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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Nature Season 19 Episode 16 - Australia's Little Assassins
    9.5/10(15 votes)

    #1 - Australia's Little Assassins

    S19:E16

    When animals are the subject, most people associate Australia with lovable koalas and leaping kangaroos. But an even more distinctive aspect of Australian wildlife is its abundance of animals -- from snakes and spiders to a host of marine life forms and at least one mammal -- that use venom to defend themselves, attack prey, and in some cases help digest food.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Nature Season 24 Episode 13 - Crime Scene Creatures
    9.5/10(19 votes)

    #2 - Crime Scene Creatures

    S24:E13

    They are among the most reliable witnesses to a crime — expert in their testimony and bulletproof in their account. Yet they never utter a single word. They are the animals, plants, and insects that are being recruited by a special breed of forensic scientists to solve the most seemingly impenetrable of crimes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Nature Season 3 Episode 5 - The Face of the Deep
    9.4/10(13 votes)

    #3 - The Face of the Deep

    S3:E5

    Examines the variety of plants and animals living in the Sargasso Sea, a gigantic floating bed of seaweed near Bermuda.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Nature Season 10 Episode 1 - From the Heart of the World: the Elder Brothers' Warning
    9.4/10(22 votes)

    #4 - From the Heart of the World: the Elder Brothers' Warning

    S10:E1

    This program features the Kogi tribe who live in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Columbia. They are pre-Columbian peoples, and consider themselves as the elder brothers of humankind. They insist that it is the modern world, the younger brothers, who are destroying the harmony of life on earth.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Alan Ereira

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  5. Nature Season 19 Episode 4 - The Urban Elephant
    9.4/10(17 votes)

    #5 - The Urban Elephant

    S19:E4

    The enigmatic subjects of NATURE: The Urban Elephant, Asian elephants are losing territory to the inevitable process of deforestation. Industrialization all over Asia has hurt the mahouts, or elephant drivers, so that the trained elephants and their riders are being driven into major cities such as Bangkok to earn a meager living receiving donations and food from curious tourists.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Nature Season 5 Episode 8 - Leopard: A Darkness in the Grass
    9.3/10(30 votes)

    #6 - Leopard: A Darkness in the Grass

    S5:E8

    The activities of an elusive female leopard are traced over a two-day period on the hot plains of Africa.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Nature Season 12 Episode 6 - The Nature of Sex: The Sex Contract
    9.2/10(13 votes)

    #7 - The Nature of Sex: The Sex Contract

    S12:E6

    Explores the selection process among different species for choosing a mate, whether it’s for life or just for the day.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Nature Season 15 Episode 2 - The Crater Lions
    9.2/10(8 votes)

    #8 - The Crater Lions

    S15:E2

    Charting the declining fortunes of a pride of "Crater Lions" that lives in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater. Included: lion attacks on buffaloes; a young cub's encounter with jackals; efforts to repopulate the pride; wildebeests, elephants

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Nature Season 17 Episode 14 - Extraordinary Cats
    9.2/10(19 votes)

    #9 - Extraordinary Cats

    S17:E14

    Cats command our attention and our devotion. These fascinating creatures have been perplexing people for thousands of years.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Nature Season 19 Episode 7 - Triumph of Life: The Four Billion Year War
    9.2/10(23 votes)

    #10 - Triumph of Life: The Four Billion Year War

    S19:E7

    THE FOUR BILLION YEAR WAR explains how both conflict and cooperation have helped shape the species that today populate our world. And it profiles the winners and losers in this epic evolutionary contest — from the massive dinosaurs who disappeared long ago to the humble bacteria that have survived for billions of years virtually unchanged.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Nature Season 22 Episode 1 - Hippo Beach
    9.2/10(26 votes)

    #11 - Hippo Beach

    S22:E1

    A chronicle of hippopotamus life along the banks of Zambia's Luangwa River includes footage of males fighting over territory; females protecting their young; the hippo's importance to river ecology; and societal rituals involving the head male of the pod. Mark Hamill narrates.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Nature Season 24 Episode 11 - The Queen of Trees
    9.2/10(37 votes)

    #12 - The Queen of Trees

    S24:E11

    Patricia Clarkson narrates this look at the relationship between the sycamore fig tree and the tiny fig wasp, which is so small it could fly through the eye of a needle. The trees, which flourish in Kenya, produce fruit that provides nourishment to more wildlife than any other tree in Africa, but without the pollination the wasp provides, that might not occur. The documentary also examines other creatures that make the trees their homes, including gray hornbills (one of Africa's largest birds).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Nature Season 16 Episode 1 - Toothwalkers: Giants of the Arctic Ice
    9.1/10(14 votes)

    #13 - Toothwalkers: Giants of the Arctic Ice

    S16:E1

    TOOTHWALKERS presents extremely rare under-the-ice footage that reveals a complex and potentially dangerous side to this huge and often mysterious mammal.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Nature Season 20 Episode 2 - Africa: Desert Odyssey
    9.1/10(19 votes)

