Nature Season 8, Episode 3: The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent

1

The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley

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

53 min

2

The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes

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

53 min

3

The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent

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

53 min

4

Under the Ice

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

53 min

5

Land of Dragons

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

53 min

6

The Great Wood of Caledon

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

53 min

7

Gorillas

A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.

53 min

8

Forest of Fear

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

53 min

9

Gran Paradiso

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

53 min

10

Cranes of the Grey Wind

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

53 min

11

King Solomon's Mountains

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

53 min

12

Hunters of the Sky

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

53 min

13

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.

53 min

14

The Colorado

Tracing the course of the Colorado River.

53 min

15

The Emerald Isle

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

53 min

16

Giant Otters

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

53 min

17

The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People

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

53 min

18

Presque Isle: Land in Motion

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

53 min

19

Yellowstone on Fire

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

53 min

20

Serpents

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

53 min