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#1 - Amate: The Great Fig Tree
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/1982
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#2 - Kopje: A Rock for All Seasons
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/1982
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#3 - Forest in the Clouds
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/21/1982
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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#4 - The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Natural Mysteries
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/28/1982
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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#5 - The Discovery of Animal Behavior: In Praise of God
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/5/1982
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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#6 - The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Search for the Mind
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/1982
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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#7 - The Discovery of Animal Behavior: A Question of Learning
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/19/1982
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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#8 - The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Signs and Signals
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/26/1982
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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#9 - The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Living Together
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/2/1983
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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#10 - Forest in the Sea
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/1983
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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#11 - Acacia: Tree of Thorns
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/1983
A great variety of wildlife species live in and around the thorny acacia trees on the African plains.
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#12 - On the Tracks of the Wild Otter
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/1983
Wildlife photographer Hugh Miles finds an opportunity to film a female otter on one of the remote Shetland islands.
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#13 - Secret Weapons
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/1983
Insects such as the beetle, firefly and moth make use of their natural chemicals as weapons against their enemies.
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#14 - Voices in the Forest
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/18/1983
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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#15 - Osprey
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/5/1984
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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#16 - Big Business in Bees
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/12/1984
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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#17 - Jet Set Wildlife
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 2/19/1984
An examination of the effects of alien plants and animals on Florida’s resident wildlife, agriculture, commerce and health.
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#18 - The Masterbuilders
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 2/26/1984
An examination of the nest-building habits of birds in various parts of the world.
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#19 - Plight of the Bumblebee
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/4/1984
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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#20 - The Missing Monsoon
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/11/1984
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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#21 - Resurrection at Truk Lagoon
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 3/25/1984
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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#22 - Krakatoa: The Day that Shook the World
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1984
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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#23 - Treasures of the Gulf
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1984
How the war between Iran and Iraq is threatening the fragile ecology of the Persian Gulf.
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#24 - Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1984
How various species of plant life lure insects and animals to effect the pollination process.
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#25 - Fragments of Eden
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1984
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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The Worst Episodes of Nature
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Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
"Amate: The Great Fig Tree" is the worst rated episode of "Nature". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/31/1982. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Kopje: A Rock for All Seasons".