Season
Nature: Season 8
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Details
- Series
- Nature
- Season
- Season 8
- Air date
- 1989-10-08
- Episodes
- 20 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley
The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
Episode 2: The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes
The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
Episode 3: The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent
Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.
Episode 4: Under the Ice
Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
Episode 5: Land of Dragons
Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong
Episode 6: The Great Wood of Caledon
An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.
Episode 7: Gorillas
A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.
Episode 8: Forest of Fear
A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.
Episode 9: Gran Paradiso
Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.
Episode 10: Cranes of the Grey Wind
Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.
Episode 11: King Solomon's Mountains
The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.
Episode 12: Hunters of the Sky
A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.
Episode 13: A Wolf in the Fold
The relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the creature other canines prey upon.
Episode 14: The Colorado
Tracing the course of the Colorado River.
Episode 15: The Emerald Isle
Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.
Episode 16: Giant Otters
The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.
Episode 17: The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People
Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.
Episode 18: Presque Isle: Land in Motion
An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.
Episode 19: Yellowstone on Fire
The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
Episode 20: Serpents
A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.