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The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent

October 22, 1989

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Nature - S8 - E3

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Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.

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Nature: Season 8 - 20 Episode s

8x1 - The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley
October 8, 1989
The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
8x2 - The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes
October 15, 1989
The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
8x3 - The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent
October 22, 1989
Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.
8x4 - Under the Ice
October 29, 1989
Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
8x5 - Land of Dragons
November 12, 1989
Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong
8x6 - The Great Wood of Caledon
November 19, 1989
An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.
8x7 - Gorillas
December 10, 1989
A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.
8x8 - Forest of Fear
December 17, 1989
A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.
8x9 - Gran Paradiso
January 7, 1990
Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.
8x10 - Cranes of the Grey Wind
January 21, 1990
Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.
8x11 - King Solomon's Mountains
February 4, 1990
The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.
8x12 - Hunters of the Sky
February 11, 1990
A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.
8x13 - A Wolf in the Fold
February 18, 1990
The relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the creature other canines prey upon.
8x14 - The Colorado
March 4, 1990
Tracing the course of the Colorado River.
8x15 - The Emerald Isle
March 11, 1990
Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.
8x16 - Giant Otters
March 18, 1990
The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.
8x17 - The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People
March 25, 1990
Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.
8x18 - Presque Isle: Land in Motion
April 1, 1990
An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.
8x19 - Yellowstone on Fire
April 8, 1990
The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
8x20 - Serpents
April 15, 1990
A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.

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