Nature - Season 5
1 - Alyeska: The Great Land
Air Date: October 19, 1986
Examines how the plants and animals of Alaska’s Alyeska wilderness have adapted to the regions harsh climate.
2 - Baja Lagoon
Air Date: October 26, 1986
An examination of the plants and animals that make their home in a shallow lagoon found on the Western coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula.
3 - Galapagos: How They Got There
Air Date: November 2, 1986
This exploration of the Galapagos Islands, located in the Pacific Ocean West of Ecuador, examines theories explaining the arrival of wildlife to the archipelago.
4 - Galapagos: Cold on the Equator
Air Date: November 9, 1986
Marine iguanas, cormorants, green turtles, sea lions, and sperm whales are among the animals that thrive in the cold waters surrounding the equatorially located Galapagos Islands.
5 - Galapagos: The Ocean Travelers
Air Date: November 16, 1986
A look at the Galapagos Islands’ many birds, include the waved albatross, blue-footed booby, frigate bird and the ground finch; also, man’s relationship with the islands’ changing environment.
6 - Pantanal: Prairie of the Great Waters
Air Date: November 23, 1986
A look at how the Pantanal's wildlife species cope with the annual cycle of flood and drought which transforms the marshy prairie from a dry savannah into the world's largest freshwater wetland – a 36,000 square-mile area that encompasses Southwestern Brazil and parts of Bolivia and Paraguay.
7 - Cats
Air Date: December 7, 1986
An examination of the behavior of man’s feline friends.
8 - Leopard: A Darkness in the Grass
Air Date: December 14, 1986
The activities of an elusive female leopard are traced over a two-day period on the hot plains of Africa.
9 - The Elephant Challenge
Air Date: January 18, 1987
A look at the survival of the African elephants, as ivory and foraging land became more valuable.
10 - Ichkeul: Between the Desert and the Deep Blue Sea
Air Date: February 8, 1987
A freshwater lake in Tunisia that turns salty every summer.
11 - In the Shadow of Fujisan: See No Evil
Air Date: February 22, 1987
The Japanese take efforts to save an indigenous monkey.
12 - In the Shadow of Fujisan: Bird of Happiness
Air Date: March 1, 1987
A look at the crane, Japanese symbol of longevity, true love and happiness.
13 - In the Shadow of Fujisan: Long Live the Turtle
Air Date: March 8, 1987
Hunters and egg poachers threaten the existence of the giant loggerhead turtle.
14 - America's Wild Horses
Air Date: March 15, 1987
Following the wild mustangs of America’s West.
15 - Holy Land: A Wilderness Like Eden
Air Date: April 12, 1987
An exploration of the Rift Valley that sweeps North from Kenya to Turkey, where prophets said their god first planted a garden.
16 - Holy Land: Sweet Water, Bitter Sea
Air Date: April 19, 1987
The unusual life in the salty Dead Sea, where the desert plunges 1,200 feet below sea level.
17 - The Forgotten Garden
Air Date: April 26, 1987
What happens when a finely maintained garden is abandoned.
18 - Lords of Hokkaido
Air Date: May 10, 1987
A year on a Japanese island following a family of red foxes.
19 - Designed for Living
Air Date: May 17, 1987
The tunnelers, thatchers, weavers, dam builders, sculptors, potters and spinners of the animal kingdom.
20 - Masked Monkeys
Air Date: May 24, 1987
Echoing hoots and trills, bandit masks, feathered tufts and orange noses distinguish African forest monkeys called quenons.