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Across the animal kingdom, some of the most essential lessons — and the most extreme challenges — occur in the first moments of life. From ostrich to orangutan, egg sac to live birth, infanticide to matricide, the diversity of behaviors between parent and progeny is as great as the diversity of life on our planet.
As animal parents struggle to help their young survive their first days in the wild, they face seemingly insurmountable odds. Penguins travel literally the ends of the Earth to protect their infants, facing Antarctic blizzards while they incubate their eggs. Amaurobius spider mothers offer their own bodies for their newborns to feast on. Orangutan mothers face up to eight years of single parenthood raising their infants.
Understandably, the process of birthing and raising young is one of the most stressful experiences an animal can endure. And it is in these very trials that the most extraordinary glimpses of life in the wild come to light.
NATURE’s Born Wild: The First Days of Life premieres Sunday, November 1 at 8pm (check local listings).
Photo © Philippe Clement
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love it i can wait to see the rest just got to love nature
Black bear’s are so cuite.
Please spare us such ridiculous programs on Nature. This has to be the most anthropomorphic drivel I’ve ever seen in a nature ‘documentary’! The narrator can’t resist applying her own (absolutely offtrack) thought processes to these wild horses. I suspect that the editing has been extremely biased to create a chronology that bears little resemblence to the true sequence of events. This is nature television at its worst!!!
Will tune in to see the wild babies and such.
Interesting!
Got to love the pbs nature show i look forward to it every sunday evening
Mark, please spare us you’re ridiculous comments and feast your eyes on football!!!!
My Sunday nights ARE Nature on PBS. I am particularly looking forward to this episode. Black Bears – a symbol of this country! You know what, Mark? Watch TWO football games and leave the intelligent viewing to PBS ` Nature.
These are informative programs, and the neat thing about them is if one wants to complain about them with scarcastic comments, all that person has to do is turn it off….but then…what would one have to complain about then? Everyone sees life and nature from their own perspective and who can say it is ‘wrong’? But then, there are those who think only their way of seeing things is right…tsk tsk.
As a teacher of more than a few years, I’ve said many times that we could send every child home today with a $100 check, and we would have parents calling to COMPLAIN about that. There will be naysayers! Continue showing beautiful animals in nature. Thank you!
TO SAVE COMMENT READERS TIME, I HAVE PASTED WEBSTER’S EXPLANATION OF ‘ANTHROPOMORPHIC’ BELOW.
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Pronunciation: \ˌan(t)-thrə-pə-ˈmȯr-fik\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin anthropomorphus of human form, from Greek anthrōpomorphos, from anthrōp- + -morphos -morphous
Date: 1827
1 : described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes
2 : ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things
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AND MARK, I SUGGEST YOU NOT WATCH THE SHOW. YOU PROBABLY WOULDN’T LIKE IT.
how watch a full version?
(responding to “ask”) after it first airs tonight, pbs will have the dvds available for sale. so, if you’re not in the U.S. that prevents you from watching the program for free on TV tonight, you can purchase the dvds afterward.
i am Going to Record nature born wild first days of life on tv toigh t how to watch a full verison i like nature verry verrry much
I saw the first 10 minutes of the Nature show about baby animals tonight and then my tv went out for 2 hours or so. I couln’t believe this happened to me as I have been waiting to see this all week. Will it be on again and when and where can i get the DVD?? Please help! I really want to see this so much. Thank you kindly, andrea evans.
Hi Andrea – The episode will be available to watch online until November 8, 2009. You can also browse our selection of DVDs by clicking the “shop” button at the top of the site.
Wonderful opics thanks for sharing …. B
Superbly done; fantastic photography and editing.
I am in agreement with skwids, Mark,if you know nothing of horses or if you do not like animals then you probally shouldn’t watch these types of programs.
This show was absolutely amazing. I there are so many messages and things to learn from each animal that I would watch it over and over and not get tired of it.
The animals have so much to show us about how they see life, and how to enjoy it. The cinematography was stunning. Thank you so much for making this show happen. I will be purchasing the DVD.
Anything about nature Iam watching on pbs every thing is super beautiful,there is no words to explaine.First thing God bless thouse people who is taking so much risk of their life for so long to do study. We are nobody to cretise this kind show. this is not easy job.Thanks to pbs and all the staff who made this kind show possible.