Icelanders harvest feathers from eider ducks Over the centuries, Iceland's human inhabitants, today more than 250,000 strong, have forged close ties to the island's wildlife. But the relationship has had its ups and downs. When settlers first arrived, for instance, Iceland was covered with stands ...
Bears and humans tread common ground in NATURE's Walking with Giants: The Grizzlies of Siberia. Jutting into the North Pacific from Siberia, Kamchatka is a rugged peninsula of volcanic craters and steep valleys. While its impenetrability once made Kamchatka the perfect home of a notorious ...
NATURE introduces you to the unsung heroes in our history in Chimpanzees: An Unnatural History. The history of chimps in our society is a history unlike any other. We have sent them into space, dressed them in costumes and demanded that they entertain us. Some ...
Mysteries and surprises abound in the nocturnal world of Leopards of Yala. For more than a century, Yala National Park in Sri Lanka has been one of Asia's most celebrated wildlife preserves, a lush windswept tropical forest rich in rare aquatic birds and abundant with ...
On any other day, the bulky package might have gone through. But on this day, a postal worker in Sri Lanka decided something was not quite right. Soon, his suspicions were confirmed: Inside the paper wrapping was the soft and beautiful fur of a Sri ...
If Gordon Buchanan ever writes an autobiography, the Scottish filmmaker behind NATURE's Leopards of Yala could title it "From Dishpan Hands to Distant Lands." As a teenager on the rural island of Mull, Buchanan took a job in an eatery owned by a woman whose ...
Follow the adventures of Pale Male, a daring red-tailed hawk who manages to thrive in the urban world of New York City. A fearsome predator has been stalking Manhattan for years. But instead of calling the police, New Yorkers have put out the welcome mat ...
It's a worrisome moment: A beautiful young red-tailed hawk takes a tumble while learning how to fly and appears injured. But as viewers of NATURE's Pale Male learn, the young bird of prey gets a clean bill of health from a "raptor rehabilitator" -- a ...
