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Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Wildlife photographer Jim Dutcher and his wife Jamie spend six years in the wilderness of Idaho living among a pack of wolves. Their lives are forever changed by the elusive, intelligent animals who accepted them. Overcoming forest fires, mountain lions, and sub-zero winters both the Dutchers and the wolves share a unique partnership built on trust and defying the controversy surrounding the wolf.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 2000, Ana Salceda, a young journalist, moved from her native Spain to explore the wilds of Panama. She became the caregiver for a tiny orphaned baby sloth named Velcro. This is the story of Ana's return to Central and South America to see how much has changed since Velcro came into her life. Sloths, once largely ignored, have become a hot topic of scientific researchers.
7) Yosemite
Pub. Date
2017
Formats
Description
Join scientists, experts, and adventurers as they trudge through mountains of snow, climb trees as tall as buildings, and soar high in the air to spy just how these global changes are affecting one of America's greatest wildernesses.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Enter stories of the most unlikely cross-species relationships imaginable: a chimp bottle-feeding tiger cub, a giant tortoise snuggling with a baby hippo, a black crow parenting a meerkat. Look at these remarkable relationships first hand, and through caregivers, biologists, and animal behaviorists. Explore what they suggest about the nature of animal emotions.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (840 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Join host Boyd Matson for stories of danger, survival, and curiosity as we explore our planet with those who have traversed its passageways, probed its scientific mysteries, and advocated for its protection. Presents thirty-two episodes examining the behaviors and habitats of various animals and their relationship to humans and the ecosystem.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Moose populations across many parts of North America are in steep decline. This stunningly intimate nature documentary, filmed over thirteen months in the spectacular wilds of Jasper National Park, takes viewers deep inside the world of moose to experience a mother's love and a calf's first year of life up close and personal.
11) Whales in crisis
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dive into the depths of the oceans around the world to experience close-up encounters with these gentle giants of the sea as scientists work to save these mysterious and captivating creatures.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When you've clawed your way to the top of the food chain, you have to fight to stay there. Experience this harsh reality through the eyes of the determined predators that rely on skill, instinct, and evolution to survive. But while they may be masters of their domains, that doesn't mean things always go their way, and with young mouths to feed, the pressure is on.
Author
Series
Misunderstood Shark volume 2
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
Shark interrupts the filming of "Underwater World With Bob," scattering the other creatures (and the audience), but he claims it is all a terrible misunderstanding--that he would never think of eating the fish, the squid, the audience...or Bob.
14) Hidden kingdoms
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
Views the world from the perspective of some of the Earth's smallest creatures.
When you are less than a foot tall, raindrops fall like meteorites and a breeze feels like a tornado! The challenges these tiny yet adorable creatures face are exceptional and their enemies gigantic, but their solutions are ingenious. Prepare to be amazed, entertained and fascinated by our planet's hidden kingdoms. It?́?s time for the little guys to take center stage!...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The ostrich, the emu, and the rhea, together with the kiwi and the cassowary, are the court jesters of the avian world, because they can't do the one thing that birds are famous for doing. They can't fly. But exactly how and why did these birds abandon flight? It's been one of the natural world's great mysteries. And now DNA is promising to give us the answer.
16) Raptor force
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Examines the activities of various birds of prey through cameras mounted on their backs.
17) Drain the ocean
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Three-quarters of Earth is an alien world, lying beneath the surface of the oceans. And although it encompasses over half of the world's species, we know more about the surface of Mars than the bottom of the ocean. It's only recently that science has penetrated this world, revealing extraordinary life forms and vast sweeping landscapes on a scale that defies imagination"--Container.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Krill are tiny, shrimp-like creatures crucial to the Antarctic ecosystem and, maybe, to the future of all oceans. Join the research ship Polarstern in the vast Antarctic ice pack in search of ice caves and juvenile krill.
20) Volcano
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Learn about the forces inside the Earth that cause volcanoes to erupt and earthquakes to shake the landscape.
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