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Snow In Australia (1/268)

It may be hard to believe, but in Australia there is snow, lots of snow, in fact. High season in the Snowy Mountains is between June and August: snowboarders and skiers romp on the slopes - among the wombats and kangaroos. The Snowy Mountains National Park was almost completely destroyed by a bush fire in 2001. The first to return were the kangaroos, followed by the wombats. The brumbies, the lege..

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

Mahale - In The Thicket Of The Chimpanzees (2/268)

How are the chimpanzees? Why have some of them died yet again? And what was the cause? For biologist Dr. Markus Borner from Frankfurt's Zoological Society it is not easy to find an answer to these questions. It lies hidden in the depths of the absolutely impenetrable mountain forest of Mahale, a National Park in Tansania. The only means of reaching this place is by bush plane, for there are no roa..

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

Little Tigers In Bavarian Forests (3/268)

The film-maker investigates whether real wild cats are still living in German forests - or are they only domestic cats that are living wild? And is the small population of wild cats in Germany too small and genetically impoverished to ensure the survival of the pure-bred wild cat in this country? A project has been launched to rescue the wild cat with the aim of linking the various habitats of the..

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

Jackdaw Summer At Castle Leutstetten (4/268)

The biologist Princess Auguste von Bayern was already fascinated as a child by the intelligent jackdaws, she watched them as they frolicked and admired their impressive flying skills. Now she has made this fascination her profession. While observing the jackdaws hatching in front of her study in Castle Leutstetten, Auguste sees one of the chicks fall out of the nest. She takes the chick into the c..

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

Monkeys On The Way To School (5/268)

The morning hours are among the most beautiful on Maratua, the small Indonesian island off the east coat of Borneo - were it not for the children's frightening encounters with the monkeys, who cast threatening glances and occasionally even gnash their teeth. Even the adults have come to dislike them. The inhabitants of Maratua have always been fishing folk with little interest in hunting, but sinc..

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

Hama - A Rhinoceros, A Stranger In Africa (6/268)

Does a zoo rhinoceros dream of a life in freedom? Rather unlikely if it was born in an enclosure -like Hama, the black hook-lipped rhinoceros in the Frankfurt Zoo. And yet for this rhinoceros a dream of sorts is about to come true, for she is to return to the home of her forefathers - to a national park in southern Africa where hook-lipped rhinos are in demand. A zoo animal that returns to the wil..

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

What Is The Camel Doing In Australia? (7/268)

The Aborigines were shocked when, in 1840, they saw camels for the first time. Afghan traders had brought them by ship to Australia. They were to provide transport in the dry interior and thus help tame the hot centre of the continent. Today the descendants of these pioneer camels are no longer tame, they have become wild and are now the last free-ranging camel herds still existing in the world. M..

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

Treading Softly - The Lynx (8/268)

About 200 years ago, the last lynx in the Schumava, the Czech part of the Bavarian Forest, was shot. And in the decades that followed the predator with the splendid fur had no chance of finding a habitat close to regions inhabited by humans. There were not enough coherent forest areas, and the hunt for his precious fur, as soon as he appeared, sealed its fate. But for years now the lynx has been p..

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

When Hamster Meets Elk (9/268)

Only a few people know that it lives in Bavaria or have ever even seen it. It has black button-eyes, pretty fur in three different colours and its name is the common hamster. It's no wonder that hardly anyone knows this "outsized golden hamster" for it is threatened by extinction. Only a few decades ago this was quite different. Then it was one of the most common small mammals and up and into the..

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

Munich's Wild Horses (10/268)

30 years ago, Munich Zoo director Henning Wiesner conceived a plan to release Mongolian Wild Horses, also known as Przewalsky's horse, into the wild in their native Kazakhstan. He finally succeeded. With their cinnamon pelt, erect mane and white snouts, they are certainly attractive to look at. The Mongolian Wild Horse originally lived in the prairies and deserts of China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan...

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Langurs - Rulers Of The Blue City (11/268)

Hanuman langurs are different from other monkeys. Often they live right in the teeming cities of India. Since they are held to be sacred, they need not fear humans. But they are also infamous for a behavior that seems anything but holy: Mature males have often been observed killing langur babies of their own group. Biologist Volker Sommer has spent years studying the social relations of langurs by..

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Friends For Life (12/268)

A fox, a hound? and a cat? It sounds like a Disney cartoon, but this adventurous trio is real, and together they introduce us to the wildlife of the Bohemian Forest. The Bohemian Forest is home to a wide range of endangered wildlife, from otters to black storks to lynx. This documentary introduces us to the wild world of the woods from an unusual point of view: The dog Matla, the cat Anne and a fo..

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Alfaro - City Of The Storks (13/268)

Busy activity atop the Church of San Miguel in the middle of the town of Alfaro in Eastern Spain, where 120 stork families live in the largest stork colony in the world. In Summer, when the young have grown, things get crowded, with over 500 white storks living on the roof of the church. With its many nooks and crannies, spires and towers, the structure is ideal for the sociable avians. While they..

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Meerkats - A Colony of Little "People" (14/268)

They are the star attraction of any zoo: Darting about, standing on their hind legs, disappearing in their burrows, only to pop up again somewhere else. These cute little guys are called meerkats, and are actually distantly related to hyenas. Meerkats live in large families called gangs or clans in the Kalahari desert in southwestern Africa. They all get up together and one of them stands guard wh..

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Swimming With The Elephants (15/268)

Elephants are just like us: They're usually thinking about food, sweets and a nice cool bath. They have to go to school a long time, and retire when they're 60!" This quote from an Indian elephant handler could hardly be more apt. These animal "tractors" have been working the woods of India for centuries, just as on India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands. As legend has it, on these islands the gentle..

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Return Of The Wild - Wolf, Lynx And Elk Are Back In Bavaria (16/268)

Perhaps they would never have been noticed were it not for the dense net of roads and high-speed German driving styles that spelled their doom: In short order, three animals that are anything but everyday in Bavaria became road kill in the southern German state: An elk, a wolf and a lynx. Nothing short of a sensation in densely populated and thoroughly civilized Europe, where these animals have be..

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Black Deer Of San Rossore (17/268)

It's the secret of male success: In contrast to Red Deer, male Fallow Deer employ a special strategy to succeed with the opposite sex. While Red Deer try to defend their harem with as little bloodshed as possible, Fallow Deer go all out. With their mighty shovel-shaped antlers, the bucks fight until one of them gives up. In the end, only a handful of stags succeed in impressing the females suffici..

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Sky - Across The Alps On The Wings Of An Eagle (18/268)

Sky may not be the first eagle to soar high above the peaks of the Alps. But this Golden Eagle is definitely the first to be trained by a falconer to circle the peaks of the Alps with a camera on its back. Even since Sky hatched as an eagle chick, his life has been documented by his falconer. He was raised and trained at a falconry south on Munich at the foot of the Alps, teaching him to get used..

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Secret Of The Celtic Pony (19/268)

There are no more ancestral wild horses in Europe anymore - at least, they are thought to be extinct. But a species of horse living in the southwest of England has long posed riddles. Since there was no trace of the heritage of this pony, people generally believed the so-called Exmoor or Celtic pony was merely a domestic pony gone wild. With the discovery of the Mongolian wild horse, called Przewa..

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Guinea Pigs Of Panama - Worshiped Delicatessen (20/268)

The Paca, the big brother of our beloved household pet, the Guinea pig, lives in the jungles of Panama. The natives of the Kuna tribe even say it has magical powers - encountering one in broad daylight is said to bring bad luck. The paca also plays a special role on feast days - as the feast. As the paca becomes more and more rare, the Kuna have tried to raise and eat real pigs, instead of Guinea..

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Endangered - Bush Dogs (21/268)

Bush Dogs are becoming rare not only in their natural habitat in South America, but in zoos as well. There is not enough fresh blood left to breed them successfully. So Brazilian and European breeders and zookeepers have launched an ambitious program to exchange prized females and secure the future of the species. There is only one suitable female left in Germany scheduled to make the voyage: Her..

