8.5/106 votes#1 - Naledi: One Little Elephant
Season 36 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/2017
A moving story of how an orphaned baby elephant beat the odds.
Director: Ben Bowie, Geoffrey Luck
Writer: N/A
7.3/1033 votes#2 - Fox Tales
Season 36 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/2017
Discover the red fox, an intelligent and adaptable canid that is thriving in cities and pushing northward into the territory of its arctic cousins.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1014 votes#3 - Charlie and the Curious Otters
Season 36 Episode 3 - Aired 10/25/2017
Filmmaker Charlie Hamilton James follows the story of three, curious river otter orphans in Wisconsin and visits otters all over the globe. Join Charlie as he uncovers the secrets to the otter’s survival with innovative experiments, cameras and CGI.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#4 - H is for Hawk: A New Chapter
Season 36 Episode 4 - Aired 11/1/2017
Helen Macdonald’s best-selling book H Is for Hawk told the saga of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. Now she digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild and raising a goshawk of her own.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1021 votes#5 - The Cheetah Children
Season 36 Episode 5 - Aired 11/8/2017
For nearly two years in the forested hills of Zimbabwe, wildlife cameraman Kim Wolhuter shadowed a wild cheetah family on foot, to reveal in intimate detail the cubs’ remarkable journey to adulthood and their mother’s dedication in raising them.
Director: Robyn Keene-Young
Writer: N/A
8.0/1010 votes#6 - Nature's Miniature Miracles
Season 36 Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/2017
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/109 votes#7 - Arctic Wolf Pack
Season 36 Episode 7 - Aired 1/17/2018
At the very northern edge of North America is Ellesmere Island, where the unforgiving Arctic winds tear through the tundra, dipping temperatures to 40 below zero. Running through this shifting sea of snow and ice is one of the most hardened predators on the planet, the White Wolf.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#8 - Animals with Cameras (1)
Season 36 Episode 8 - Aired 1/31/2018
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#9 - Animals with Cameras (2)
Season 36 Episode 9 - Aired 2/7/2018
The cameras capture young cheetahs learning to hunt in Namibia, reveal how fur seals off an Australian island evade the great white sharks offshore, and help solve a conflict between South African farmers and chacma baboons.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/105 votes#10 - Animals with Cameras (3)
Season 36 Episode 10 - Aired 2/14/2018
Deep-dive with Chilean devil rays in the Azores, track brown bears’ diets in Turkey, and follow dogs protecting flocks of sheep from gray wolves in Southern France.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1024 votes#11 - The Last Rhino
Season 36 Episode 11 - Aired 2/21/2018
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1052 votes#12 - Sex, Lies and Butterflies
Season 36 Episode 12 - Aired 4/4/2018
Explore the astounding abilities of butterflies – deceptive camouflage, chemical weaponry, and fantastic flight. Look beyond their bright colors and fragile beauty as you follow them on one of the greatest migrations on Earth.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/109 votes#13 - Natural Born Rebels: Hunger Wars
Season 36 Episode 13 - Aired 4/25/2018
Meet the animals who will steal, cheat and fight to get food, including kleptomaniac crabs, thieving macaques, con artist spiders, tricky tigers and cannibalistic lizards.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/109 votes#14 - Natural Born Rebels: Survival
Season 36 Episode 14 - Aired 5/2/2018
Some animals will do whatever it takes to survive. Cockatoos turn to vandalism, boxer crabs hold anemones hostage, sloths become filthy, puff adders have an ‘invisibility cloak’ to hide themselves, and chimps use violence to stay in power.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1011 votes#15 - Natural Born Rebels: The Mating Game
Season 36 Episode 15 - Aired 5/9/2018
Getting ahead in the mating game requires some astonishing behavior –from promiscuous prairie dogs to manakin pick-up artists, kidnapping macaques and hyenas with a bad case of sibling rivalry.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#16 - The World's Most Wanted Animal
Season 36 Episode 16 - Aired 5/23/2018
Join conservationist Maria Diekmann in the crusade to save pangolins, the most trafficked animal in the world. Learn more about these scaly yet endearing mammals whose basic biology remains a mystery, hampering conservation efforts.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Nature Season 36
Every episode of Nature Season 36 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Nature Season 36!
Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus...
Genres:DocumentaryFamily
Network:PBS
Season 36 Ratings Summary
"Naledi: One Little Elephant" is the best rated episode of "Nature" season 36. It scored 8.5/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by Ben Bowie, Geoffrey Luck and written by N/A, it aired on 10/4/2017. This episode is rated 1.2 points higher than the second-best, "Fox Tales".