The Nature of Things - Season 57
Season 57
Episodes
The Wild Canadian Year: Spring
The first days of spring sees Arctic fox pups take their first steps and black bear cubs learn to climb trees after the long cold days of winter, while female caribou make the dangerous trek to reach their calving grounds.
The Wild Canadian Year: Summer
Killer whales and blue sharks are on the hunt, while amorous fireflies light up the night forest with their dazzling display, as summer reveals Canada's landscape at the peak of its splendour.
The Wild Canadian Year: Fall
Fall chronicles a remarkable season of change: young northern gannets leap off perilous cliffs as chipmunks race to gather winter supplies, and prairie rattlesnakes give birth to live young.
The Wild Canadian Year: Winter
Lynx hunt snowshoe hares in the boreal forest and the ancient dance between wolves and caribou on Canada's vast tundra reveal the harshest time of year when landscapes are transformed by the cruel and dramatic beauty of snow and ice.
Making the Wild Canadian Year
Watch the incredible feats of endurance and technical wizardry needed to capture the sequences featured in the landmark series The Wild Canadian Year.
Lost Secrets of the Pyramid
Event special fusing dramatic new archaeological discoveries, large-scale engineering experiments, and CGI animation to reveal new secrets about the greatest mysteries of the Egyptian Pyramids - Who built them and how?
Into the Fire
Nature created it. Humans harnessed it. And now, as climate change helps light a flame to our forests, scientists are desperately trying to understand it.
Secrets from the Ice
The climate is changing and the ancient ice of the Yukon's southern mountains is disgorging a missing chapter of human history.
What Trees Talk About
A revealing look at the secret life of trees - how they communicate, wage war, and work together to transform our world.
Jumbo: The Life of an Elephant Superstar
Forgotten bones of Jumbo the elephant help scientists crack unsolved mysteries surrounding the world's first animal superstar.
Ice Bridge
Mysterious new artifacts turning up in Chesapeake Bay bear an inexplicable resemblance to those from Ice Age Europe. Two renowned archaeologists risk it all to prove that brave souls crossed over the Atlantic ocean on an ice bridge to populate North America twenty thousand years ago.
Mommy, Wildest
Lions, elephants, and baboons: Three sisterhoods of the savannah, where the mothers rule, and the daughters inherit the wilderness.
Champions vs. Legends
Sport scientist challenges top winter athletes to compete against legends of the past in vintage gear.
The Science of Magic
Explore why magic is a unique tool for gaining new insights into human cognition, neurobiology, and behaviour.
Myth or Science: The Power of Poo
Jennifer Gardy lifts the lid on poop to discover if it's myth or science that we're flushing a valuable resource down the toilet.
The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World
The evolutionary story of how fungi shaped all terrestrial life - including us.
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