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Almond - Eye Monkeys - Vietnam's Endangered Species (22/268)

Cool and handsome, Richard peers out into the jungles of Cuc Phuong National Park in Northern Vietnam. Even if he seems almost human, he's a monkey - a douc. Their colored fur, humanlike expression and movements make doucs a fascinating subspecies of primates. But few humans ever get to see one, for they are threatened by poachers and in danger of extinction in their jungle habitat. So when animal..

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Two Rhinos For Bavaria (23/268)

In September 2008, the Augsburg Zoo in Germany got its long-awaited two new pairs of rhinos. A momentous event that easily lets you forget the long preparation and planning that went into the acquisition. The zoo director spent many a day and night brooding over where to get the animals from - for, in the case of zoo populations, the crucial question is always, who are the animals related to, who..

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Devil's Ark (24/268)

100 000 years ago, Australia was inhabited by giant animals, but also by the little Tasmania devil. Then, 50 000 years ago, the giants suddenly died out. But the Tasmanian devil survived. Today, however, they survive only on the island of Tasmania. Especially the dingos brought in from Indonesia by Australia's aborigines proved too much of a match for them. There were no dingos on Tasmania, howeve..

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Isle Of The White Donkey (25/268)

No one knows where they come from: The Albino Donkeys of Asinara. Some say the Marquis di Mores, Duke of Asinara, brought them over from Egypt in the 18th Century. Others speak of a cargo of white donkeys washed ashore after a shipwreck. Perhaps they owe their beautiful coats to an anomaly of the usual gray Sardinian donkey. In any case the Albino animals have become the symbol of the island off t..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Hunting Grounds (26/268)

Our seas are home to many hunters and killers whose very names strike fear into the hearts of holidaymakers. Even on the tourist-crowded beaches of the Mediterranean, countless denizens of the deep are said to patrol the waters, casting a shadow over the bathing fun. From the jellyfish whose poisoned arrows leave nasty scars to the allegedly fatal sting of the greater weever fish that hides in the..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Mozambique Express (27/268)

Three times a year, excess elephants are captured with rangers, veterinarians and volunteers in trucks and helicopters in South Africa's Kruger National Park, and taken to other parks with lower populations. The National Park's head veterinarian Dr. Markus Hofmeyr is in charge of the sweep, in which 20 giraffes, 100 wildebeest, 200 water buffalo and 100 antilopes are captured in Kruger National Pa..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Capybaras - The Water Sprites Of Pantanal (28/268)

They live right in the heart of Brazil - capybaras aka water hogs, the largest rodents in the world. In Brazil they are known as the "lords of the grasses" for they are mainly to be found in the grasslands of Pantanal, the largest wetlands area in South America. Nowadays these sociable rodents are protected from hunting by humans, but in the wild Pantanal they have to live with other dangers. Giga..

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

Terror In The Realm Of The Orcas (29/268)

An orca baby is born! Whenever whale researcher Ken Balcomb sees this, he gains fresh hope. For the orca whales off the west coast of the USA urgently need offspring. The population, which in the summer months hunts for salmon off the coast of San Juan Island near Seattle, has now dwindled to no more than 90 animals. Not enough to secure their long-term survival. Up until the mid-1970s many of the..

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

Kiss - The Story Of A Russian Lynx Kitten (30/268)

200 kilometres north-east of Moscow: the old all-terrain mini-bus turns into a dusty road. At the wheel sits the 52-year-old biologist Alexei Murashov. On the back seat his wife Jana tries to keep hold of a three-month-old lynx on her lap. Kiss grew up in a villa in the wealthy Moscow suburb "Rublevskoe Chaussee" until her owners gave her away. A fate suffered by many exotic animals: as a kitten s..

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

In The Forest Of The Hornbills (31/268)

Survival has become difficult for the dulungan, as the indigenous people call the hornbill. Its habitat now consists of only a few meagre remnants of the rainforest, which on the Philippine island of Panay has been sadly reduced due to slash-and-burn and the selling of timber. The trunks of the giant trees serve the dulungans as nest cavities, the fruits of the trees are their nutrition. On their..

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

The Elephants Of Hwange (32/268)

60 years ago the Hwange National Park in the south-east of Zimbabwe was founded to provide refuge for elephants, for only about 1,000 of their species were still living in the 15,000 square kilometres of the savannah south of the Zambesi river. Soon the park was offering a safe habitat not only to elephants, but also to giraffes, antelopes and many other animal species. Today most of the animals h..

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

Bears In The Neighbourhood (33/268)

How do other European countries deal with their bears? Many people will have asked themselves this when, almost exactly a year ago, the brown bear Bruno trotted over the Bavarian border. The most impressive example is Romania. The brown predators have always existed in the Carpathians, and the people there react to them quite differently. A hotspot in dealing with the "neighbour bear" is the Carpa..

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

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]

Homesick Turtles (35/268)

After 20 or 30 years of roaming through the oceans, the females return to the exact beach where they themselves hatched. What inner compass guides this return to the home beach is still a mystery to scientists. But what if this beach is meanwhile no longer a good nesting beach? If nest plunderers are lying in wait at night for these gentle giants? "Animals' World" travelled to Borneo together with..

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

Nordens Ark - The Last Of Their Kind (36/268)

"And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female." The founder of the zoo "Nordens Ark" must have had this bible verse in mind when he chose this symbolic name to protect exotic animals such as snow leopards or Amur tigers, and also domestic Scandinavian animals that are in danger of extinction. No..

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

Al Maha - In The Vizier Of The Falcons (37/268)

Majestic falcons circle above the endless desert in the dawn light. Their flying skills are observed by the watchful eyes of the falconers in the National Park of Dubai. Falconry has a long tradition in Arab countries. Training and hunting with these noble birds is both a sport and a passion. Now it is also the cornerstone of a nature conservation project of a special kind, for in Dubai falcons ar..

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

In The Kingdom Of The Cassowaries - A Huge Bird Fights For Its Forest (38/268)

Every tourist in Australia who travels through Queensland knows the black and yellow warning sign "Caution cassowary crossing". The sign is a warning that a bird may suddenly cross the road. Related to the kiwi and the ostrich, the cassowary is all of 190 cms tall. The very idea of having such a monster bird suddenly sitting on the bonnet of the car is terrifying for us, as it is for the inhabitan..

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

Pigs In Clover (39/268)

Devoured, denigrated, deified - man has always had a very ambivalent attitude to this bristly creature. In some religions it is despised, yet it is also regarded as a lucky charm and sign of affluence. The general trend is to show more respect for the pig - nowadays it can even be found as a domestic pet in the home. Yet there is a wild boar is lurking in any tame pig. And those who rebel against..

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

The Autumn Of The Red Deer (40/268)

Many people don't know what a red deer looks like - even though it is the largest wild animal species in our forests. And anyone who then connects the red deer with the stag is obviously hardly able to tell the difference from a roe deer. One reason for this is that red deer in this country are extremely shy, for shooting of this species is permitted for up to nine months a year. This is because r..

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

The Kangaroos Of Mecklenburg (41/268)

Kangaroos and racoon dogs, raccoons, nandus and minks - here one thinks of exotic lands. Yet these animals are also to be found in Germany, living free in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. One night, five years ago, hooligans opened the gates of a pets' corner in the zoo at Burg Stargard. When the zoo director discovered this the next morning, it was already too late. The bennet kangaroos had escaped an..

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

Wanted - Attractive Male Loris (42/268)

Does anyone know what a slender loris is? It's not a parrot, as its name might suggest, but a very small monkey. Slender lorises go about their furtive nocturnal business in the dry forests of Southern India and Sri Lanka. Due to their pointed noses, bat-like ears and eyes that glow in the dark they are said, even nowadays, to have magical powers. A great problem for these nocturnal lemurs is the..

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Year Of Production	2006
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 to do wi..

