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.

Watch Latest: S43 E4

53m 33s / TV-14

The Last Rhino

35s

Follow the story of Sudan, the last male Northern White Rhinoceros. His journey as the last of his kind is given a glimmer of hope from scientists and animal experts who turn to technology to save the Northern White Rhino before it dies out forever.

Wrangling Rays to Solve a Scientific Mystery

2m 42s

Devil rays are fish with wing-like fins that stretch over nine-feet wide. Every summer, a large population gathers near the Azores, an island chain to the west of Portugal. Why they do so has puzzled scientists. By outfitting some of the rays with a specially-designed camera harness, the "Animals with Cameras" team helps scientists begin to unravel the mystery.

Behind the Lens | Diving Deep with Camera-Wearing Devil Rays

8m 53s

Devil rays give new meaning to the phrase "slippery devils". As the "Animals with Cameras" team found out, their smooth, slimy skin is totally unsuitable for attaching a camera with suction cups. Learn how they worked around this problem to capture stunning footage of devil rays diving deep into the blue ocean abyss.

Behind the Lens | Cameras Fit for Cheetahs and Baboons

9m 15s

Find out how the "Animals with Cameras" team overcame challenges designing cameras for the fastest land predator in the world and a mischievous monkey with a super-sized snout.

'Cheetah Cam' Captures Chase Through the Bush

3m 7s

Cheetahs are experts at chasing down prey over the open savannah, but brush-covered scrubland presents an entirely different challenge. Journey along with a camera-wearing cheetah and his siblings as they chase an elk-like eland and its young calf through the brush. If successful, these young cheetahs may finally be ready to hunt without supervision.

Animals with Cameras | Episode 2

35s

The cameras capture young cheetahs learning to hunt in Namibia, reveal how fur seals of an Australian island evade the great white sharks offshore, and help solve a conflict between South African farmers and chacma baboons.

Animals with Cameras | Episode 1

35s

The astonishing collar-camera footage reveals newborn Kalahari Meerkats below ground for the first time, unveils the hunting skills of Magellanic penguins in Argentina, and follows the treetop progress of an orphaned chimpanzee in Cameroon.

Wearable Camera Reveals Newborn Meerkats

2m 30s

Newborn meerkats are typically hidden from view, only emerging from their burrow when two to three weeks old. In a filmmaking first, a camera-wearing meerkat goes underground to reveal her colony's newest pups.

Tour the Treetops from a Chimp's Point of View

2m 55s

Kimbang is a four-year-old female chimp who had a difficult start in life. Poachers killed her mother and she's had to learn how to be a chimp from human caregivers. Donning a wearable camera, Kimbang climbs high amongst the treetops and reveals what exactly she's been snacking on. Will this prove she's ready for the wild?

Wolf Pack Teams Up to Fight Off Intruder

2m 26s

Appearing out of nowhere, a rogue female wolf tries to kill and eat the pups of a rival pack. Outnumbered and surrounded, the stranger’s assault is pure madness. Will the pack succeed in fighting off this bedraggled intruder?

Wolf Pup Nursed by Two Mothers

2m 14s

Snow White and Blackspot, two female arctic wolves, share a deep and meaningful bond. Blackspot cares for Snow White's pups and even nurses them! Having two females nurse the same litter is exceedingly rare – it’s a behavior that’s never been filmed before.

Arctic Wolf Pack

30s

Discover the white wolf, one of the most hardened predators on the planet, in Ellesmere Island's unforgiving ice and snow. In a fight for survival, these roaming hunters must travel far from the den to feed their cubs, putting them at risk.

Shark Avoids Death by Walking to Safety

2m 4s

The epaulette shark's small size allows it to thrive in shallow coral reefs. But when the tide rolls out it can be left high and dry. To avoid baking in the hot sun, the epaulette utilizes an extraordinary strategy - it walks to water.

Nature's Miniature Miracles

35s

Great things come in small packages. This film tells the epic survival stories of the world’s smallest animals, from a tiny sengi, the “cheetah” of the shrew world, to a small shark that walks on land. For these animals, size does not matter.

Peacock Spider Performs Colorful Dance to Attract Mate

3m 31s

The male peacock jumping spider must dance for his life. In order to woo a female and avoid being eaten, he performs an intricate dance using a brilliantly colored fan attached to his abdomen. If the female approves, he is allowed to mate. If not, he becomes her next meal.

Cameraman Discovers Five Baby Cheetahs

2m 41s

On Malilangwe Game Reserve in Zimbabwe a female cheetah has been keeping a secret--she’s the mother of five new cubs. The new mom has just over a year to teach them how to survive in the wilderness without her. Follow this cheetah family through the eyes of conservationist and cameraman Kim Wolhuter.

Cheetah Mom Teaches Cubs to Hunt

2m 9s

Watching mom is the best way for cheetah cubs to learn how to hunt. She stalks and takes down a ram almost twice her weight, but 'down' doesn't always mean ‘out’ with such a powerful opponent.

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