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Nature Season 28 Episodes
Season 28 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2009 - 2010
Episode 1
Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions
Sun, Oct 25, 2009 57 mins
Season 28 opens with an update on Cloud, a white stallion that leads a band of wild horses in Montana's Arrowhead Mountains. The documentary details how Cloud is raising the son of a rival band's stallion while that horse raises Cloud's biological son. It also explores the efforts of the Bureau of Land Management to administer population control through infertility and traps to remove animals from the herd.
Episode 2
Born Wild: The First Day of Life
Sun, Nov 1, 2009 57 mins
A look at baby animals in their first days, including chimpanzees, gorillas, marmosets and moose. The offsprings' relationships with their mothers are also explored, though not all are nurture-filled affairs. There are spiders, for instance, that gives birth to hundreds of little spiders that feed by eating their mother. Also featured are Caiman crocodiles and birds.
Episode 3
Black Mamba
Sun, Nov 8, 2009 57 mins
The work of snake handler Thea Litschka-Koen and her husband Clifton in Swaziland to remove deadly black mamba snakes from people's homes and gardens, schools and hotel rooms. The snake, which can grow to 13 feet in length, possesses a deadly venom, making such rescues very dangerous propositions. Litschka-Koen also founded a snake reserve for the creatures, and launched a 24/7 tracking study to learn more about their behavior.
Episode 4
Fellowship of the Whales
Sun, Nov 15, 2009 57 mins
The first year in the life of a humpback whale is chronicled. Born off the coast of Hawaii, the winter home of humpbacks, the baby female weighs about one-and-a-half tons, and puts on some 100 pounds a day while feeding on her mother's milk. But while she adds weight, her mother loses it---there's not enough concentrated food in the Hawaiian waters. In time, they travel 2500 miles north to the summer feeding grounds, where krill and herring are in abundance.
Episode 5
Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air
Sun, Jan 10, 2010 57 mins
High-speed footage of hummingbirds accents this look at the paradoxical creatures, which are among the tiniest birds yet also some of the toughest and most energetic.
Episode 6
Clash: Encounters of Bears and Wolves
Sun, Jan 17, 2010 57 mins
Encounters between two of the top predators in Yellowstone National Park, grizzly bears and wolves, are highlighted.
Episode 7
Wild Balkans
Sun, Jan 31, 2010 57 mins
The Balkan peninsula is explored. Included: lynx, minks, bears and birds. Also: a community of women; and a biologist who's studying the European mink.
Episode 8
Invasion of the Giant Pythons
Sun, Feb 21, 2010 57 mins
An examination of a problem in Florida's Everglades National Park involving giant Burmese pythons. The nonnative snakes, some of which were released into the wild by pet owners (others escaped from refuges during hurricanes), have upended the ecosystem, as they're big enough and strong enough to eat alligators and adult deer. The doc accompanies a patrol seeking to capture the pythons and hopefully prevent them from reaching areas of the park that are home to endangered species.
Episode 9
Moment of Impact: Hunters and Herds
Sun, Apr 4, 2010 57 mins
The predators and prey of the world's grasslands are examined. Including: the wildebeest of Africa's Serengeti, which risk becoming lion meals unless they maintain a 50-yard safety zone from the big cats; the ground squirrels of California's grasslands, which flick their tails at rattlesnakes in order to fool the reptiles' heat-sensing pits so they perceive them as larger than they really are. Also: the giraffe; the elephant.
Episode 10
Moment of Impact: Jungle
Sun, Apr 11, 2010 57 mins
A look at the bio-engineering of jungle animals and insects, including leaf-cutter ants that are capable of carrying materials 10 times their weight, trap-jaw ants that possess a bite force 300 times their weight; Cuban crocodiles that can leap up to six feet out of the water to catch prey; and basilisk lizards that can walk on water due to wide-webbed feet and a unique gait. Also featured are ospreys and bats.