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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]

Jerry -Never Pay For A Gorilla Baby (47/268)

They are so cute, so loveable, so sweet that visitors just want to cuddle them and never put them down: the chimpanzee and gorilla babies in the zoo of Yaounde, the capital of the Cameroons. Hardly anyone now watching the playful young apes as they drink their daily portion of milk from their baby bottles recalls that each of these babies has survived a life-or-death adventure. Once again the zoo..

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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]

Being Good Parents (49/268)

Everybody has parents - animals just like human beings. And although there may, be to a large degree, agreement amongst human beings as to what characterizes good or bad parents, what is it like with animals? Are the parents bad or do they spoil their young with blind adoration? Whoever looks around in the animal kingdom will find parents who sacrifice their life for their young ones and others wh..

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

Nice Enough To Eat (50/268)

Eat or be eaten - this is the rule in the animal kingdom. Or is it? The reality is often quite different. When eating, animals often encounter problems, of which humans have no idea. How can you devour your prey, which is the same size as yourself, if you have no teeth to chew it with? How can you survive on a diet which is actually poisonous? Or how does an elephant manage to get enough to eat? A..

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

Pond Stories - The Long Life Of A Carp (51/268)

Over 100 years ago Dr. Michael Bayerl, a doctor from Passau, bought an old fish farm originally created by Benedictine monks in the 11th century. Bayerl was a hobby fisherman and managed the farm in his spare time. His son Otto, however, decided to become a pisciculturist (fish farmer). He turned the monks' fish farm into a flourishing business, which was then taken over by his son Sigmund. In 191..

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

Return Of The Beavers (52/268)

In the early years of the 20th century the beaver was on the verge of extinction throughout the world. But numerous protection efforts and resettlement measures have ensured the return of the beaver. Nature's best master-builder is back. With an incredible technique and precision the beaver is able to construct dams in a watercourse - with far-reaching consequences. No other native species is able..

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

Nice Neighbours - The Kangaroo Clan (53/268)

What would Australia be without the kangaroo? And yet still very little is known about the species. On Kangaroo Island, an island in the south-west of Australia, lives the biologist Peggy Riesmiller. 13 years ago she found and reared here a little grey kangaroo. Robby, her kangaroo, now lives near her house with his entire clan. Thus the biologist was able to make observations which had not been p..

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

In The Wild Heart Of Borneo (54/268)

Nowhere in the world are chain saws and palm oil plantations invading the rainforest more swiftly than in Borneo. In its heartland, however, the island still conceals its treasures: orang-utans, Borneo elephants, proboscis monkeys and clouded leopards. Felix Heidinger, animal filmer , sets off on a journey into the heartland of Borneo. He encounters lumberjacks and poachers, but he also meets pe..

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

Endless Migration (55/268)

As far as the eye can see - nothing but animals, a vast, never-ending herd. In the plains of Ndutu, in the south of the Serengeti, when the largest animal migration in the world makes a stopover, the grass is hardly visible beneath the surging bodies of the animals. Over 1.4 million quadrupeds are constantly on the move: gnus, followed by zebras and Thomson's gazelles. Here in the lowlands they gi..

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

Kinabatangan - The River Of The Little Elephants (56/268)

Orangutans, proboscis monkeys, Borneo elephants - there is only one place in the world where one can observe all these species - at the River Kinabatangan in the Malaysian part of Borneo. The river meanders along 500 kilometres into the interior of the country, and almost the entire animal kingdom of Malaysia can be observed on its banks. The animal reporter Felix Heidinger travels along the Kinab..

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

The Bavarian Dolphins (57/268)

No-one can say exactly why dolphins touch our hearts as they do. Or why they are evidently able to free even autistic children from their mental confinement. Nuremberg Zoo has installed a dolphinarium so that those who have no access to the sea can still make contact with these very special animals. Seven dolphins live here under the watchful eyes of experienced trainers. In co-operation with the..

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

The Monkeys With The Big Noses (58/268)

Exclusively on the island of Borneo, among mangroves and river banks in the rainforest close to the coast, a rare species has found the perfect retreat. Thanks to the "huge conk" in their faces the proboscis monkeys are among the most bizarre creatures in the animal kingdom. Are they also different from their fellow- primates in other ways? The biologist Felix Heidinger wanted to know, and so the..

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

The Nightingale Of Verona (59/268)

"It was the nightingale, and not the lark..." says Juliet to her Romeo. Not only for this reason is Verona, the setting of Shakespeare's drama, famous for its songbirds. For shortly before sunrise, when the arias in the famous arena have died away and lights have gone out, another, new kind of singing pervades the city: nightingales now sing, and even if one cannot see them at first, they can be d..

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Year Of Production	2005
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Bears In Bavaria (60/268)

They don't have far to go until they reach Germany - for wild brown bears live only three hours away from Munich. Once all of Europe was the home of the brown bears. Nowadays they have only a few places of refuge. Felix Heidinger tries to find out how near the bears really are and whether wild bears can be dangerous to people. In Austria these shaggy creatures have already been at home for ten yea..

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Year Of Production	2005
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The Cats Of The Serengeti (61/268)

They once reigned supreme in the Serengeti: the lions, cheetahs and leopards. Now man is the ruler, no longer the cat. And men are ensuring that cats are still able to survive in the African Savannah. Once the lion was the enemy of man, nowadays man has to protect the lion - from a number of completely unexpected developments.

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Year Of Production	2005
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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
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13 Hills For The Orang Utans (63/268)

13 Hills - Bukit Tiga Puluh- is the name of the Indonesian National Park, in which the battle for the survival of the rare Sumatran orang-utans is being fought most intensively. The ambitious aim is to once again establish apes on the 13 Hills. The animals that are given a chance are not even the strongest or the fittest from the other regions of Sumatra, but instead Daisy, Rimba, Wahkiki or Rober..

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Year Of Production	2005
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The Stray - An Alley Cat In Paris (64/268)

It is said that cats can never be completely domesticated. And maybe roaming strays are the best proof of this. The author of the film accompanies a ginger tomcat through the traffic chaos of Paris. A stray leads us through the district around Montmartre - and then his trail disappears in the jungle of the metropolis. But a few weeks later he re-appears - in an old animal cemetery, an oasis of pea..

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Year Of Production	2005
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A Happy End For A Rhinoceros (65/268)

Does a rhinoceros dream of a life in freedom? Scarcely, if it was born in captivity like Hama, the young black rhinoceros in Frankfurt?s zoo. Nevertheless something like a dream comes true for the rhinoceros as it is to return to the home of its predecessors - a National Park in the south of Africa, where the black rhinoceros is in demand. A zoo animal which is to return to the wild has to learn a..

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Year Of Production	2005
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Orcas, Rhinoceroses And Polar Bears - The Animals Of San Diego (66/268)

On Safari in the Wild Animal Park, hovering above the zoo in the cable car or watching the show of the killer whales in SeaWorld: the San Diego Zoo in California offers three completely different ways of experiencing animals, three zoos - three zoo concepts. Experts regard the San Diego Zoo as a Mecca of zoo-keeping and of scientific research on animals. For decades the Wild Animal Park has been a..

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Year Of Production	2005
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Sympathy For The Devils (67/268)

They are the most important hunters in the Serengeti, and yet we regard them as cowardly, crafty carrion-eaters. Their life in the group is characterized by mutual care; the females risk their lives on hunting expeditions lasting for days to feed their young, and yet they are known as the devils of the savannah. Why these prejudices? Perhaps because for a long time so little was known about them...

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Year Of Production	2005
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The Monkey With The Golden Head (68/268)

Their body fur is pitch-black, but the head is crowned by a halo of shining golden fur. Very few people have ever seen them - for they are among the rarest monkeys in the world. Only about 50 of them are now still alive. In order to ensure their survival at the last minute, a German biologist in Vietnam is resorting to harsh measures. No matter whether fishermen, hunters or tourists - anyone enter..

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Year Of Production	2005
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The Arctic Fox In The Ark (69/268)

When the arctic fox comes out of his den here, he need not fear the fur trappers. In Lapland he is almost extinct, in "Nordens Ark" in Sweden attempts are being made to preserve the last of this species and to breed a new generation. The snow leopards are in much the same situation. In the Ark they are safe from poachers; Tai, the most successful female, has already given birth here to 10 snow leo..

