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.

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53m 33s / TV-14

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.

The Rarest Antelope in the World

3m 18s

A mix between a waterbuck and a red lechwe - this totally unique antelope, called a 'wachwe' - is caught in limbo between a pack of hungry African wild dogs and a group of territorial hippos in the Okavango river.

Hyena and Warthog Families Share a Home

2m 32s

Hyenas can easily rip a warthog to pieces, but this family allows a group of warthogs to share their den. It turns out, the two families make pretty good housemates - adding extra security from unwanted predators.

Bushbaby Snacks on Insects

1m 30s

The Southern Lesser Galago, also known as a Bushbaby, is perfectly adapted to hunt insects at night. Their tiny bodies are offset by their large, saucer-like eyes, and they will wash their feet and hands in their own urine to make them stickier and help in climbing trees.

Inside NATURE - Making of Okavango: River of Dreams | Part 2

10m 1s

Filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert show the process of filming episode two. See some of the most charming and stunning moments from behind the camera and hear more about the Joubert's commitment to conservation.

Okavango: River of Dreams - Paradise - Preview

35s

Explore the landscape and wildlife of the upper Okavango River, where the deep water shows elephants swimming and carving channels through the reeds and papyrus, setting small birds afloat to drift past hippos and crocodiles. A lioness severely injured by a buffalo is left for dead by her pride. Now disabled, she must survive in the swamp alone, hunting to feed her little cubs.

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