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Deserts

Deserts

2004, Nature

A desert is a sandy or pebbly territory that lacks or has little vegetation because of an almost total absence of rain. It is also an unpopulated and undeveloped area. The word 'desert' is very present in the semantic range. It alludes to the most...

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The Jungle of the Red Spirit

The Jungle of the Red Spirit

2012, Nature

This is possibly the most primitive forest in the world. The tropical rain forest of the island of Borneo already existed 150 million years ago. It forms part of a green belt that encircles the Earth and contains animals which best hope to stay alive...

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Ambassadors of the Jungle

Ambassadors of the Jungle

2001, Nature

These mysterious lands would seem to rise out of the clouds of the highlands, situated in the east of the island of New Guinea, to the North of Australia. The western half of the island is Irian Jaya, part of Indonesia, and the eastern half is Papua...

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The Secret World of Plants

The Secret World of Plants

2004, Nature

Plants have marked the evolution of life and continue to fulfill an essential role in a balanced ecology. For millions of years, plants have created habitat in which animals could develop. They are the first link in a long chain of life, but the job...

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Dressed to Live: Wildlife Styles

Dressed to Live: Wildlife Styles

2013, Nature

Dressed to Live playfully explores the "fashion sense" of the animal kingdom by taking viewers on a global tour and educating them on the many purposes of skin, feathers, fur and even glands in facilitating communication, reproduction, defense, and...

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Isolated: The Zo'é Tribe

Isolated: The Zo'é Tribe

2000, Nature

In this inhabited jungle, the human voice is an ancestral melody and open secret in a silent and forbidden territory. The cellphone fever hasn't reached here yet, but their need for communication is as important as ours. It's 8am and one must go out...

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Naughty by Nature

Naughty by Nature

2012, Nature

It's time to pull down the blinds because coming up is some of the biggest, hottest, nastiest sex since wild things first did the wild thing. There's no animal more adorable than the cuddly bunny. You may even have had one as a pet, but your parents...

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Mutation: The Science of Survival

Mutation: The Science of Survival

2003, Nature

Monster mutants lurk in the myths of many cultures, and we're fascinated yet fearful of nature's mutants. But mutants are closer to home than we think. Often invisible, mutations are happening all around us, in every living thing. They're crucial part...

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Agafia's Taiga Life

Agafia's Taiga Life

2013, Nature

In 1936, a family of Russian Old Believers journeyed deep into Siberia's vast taiga to escape persecution and protect their way of life. The Lykovs eventually settled in the Sayan Mountains. Two children were born during the isolation. They ended up...

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There Is a Rhino In My House

There Is a Rhino In My House

2011, Nature

There is a Rhino in my House is a documentary exploring the heartwarming story of John and Judy Travers, a Zimbabwean couple, at the Imire Safari Ranch, who have devoted their lives to saving from extinction one of the rarest mammals on Earth. When a...

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Living with Lions

Living with Lions

2002, Nature

On the African plains, where only the strong survive, one big cat rules supreme. This is life in the raw: savage, beautiful and unforgettable. During the eight years that Jurgen Jozefowicz filmed a pride of lions in South Africa’s Kruger National...

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