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Year Of Production	2005
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Snow-Dwellers (70/268)

It is January 23rd 2050 and we are in the Alps at an altitude of about 2,000 metres? 40 years ago in this region, at this time of year, the snow was at least one metre deep. Now, in the year 2050, it is cold but there is no sign of snow. Whether mountain hare or ptarmigan, Alpine salamander or glacier springtail, an increasing number of species are threatened by the lack of snowfall in winter and..

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Year Of Production	2005
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Life In The Polar Circle - The Reindeer (71/268)

North of the polar circle nature does not escape from winter's icy embrace until May. As soon as the scrubs and berried creepers sprout their first green, then it is time for the reindeer to give birth to their young. They are born in Europe's loneliest region, in Lapland, and they follow their mothers closely as they roam through the endless forests in search of food. The calves have only very fe..

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Year Of Production	2005
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Bottle-feeding Jaguars (72/268)

Often a threatened animal species can only prevail with the aid of a supervised breeding program. In Criadouro Onça Pintada in Brazil, valuable work is being done to support threatened species and provide a refuge for rare animals. In this episode we take a look at everyday life in the sanctuary and report on a very particular case: a jaguar mother Fofa who has rejected her new-born babies with th..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Commuters Between The Zoo And Freedom (73/268)

Anyone looking at the Untersberg from Salzburg Zoo can see them circling: with their enormous wing span of up to 2.5 metres, griffon vultures are the largest birds of the Alpine region. Spurious myths were responsible for the extermination of the vultures in the Alps - for example,they were said to kill lambs, calves and even children. Sagas and rumours also surround the Untersberg with its birds...

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Year Of Production	2004
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The Beavers Of Munich (74/268)

Anyone who takes a walk at night around the German Museum in Munich might catch sight of something really unusual on the moonlit banks of the River Isar: a large rat, a water rat, or a hallucination? Even before one has the chance to peer through the darkness - there is a loud splash and the creature disappears. Yet this was no rat, but an animal that is normally shy and which hardly anyone would..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Gorillas Between The Front Lines (75/268)

The last of their species live only in the heart of Africa - in the region where three countries meet, Rwanda, Uganda and the Congo - for no zoo in the world can boast of being able to show its visitors mountain gorillas. These gentle giants are protected in their habitat at the foot of the Virunga volcanic mountains by national parks, yet fierce civil wars have been raging in this region since 19..

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Year Of Production	2004
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The Underground Mouse (76/268)

A tiny brown nose appears between the stones of the same colour. Perhaps a tasty morsel will be dropped? Up on the platform stands a man with a bag in his hand. Along with many others he is on his way to work. Lost in thought, he is eating his sandwich, a few crumbs fall to the ground. They do not remain unnoticed. Suddenly the stones come to life, a small brown body shoots out of the underground..

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Year Of Production	2004
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S.O.S. - Baby Seal In Danger (77/268)

They lie on the beach, alone, helpless, abandoned. And they cry for their mother: this plaintive howling has given them a name - they are wailers. In early summer, when the baby seals are born on the sandbanks off the German coast, it happens again and again that the little ones are separated from their mothers. Some are too weak to follow the mother, others lose her during the fierce spring storm..

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Year Of Production	2004
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The Dogs And It's Wild Ancestors, Part 1 (78/268)

Part 1: Wolves, greyhounds and jackals are not exactly the most popular of species. For centuries they have been hunted and killed. In Central Europe, the "big, bad wolf" has been virtually exterminated. And yet fear of the wolf was by no means justified. There is not a single report of a human being having been killed by a wolf. Meanwhile, the first wolves seem to be reappearing here from the Eas..

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Year Of Production	2004
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The Dog And It's Wild Ancestors, Part 2 (79/268)

Part 2: When we think of endangered animals such as tigers, lions or jaguars, we naturally would like everything to be done to save these species. In contrast wolves, wild dogs and jackals are not as lucky in terms of their popularity. The relationship between them and human beings has always been marked by mistrust and aversion. For hundreds of years these animal species have been hunted, persecu..

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Year Of Production	2004
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Wild Animals Of Munich (80/268)

The call of a wild bird in the morning, a shadow flits over the asphalt. It was not a sparrow, nor a pigeon. There remains a feeling - that something is happening on our doorstep. That even rare wild animals live not only in the forests or in remote mountainous regions, but here in our midst. They have followed us into the cities - voluntarily, they are observing us. Munich is one of these "wild"..

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Year Of Production	2004
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In The Hobgoblin's Forest (81/268)

Who doesn't understand this animal? Not only does it sleep through the entire cold and rainy winter, but it does not reappear until everything is in full blossom - the dormouse. Then it creeps grumpily out of its den, tree hollow or nesting box and just wants to eat, eat, eat. Although the animal of the year 2004 is certainly one of the greatest sleepyheads in the animal kingdom, in summer it turn..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Of Bears And People (82/268)

Brown bears have actually been extinct in the Bohemian Forest since 1856 - and yet in the winter of 2003 the tracks of a bear were found. Jan Cherney, the forester, heard a pitiful whimpering from beneath a fallen tree. Tracks were found, leading away from the tree. In his search for the animal which left the tracks, Jan Cherney, as an experienced hunter, took a second man with him, the photograph..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Lynx Tracks - A Story From The Bavarian Forest (83/268)

Now and then remains of their prey, tracks in the snow or a stray white hair on a rock: the secret trail of a wildcat with tufted eartips. 150 years ago it was thought to be extinct, but now the lynx is once again roaming through the Bavarian Forest - there is even a lynx mother and her offspring of only a few weeks. Maybe it would have been better for the two of them if they hadn't been discovere..

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Year Of Production	2004
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In The Hell's Valley Of The Snow Monkeys (84/268)

Awesome mountain massifs, fascinating animals and an unspoiled wilderness. Such natural landscapes are rare in Japan. From December to March nature is frozen into an icy-cold stillness on the main island of Honshu. Only the hot springs make life bearable for people and animals - in fact, they even lure them to this place. Most species of monkeys live in warmer regions, many of them are to be found..

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Year Of Production	2004
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A Horse Named Chanti (85/268)

Its coat reveals the origin of the mare: the colours of the steppe also shimmer from light loam to reddish-brown. And it was there in the steppe of Central Asia that, until half a century ago, the last real wild horses were to be found. But the mare named Chianti was born in the Munich Zoo - the descendant of a very few animals which came to Europe at the beginning of the last century and survived..

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Year Of Production	2004
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The Pack Of Wild Boars (86/268)

Wild boars are probably the cleverest mammals in our forests. Hence it is hardly surprising that they also feel quite at ease in cultivated landscapes, even daring to come quite close to people, sometimes too close - for the grass is always greener in the neighbour's garden. Wild boars are cloven-hoofed animals and are thus related to the red deer. However, since they are omnivores they don't comp..

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Year Of Production	2004
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The World's Most Beautiful Chamois (87/268)

The Italian National Park of Abruzzo is like an island for many of the species which were once at home throughout Europe: wolves, bears, lynxes and golden eagles. But even here life is not entirely free of care: only one herd remains of the Abruzzo chamois, once to be found throughout Italy - not enough to survive the infectious diseases which often spread to entire groups of animals and extermina..

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Year Of Production	2004
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The Bedouins And Their Camels (88/268)

5,000 years ago, when man tamed camels as domestic animals, he gained the best possible companions for the desert: camels can survive without water for weeks, carry heavy loads in scorching heat and are also an unflagging means of transport through the desert. Up to the present day, the life of the Bedouins is still closely entwined with their camels: they keep them not only as pack animals and fo..

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Year Of Production	2004
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The Hedgehog With The Duck's Bill (89/268)

The first mammals over 100 million years ago actually still laid eggs like reptiles, but they carried their eggs around with them until they hatched. The young one then licked the milk from a fold in its mother's skin. One of the animals from this era has survived until the present day. It is the echidna, also known as the spiny ant-eater. It is to be found throughout Australia in the forests and..

