wildlife television programs

Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.

This Discovery Channel series narrated by Oprah Winfrey contains 12 chapters that can each be watched alone. The chapters deal with concepts of adaptation by focusing on a specific example. The adaptations adressed include life cycle, survival through schooling, speed, and camouflage, competition for resources, gills, symbiosis, and habitat specialization. The featured fish include: silvertip shark, fringehead, mudskipper, flying fish, convict fish, stream goby, barbels, clownfish, anchovies, sardines, sea dragon, and snapper.

Nigel Marven, a zoologist and wildlife expert, takes young viewers back in time as he investigates the likely behaviors of prehistoric beasts from the T-Rex to the Woolly Mammoth. Presents animal behaviors of comprable modern species, and takes the audience into a fictional time portal to rescue the extinct species Nigel Marven hopes to bring back to his prehistoric zoo.

Bird trainers Lloyd and Rose Buck look at owls in detail: how they hunt, how their vision and hearing works, and how they fly so silently.