Nature's Great Events — Season 1
Episodes

E01 The Great Melt
★ 10.0Feb 11, 2009 · 50m
The summer melt of Arctic ice provides opportunities for millions of animals.

E02 The Great Salmon Run
Feb 18, 2009 · 50m
Every year, the survival of grizzly bears in North America depends on a spectacular natural event: the return of hundreds of millions of salmon from the Pacific Ocean to the mountain streams where they were born. This great return provides food not only for bears, but for killer whales, wolves, bald eagles and the very forest itself. Will the salmon return in time to keep the hungry bears alive?

E03 The Great Migration
Feb 25, 2009 · 50m
The story of a lion family's struggle to survive until the return of the great migration.

E04 The Great Tide
Mar 4, 2009 · 50m
A look at the sardine run, which happens each winter along the South African coast.

E05 The Great Flood
Mar 11, 2009 · 50m
Millions of animals time their migration across the Kalahari Desert to coincide with the the annual flooding of Botswana's Okavango Delta.

E06 The Great Feast
Mar 18, 2009 · 50m
The summer plankton bloom in the north-east Pacific draws in animals in great numbers, from the billion-strong shoals of herring to migratory humpback whales.