Author Helen Macdonald on "H is for Hawk"
Author Helen Macdonald talks about her role in the upcoming NATURE episode "H is for Hawk: A New Chapter".
First Meeting Between Helen Macdonald and Goshawk 'Lupin'
People have trained hawks for thousands of years and a hawk must always be tamed from scratch. Witness a tense first meeting between "H Is for Hawk" author Helen Macdonald and her new trainee--a goshawk she has named Lupin.
Falconer Helen Macdonald Takes Goshawk Out for Test Flight
Author and falconer Helen Macdonald takes her new goshawk Lupin out for a first test flight. As a precaution, the hawk is tethered with a long line of braided cotton called a creance and outfitted with a radio transmitter should it fly out of sight.
H is for Hawk: A New Chapter
Helen Macdonald’s best-selling book H Is for Hawk told the saga of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. Now she digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild and raising a goshawk of her own.
Giant River Otters Defeat Large Black Caiman
Giant river otters, with vulnerable young cubs, discover a large black caiman in their territory. Identifying it as a threat they work together, systematically attacking it and eventually defeating it.
Adorable Otter Orphans Learn to Swim
At only eight weeks old, otter cubs need to tackle an essential survival skill; learning to swim. Curiously, baby otters don’t really like water, so their caregiver needs to teach them an most important life lesson--water isn’t something to be afraid of.
Charlie & the Curious Otters
Filmmaker Charlie Hamilton James follows the story of three, curious river otter orphans in Wisconsin and visits otters all over the globe. Join Charlie as he uncovers the secrets to the otter’s survival with innovative experiments, cameras and CGI.
Fox Tales
Discover the red fox, an intelligent and adaptable canid that is thriving in cities and pushing northward into the territory of its arctic cousins.
Arctic Foxes Break Filmmaker's Camera
Curious arctic fox kits, having discovered one of our motion sensor cameras, proceed to tear it apart.
Young Foxes Fight for Social Dominance
From the time they are born, young foxes are full of energy. You can often find them wrestling with and biting their siblings. However, this isn't just innocent play. Pups who are more aggressive edge their littermates out of the best food and sleeping spots, increasing their own chances of survival.
Orphaned Baby Elephant Struggles to Survive
A baby elephant named Naledi has lost her mother to illness. She is able to get a little bit of milk from Cathy, another female in the herd, but without enough to eat she is becoming skinny and weak.
What Happened to Naledi?
The future was uncertain for Naledi, an elephant orphaned an early age, but several years after the documentary about her finished filming, she weighed in at over 2000 pounds!
How Not to Feed a Baby Elephant
Naledi, an orphaned baby elephant, has barely eaten anything since her mother passed away. Caregivers at Abu Camp in Botswana go through the frustrating process of getting her to feed from a bottle--sometimes with hilarious results.
Growing Up Red
In this short video, follow the development of Red fox kits--from small and blind den-dwellers to full-size stealth predators.
Making of Fox Tales
Learn how filmmakers used ingenious motion sensors and remote control camera rigs to get up close and personal with the foxes of Fox Tales.
Gardens on the Tundra
Find out how foxes are helping create lush gardens on the barren Arctic tundra.
Bottlenose and Humpback Dolphins Become Friends
In Mozambique, a young dolphin that’s left his pod encounters a rare humpback dolphin. And then something extraordinary happens – they seem to be making friends. This is the first time such a peculiar partnership has ever been filmed
Dolphins Beach Themselves to Catch Fish
In South Carolina, a pod of bottlenose dolphins has taken teamwork to a whole new level. As a group, they corral entire shoals of fish onto the shore and then devour as many as they can. Stranding is a serious hazard for dolphins, but this pod has mastered the technique.
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