Smithsonian wild heritage collection

A lonely sea otter finds other sea otters and brings them to his home near the mouth of the Alsek River in Alaska.

A family of tundra swans migrate from Chesapeake Bay to their Canadian summer home, where they raise five new cygnets before once again making the difficult journey back to their winter home by Thanksgiving Day.

A snowshoe hare, hunted by lynx and other predators, discovers courage and friendship in an attempt to help a young moose calf in trouble.

A young porcupine grows up fast on the north rim of the Grand Canyon as she seeks shelter from plunging temperatures and fierce winds and protects herself from the many dangers of her wilderness habitat.