Nature - Salmon: Running the Gauntlet
Salmon: Running the Gauntlet
The parallel stories of collapsing Pacific salmon populations and how biologists and engineers have become instruments in audacious experiments to replicate every stage of the fish's life cycle. Our once great runs of salmon are now conceived in laboratories, raised in tanks, driven in trucks, and...
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The Himalayas
The highest mountain range in the world is far-reaching and holds within it an exceptionally diverse ecology. Coniferous and subtropical forests, wetlands, and montane grasslands are as much a part of this world as the inhospitable, frozen mountaintops that tower above.
Air date: 02/13/2011
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Great Zebra Exodus
Great Zebra Exodus explores parenthood and the fragility of young life?from zebras to lapwings to meerkats. It?s a tale of loyalty and sacrifice, of home and exile, of death and new life, set against the backdrop of one of Africa?s most surreal landscapes.
Air date: 05/16/2013
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The Private Life of Deer
Despite the presence of white-tailed deer in our lives, we've only begun to understand what's going on in their lives. "The Private Life of Deer" premieres Wednesday, May 8 at 8/7c (check local listings).
Air date: 05/09/2013
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Legendary White Stallions
The striking white Lipizzaner stallions of the famed Spanish Riding School in Vienna have been thrilling audiences for centuries. During the winter public performance season, the horses execute breathtaking displays of carefully choreographed and synchronized movements known as high classical...
Air date: 05/02/2013
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The Mystery of Eels
Eels can be found all over the globe, in fresh and salt water ecosystems alike. But today, risk of over-fishing and the presence of dams and other obstacles that prevent eels from reaching their oceanic spawning grounds pose new threats to an animal that once roamed the planet alongside the...
Air date: 04/18/2013
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