perfect tide conditions, day-length and sea temperature all align, some 400 species of coral across 3,000 reefs reproduce by releasing their eggs and sperm simultaneously. This ultimately helps grow the world's largest living structure - the Great Barrier Reef.

Nature's Biggest Beasts Preview

35s

Discover the ingenious strategies that nature’s biggest beasts employ to conquer their environments, from the Komodo dragon with a deadly bite to the tallest giraffe to the bird-eating Armored ground cricket. These are their epic survival stories.

Mama Leopard Uses Sausage Tree to Hunt

2m 41s

This leopard mother has devised a clever way to ambush prey. She hides in the branches of a sausage tree and waits for antelope to come to feed on the fallen flowers. This ingenious hunting technique improves her success in providing food for her two hungry cubs.

Inside NATURE - Making of Okavango: River of Dreams | Part 3

10m

Dereck and Beverly Joubert take us behind the camera for the filming of the final episode. They share some of the technical challenges and reflect on the full scale of the project.

Okavango: River of Dreams - Inferno - Preview

35s

Discover the landscape and wildlife of the Lower Okavango River, where the land is baked dry by the scorching sun of the Kalahari Desert and animals must adapt to the extreme environment.

Elephants Mourn A Killed Buffalo

1m 38s

A group of elephants takes offense when a pride of lions kills a buffalo. One elephant behaves as though she's lost one of her own in this fascinating display between two powerful species on the Okavango.

Okavango: River of Dreams - Limbo - Preview

35s

Delve into the landscape and wildlife of the “Middle World,” the delta of the Okavango River. In the most dynamic and lively part of the river, long caravans of elephants travel along the water, and Pied kingfishers hover before diving in for fish and frogs. Hyena and warthog families share neighboring dens, helping each other by keeping an eye on threatening predators.

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