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The Worst Episodes of Nature

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...
  1. Background image for Kopje: A Rock for All Seasons
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    #1 - Kopje: A Rock for All Seasons

    S1:E5

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    Director:Unknown
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    #2 - Forest in the Clouds

    S1:E7

    Surveying Costa Rica's Monte Verde preserve, which contains some 200 varieties of trees, including 300-ft. oaks. Animal life includes deadly scorpions; army ants; and plumed quetzals, sacred bird of the Maya civilization.

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    #3 - The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Natural Mysteries

    S1:E8

    The first of the series takes us back to the 13th Century to explore medieval superstitions of ancient "naturalists." Frederick II of Hohenstaufen had a passion for falconry that resulted in his immense illustrated book De Arte Venandi Cum Artibus (On the Art of Hunting With Birds.) Series host is Dr. Donald Johanson, noted paleoanthropologist and director of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, California.

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    #4 - The Discovery of Animal Behavior: In Praise of God

    S1:E9

    Theologians and clerics in the 17th and 18th centuries were among the first to study animal behavior. John Ray began in the 1600's to catalog "the work of the Creation," starting with plants and later including birds. Sir Francis Willoughby continued this work. Rev. Gilbert White studied bird songs, Charlie LeRoy experimented with wolves and deer, and Charles Waterton wrote about jungle animals.

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    #5 - The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Search for the Mind

    S1:E10

    In 1848, Charles Darwin began the quest to understand the mysteries of the animal mind. Following Darwin's achievement - suggesting a plausible process for evolution: natural selection - Lewis Henry Morgan discovered evidence of cogitation in beavers. George Romanes experimented with fish, cats, and dogs, Douglas Spalding with newborn chicks, all finding apparent mental activity. Meanwhile Jacques Loeb attempted to prove animals "mindless."

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    #6 - The Discovery of Animal Behavior: A Question of Learning

    S1:E11

    First there is a re-creation of Ivan Pavlov's experiments which led to the discovery of the "conditioned reflex." Then we see the investigation by Otto Pfungst of "Kluge Hans" (Clever Hans) a horse whose apparent knowledge of arithmetic was actually response to subtle signals from his trainer. We also see dramatizations of Thomdike's experiments with chicks, Watson's with terns, and B. F. Skinner's famed work at Harvard in the thirties.

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    #7 - The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Signs and Signals

    S1:E12

    Continuing with the exploration of animal communication we see recreations of Karl von Frisch unraveling the language of honey bees. Julian Huxley, who discovered a possible language in the ritual movements of great-crested grebes, Konrad Lorenz who recorded the visual language of geese, and Niko Tinbergen, who studied the habits of hunting wasps and together with Esther Cullen recorded the relationship of temperament in birds to their habitat.

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    #8 - The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Living Together

    S1:E13

    Scientists have long attempted to discover why animals rarely live alone. Animal society seems to be based on despotic rule by the strongest, tempered by the powerful attractive forces of sex. Portrayals of Thorlief Schjelderup-Ebbe, Solly Zuckerman, Clarence Ray Carpenter, Frank Fraser Darling, William Hamilton, and Amotz Zahavi, show the contributions of each of these men towards understanding the puzzle.

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    #9 - Forest in the Sea

    S2:E1

    The vast areas of kelp growing on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean provide a vital food source for countless creatures.

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    #10 - Acacia: Tree of Thorns

    S2:E3

    A great variety of wildlife species live in and around the thorny acacia trees on the African plains.

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    #11 - On the Tracks of the Wild Otter

    S2:E4

    Wildlife photographer Hugh Miles finds an opportunity to film a female otter on one of the remote Shetland islands.

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    #12 - Secret Weapons

    S2:E5

    Insects such as the beetle, firefly and moth make use of their natural chemicals as weapons against their enemies.

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    #13 - Voices in the Forest

    S2:E6

    The time-honored and ritualistic relationship of the highland peoples of Papua, New Guinea, to the birds of paradise is examined.

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    #14 - Osprey

    S2:E7

    A look at this large bird’s life cycle, from hatching in the Scottish highlands through migration to Africa and its annual return to Scotland.

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    #15 - Big Business in Bees

    S2:E8

    Examined is the giant industry of bee cultivation in the U.S. and its relation to the billions of dollars annually at stake in the alfalfa crop.

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    #16 - Jet Set Wildlife

    S2:E9

    An examination of the effects of alien plants and animals on Florida’s resident wildlife, agriculture, commerce and health.

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    #17 - The Masterbuilders

    S2:E10

    An examination of the nest-building habits of birds in various parts of the world.

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    #18 - Plight of the Bumblebee

    S2:E11

    The life cycle of the bumblebee is compared to that of humans in order to explain the “energy crisis” confronting the insects.

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    #19 - The Missing Monsoon

    S2:E12

    The will of wildlife to survive is documented by photographers Stanley Breedon and Belinda Wright at the Keola Deo National Park in India during one of the droughts that occurs every 20 to 30 years when the monsoons do not come.

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    #20 - Resurrection at Truk Lagoon

    S2:E13

    An exploration of the sunken Japanese war machinery destroyed by the Allies during World War II in the South Pacific, which provides an environment for underwater plant and animal life.

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    #21 - Krakatoa: The Day that Shook the World

    S3:E1

    An examination of the Indonesian volcanic island Krakatoa, focusing on the global effects of the disastrous 1883 eruption that was heard 3,000 miles away and killed 36,000 people.

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    #22 - Treasures of the Gulf

    S3:E2

    How the war between Iran and Iraq is threatening the fragile ecology of the Persian Gulf.

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    #23 - Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind

    S3:E3

    How various species of plant life lure insects and animals to effect the pollination process.

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    #24 - Fragments of Eden

    S3:E4

    Explores the varieties of plant and animal life found in the Seychelles, a 90-island archipelago in the Indian Ocean, described in 1609 as “an earthly paradise”.

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    #25 - Winter Days

    S3:E7

    Describes how wildlife copes with the challenge of cold weather by storing food building layers of fat, hibernating or merely fleeing for a warmer climate

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Kopje: A Rock for All Seasons" is the worst rated episode of "Nature". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/7/1982. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Forest in the Clouds".