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

Young Foxes Fight for Social Dominance

3m 3s

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

3m 34s

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.

How Not to Feed a Baby Elephant

2m 46s

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.

Bottlenose and Humpback Dolphins Become Friends

1m 58s

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

2m 18s

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.

Spinner Dolphins Captured by 'Spy Tuna'

2m 6s

Spy Tuna, an underwater animatronic camera, follows a 'super pod' of spinner dolphins. Spinners are known for their twisting aerial jumps, which no other dolphin species can accomplish.

Dolphins: Spy in the Pod

33s

In this two-part series, join John Downer Productions, producers of "EARTHflight" and "PENGUINS: Spy in the Huddle", for a front row seat into an in-depth look into the lives of dolphins. The series incorporates unique footage from 13 ingenious “spy” cameras including animatronic squid, a robotic turtle and even a dolphin “double agent”.

Forest Lynx Stalks Prey

1m 19s

A lone female lynx moves silently through Austria's Kalkalpen National Park. Solitary by nature, this young female now seeks to establish her own territory. This will be the toughest time of her life, hunting in unfamiliar terrain while avoiding other lynxes.

Forest of the Lynx | Preview

35s

Austria’s Kalkalpen National Park is the largest track of wilderness in the Alps, but it wasn’t always that way. The park was once the site of major logging and mining operations, but those activities ceased more than two decades ago. Three years in the making, Forest of the Lynx chronicles life in this remote wilderness and the complex partnerships among plants, insects, animals and trees.

Wasp Deposits Parasitic Larvae Deep Inside Tree Trunk

2m 45s

The giant ichneumon wasp, megarhyssa rixator, has an unusual method for laying eggs. Using her overly-long ovipositor to drill deep into a tree trunk, she deposits a single egg on to the surface of an immobilized wood wasp larva. Her egg turns into a larva, that will eat the paralyzed host...bit by bit.

Hotel Armadillo | Preview

35s

Deep in the heart of the Brazilian wetlands, the mysterious and secretive Giant armadillo digs a new burrow every other night. Once this termite-eater moves on, it leaves behind one of the hottest plots of real estate in the tropical Pantanal for 80 species of diverse and ever-changing animal clientele.

Vets Examine Giant Armadillo

2m 38s

The Giant Armadillo Project employs two vets who have developed specialist knowledge of this rare creature. They have captured female of the species and take the chance to check her general health and collect samples of her hair and blood and other tissues. So little is still known about these remarkable creatures, every piece of data is precious.

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