Aired: 10/19/1986
Examines how the plants and animals of Alaska’s Alyeska wilderness have adapted to the regions harsh climate.
Aired: 10/26/1986
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.
Aired: 11/2/1986
This exploration of the Galapagos Islands, located in the Pacific Ocean West of Ecuador, examines theories explaining the arrival of wildlife to the archipelago.
Aired: 11/9/1986
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.
Aired: 11/16/1986
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.
Aired: 11/23/1986
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.
Aired: 12/7/1986
An examination of the behavior of man’s feline friends.
Aired: 12/14/1986
The activities of an elusive female leopard are traced over a two-day period on the hot plains of Africa.
Aired: 1/18/1987
A look at the survival of the African elephants, as ivory and foraging land became more valuable.
Aired: 2/8/1987
A freshwater lake in Tunisia that turns salty every summer.
Aired: 2/22/1987
The Japanese take efforts to save an indigenous monkey.
Aired: 3/1/1987
A look at the crane, Japanese symbol of longevity, true love and happiness.
Aired: 3/8/1987
Hunters and egg poachers threaten the existence of the giant loggerhead turtle.
Aired: 3/15/1987
Following the wild mustangs of America’s West.
Aired: 4/12/1987
An exploration of the Rift Valley that sweeps North from Kenya to Turkey, where prophets said their god first planted a garden.
Aired: 4/19/1987
The unusual life in the salty Dead Sea, where the desert plunges 1,200 feet below sea level.
Aired: 4/26/1987
What happens when a finely maintained garden is abandoned.
Aired: 5/10/1987
A year on a Japanese island following a family of red foxes.
Aired: 5/17/1987
The tunnelers, thatchers, weavers, dam builders, sculptors, potters and spinners of the animal kingdom.
Aired: 5/24/1987
Echoing hoots and trills, bandit masks, feathered tufts and orange noses distinguish African forest monkeys called quenons.
