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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Enter stories of the most unlikely cross-species relationships imaginable: a chimp bottle-feeding tiger cub, a giant tortoise snuggling with a baby hippo, a black crow parenting a meerkat. Look at these remarkable relationships first hand, and through caregivers, biologists, and animal behaviorists. Explore what they suggest about the nature of animal emotions.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
How different are we to our animal cousins? In this highly entertaining series a new generation of spy cameras reveals just how similar we really are. Each episode is themed around a familiar aspect of our own live, love, intelligence, friendship and mischief. Meet the elephant aunts who act as midwives, the bowerbirds gathering trinkets to impress the ladies, the hippos having pedicures, the monkeys getting drunk and disorderly, and more.
Language
English
Description
Maya's dream of going to vet school is put on hold when she gets a call from the President of the United States. It seems the First Dog is out of control and the President needs Maya's help. It's up to Maya and her own dog, Lucky, to stop a canine catastrophe from becoming a national crisis.
7) Wild life
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Best-known for his portrayal of the cantankerous title character in the global phenomenon Doc Martin, fan favorite Martin Clunes shows a softer side in these five documentaries about animals. Filmed all over the globe, these programs are a fascinating peek at some of the world's most beloved (and some of the most endangered) creatures.
8) Wild America
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story of the Stouffer brothers. It's summer of 1968, and Marty, Mark, and Marshall Stouffer have a wild idea. Fascinated by the nature that surrounds them, they decide to hit the road with the 16mm camera to capture America's vanishing wildlife in its unspoiled natural habitat. These intrepid travelers will learn to trust and depend on each other as they record their life-endangering odyssey and collect images never before seen of...
Author
Series
Nova scienceNOW volume 2011, episode 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Host Neil deGrasse Tyson will tackle one of science's major challenges in each video, framed as a simple question that ordinary people wonder and worry about. Neil will guide us as he explores dramatic discoveries and the frontiers of research that connect each central, provocative mystery. Episode includes: 1) How Smart Are Dogs? - Meet an extraordinary boarder collie and other dogs changing our view of canine intelligence. 2) How Smart Are Dolphins?...
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the information-packed program, viewers will learn about the behavior patterns of all types of animals including mammals, birds, insects and more. From food gathering to mating, survival instincts and sleeping habits to social behaviors, the program shows how behaviors of each animal help them to adapt to different environments.
13) Awesome animals
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
National Geographic presents a series just for kids that explore the genius of some awesome animals. Join sixteen-year-old narrator Jake Cuddemi as he unlocks fascinating and surprising secrets about the intelligence of dogs, rats and pigeons. From dogs who seem to have special sensory powers and super-genius rats with amazing memories to pigeons with master navigation skills, Awesome Animals sheds light on the unexpected genius of animals.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Our film begins in high summer in Hudson Bay in Canada's Far North, where polar bears have learned to ambush beluga whales, which visit warm river estuaries to breed. It's a crucial time window, at a difficult time of year. In the vast swathes of tundra, a pair of Arctic foxes gather and bury snow geese eggs, and hunt the chicks, for their fast-growing pups. And in Canada's Bay of Fundy, which has the most extreme tides on Earth, vast flocks of semi-palmated...
16) Far out families
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Discover how incredible animal families look to one another for survival. Includes bonus program: Cool Cats.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Ren is an intensly hyperactive chihuahua and Stimpy is a happy-go-lucky, empty-brained cat who share bizarre and often repulsive adventures. Their experiences usually involve hairballs, dirty litterboxes, "magic nose goblins", jars of spit, outhouses, eating dirt, monkey vermin and any other imaginable disgusting substance the two can get their paws on.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Would you care to match wits with a dog, an octopus, a dolphin, or a parrot? You may think twice after watching the segments in this NOVA scienceNOW episode. While we may not be ready to send pets to Harvard, the remarkable footage and findings presented here demonstrate that many animal species are much smarter than we assume and in ways we had never imagined.
Pub. Date
[2020], p[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild.
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this new 2023 high-definition program, learn all about Australia's most iconic animals. Kangaroos, koalas, Tasmanian Devils, platypuses, lyrebirds, and more are introduced and explored in detail. Why do kangaroos have pouches? What do koalas eat? What important role does the Tasmanian Devil play in the ecosystem? What is a monotreme? What does the singing of a lyrebird sound like and how can it imitate the sounds of other animals, car alarms,...
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