Episode 1
Examines how the plants and animals of Alaska’s Alyeska wilderness have adapted to the regions harsh climate.
Episode 2
An examination of the plants and animals that make their home in a shallow lagoon found on the Western coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula.
Episode 3
This exploration of the Galapagos Islands, located in the Pacific Ocean West of Ecuador, examines theories explaining the arrival of wildlife to the archipelago.
Episode 4
Marine iguanas, cormorants, green turtles, sea lions, and sperm whales are among the animals that thrive in the cold waters surrounding the equatorially located Galapagos Islands.
Episode 5
A look at the Galapagos Islands’ many birds, include the waved albatross, blue-footed booby, frigate bird and the ground finch; also, man’s relationship with the islands’ changing environment.
Episode 6
A look at how the Pantanal's wildlife species cope with the annual cycle of flood and drought which transforms the marshy prairie from a dry savannah into the world's largest freshwater wetland – a 36,000 square-mile area that encompasses Southwestern Brazil and parts of Bolivia and Paraguay.
Episode 7
An examination of the behavior of man’s feline friends.
Episode 8
The activities of an elusive female leopard are traced over a two-day period on the hot plains of Africa.
Episode 9
A look at the survival of the African elephants, as ivory and foraging land became more valuable.
Episode 10
A freshwater lake in Tunisia that turns salty every summer.
Episode 11
The Japanese take efforts to save an indigenous monkey.
Episode 12
A look at the crane, Japanese symbol of longevity, true love and happiness.
Episode 13
Hunters and egg poachers threaten the existence of the giant loggerhead turtle.
Episode 14
Following the wild mustangs of America’s West.
Episode 15
An exploration of the Rift Valley that sweeps North from Kenya to Turkey, where prophets said their god first planted a garden.
Episode 16
The unusual life in the salty Dead Sea, where the desert plunges 1,200 feet below sea level.
Episode 17
What happens when a finely maintained garden is abandoned.
Episode 18
A year on a Japanese island following a family of red foxes.
Episode 19
The tunnelers, thatchers, weavers, dam builders, sculptors, potters and spinners of the animal kingdom.
Episode 20
Echoing hoots and trills, bandit masks, feathered tufts and orange noses distinguish African forest monkeys called quenons.