The Nature of Things - Season 59
Season 59
Episodes
She Walks with Apes
The epic story of three legendary women who fought to save the great apes - and inspired a generation.
Grasslands: A Hidden Wilderness
Canada's prairies are among the world's most endangered, least protected ecosystems, but there are people working to keep them wild.
Takaya: Lone Wolf
The remarkable story of a solitary wolf living against the odds and his close bond with renowned wildlife photographer Cheryl Alexander.
Living Colour
A captivating exploration of the science of colour, including a look at people and animals who experience it in fascinating ways.
First Animals
For most of its existence, planet Earth has been a brutal, inhospitable, toxic nightmare, until a half billion years ago when – KABOOM! – life suddenly appeared. First Animals, a new documentary from The Nature of Things, takes you back to the Cambrian Explosion through newly-discovered fossils that tell us more about our own origins.
BE AFRAID: The Science of Fear
Why do some people seek out terrifying experiences, while others avoid fear at all costs? Why does fear spur some to fight and leave others frozen? Although the emotion of fear is as old as life itself, scientists are asking new questions and getting new answers about how our brains process it
Under Thin Ice
Under Thin Ice follows Canadian extreme divers and cinematographers Jill Heinerth and Mario Cyr on a journey to investigate how Arctic wildlife is adjusting to global warming.
Seals of Sable
Sable Island, Nova Scotia, is a remote, almost mythical landscape in the northwest Atlantic that's famous for its wild horses. But what many people don't know is that it's also home to the largest breeding colony of grey seals in the world. Every winter, tens of thousands of female seals head to Sable to give birth. In 2016 alone, more than 80,000 pups were born. Huge males arrive too, ready to fight for the right to breed with their chosen female.
Dinosaur Cold Case
The accidental discovery in Alberta of one of the best-preserved dinosaurs opens a prehistoric cold case to uncover the secrets of its mysterious death.
Pass the Salt
Sifting through a mountain of salt science for a grain of truth about the war on sodium declared by health experts in 1977.
Nature's Cleanup Crew
An introduction to the unsung animal heroes who clean up messes in the urban spaces they share with humans.
Kingdom of the Tide
Sarika Cullis-Suzuki takes us on a personal and intimate journey to discover the spectacular and surprising world of the intertidal zone, and reveal how it holds the key to the health of the world's oceans and our own survival.
Accidental Wilderness: The Leslie Street Spit
One of the world's most incredible urban wildernesses. It offers a fascinatingly vivid account of the push-pull relationship at play in humankind's transformation of natural environments...and a reminder of nature's power when left to it's own devices.
Listening to Orcas
Scientists uncover the complex and emotional lives of the ocean's most intelligent predators.
Aging Well Suzuki Style
David Suzuki takes us on a journey to learn how to live better and age well.
Reef Rescue
Scientists are racing against time to save the world's coral reefs before they're lost forever.
A Bee's Diary
7 weeks, 8,000km, countless adventures...and 1 gram of honey. The life of a single bee, through her own eyes.
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