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Year Of Production	2004
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The Mystery Of The Sea Snakes (90/268)

The sea snakes are probably the most venomous vertebrates in the world. Yet Dr. Glen Burns treats them so affectionately that one tends to forget the danger. It's as if his continuous speaking soothes the animal. "In 20 years of working with the animals, I have never been bitten, maybe because I began to think and feel like a sea snake." Yet if the maritime biologist were to make a mistake and be..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Australia's Cutest Marsupial (91/268)

The wombat is a familiar creature in Australia. For children it plays the same role as the European teddy bear. In many areas it is an endangered species, and so conservationists rear every wombat they find, for wombat mothers are often killed in traffic accidents. The young ones are usually unharmed. They are protected by their mother's pouch. Polly is a female wombat who has been reared by the M..

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Year Of Production	2004
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From The Love Life Of The Apes (92/268)

Marriage, harem, free love - in various cultures people have lived in very different communities, and this is no coincidence. If we take a look at the love life of our closest relatives, we find all these various forms of cohabitation. The gibbons in the Thai rain forest live in monogamous marriages their whole life long - at least this was the conventional wisdom, until it was discovered that the..

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

?And In The Evening The Elephant Visits The Monkeys (94/268)

When the zoo closes its gates to visitors, the day is by no means over for the animals. In Munich, Sabi, the young African elephant, then sets off on his regular outing through the zoo with his keeper: the visitors' paths now become his trail and surprising encounters provide a welcome change to everyday life. Keepers and vets also have work to do: Caligula, the sapajou, has a digestive complaint..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Of Bambis And Rutting Stages (95/268)

In our forests stags and deer live side by side, in some regions together with immigrants such as the sika deer and the fallow deer. We all know the awesome red deer with its huge antlers and, at some time, we have all seen a herd of deer in a clearing, grazing at dawn or at dusk. And yet most of us know very little about the "crowned heads" of the forest. Is the cute deer a friendly forest-dwelle..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Tracks In Snow And Ice (96/268)

Anyone who is able to identify at least some of the tracks left by animals will find that the snow has many thrilling stories to tell: of hares meeting in the light of the full moon, of foxes observing them after unsuccessfully stalking a rat, of a hungry hedgehog toppling into a dog's food bowl in search of food. The animal kingdom begins at our own feet - this film provides us with the knowledge..

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Year Of Production	2004
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No. 21 - A Wolf Like No Other (97/268)

Little Red Riding Hood and Hollywood tell a lie! In contrast to their reputation as villains who attack people, wolves are in fact rather shy creatures. And this is why there are only few places in the world where one can observe wild wolves: one of those is the Yellowstone National Park. Once hunted relentlessly, the wolves here have become the darlings of the visitors since socalled "wolf watche..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Alone In The World - Orphaned Bears In Russia (98/268)

A man walks through the forest, his hood pulled over his face, his hands are covered. He is hardly recognizable as a human being. Two little bears are following him. The animals are orphans who lost their mother in the first days of their life. The man is Professor Pazhepnov. He has to be both mother and enemy to the young animals, for his aim is to teach them everything that a wild bear has to kn..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Language Versions	German [OV]

Bush Baby - From The Night Life Of A Galago (99/268)

Lions and elephants, zebras, giraffes and baboons - what people see on safari and what we know from numerous animal films is only the daylight view of African wildlife, and this is relatively easy to observe. Yet, throughout the world, there are many animals who are only active by night, and it is no easy task for us to watch them and to understand their living conditions. Large, round eyes and hu..

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Year Of Production	2004
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Sepp And Xaver - Galloways As Landscapers (100/268)

They are no ordinary bulls: Sepp and Xaver, two young Galloways, eat to protect nature. Together with five other Galloways, they spend the summer in the semi-wild of a valley near Jettenbach on the River Inn. The valley belongs to Count Törring, who has leased it for one Euro a year to the Organisation for the Conservation of Nature. Xaver & co. are needed to protect the terrain from overgrowth an..

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Year Of Production	2004
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When The Marmot Whistles... (101/268)

For a brief period, after awakening from their hibernation, the marmots live in harmony with one another, but before long the peace of the alpine pastures is shattered. Often a male from an adjoining territory will challenge an unruly neighbour to a fight. In this no holds are barred, as evidenced by harrowing screams and deep wounds from bites. Even the female marmots resort to violence. The domi..

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Year Of Production	2004
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"Beware Of Wild Dogs!" - How Dangerous Are Dingos? (102/268)

At one time the island was a paradise: K'gari, off the east coast of Australia. The Aborigines, the indigenous inhabitants of Australia, believe that the island was created millions of years ago by a divine envoy of the god Beiral. Yet they were the ones who actually brought the dingos to K'gari thousands of years ago. And they still live here, the last 200 pure-bred dingos in the world. K'gari is..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Language Versions	German [OV]

Clever As A Fox (103/268)

Foxes usually live in the cover of the forest, they are active at dusk or at night and many people only know them as carriers of rabies or as victims of traffic accidents. Rabies has been more or less eradicated in Germany and the fox population is increasing. Man now has to intervene and regulate this upsurge, and thus a diurnal animal (i.e.active by day) has become a nocturnal animal, keeping ou..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Who'll Put His Hand In The Crocodile's Mouth? (104/268)

Whether in the zoo or in the wilderness - anyone who captures, transports or gives medical treatment to wild animals first has to tranquilize them. Whether elephant or wildcat, rhinocerous or crocodile - the anaesthetic must ensure a "deep sleep" without endangering the animal. In Grzimek's time this was still a very hazardous and risky undertaking for both man and beast. This has changed - and it..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Farewell To The Jungle - India's Last Tigers (105/268)

The worst villain in "The Jungle Book" is Shirkan, a tiger. Yet the bad reputation of these animals is undeserved. Normally these big cats are very shy when they encounter people, yet only a few mavericks have sufficed to brand the tiger as a creature who devours human beings. This seems to be reason enough to hunt it relentlessly, thus virtually exterminating the species. Whether the tiger can su..

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Year Of Production	2004
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The Elephants From Circus Knie (106/268)

Keeping elephants in the appropriate way is also a problem of space. For experts, such as the elephant researcher Professor Fred Kurt, the best home for elephants in Europe is to be found not in a zoo but in a circus - the Circus Knie in Zurich. In a large open-air reserve the herd can roam in freedom and bathe in the river. Reason enough to take a closer look at these elephants, not least to see..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Foxes - In The Centre Of The City? (107/268)

Foxes are invading our cities. They live on building sites or in allotment gardens, they sleep on garage roofs or on industrial sites. Their territory is the asphalt jungle and the quieter areas of the big city. And they seem to feel at home here - for with the leftovers of our affluent, throwaway society it is easier for the foxes to bring up their young in the city than in the country, where the..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Orang Utan Orphans - Their Dream Of The Rainforest (108/268)

An orang-utan baby, not even a year old, in a rescue station in the Indonesian part of Borneo. It was seized a week ago from an animal dealer, its mother was killed two weeks ago. It is so helpless and traumatised that it has to spend even the nights as close as possible to its human foster mother. But that is soon to change.The daily outings to the forest, climbing practice, sampling delicious ju..

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Year Of Production	2004
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The Year Under The Church Roof Of Au (109/268)

At Easter they move into the village church, at Whitsun the first offspring arrive, in summer they thrive under the church roof, and when the Harvest Festival is celebrated in Au, the mothers and their half-grown young leave the holy house. We are talking about - bats. Hardly any other animal is so shrouded in myths and sagas as the bat. Yet in Bavaria large colonies of bats have settled in the ve..

