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Season 8

Season 8

October 8, 1989·20 épisodes·17h 40min
Épisodes · 20
E1

The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley

The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.

53min·Oct 8, 1989
E2

The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes

The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.

53min·Oct 15, 1989
E3

The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent

Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.

53min·Oct 22, 1989
E4

Under the Ice

Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.

53min·Oct 29, 1989
E5

Land of Dragons

Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong

53min·Nov 12, 1989
E6

The Great Wood of Caledon

An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.

53min·Nov 19, 1989
E7

Gorillas

A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.

53min·Dec 10, 1989
E8

Forest of Fear

A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.

53min·Dec 17, 1989
E9

Gran Paradiso

Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.

53min·Jan 7, 1990
E10

Cranes of the Grey Wind

Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.

53min·Jan 21, 1990
E11

King Solomon's Mountains

The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.

53min·Feb 4, 1990
E12

Hunters of the Sky

A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.

53min·Feb 11, 1990
E13

A Wolf in the Fold

The relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the creature other canines prey upon.

53min·Feb 18, 1990
E14

The Colorado

Tracing the course of the Colorado River.

53min·Mar 4, 1990
E15

The Emerald Isle

Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.

53min·Mar 11, 1990
E16

Giant Otters

The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.

53min·Mar 18, 1990
E17

The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People

Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.

53min·Mar 25, 1990
E18

Presque Isle: Land in Motion

An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.

53min·Apr 1, 1990
E19

Yellowstone on Fire

The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.

53min·Apr 8, 1990
E20

Serpents

A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.

53min·Apr 15, 1990