The Best Episodes of Nature Season 5

The activities of an elusive female leopard are traced over a two-day period on the hot plains of Africa.

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Examines how the plants and animals of Alaska’s Alyeska wilderness have adapted to the regions harsh climate.

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An examination of the plants and animals that make their home in a shallow lagoon found on the Western coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula.

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This exploration of the Galapagos Islands, located in the Pacific Ocean West of Ecuador, examines theories explaining the arrival of wildlife to the archipelago.

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Marine iguanas, cormorants, green turtles, sea lions, and sperm whales are among the animals that thrive in the cold waters surrounding the equatorially located Galapagos Islands.

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A look at the Galapagos Islands’ many birds, include the waved albatross, blue-footed booby, frigate bird and the ground finch; also, man’s relationship with the islands’ changing environment.

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A look at how the Pantanal's wildlife species cope with the annual cycle of flood and drought which transforms the marshy prairie from a dry savannah into the world's largest freshwater wetland – a 36,000 square-mile area that encompasses Southwestern Brazil and parts of Bolivia and Paraguay.

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An examination of the behavior of man’s feline friends.

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A look at the survival of the African elephants, as ivory and foraging land became more valuable.

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A freshwater lake in Tunisia that turns salty every summer.

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The Japanese take efforts to save an indigenous monkey.

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A look at the crane, Japanese symbol of longevity, true love and happiness.

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Hunters and egg poachers threaten the existence of the giant loggerhead turtle.

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Following the wild mustangs of America’s West.

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An exploration of the Rift Valley that sweeps North from Kenya to Turkey, where prophets said their god first planted a garden.

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The unusual life in the salty Dead Sea, where the desert plunges 1,200 feet below sea level.

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What happens when a finely maintained garden is abandoned.

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A year on a Japanese island following a family of red foxes.

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The tunnelers, thatchers, weavers, dam builders, sculptors, potters and spinners of the animal kingdom.

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Echoing hoots and trills, bandit masks, feathered tufts and orange noses distinguish African forest monkeys called quenons.

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