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The Best Episodes of Nature Season 36

Every episode of Nature Season 36 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Nature Season 36!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Nature Season 36 Episode 1 - Naledi: One Little Elephant
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    #1 - Naledi: One Little Elephant

    S36:E1

    A moving story of how an orphaned baby elephant beat the odds.

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  2. Nature Season 36 Episode 2 - Fox Tales
    7.2/10(35 votes)

    #2 - Fox Tales

    S36:E2

    Discover the red fox, an intelligent and adaptable canid that is thriving in cities and pushing northward into the territory of its arctic cousins.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Nature Season 36 Episode 3 - Charlie and the Curious Otters
    7.7/10(16 votes)

    #3 - Charlie and the Curious Otters

    S36:E3

    Filmmaker Charlie Hamilton James follows the story of three, curious river otter orphans in Wisconsin and visits otters all over the globe. Join Charlie as he uncovers the secrets to the otter’s survival with innovative experiments, cameras and CGI.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Nature Season 36 Episode 4 - H is for Hawk: A New Chapter
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    #4 - H is for Hawk: A New Chapter

    S36:E4

    Helen Macdonald’s best-selling book H Is for Hawk told the saga of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. Now she digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild and raising a goshawk of her own.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Nature Season 36 Episode 5 - The Cheetah Children
    7.8/10(23 votes)

    #5 - The Cheetah Children

    S36:E5

    For nearly two years in the forested hills of Zimbabwe, wildlife cameraman Kim Wolhuter shadowed a wild cheetah family on foot, to reveal in intimate detail the cubs’ remarkable journey to adulthood and their mother’s dedication in raising them.

    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Nature Season 36 Episode 6 - Nature's Miniature Miracles
    8.1/10(11 votes)

    #6 - Nature's Miniature Miracles

    S36:E6

    Great things come in small packages. This film tells the epic survival stories of the world’s smallest animals, from a tiny sengi, the “cheetah” of the shrew world, to a small shark that walks on land. For these animals, size does not matter.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Nature Season 36 Episode 7 - Arctic Wolf Pack
    7.8/10(11 votes)

    #7 - Arctic Wolf Pack

    S36:E7

    At the very northern edge of North America is Ellesmere Island, where the unforgiving Arctic winds tear through the tundra, dipping temperatures to 40 below zero. Running through this shifting sea of snow and ice is one of the most hardened predators on the planet, the White Wolf.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Nature Season 36 Episode 8 - Animals with Cameras (1)
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    #8 - Animals with Cameras (1)

    S36:E8

    The astonishing collar-camera footage reveals newborn Kalahari Meerkats below ground for the first time, unveils the hunting skills of Magellanic penguins in Argentina, and follows the treetop progress of an orphaned chimpanzee in Cameroon.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Nature Season 36 Episode 9 - Animals with Cameras (2)
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - Animals with Cameras (2)

    S36:E9

    The cameras capture young cheetahs learning to hunt in Namibia, reveal how fur seals off an Australian island evade the great white sharks offshore, and help solve a conflict between South African farmers and chacma baboons.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Nature Season 36 Episode 10 - Animals with Cameras (3)
    8.2/10(7 votes)

    #10 - Animals with Cameras (3)

    S36:E10

    Deep-dive with Chilean devil rays in the Azores, track brown bears’ diets in Turkey, and follow dogs protecting flocks of sheep from gray wolves in Southern France.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Nature Season 36 Episode 11 - The Last Rhino
    8.0/10(26 votes)

    #11 - The Last Rhino

    S36:E11

    Follow the story of Sudan, the last male Northern White Rhinoceros. His journey as the last of his kind is given a glimmer of hope from scientists and animal experts who turn to technology to save the Northern White Rhino before it dies out forever.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Nature Season 36 Episode 12 - Sex, Lies and Butterflies
    8.1/10(53 votes)

    #12 - Sex, Lies and Butterflies

    S36:E12

    Explore the astounding abilities of butterflies – deceptive camouflage, chemical weaponry, and fantastic flight. Look beyond their bright colors and fragile beauty as you follow them on one of the greatest migrations on Earth.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Nature Season 36 Episode 13 - Natural Born Rebels: Hunger Wars
    7.6/10(11 votes)

    #13 - Natural Born Rebels: Hunger Wars

    S36:E13

    Meet the animals who will steal, cheat and fight to get food, including kleptomaniac crabs, thieving macaques, con artist spiders, tricky tigers and cannibalistic lizards.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Nature Season 36 Episode 14 - Natural Born Rebels: Survival
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #14 - Natural Born Rebels: Survival

    S36:E14

    Some animals will do whatever it takes to survive. Cockatoos turn to vandalism, boxer crabs hold anemones hostage, sloths become filthy, puff adders have an ‘invisibility cloak’ to hide themselves, and chimps use violence to stay in power.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Nature Season 36 Episode 15 - Natural Born Rebels: The Mating Game
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #15 - Natural Born Rebels: The Mating Game

    S36:E15

    Getting ahead in the mating game requires some astonishing behavior –from promiscuous prairie dogs to manakin pick-up artists, kidnapping macaques and hyenas with a bad case of sibling rivalry.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Nature Season 36 Episode 16 - The World's Most Wanted Animal
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - The World's Most Wanted Animal

    S36:E16

    Join conservationist Maria Diekmann in the crusade to save pangolins, the most trafficked animal in the world. Learn more about these scaly yet endearing mammals whose basic biology remains a mystery, hampering conservation efforts.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 36 Ratings Summary

"Naledi: One Little Elephant" is the best rated episode of "Nature" season 36. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Ben Bowie, Geoffrey Luck and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/4/2017. This episode is rated 7.2 points higher than the second-best, "Fox Tales".