NaN/100 votes#1 - The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/1989
The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
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#2 - The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/1989
The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
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#3 - The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1989
Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.
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#4 - Under the Ice
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/1989
Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
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#5 - Land of Dragons
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/1989
Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong
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#6 - The Great Wood of Caledon
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/1989
An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.
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#7 - Gorillas
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 12/10/1989
A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.
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#8 - Forest of Fear
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 12/17/1989
A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.
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#9 - Gran Paradiso
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 1/7/1990
Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.
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#10 - Cranes of the Grey Wind
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 1/21/1990
Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.
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#11 - King Solomon's Mountains
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 2/4/1990
The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.
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#12 - Hunters of the Sky
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 2/11/1990
A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.
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#13 - A Wolf in the Fold
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 2/18/1990
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.
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#14 - The Colorado
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 3/4/1990
Tracing the course of the Colorado River.
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#15 - The Emerald Isle
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 3/11/1990
Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.
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#16 - Giant Otters
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 3/18/1990
The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.
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#17 - The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 3/25/1990
Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.
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#18 - Presque Isle: Land in Motion
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 4/1/1990
An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.
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#19 - Yellowstone on Fire
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 4/8/1990
The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
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#20 - Serpents
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 4/15/1990
A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.
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The Best Episodes of Nature Season 8
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Season 8 Ratings Summary
"The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley" is the best rated episode of "Nature" season 8. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/8/1989. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes".