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In this video segment from Nature: “What Plants Talk About,” ecologist James Cahill explains how modern time-lapse photography and other technological innovations are enabling a richer understanding of the sophisticated and varied ways plants interact and engage with their environment—largely though growth in their never-ending search for food.

In this video segment from Nature: “What Plants Talk About,” ecologist Ian Baldwin explains the many different and highly sophisticated ways in which plants, like wild tobacco, have adapted to identify and defend themselves from predators in hostile and often unfamiliar environments.

This video segment introduces and explores the lives of meerkats. Inhabiting the African plains, meerkats are “desert specialists” that have evolved and adapted to a harsh climate.

This video segment provides a basic overview of zebras, focusing on how a zebra family is structured.

This video segment adapted from Nature: The Great Zebra Exodus features an overview of the Makgadikgadi Pan complex, an area in northeastern Botswana.