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Year Of Production	2004
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King Ludwig's Neighbour - Grimmbart The Badger (110/268)

An idyllic scene in the Allgäu, on the lower slopes of the Alps. From the centre of a vast landscape of grassy meadows there rises up a large, round hill, crowned by old, gnarled trees. This is the habitat of an ancient race - the badgers, who have made their ancestral home here in the depths of this hill. Badgers are not uncommon in this country, but they have always been shy creatures. In the pa..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Nala Is Back - Humback Whales Off The Coast Of Australia (111/268)

Humpback whales are the most endangered species among these giant mammals. It has been estimated that their stocks have diminished by about 80% within the last 30 years. For two decades now the Australian couple Trish and Wally Franklin have been researching the humpback whales in Hervey Bay. In springtime it is the female whales, in particular, who come here with their babies. The two researchers..

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Year Of Production	2003
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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
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Shark Talk (113/268)

They are described as hunter robots, for their biosensors are among the finest evolution has ever produced. And yet they are actually real oldtimers: sharks have been around for 65 million years. Erich Ritter has been living with sharks for years. His aim is to learn how to understand these animals, often unfairly branded as dull-witted eating machines, and to decipher their language so as to make..

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Year Of Production	2003
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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
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Pinnawela - An Orphanage For Elephants (115/268)

They are called Anuradha, Kumari or Bindu, and they live in an orphanage. Some of them are not even six months old, but a bottle of milk is not enough to satisfy them - for Pinnawela is an orphanage for elephants, the only one in the entire world. It was set up in Sri Lanka to protect the last Asian elephants. For, as everywhere in Asia, here too they are threatened by extinction - it is forbidden..

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Year Of Production	2003
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A Special Kind Of Cat (116/268)

A special kind of cat? This Mira certainly is - she may even be one of the few survivors of this species. Mira, the little snow leopard, was born in the zoo of Nordens Ark in Sweden, in March 2002. Technicians from Bayerischer Rundfunk managed for the first time to instal special cameras in the leopards' quarters, thus enabling them to film Mira's birth and the first weeks of her life. For a whole..

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Year Of Production	2003
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The African Wolf (118/268)

The wilds of Africa - this conjures up immediate visions of Krüger, Serengeti and other national parks, of savannas with elephants and lions, and perhaps of rare apes. Virtually unknown, however, are the magnificent natural expanses such as those of the Ethiopian highlands - and this although this Afro-Alpine region has meanwhile become one of the hot spots of species preservation. Not only is thi..

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Year Of Production	2003
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Hawaii - The Sugar Birds Beneath The Volcano (119/268)

Many animal species, which are to be found nowhere else in the world, were able to survive on the Hawaii islands. This applies particularly to the group of the Drepanidinae, the so-called sugar birds. Of the 33 different species which once existed only 10 now remain. These birds had no enemies, they lived in peace. But explorers from distant lands brought mosquitoes, rats and cats with them on the..

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Year Of Production	2003
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A Day Out With The Saimiris (120/268)

Spring is in the air - and the South-American saimiris in Munich's zoo have reason to rejoice. For here, at this time of the year, they are allowed to do what many visitors would think impossible, i.e. to roam freely, without any restrictions. Animals in zoos are usually enclosed; yet a few years ago Munich Zoo launched a thrilling experiment. These cute little monkeys, renowned for their superfic..

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Year Of Production	2003
Country Of Origin	Germany
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He Who Understands The Wolf (121/268)

He has returned quietly to Germany. And people are not quite sure what to make of this - perhaps for this very reason the wolf has become the "animal of the year 2003". Suspicion of the wolf is deeply rooted and few animals have such a history of persecution. Myths, fairy tales, legends - he is always the bloodthirsty monster. In Russia, too, the only country in Europe where wolves still roam fre..

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Year Of Production	2003
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Bears In The Brenta (122/268)

Holidaymakers know and love the Italian Dolomites. Yet a few months ago something changed in the Brenta. Wild brown bears now live here again. Meanwhile there are nine of these great predators roaming through the nature reserve Parco Adamello Brenta. They were captured in Slovenia, narcotised and resettled in the wild in Italy. Here they live in a beautiful landscape. Yet this is no deserted regio..

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Year Of Production	2002
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Jaguar Hunter (123/268)

Martinez has already killed over 40 jaguars. He is the hunter whom the farmers in Venezuela call when they have another "problem animal", i.e. a jaguar who attacks the calves of the rancheros. The farm labourers usually try to kill the jaguars, although that has been prohibited for years. If, however, they do not manage to kill this shy wild cat themselves, then they call Martinez. And, for some y..

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Year Of Production	2003
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Faces In The Forest - Muriqui (124/268)

Hardly anyone in Brazil knows the "gorillas of the new world", the milky-coffee coloured muriqui monkeys with their black tails. 20 years ago Professor Karin Strier started a research project on this almost extinct species. What began as a post-graduate thesis, has now become her life's work. When she is not holding lectures, she is on the trail of the muriqui together with her students. The origi..

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Year Of Production	2003
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Giant Otters From The Rio Manu (125/268)

The Manu National Park is situated in the heart of the Peruan lowlands: this national park, the largest in Peru, is only accessible by water, and its unspoilt central zone is closed to even the most adventurous tourists. Here in this labyrinth of rivers live the "wolves of the rivers", as they are called in Spanish, the giant otters. These otters can grow up to two meters in length and, together w..

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Year Of Production	2003
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Animal Competition (126/268)

Absorbing and entertaining - nature documentaries with stories about wild animals. The scenes are focussing less on sensational shots of the animal world, but rather on unknown stories which are nevertheless still quite spectacular: Animal tales which arouse our sympathy, observations which enable us to understand the lives of wild animals. The programmes are supplemented by the reports and experi..

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Year Of Production	2002
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Messenger Of The Gods In Danger - Dolphins (127/268)

We still know far too little about the rainforest, for it resists all man's attempts to conquer it and relinquishes its secrets unwillingly. This habitat is too hot, too damp and too dangerous. The struggle for survival is fought here more relentlessly than elsewhere, and an enormous variety of life forms have developed from a great number of survival strategies. A laboratory of life, possibly the..

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Year Of Production	2002
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Willi, The Green Toad (128/268)

Willi certainly doesn't lead a quiet life: in spring, when heavy rainfall fills the puddles and floods the hollows, a race against time begins for the green toad. The females only lay their bands of spawn in ponds which dry up again after a few weeks. By the time the puddles disappear, the tadpoles must have developed into little green toads - otherwise they will wither and die with the last of th..

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Year Of Production	2002
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Living Shredders - Termites (129/268)

In the beginning there were the termites. With the emergence of the ants, the termites were driven underground. Until the present day they live mostly in complete darkness. Since it is almost impossible to see them, they are capable of causing great damage. Originally termites were to be found only in dry, hot regions, yet meanwhile they have spread to almost all areas which are more or less toler..

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Year Of Production	2002
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Bald Ibis Project - How Does One Teach Birds To Fly? (130/268)

Anyone who has ever seen it is unlikely to forget this bird. The long red beak, the bald head and the black feather ruff around its neck make the bald ibis quite unmistakable. Yet it is rarely to be seen in the wild, for it is among the most threatened bird species in the world. Only about 200 of these birds still live on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. In the past it was a common species, even in..

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Year Of Production	2002
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Habari Serengeti - Rhinos In Distress? (131/268)

Markus Borner is horrified: yet another rhino has died in the Ngorongoro Crater - the fifth within a few weeks. Poachers are not to blame, nor did the animals die a violent death. Was it a disease? Will this small group of rhinos in the Moru Mountains in the Serengeti also be afflicted? Help is needed - and time is of the essence. Together with the head of the Zoological Society in Frankfurt, Born..

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Year Of Production	2002
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Habari Serengeti - Wild Meat (132/268)

Where is our gnu? Markus Borner and his team are searching desperately for the proverbial needle in the haystack! Every year over one million gnus roam across the expanses of the Serengeti. They all look the same, only one of them is wearing a collar with a transmitter. And this very gnu, which on its wanderings has collected several years of data in this transmitter, has to be found, and the tran..

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Year Of Production	2002
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Habari Serengeti - Wild Cats (133/268)

The lioness keeps shaking her head and blinking her eyes. She can't keep her head still any more, she has distemper. Distemper in the Serengeti - where there are no dogs? The lioness was on a hunt with her group outside the park; there she came into contact with prey which the villagers' dogs had also been eating. This is how the lions of the Serengeti were infected. Almost 1,000 died. Other big c..

