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Nature Season 1 Episodes

13 Episodes 1982 - 1983

Episode 1

Flight of the Condor: Ice, Wind and Fire

Sun, Oct 10, 198260 mins

Wildlife glimpsed includes tropical birds; the world's smallest monkey, the pygmy marmoset; and the largest snake, the anaconda.

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Episode 2

Flight of the Condor: Ocean, Desert and Thin Air

Sun, Oct 17, 1982

Part 2 of "The Flight of the Condor" travels along South America's Andes Mountains, following a 2000-mile stretch of desert along the Pacific Ocean. Scenes of vampire bats, sea lions, guano birds, the Colca River canyon and Lake Titicaca.

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Episode 3

Flight of the Condor: Down the Amazon

Sun, Oct 24, 1982

More rare animals, birds and plants such as Magellanic penguins, the flightless steamer duck and the giant fulmar are seen. The world of guanacos, coscorola swans, the thin-tailed rayodito and wild flowers among others are explored.

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Episode 4

Amate: The Great Fig Tree

Sun, Oct 31, 1982

The local ecology of Amate fig trees in Belize, including the tiny wasps they depend on for their fertilization.

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Episode 5

Kopje: A Rock For All Seasons

Sun, Nov 7, 1982

Large rock outcroppings on Africa's Serengeti plains.

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Episode 6

On the Edge of Paradise

Sun, Nov 14, 1982

A 300-mile archipelago in the Caribbean is threatened by industrialization.

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Episode 7

Forest In The Clouds

Sun, Nov 21, 1982

A tropical rain forest in Costa Rica.

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Episode 8

The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Natural Mysteries

Sun, Nov 28, 1982

Frederick II of Hohenstaufen studies animal behavior in the 13th century.

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Episode 9

The Discovery of Animal Behavior: In Praise of God

Sun, Dec 5, 1982

Early studies of animal behavior by the naturalists John Ray, Charles-Georges Le Roy, and Daines Barrington.

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Episode 10

The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Search for the Mind

Sun, Dec 12, 1982

Early studies of the animal mind by naturalists and zoologists.

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Episode 11

The Discovery of Animal Behavior: A Question of Learning

Sun, Dec 19, 1982

Experiments by Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, B. F. Skinner, and William Thorpe begin to reveal how animals learn.

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Episode 12

The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Signs and Signals

Sun, Dec 26, 1982

Karl von Frisch, Julian Huxley, Konrad Lorenz, and others investigate animal communication.

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Episode 13

The Discovery of Animal Behavior: Living Together

Sun, Jan 2, 1983

Animal behavior in social groups.

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