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1) Bears
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Encounter polar bears in the Arctic, black bears in Montana, and grizzlies in Alaska as you learn about the challenges facing each of these species and why protecting them benefits both wildlife and people.
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1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Vast, wild, and untouched, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is where some of the world's greatest wildlife spectacles unfold. Situated in the northeast corner of Alaska, this refuge has long protected survivors of the Ice Age that still roam a frozen wilderness.
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1 videodisc (aproximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
How can animals be studied when the researcher cannot get close to it? Camera traps and drones are revolutionizing wildlife biology by recording the secret lives of animals, from whales and tigers to giant armadillos, all without disturbing them.
4) Wolves
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1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Looks at the world of wolves by plane, helicopter, on foot and through time, and why wolf reintroduction is making news in the American West and setting a precedent around the world.
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1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Environmentalist Leanne Allison and wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer follow a herd of 120,000 caribou on foot, across 1,500 kilomters of rugged Arctic tundra, from Canada's central Yukon to coastal Alaska (the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) and back again.
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1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Creature teachers Chris and Martin Kratt will take families along on extraordinary animal-powered adventures. The show transforms the Kratt Brothers into animated versions of themselves, allowing the real-life zoologists to visit wild animals in their little-seen habitats and showcase key science concepts.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Kratt Brothers are ready to take kids on an incredible adventure, as they come face to face with some of the most wild and exciting predators in the animal kingdom! Join Martin and Chris Kratt as they learn the ways of the cheetah, a wolf pack, birds of prey, and even uncover the mysteries of the great white shark! All while thwarting evildoers before it's too late!
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Creature teachers Chris and Martin Kratt will take families along on extraordinary animal-powered adventures. The show transforms the Kratt Brothers into animated versions of themselves, allowing the real-life zoologists to visit wild animals in their little-seen habitats and showcase key science concepts.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Varty has spent the past 30 years turning his passion for nature into a series of relationships with some of the most dangerous big cats in the world, living with them in the wild on their home turf. Featured are stories of some of his most intimate relationships with these big cats. Includes profiles of: a wild mother leopard, two abandoned lion cubs, and two adopted leopard cubs. Also includes Varty's story of teaching two captive-bred tiger...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Creature teachers Chris and Martin Kratt will take families along on extraordinary animal-powered adventures. The show transforms the Kratt Brothers into animated versions of themselves, allowing the real-life zoologists to visit wild animals in their little-seen habitats and showcase key science concepts.
14) Big miracle
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story. A small town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
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2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join the adventures of Martin and Chris as they meet up with cool creatures from around the world and witness many never-before-seen wildlife moments. With their creature smarts plus their newly invented Creature Power Suits, the brothers Kratt are using amazing animal abilities to rescue their animal friends when they get into trouble.
Series
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1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's time for a swim with the Wild Kratts! Join Chris Kratt and Martin Kratt as they take Jimmy to his own personal swimming tutor - a sea otter named Coach! Then, catch Chris and Martin in other exciting adventures where they embark on a pirate adventure in the Indian Ocean, search the ocean to find Jimmy's lost keys, and try to find their way back together after getting separated in the ocean.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Creature teachers Chris and Martin Kratt will take families along on extraordinary animal-powered adventures. The show transforms the Kratt Brothers into animated versions of themselves, allowing the real-life zoologists to visit wild animals in their little-seen habitats and showcase key science concepts.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (51 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the heart of South America, where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay collide, lies one of the most spectacular geographical secrets of the natural world, a place forged from the explosive clashing of the earth's tectonic plates. Over three miles long and 300 feet high, Iguaçu is the greatest waterfall on earth. Five times the size of Niagara, some 2000 tons of water pour over its 300 cascades each second. These awesome falls are also home to...
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1 videodisc (51 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1893, illustrator and naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton journeyed to New Mexico to kill a wolf that had been marauding human inhabitants. Later he would question the merits of this action and his account of the adventure would capture the American imagination, serving as a catalyst for the wildlife conservation movement in the U.S.
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