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On Night Safari In Singapore (34/268)

The slender loris is only active at night. The slow-motion movements of this prosimian make it difficult for its enemies to discover it among the dark branches. The huge ears of the fennec fox seem to indicate that there is more to be heard than to be seen at night. And anyone seeing an aardvark for the first time might think he has stumbled across a mythical creature. Nocturnal animals often look..

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Australian Badger (43/268)

When the first settlers from Europe came to Australia, they found there an animal that seemed familiar to them: it is about the same size as a badger, it behaves like a badger, it digs dens in the earth, it is agile and swift. The hunters discovered that the animal's meat tasted like badger's meat - hardly surprising that they named it the Australian badger. And yet the wombat has nothing..

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Year Of Production	2006
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Kiboko - A Hippopotamus Clears Off (44/268)

Frankfurt Zoo still has many plans for him: with his 350 kilos he is probably already the heavyweight star of Germany. Kiboko is the name of the young hippopotamus - and he has been in the limelight ever since his birth 18 months ago. This huge baby is the darling of the media and even has his own fan club in Frankfurt. But now it's time to say farewell, for Kiboko has to fly to Thailand. In the C..

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Year Of Production	2006
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Otters - Fishers On Duty (45/268)

They are the greediest fish-catchers of all. This is certainly one reason why they have virtually disappeared here. All the more amazing then seems a method used by fishermen in Bangladesh with tame otters - as partners who help to fill the nets. Felix Heidinger is in for some surprises in the Ganges delta. He meets fishermen who would be able to provide for their families without the help of the..

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Year Of Production	2006
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Devils In Paradise (46/268)

Marsupials live on the Australian continent - by no means only kangaroos but also an abundance of other animal species including predators. The largest of these, the Tasmanian devil and the Tasmanian tiger already existed only on Tasmania 200 years ago. The island had been separated from the mother-continent Australia due to the rising sea-level 12,000 years ago. This separation from the continent..

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Year Of Production	2006
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Angelique And Her Gorillas (48/268)

Angelique Todd from the Max Plank Institute for evolutionary anthropology in Leipzig and Cloé Cipoletta from the environmental foundation WWF (World Wildlife Fund) Germany have dedicated themselves to the research and protection of gorillas. Far removed from any form of civilisation, they live in a camp in the Dzanga-Sangha National Park in the south-west of the Central African Republic. Makumba,..

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Year Of Production	2006
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

A Fan Club For Orang Utans (5 episodes) (62/268)

There are still Orang Utans in Sumatra and Borneo. For how much longer is uncertain, since they are in great danger of extinction. Along with chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas, these large apes are human's closest relations. The Borneo Organ-Utan Survival Organisation (BOS International) and BOS Germany are fighting for the last apes living in the wilds. Their main activities comprise opposing the..

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Year Of Production	2005
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Bears In The Andes - Columbia's Last Primeval Bears (93/268)

This film tells the story of a family of Andean bears in the cloud forest of south-west Columbia on the slopes of the volcano Cumbal. A thrilling, sometimes amusing, sometimes dramatic and touching story about one of the rarest and most endangered animal species in the world, the only descendants of the first primeval great bears. The team searches for the bears and finally finds them; they show u..

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Year Of Production	2004
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The Lake In The Ocean - The Secret Of Kakaban (112/268)

Is there still such a thing as terra incognita? Are there still habitats with a world of fauna yet to be explored, and where every visit can reveal something hitherto undiscovered? The archipelago of the Derawan Islands off Borneo abounds in these surprises. In particular, the uninhabited island of Kakaban with its bizarre reef, which surrounds a mysterious lake, has long since been regarded by th..

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Year Of Production	2003
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Dream Bird - In Search Of The Most Beautiful Humming Bird (114/268)

It all began with a drawing: in a hundred-year-old book there is a picture of a fantastic humming-bird. A legend among ornithologists - yet no expert alive today has ever seen it: loddigesia mirabilis - a species of hummingbird. With its unique tail plumage this bird really is in a class of its own. Two long bare quills each end with a single round feather, similar to that of a peacock. Loddigesia..

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Year Of Production	2003
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Cross - From The Diary Of A Female Elephant (140/268)

Everyone knows about elephants: the African elephants are the ones with the big ears and they are slightly larger than their Asian relatives. Mothers and children live in herds, the bulls are loners. However, anyone who watches elephants for a while soon becomes increasingly convinced that they are really individuals: individuals with their very own destinies, their own experiences and characteris..

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Year Of Production	2002
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Wild Horses Of The Namib-Desert (151/268)

No-one knows how they came here, no-one knows how they managed to survive: In the south of Namibia, in the stony wasteland of the Namib Desert, a herd of horses has survived for some 100 years. Scientists are baffled as to their origin, and the most diverse stories are woven around their existence: they swam to shore after a shipwreck, they escaped from the diamond mines, they are military horses..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Operation Irbis: Snow Leopards in Kirghizia (155/268)

Ahmed, Aman, Roman and Waldemar saddle their horses - Operation Irbis begins. The four men are gamekeepers in Kirghizia, their task is to protect the snow leopards in a huge new nature reserve. They are still undecided as to how to proceed; the only certainty is that the weeks ahead will be hard ones. The region in Central Asia where the last of these wild cats live is almost inaccessible - perpe..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Princess Of Gibraltar (158/268)

Such a beautiful bird, so elegant - particularly when its red beak and black and white plumage shimmer in the sunlight: yet black storks are among the most threatened species in Central Europe - and the Czech Republic is no exception. Here, however, the project "African Odyssey" has been conducting research into the life of these birds of passage for years. To secure the continued existence of the..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Daphne Sheldrick - The Elephant's Mother (159/268)

On the outskirts of Nairobi, the capital of Kenia, lives Daphne Sheldrick, an Englishwoman who has become famous due to a remarkable project: for some 30 years now she has been taking care of orphaned elephants whose mothers died in accidents or were killed by ivory hunters. Without their mothers small elephants are normally doomed since they have to be suckled until their second year. For the fir..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Phantom - A New Rhinoceros In Ngorongoro (166/268)

The Ngorongoro crater in Tansania is world-famous: for the diversity of its animals - and for its rhinoceroses. For only here and in the neighbouring Serengiti are the last black rhinoceroses to be found living in the wilds - elsewhere in Africa they are only safe behind bars. Whereas in the 1960s over 100 rhinoceroses still lived in the crater, there are now only twelve. Despite being closely gua..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

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