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The Worst Episodes of Nature

Every episode of Nature ranked from worst to best. Explore 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...
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Worst 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".

  • Amate: The Great Fig Tree
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    #1 - Amate: The Great Fig Tree

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/1982

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  • Kopje: A Rock for All Seasons
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    #2 - Kopje: A Rock for All Seasons

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/1982

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  • Forest in the Clouds
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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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  • The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Natural Mysteries
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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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  • The Discovery of Animal Behavior: In Praise of God
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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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  • The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Search for the Mind
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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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  • The Discovery of Animal Behavior: A Question of Learning
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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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  • The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Signs and Signals
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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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  • The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Living Together
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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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  • Forest in the Sea
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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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  • Acacia: Tree of Thorns
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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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  • On the Tracks of the Wild Otter
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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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  • Secret Weapons
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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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  • Voices in the Forest
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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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  • Osprey
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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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  • Big Business in Bees
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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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  • Jet Set Wildlife
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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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  • The Masterbuilders
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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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  • Plight of the Bumblebee
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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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  • The Missing Monsoon
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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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  • Resurrection at Truk Lagoon
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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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  • Krakatoa: The Day that Shook the World
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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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  • Treasures of the Gulf
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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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  • Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind
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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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  • Fragments of Eden
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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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