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Year Of Production	2002
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Habari Serengeti - Wild Land (134/268)

Engai should send rain and protect their land, but Engai, their god, is not listening. The Massai, the native inhabitants of the region around the Serengeti, firmly believe in their natural gods and rites. Now, however, for the first time, they are calling for help from outside for something which Engai cannot do for them: the protection of their land at Lake Natron. It borders directly on the ter..

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Year Of Production	2002
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Habari Serengeti - Vampires In Paradise (135/268)

Why have so many buffaloes, rhinos and other wild animals died in recent years in the Ngorongoro Crater? Yet gnus and hippopotami were not affected! Was it the numerous ticks which suddenly appeared in the crater? These vampires which transmit diseases with their fangs, causing animals to die? Or was it the strange plants which were somehow brought into the crater and then proliferated? Why are mo..

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Year Of Production	2002
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Cheetahs - Velvet Paws, Farmer's Menace (136/268)

For most of Africa's large wild cats the numerous National Parks have become safe refuges, but not for the cheetahs. These swiftfooted but slender animals are being driven out of the parks by lions, leopards and hyenas. In Namibia, the country with the largest number of cheetahs, 90% of them live outside the National Parks, mostly on farmland, and there, of course, conflicts are inevitable. No mat..

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Year Of Production	2002
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Rambo II On The Black Beach - Crested Black Macaques (137/268)

When they threaten someone, they flatten their ears and a pointed crest rises on their heads. If the rainforest fails to offer them enough figs, then they simply crack open coconuts with their powerful canine teeth. Although the crested black macaques (macaca nigra) on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are a very adaptable species of monkey, their future is by no means secure. The slopes of the vo..

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Year Of Production	2002
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Rhabti - The Indian Rhinoceros (138/268)

Rhabti, the Indian rhinoceros (rhinoceros unicornis), was only a few months old when, at Easter in 1990, she moved into the new rhinoceros house in Munich's Hellabrunn Zoo. A few weeks later she was joined by two rhino children, Nasi and Niko. A rhino nursery, in which great hopes were placed - the young bull Niko was the designated father of Nasi's and Rhabti's offspring. Over a period of 12 year..

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Year Of Production	2002
Country Of Origin	Germany
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When Buffaloes Weep (139/268)

In animal films hunting is almost always shown from the perspective of the hunter: what strategy are the lions pursuing or will the cheetah be successful with his spurt? Yet what does it look like from the viewpoint of the hunted? What tactic does the gazelle use to escape its pursuers? How does a buffalo defend itself at night against invisible hunters? And what does an animal feel about the loss..

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Year Of Production	2002
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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
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Eyespot - A Dog Becomes A Legend (141/268)

Millions of TV viewers know him - the wild dog whom the biologists named Eyespot. They witnessed a dog fighting for the survival of his pack. The biologist Greg Rasmussen observed the pack in Zimbabwe at close quarters and unprotected. He roamed around with them, sleeping next to the animals in the bush, and thus he got to know and love Eyespot. Now Eyespot is dead: killed by a farmer's bullet. Ra..

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

Expedition To The Green Hell - The Last Secrets Of The Jungle (142/268)

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Year Of Production	2002
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Noah's Ark On Lake Victoria (143/268)

Many animal species in East Africa will not survive in the wild unless something is done to protect them! This was Prof. Bernhard Grzimek's vision of the future in the early 1960s. His idea was to put the wild animals on a safe island, thus ensuring their preservation. Hence he created a refuge on the remote island of Rubondo in Lake Victoria. Grzimek took rhinoceroses, elephants, giraffes, colobu..

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Year Of Production	2002
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Bears Are Coming (144/268)

All of Europe was at one time the home of the brown bears. Nowadays there are only a few retreats where these great beasts of prey still live. In Austria, however, during the last ten years, these shaggy giants have once again found a home - they are no longer far from Germany. Three animals who were resettled in the wild have reproduced - there are now about twenty, nobody knows exactly how many...

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Year Of Production	2002
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Proboscis Monkeys - The Gentle Dictators (145/268)

Habitat: mangroves and river banks in the rainforest near the coast. To be found exclusively on the island of Borneo. With their huge noses the proboscis monkeys are among the most bizarre creatures in the animal kingdom. Do they differ from other primates in any other way? The film team observed a group in Sabah, in the Malaysian part of Borneo. The large males - and it is only the males who hav..

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Year Of Production	2002
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Smartest Turtle in the World (146/268)

The Smartest Turtle in the World Normal sea turtles are the wild rovers of the high seas. Every year they travel thousands of kilometers. However one male has decided to opt out and settle down ... introducing the smartest turtle in the world. Sotiris is around 50 years old and is a member of the turtle species Caretta Caretta. Every year, this type of turtle travels the ocean covering many th..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Into the Wilds of Kurdistan (147/268)

Kurdistan - a landscape reminiscent of old Karl May films and one that is home to animals to which humankind owes a great deal: the wild relatives of domesticated goats. Here the goats can be true to their nature, and are free to jump around to their hearts' content. For these natural climbing artists, the steep cliff walls pose no problems either. But unlike their domestic cousins, they have to d..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Utila - A Survivor From The Dino Era (148/268)

Off the north coast of Honduras, a chain of islands rises out of the Caribbean Sea, the Islas de la Bahia, whose westernmost - and also smallest - main island is called Utila. This is the home of a rare species of large iguana, the Utila black iguana. These large lizards are among the oldest animal species in the world; they were rivals of the dinosaurs - and have outlived them. In 1994, only a fe..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Munich's Apes Move To The Jungle (149/268)

The time has finally come for the chimpanzees and gorillas in Munich's Hellabrunn Zoo to move into their new jungle house - and it really is a new world in which they will be living. Everything is different in the apes' new abode: plenty of space and climbing opportunities, a tropical climate and, above all, an experiment carried out here for the first time: interior areas with a natural grass flo..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Squirrel Wars (150/268)

The Europeans are in "danger", the invaders come from North America: they are cute little climbers, actually distant relatives of those animals which people love to watch in the forests - the squirrels. Over one hundred years ago, some specimens of the "sciurus carolinensis", the North-American grey squirrel, were taken to England. Since then they have reproduced and spread at an amazing rate. The..

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Year Of Production	2001
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]

Neptune's Ravaged Gardens - New Hope For The Maldives (152/268)

In the course of the millennia continents have drifted, the climate has changed, the sea-level sank and rose again. Despite these massive changes the coral reefs survived over 200 million years of global changes. Three years ago, however, coral bleaching upset the eco-system of the coral reef in many places and to a hitherto unknown extent. The cause was the water temperatures in the "El Nino" ye..

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

The Sacred Animals Of Rajasthan (153/268)

In India the faithful worship some animals as saints. According to the teachings and myths of their religion these animals stood at the side of the gods, waged wars for them or suckled their children. A journey through Rajasthan in the north-west of India resembles a journey through a legendary world where one encounters these sacred creatures: the temple monkeys or the sacred cows, the snakes, c..

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

The Chimpanzees Of Ngambe Island (154/268)

In Uganda it still goes on - illegal dealing with chimpanzee babies, entire families are still being slaughtered so that their babies can be seized and then smuggled out of the country to eke out a miserable existence in disreputable zoos. Sometimes the police manage to confiscate these animals. However, the primate section in Entebbe has until now only been able to save the chimpanzees from the w..

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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]

The Monkeys With The White Trousers: Delacour Langurs (156/268)

The last 200 have fled to the inaccessible karst mountains of North Vietnam. They were already thought to be extinct - the Delacour langurs with the distinctive markings on their fur. In order to save one of their last habitats, Tilo Nadler, a German from Dresden, has been leading a relentless struggle on site against hunters and deforesters. But he does realize that he may be fighting a losing ba..

