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National Geographic's Among the Wild Chimpanzees
: :Jane Goodall is legendary among primate researchers, and for good reason--she learned more on her own studying chimpanzees than all who went before her combined. National Geographic's Among the Wild Chimpanzees looks at her life's work from 1960, when she first came to Tanzania's Gombe Reserve, to the early 1980s, showing her quiet determination to observe these animals closely while disturbing them as little as possible. Gaining their trust through months and years of noninterference, she gathered an unprecedented wealth of ...
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Gary Null's Natural Pet Care
: :Anti-aging expert Gary Null believes that pets deserve the best natural care available. In this 110-minute video, Null interviews a host of holistic Doctors of Veterinary Medicine, exploring the current epidemics of cancer and other serious ailments, and postulating that poor-quality pet foods, over-vaccination, pollutants, and insecticides are the sources of these epidemics. Null and his medical guests tout the benefits of natural foods and holistic and homeopathic remedies, offering natural cures for common problems like flea infestation, and specific dietary ...
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Monty Roberts: Real Horse Whisperer
: :Even as a child in the horse world, Monty Roberts was uncomfortable with the conventional method of breaking, or training, a horse. He competed in rodeos for 22 years, all the while searching for a better way. Eventually, he learned it from the horses themselves. By watching wild mustangs, Roberts was able to identify some of their body language and apply it himself. A good portion of this 48-minute video is devoted to Roberts demonstrating his 'whispering' technique on a mustang ...
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National Geographic's Really Wild Animals: Totally Tropical Rain Forest
: :There's a plug for environmental causes (song lyric: 'If there's a place worth saving, this must be the place'), a Darwinian crack aimed at parents, and faux news broadcasts to keep things moving. But most of all there are animals, animals, animals in this 37-minute National Geographic video. If a trip to the South American rain forest isn't part of the vacation plans, this video tour aimed at kids from preschool through grade school will more than suffice. Comparing the forest ...
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National Geographic's Among the Wild Chimpanzees
from: Sony Pictures
: :There's a plug for environmental causes (song lyric: 'If there's a place worth saving, this must be the place'), a Darwinian crack aimed at parents, and faux news broadcasts to keep things moving. But most of all there are animals, animals, animals in this 37-minute National Geographic video. If a trip to the South American rain forest isn't part of the vacation plans, this video tour aimed at kids from preschool through grade school will more than suffice. Comparing the forest ...
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Zoboomafoo - Zoboo's Little Pals
: :Zoboomafoo (pronounced Zah-BOO-mah-foo) is a wildlife series produced specifically for preschoolers. The show features great puppetry, fun songs, guessing games, and amusing animated segments. Hosts Martin and Chris Kratt are two animal-loving brothers who have befriended a lovable Lemur (puppet) named Zoboo and make daily sojourns to visit him in a rustic cabin called Animal Junction. Wild animals are frequent guests at Animal Junction, and Chris, Martin, and Zoboo always have a wealth of information to share about each new visitor. ...
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Zoboomafoo - Play Day at Animal Junction
: essential video:The Kratt brothers show us how playtime is also teaching time in the animal world in this second release from their popular PBS show, Zoboomafoo. They introduce us to Toothbrush the Elephant, and he's just the first in a parade of animals, which includes monkeys, horses, kittens, and a few more exotic types. Chris and Martin, in typical fashion, are quick to illustrate to preschoolers the most interesting traits of the animals. Monkeys, they explain, seem to be playing ...
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Zoboomafoo - Look Who's Home
: :PBS's preschool-targeted wildlife series Zoboomafoo, a favorite among animal lovers young enough to train their focus on the show's rapid-fire scene changes without relying on toothpicks to prop open their eyelids, which have the pesky tendency to blink, explores a bevy of diverse habitats in its third video. Crashing into hosts the Kratt brothers' humble Animal Junction abode to get things rolling is a flying squirrel, which everybody, lively lemur pal Zoboo included, finds fascinating because it calls whatever hole's available ...
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Trials of Life: Living Together
: :PBS's preschool-targeted wildlife series Zoboomafoo, a favorite among animal lovers young enough to train their focus on the show's rapid-fire scene changes without relying on toothpicks to prop open their eyelids, which have the pesky tendency to blink, explores a bevy of diverse habitats in its third video. Crashing into hosts the Kratt brothers' humble Animal Junction abode to get things rolling is a flying squirrel, which everybody, lively lemur pal Zoboo included, finds fascinating because it calls whatever hole's available ...
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Eyewitness - Weather
: :Based on the groundbreaking series of books, Eyewitness: Weather is a whirlwind tour of our planet's many moods. State-of the art graphics and creative pacing weave viewers of all ages through a fun, smart exploration of wind, rain, hail, tornadoes, and hurricanes. From old Buster Keaton films to news footage to computer models, the images amuse and delight, while providing counterpoint to Martin Sheen's fact-filled narration. (The time-lapse movie of thunderstorms is worth the price of admission.) Eyewitness: Weather makes for ...
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