Nature - Season 7
Season 7
Network
DatesOct 9, 1988 - May 14, 1989
Episodes
Season 7Episode 160 min
Bonebreakers' Mountain
An exploration of the Spanish Pyrenees mountains and the bearded "bonebreaker" vulture that lives in this harsh environment.
Oct 9, 1988
Season 7Episode 260 min
Extremadura: Spain's Forgotten Forest
Explores Spain's Extremadura, an oak forest and wilderness plain, home to griffin vultures, imperial eagles, genets and other animals native to Africa.
Oct 16, 1988
Season 7Episode 360 min
Peacock's War
Former Vietnam medic Doug Peacock lives as a firewatcher and conservationist in Montana's Glacier National Park.
Oct 30, 1988
Season 7Episode 460 min
Nature of Australia - A Separate Creation
Examines marsupials and others animals which have evolved because of Australia's isolation from the rest of the world.
Nov 13, 1988
Season 7Episode 560 min
Nature of Australia - Seas Under Capricorn
Two distinct marine worlds meet in the waters that encircle Australia. In its long voyage into isolation following its breakaway from Gondwana, 45 million years ago, the island continent came to span both tropical and temperate seas. Today its shores are ringed by the most diverse assemblies of marine life on earth. This program recounts the making of this unique Australia down under, from the storm tossed kelp forests of the cool south, to the magic splendours of the Great Barrier Reef. The program begins its story where Australia was born, in the southern latitudes of the Antarctic seas. Antarctica is the last remnant of Gondwana - it froze over after the other continents broke away, but its cool rich waters still generate a wealth of nutrients which, carried by the deep currents, sustain Australia's marine life.
Nov 20, 1988
Season 7Episode 660 min
Nature of Australia - The Making of the Bush
A koala up a gumtree is the classic image of the Australian bush. How that odd partnership evolved is one of the strands woven into this episode of Nature Of Australia. The program tells the story of how the island continent's wooded margins came to be dominated by one unique type of tree growing in a great variety of forms - the eucalypt. The nursery for nearly all life in Australia is the rainforest, of which only a few patches remain today - th last remnants of vast, dense forests that covered Australia when it first broke away from the ancestral super-continent of Gondwana, and voyaged north into isolation. From among its proliferation of plants emerged the eucalypts, the characteristic gum trees - and from among the forest animals arose a great and varied company of marsupials, adapting to every kind of environment that evolved in response to Australia's changing, drying climate.
Nov 27, 1988
Season 7Episode 760 min
Nature of Australia - The Sunburnt Country
Australia's arid interior is often called the dead heart. In fact, it teems with life, supported by a hidden network of buried rivers recharged by rare but heavy rains. This episode tells the story of this surprising desert - formed when the climatic change overtook and dried out central Australia. What was once a land of vast lakes and broad rivers turned into a parched region of glittering stone and burning sand, interwoven with swathes of hardy woodland and plains of desert grass. A great variety of plants and animals has adapted to life in the arid centre, with its swings between the brief good condition that follow the unpredictable rains, and then long periods of drought. It's the land of the lizards - from giant goannas that sniff out snakes hiding under the sand, to the tiny, delicate Lake Eyre dragons who've made the desolate saltpans their domain.
Dec 4, 1988
Season 7Episode 860 min
Nature of Australia - Land of Flood and Fire
Australia's northward drift slowed down when it collided with Asia about 15 million years ago - in the upheavals, chains of islands were thrust up and eventually they became the stepping stones for an invasion that would change the face of Australia. With the arrival of the first humans - at least 50,000 and possibly as long as 120,000 year ago - a new force entered the continent to shape the fortunes of its plants and animals. The first landfall was on the far north coast of Australia, a rich and tropical region ruled by the annual monsoonal rains. This program tells the story of Australia's top end, where the first Aboriginal people arrived, settled, and perfected the use of fire as a means to manage the landscape.
Dec 11, 1988
Season 7Episode 960 min
Nature of Australia - End of Isolation
Modern Australians want to recapture the Aborigines ability to live harmoniously with indigenous plants and animals.
Dec 18, 1988
Season 7Episode 1060 min
Night Hunters
The different types of owls and the characteristics which make them ideal birds of prey.
Jan 8, 1989
Season 7Episode 1160 min
Beyond Timbuktu
Wildlife artist Bruce Pearson sketches the various bird species found in the arid lands of Western Africa's Mali, through which the River Niger flows.
Feb 5, 1989
Season 7Episode 1260 min
Under the Emerald Sea
Explores the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Vancouver, B.C.
Feb 19, 1989
Season 7Episode 1360 min
Wild Waterfalls
Explores the variety of local environments found around waterfalls in Africa, South and North America.
Feb 26, 1989
Season 7Episode 1460 min
Meerkats United / The Bee-Team
Profiles of the Kalahari Desert's gray meerkat or mongoose, and a Kenyan colony of bee-eater birds.
Mar 5, 1989
Season 7Episode 1560 min
Icebird
The Adelie penguin is observed at the Cape Bird nesting site on Antarctica's Ross Island.
Mar 12, 1989
Season 7Episode 1660 min
Mozu the Snow Monkey
Chronicling the life of "Mozu the Snow Monkey," a macaque with deformed limbs that's survived harsh winters in Japan's highlands to raise seven offspring. The complex social structure among the primates is documented.
Mar 19, 1989
Season 7Episode 1760 min
The Everglades: Rain Machine
Examines the role computers play in managing the Everglades and whether this vital freshwater marsh will survive the effects of diking, draining and development.
Mar 26, 1989
Season 7Episode 1860 min
Islands in the Sky
Unique animals and plants flourish atop mist-shrouded Venezuelan plateaus thousands of feet above the surrounding jungle.
Apr 16, 1989
Season 7Episode 1960 min
Rulers of the Wind
Scientists study birds of prey, creatures historically admired and hated, as indicators of environmental damage.
Apr 30, 1989
Season 7Episode 2060 min
Kariba: The Lake that Made a Dent
Wildlife flourishes around the manmade lake conservationists denounced 30 years ago at its creation.
May 14, 1989
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