Season 11
Episodes • 1992

1. Realms of the Russian Bear: Green Jewel of the Caspian
53 minThis miniseries starts off by exploring the abundance of wildlife around the Volga Delta in Russia’s Astrakhan region.
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2. Realms of the Russian Bear: the Arctic Frontier
53 minAn exploration of the wildlife of the Russian Arctic, and in particular Wrangle Island, featuring polar bears, musk oxen, Ross’s Gulls, reindeer, foxes, walruses, and the Red-breasted Goose.
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3. Realms of the Russian Bear: the Red Deserts
53 minA focus on the wildlife of the Central Asian deserts.
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4. Realms of the Russian Bear: the Celestial Mountains
53 minBetween China and Central Asia is the Tian Shan mountain range, home to Marco Polo sheep, white-clawed bears, snow leopards, yaks, and the ibex.
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5. Realms of the Russian Bear: Siberia, the Frozen Forest
53 minA look at the wildlife in the huge Siberia forest reveals bears, elk, wolves, and musk deer among many other creatures in this frozen expanse.
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6. Realms of the Russian Bear: Born of Fire
53 minThis last program in the miniseries explores Kamchatka Peninsula where the Russian Arctic meets Southeast Asia. Home to perhaps the highest concentration of volcanoes in the world, this remote region is teeming with life both on land and in the sea, from the Amur Tiger to the Giant Pacific Octopus.
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7. Shadows in a Desert Sea
53 minFish, bats, birds, whales, giant squids, sharks, dolphins, sea lions and more flourish in and around the Sea of Cortez.
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8. The Tree of Music
53 minThe African Blackwood is prized the world over for its wood in the making of musical instruments. Nature takes you on a journey through the history of this “tree of music” and into modern day efforts in Tanzania to save this ever dwindling resource.
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9. Slaves to the Queen
53 minGet right inside the hives of bees and wasps to see the inner workings of these complex societies.
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10. Ice Fox: Struggle for Survival
53 minA look at two separate families of arctic foxes. One living in the frozen, barren tundra of northern Russia, the other living in the slightly more comfortable surroundings of the Norwegian coastline.
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11. Cheetahs in the Land of Lions
53 minA study of cheetah behavior follows a mother and her cubs on the Serengeti plains.
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12. Gorilla: King of the Congo
53 minA gorilla orphanage and a proposed forest reserve may save the lowland gorilla.
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13. American Trickster
53 minAs its numbers increase and its natural range diminishes, the coyote moves into populated regions like Los Angeles.
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15. Echo of the Elephants
53 minIn Kenya’s Amboseli National Park is a family of elephants led by its matriarch Echo. Elephant expert Cynthia Moss, takes us up-close and inside the lives of these magnificent animals.
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17. The Bandit and the Builder
53 minRaccoon and beaver lifestyles in the Canadian wilderness.
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