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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.
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.
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
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. The goshawk is one of Mother Nature's own fighter jets, capable of finding and killing its prey with the speed of a lightning bolt. Now Macdonald digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild while raising and training a new goshawk of her own.
9) 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
[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.
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.
12) 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.
Publisher
NGHT
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explorer has taken viewers to more than 120 countries, opening a window on hidden parts of the world, unlocking mysteries both ancient and modern, and investigating amazing and powerful stories of science, wildlife, and human nature. Lisa Ling hosts the 25th anniversary special that looks back at how the world has changed in a quarter century.
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
Questar
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Can animals predict disaster? - Explore with scientists to see if animals can predict disasters before they hit. Killers in Eden - Watch how hunters and killer whales team up to kill the baleen whales.
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.
17) Animal passport
Publisher
NCircle Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Come tour the world with Animal Atlas to discover how animals survive and thrive. We'll visit every continent and dive through the sea to meet all Earth's animals from A to Zebra.
18) 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
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Witness the incredible story of Asia's last wild lions, once on the brink of extinction but who now live dangerously close to the villagers of India. Against a backdrop of teak forest, farmland and villages, a unique relationship develops between lions and people, revealing a story not of continual conflict as we might expect, but one of survival and tolerance.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The life of the greater sage-grouse, which lives on the "sagebrush sea" that stretches across 11 states in the American West, is detailed. Other featured creatures include the golden eagle, great-horned owl, cavity-nesting bluebirds and American kestrel.
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