    #14 - Africa: Desert Odyssey

    S20:E2

    For centuries, the Tuareg people have braved the brutal Sahara to trade in salt, a precious cargo once worth its weight in gold. In this episode of AFRICA, Adam Ilius,salt production a young boy of nine, crosses hundreds of miles of desolate and dangerous desert on his first trans-Saharan salt caravan. After months of traveling, will Adam make it to Bilma, Niger to sell the caravan's salt for necessary food and clothing? Or will the shifting sands of the desert spell disaster for this tenacious group?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Nature Season 43 Episode 13 - Hummingbirds of Hollywood
    9.1/10(67 votes)

    #15 - Hummingbirds of Hollywood

    S43:E13

    Amid the glamour of Hollywood, a woman finds herself on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating tale of love, fragility, healing, and the delicate beauty in profound acts of kindness.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Nature Season 17 Episode 15 - The Seedy Side of Plants
    9.0/10(13 votes)

    #16 - The Seedy Side of Plants

    S17:E15

    How does such a seemingly passive life form accomplish the complex task of reproduction?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Nature Season 18 Episode 4 - Sled Dogs: An Alaskan Epic
    9.0/10(14 votes)

    #17 - Sled Dogs: An Alaskan Epic

    S18:E4

    Ironically, the powerful, dedicated canines profiled in Sled Dogs: An Alaskan Epic are little more than mutts. They are mixed-breed huskies that have endurance.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Nature Season 20 Episode 9 - Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies
    9.0/10(29 votes)

    #18 - Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies

    S20:E9

    Filmed in the mountains of Montana, this poignant, engrossing chronicle focuses on an extraordinary stallion, whose life has been recorded since his birth in the wild in 1995 by Emmy-winning filmmaker Ginger Kathrens.

    Director:Ginger Kathrens
    Writer:Ginger Kathrens

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  19. Nature Season 32 Episode 6 - Earthflight: Flying High
    9.0/10(12 votes)

    #19 - Earthflight: Flying High

    S32:E6

    A behind-the-scenes look at how EARTHFLIGHT was made, including the extraordinary relationships between people and birds. Microlights, paragliders, drones, and camera-carrying birds and much more helped along the way.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Nature Season 15 Episode 4 - The Joy of Pigs
    8.9/10(13 votes)

    #20 - The Joy of Pigs

    S15:E4

    Exploring pigs, described by host George Page as “the world's most cosmopolitan characters,” with a focus on their adaptability to a variety of environments. Included: pigs as pets; hunters stalking a “bearded” pig in Borneo.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Nature Season 15 Episode 9 - Extraordinary Dogs
    8.9/10(14 votes)

    #21 - Extraordinary Dogs

    S15:E9

    Tales of canine loyalty to humans, including segments illustrating how dogs detect people buried by avalanches, enhance the lives of prison inmates and offer "therapy" for seriously ill youngsters. Also: the use of dogs to assist people with disabilities; dog scouts and couriers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Nature Season 25 Episode 5 - Rhinoceros
    8.9/10(24 votes)

    #22 - Rhinoceros

    S25:E5

    With NATURE’S Rhinoceros, wildlife filmmaker Nigel Marven brings you face-to-face with the world’s five species of rhino, each struggling, with varying degrees of success, for their continued survival. For some rhinos, the future may rely on breeding programs, such as at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens, where Sumatran rhinoceros Emi is now nearing the end of her third successful pregnancy, having already given birth to Andalas and Suci, the only two Sumatran rhinos ever to be born in captivity.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Nature Season 26 Episode 3 - The Cheetah Orphans
    8.9/10(23 votes)

    #23 - The Cheetah Orphans

    S26:E3

    Documentarian Simon King raises two orphaned cheetah cubs in Kenya's Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. He's seen bottle-feeding them and---to prepare them for the wild--- teaching the pair to hunt. King narrates.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Nature Season 26 Episode 4 - The Beauty of Ugly
    8.9/10(15 votes)

    #24 - The Beauty of Ugly

    S26:E4

    Nature's ugliest creatures are spotlighted, including the dung beetle, elephant-seal bull, ghost-faced bat, Indian stork, naked mole rat, needle-toothed viperfish, proboscis monkey, star-nosed mole, tapeworm, vulture and warthog. Included: how their looks and attributes contribute to their survival.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Nature Season 31 Episode 7 - Attenborough's Life Stories: Our Fragile Planet
    8.9/10(42 votes)

    #25 - Attenborough's Life Stories: Our Fragile Planet

    S31:E7

    Attenborough reflects on the dramatic impact that we have had on the natural world during his lifetime.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Australia's Little Assassins" is the best rated episode of "Nature". It scored 9.5/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/20/2001. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Crime Scene Creatures".