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1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Featuring the very best footage and spectacular orchestral score of National Geographic's Great Migrations event, this film brings together images from around the world -- filmed over 3 years -- of billions of creatures marching, swimming and flying across the world on death-defying journeys, resulting in a unique, narration-free, musical journey around the world.
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2 videodiscs (332 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Tour this spectacular state with noted zoologist and anthropologist Jeff Corwin as he searches for whales or watches grizzlies catch their dinner. Episodes include The Kenai Peninsula; Mobile Alaska; Denali National Park and Preserve; and more.
5) Shark divers
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2 videodiscs (194 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Explores the environment and habits of various types of sharks.
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Land of the falling lakes: Visit Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia, a hidden wonder of 16 crystal-clear lakes, waterfalls, rare and remarkable creatures. Ireland - Portrait of the Emerald Isle, with rare plants, legendary animals, and vistas.
7) Planet Earth
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5 videodiscs (550 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Complete eleven part series featuring rare footage of animals worldwide, their habitats and behaviors, and the need for ongoing conservation.
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1 videodisc (approximately 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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With high speed camerawork and breakthrough new science, we enter the fast-paced world of hummingbirds as never before. Speed is their middle name. Their lives are moving faster than the eye can see.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ironically, every dead elephant with its ivory intact is a reason to celebrate. It means an elephant died of natural causes, and a soul was celebrated and mourned by its herd. Award-winning filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert start with the remains of two bull elephants and through a series of key flashbacks, look at the lives they would have led.
10) Wild Congo
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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There's a reason Africa's most powerful and mysterious river is called the Heart of Darkness. Up to eight miles wide with towering ten-foot waves, the Congo pulses through dangerous terrain and serves as the lifeblood to an incredible variety of species; from forest elephants to elephant fish.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Takes viewers inside a million strong ant colony, housed in a specially constructed glass nest, that shows the inner workings of this most mysterious society. Filming techniques reveal in vivid detail the behavior of individual ants, from queens to workers and soldiers, while radio frequency identification tagging builds up a unique picture of how they achieve such feats.
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1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When the Isthmus of Panama, once buried below the sea, rose up through geological activity and connected North and South America, many prehistoric animals, predators and prey, encountered each other for the first time. Join scientists on a quest to discover what happened and which creatures survived.
13) Arctic wolf pack
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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At the very northern edge of North America is Ellesmere Island, where the unforgiving Arctic winds tear through the tundra dipping temperatures to 50 below zero. But running through this shifting sea of snow and ice is one of the most hardened predators on the planet, the White Wolf.
Examines the lives of wolves living on Ellesmere Island, above the Arctic circle.
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1 videodisc (approximately 178 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Go up-river and deep into the jungle, far from Brazil's cities and stadiums, where families of giant otters, tufted capuchin monkeys and mischievous coati (South American raccoon cousins) rally their wits to survive in a breathtakingly beautiful yet dangerous land. Follow their lives through an exciting year, from first steps in a brave new world, to ingenious resilience during drought and monsoon.
15) The mating game
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2 videodiscs (approximately 5 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Sir David Attenborough reveals spectacular scenes of courting and companionship. Some species need to overcome the challenges of a vast environment just to find a member of the opposite sex. Others find themselves pitched against their neighbors in mass mating aggregations. Some must impress with complex displays. Others build extraordinary structures just to prove their worth. One thing, however, connects them all the drive to succeed at all costs....
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1 videodisc (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The use of Penguincams (super-realistic animatronic cameras disguised as penguins, chicks, and eggs) gives viewers an inside look at all the drama and challenges various species of penguins experience throughout the year. An up close look at the freezing Antarctic and the emperor penguin, the Humboldt of South America's deserts, and the Rockhopper of the Falkland Islands.
17) The hunt
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2 videodiscs (approximately 350 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Looks at the relationship between predator and prey across a broad spectrum of both land and sea species and the challenges faced by each side of the hunter/hunted equation.
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Part of the massive Tongass National Forest, Admiralty Island in Southeast Alaska supports the largest concentration of bears anywhere in the world. Sustained by a wealth of salmon streams, isolated and protected by their environment, some 1,700 Alaskan brown bears are part of a unique circle of life that has played out here for centuries.
19) Giant squid
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Most wildlife documentaries focus on animal behavior, but Inside Nature's Giants goes inside the largest animals on the planet to explore their anatomy, reveal their intricate inner workings and uncover their evolutionary secrets. In this episode, veterinary scientist Mark Evans and comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg fly to New Zealand to join a team of experts dissecting a rare specimen of giant squid and a bizarre octopus that inhabits the ocean's...
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Goes inside the largest animals on the planet to explore their anatomy, reveal their intricate inner workings and uncover their evolutionary secrets. In this episode, veterinary scientist Mark Evans and comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg dissect a lion and tiger. On the outside, the animals look very different; but once their skins are removed, even the experts find it hard to distinguish the two.
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