Monster Fish Giant Eels
Zeb travels to the South Pacific in search of the largest longfin eels in the world – the New Zealand longfin and the giant mottled eel – and discovers what might be contributing to their demise.
- 2011
- 00:45:04
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/27/2016
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1000 Days for the Planet Gibbon Rescue
Gibbons are small tree-dwelling monkeys with no real predators. But in Indonesia where the native forests are being ravaged by oil palm production, young gibbons are often captured and kept as pets. When they reach sexual maturity, at around 7 years of age, and become aggressive they are either killed or caged in deplorable conditions. A remarkable young Frenchman, Aurélien ...
- 2014
- 00:42:43
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/16/2015
The Nature of Things Giraffes: The Forgotten Giants
What many people do not realize about giraffes is that these iconic creatures of wild Africa, with their long necks, cinnamon spotted coats, flirty lashes and loping gait are disappearing at an alarming rate. Two hundred years ago there were a million giraffes, in 2000 there were 140,000 roaming Africa’s plains. Now, 15 years later, their numbers have plummeted to ...
- 2015
- 00:44:26
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/20/2015
Expedition Wild Grand Canyon Safari
Casey Anderson heads to the Grand Canyon for an adventure – a trek that will take him from the California Condor to the Grand Canyon rattlesnake.
- 2011
- 00:45:02
- 9-12
- Added on: 01/15/2016
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Inside Nature's Giants Great White Shark
The experts travel to South Africa to dissect a 900 kg, 15-foot-long great white shark. Comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg uncovers the shark's incredible array of senses, including the ability to detect the electro-magnetic field given off by other creatures. Veterinary scientist Mark Evans investigates the origins of the shark's infamous killing bite and, out at sea, a bite force test ...
- 2010
- 00:45:02
- 15-17
- Added on: 03/23/2016
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Monster Fish Green Goliath
The Pacific Northwest is known for things that are BIG: the giant redwoods, sweeping coastlines and massive runs of salmon. But Zeb Hogan is looking for a Goliath so elusive that he'll scour every nook and cranny of the rivers here to find it. He's after the green sturgeon – a monster fish that can grow up to seven feet ...
- 2012
- 00:44:02
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/07/2016
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Expedition Wild Grizzly vs. Polar Bear
Casey Anderson embarks on a fact-finding mission to the Arctic in the hopes of solving one of the natural world's most intriguing new mysteries.
- 2011
- 00:45:02
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/15/2016
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Ivy's Plant Shop Grouping living things
In this video students will learn about classification of all living organisms, including animals, bacteria and plants. It highlights how to identify different classes of animal according to their attributes, using examples of vertebrates and invertebrates, mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians and fish. Teacher notes: You could get students to complete an activity on grouping other objects based on shared characteristics.
- 2018
- 00:03:41
- 5-8
- Added on: 09/03/2019
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Project X Heat
In this episode on heat, the Project X team looks at how we stave off dehydration in the scalding, suffocating heat of an unrelenting sun? Dr. Alters looks at how plants and animals manage to thrive in a place where it's forty degrees in the shade. Then Dr. Fleck and grad student Marc Huot find that, centuries ago, the Sinagua ...
- 2008
- 00:22:39
- 9-12
- Added on: 06/14/2013
The Code Hexagons in the natural world
Marcus du Sautoy visits a beekeeper and explores how bees create their honeycombs. If they are going to tessellate they have a limited number of regular polygons they could choose from, but the hexagon is the most efficient – giving the maximum storage area for the least amount of wax. In fact, the bees do not create hexagons, but circular ...
- 2011
- 00:05:13
- 15-17
- Added on: 09/03/2019
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