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

Africa's Forgotten Monkeys (157/268)

The drills are the forgotten monkeys of Africa. Visitors to a zoo may have seen a mandrill, the better-known and more brightly-coloured cousin. Yet hardly anyone knows the drills, of which there are only 70 specimens in zoos throughout the world - even though they are among the most severely threatened primates of the black continent. The film team managed to shoot scenes which have never been fil..

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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]

Lonesome George I - The Last Of His Kind (160/268)

Part I: No-one actually knows how they came here, for geologically Galapagos is a young archipelago - of volcanic origin, created from fire and water. Thus the turtles, iguanas and blue-footed boobies must have come here from one of the distant continents, before disappearing there. We do know, however, how they reached the verge of extinction: seafarers decimated the turtles by having them stored..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Lonesome George II - The Last Of His Kind (161/268)

Part II: As a lover he is a failure. He remains impervious to the charms of the several ladies available to him. "Lonesome George" prefers his own company. Not that he is too choosy or too old - for a giant turtle his 70 years make him a sprightly young thing. Evidently Ms Right is simply not among the partners on offer. Lonesome George is the last of his kind; when he dies "Geochelone nigra abing..

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

Flying In The Wind - Tunnel And Other Tricks Of The Animal Filmers (162/268)

Filming animals in the wild is not easy - as everyone knows. Perseverance, patience and time are required and, of course, basic biological knowledge of the animal species to be filmed. Yet if this is not enough, what more can be done? Resorting to tricks is not always an easy solution. Felix Heidinger, biologist and animal-filmer, has set himself the task of illuminating out of the darkness the se..

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

In The Rhythm Of The Sun (163/268)

The sun prescribes the rhythm of life for animals. It is a 24-hour time-keeper and influences the course of their year. But what happens if this rhythm is disturbed? If dusk starts to fall at midday, and nightfall ends after only a few minutes? The last eclipse of the sun took place mid-year in 2001 in southern Africa - and it also overshadowed a large part of the great national park in Zimbabwe...

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

The Last Panda (164/268)

Not for nothing is the giant panda the heraldic animal of the WWF. According to the prognoses, it could become extinct as a wild animal in our century. Despite the many and diverse attempts to protect the last pandas in China's bamboo forests, the news from the protected regions is hardly encouraging. The panda bear is suffering the fate of many other wild animals: relentless hunting and illegal a..

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

Golden Eagle - The Hunter Of Wimbach Valley (165/268)

The golden eagle is one of the most impressive animals in the Alps. However, it has been hunted by humans to such an extent that it is now extinct in many areas, the remaining species having been forced to retreat to the most remote regions of the mountains. Yet even here, since man has learned to fly, they are not left in peace. In the National Park of Berchtesgaden a project has been launched in..

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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]

Learning To Live With Crocodiles (167/268)

There are many reasons for killing crocodiles: They may be a danger to people, their skin is suitable for making leather goods, hunting them is regarded as an adventure. Hence these reptiles are already virtually extinct. In Australia's largest National Park, the Cockatoo National Park, together with cranes, herons, sea-eagles and pig-nose turtles, there are also many crocodiles. These particular..

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

Sangalaki - A Decision On The Turtle's Beach (168/268)

Almost 100 kilometres off the east coast of Borneo lies the island of Sangalaki, covering an area of 12 hectares. At first glance a paradise - yet Sangalaki is a hot spot of species protection. Every night, as on virtually no other beach in south-east Asia, turtles still come ashore regularly. The next morning, however, their nests are completely plundered by egg-collectors. This gem of nature is..

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

A Hippo's Dream Of Deep Water (169/268)

It is the height of the dry season in Zimbabwe. Many rivers have dried up, zebras, gazelles, monkeys and antelopes gather around the few remaining ponds. For the animals this is a nightmare: the last rainfall was eight months ago, the ground has become a desert, trees and bushes have withered. Only at the Zambesi, the largest river in southern Africa, is fresh greenery still to be found. Yet here,..

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

Saw Mosche - Elephants Were My Life (170/268)

For the people from Toungoo Saw Mosche is the incarnation of success. Fifty years ago he started out as a little elephant boy, as an "ouzi". Working hard, with tenacity and skill, he persevered on the road to success - until he was able to buy his first very own elephant. A second one soon followed, then another one ... - today Saw Mosche is the proud owner of seven elephants. All seven animals wo..

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

Worshipped, Protected, Banished - Ceylons' Wild Elephants (171/268)

4,000 wild elephants still live on the island of Ceylon, in the state of Sri Lanka, most of them in protected nature reserves and national parks. Following the rhythm of the seasons, these herds roam along their centuries-old paths, virtually undisturbed. Yet over a thousand of these grey giants also live outside the parks on this island. Almost every day there are clashes between the inhabitants..

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

Jungle Cats - Hunted Hunters (172/268)

They are the acrobats among the cats: margays. Like squirrels they climb down trees headfirst and are able to leap off a tree and catch a creeper with one of their paws. It is only with the back paws that they are able to hang from a liana and clamber up again. These jungle cats are at home in the rain forests of South and Central America. Sometimes referred to as "tree ocelots", their dappled fur..

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

Holy Monkeys and Sacred Cows (173/268)

Several kinds of animals are worshipped as holy in India. According to local stories and beliefs, these animals assisted the Gods, waged wars for them or nursed their children. A journey through Rajasthan in Northwestern India is like a trip through a mythology populated by sacred beings: temple monkeys, holy cows, snakes, camels, rats or antelopes. In the tales and legends handed down over the ce..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Singapore's Birds of Paradise (174/268)

Hardly a zoo or aviary in the world manages to keep the world's most striking birds, the Bird of Paradise. The bizarrely beautiful birds are simply too difficult and demanding to care for. The only way to see them is to visit the jungles of New Guinea - or Jurong Bird Park in the middle of Singapore, which holds many other kinds of birds as well. The visitors from all over the world can see the bi..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany, Singapore
Language Versions	German [OV]

Wild Sheep of Sardinia (175/268)

Mouflons have lived on Sardinia for at least 6000 years. Neolithic cavemen probably brought the shy wild sheep from Asia Minor to the Iberian peninsula. To this day, mouflons show no sign of becoming domesticated, nor do they have any direct tame relatives. These wild sheep with their curlicue horns were probably prized mostly for their ritual use - just as the fallow deer, which followed a simila..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Saving Banggai (176/268)

You don't have to dive very deep to find one of the most beautiful tropical fish, the Banggai cardinalfish, which lives at a depth of five to thirty feet among coral reefs and sea urchins in its natural habitat, the Banggai archipelago off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Above and below water, this unusual mouthbreeder is fascinating to watch at all stages of life. As the only fish in its f..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Return of the Ibex (177/268)

Few Alpine animals have captured human imagination like the Alpine Ibex. For centuries it has played a central role in fairy tales, superstition, traditional medicine and culture, due to the stately appearance of its mighty horns. But those horns were also its doom, since it was hunted almost to extinction. The last of their kind survived at the foot of one of the most massive mountains in Europe..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Land of the Bears - Roaming through the South of Kamchatka (178/268)

Gamekeeper Wasilli lives on the peninsula of Kamchatka. The bear that is facing him at a distance of only three metres is well known to him. Although the animal is only four years old, when standing upright it is already a head taller than he is. In a moment like this the animal expert knows that everything depends on the bear. For should it attack, then it is too late to take the rifle from his s..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Village of the Wild Cubs (179/268)

In the midst of the Russian swamps, about 350 kilometres from Moscow: a man walks through the forest, his face is almost completely veiled by his hood, his hands are covered. He is hardly recognisable as a human being. Two little bears are following him. The animals lost their mother in the first days of their life: she was shot by hunters, who paid no heed to the cubs after their successful hunt...

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Valley of the Vultures (180/268)

For years two bearded vultures swooped over the alpine valleys. Yet suddenly they have disappeared. It is suspected that poachers are at work here, particularly since this is not the only incident of this kind.Breeding warden Nina has been working on the project to reintroduce bearded vultures into the Alps from the very beginning. Now she has set herself the task of casting light of the constantl..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Silly Goose, Smart Goose (181/268)

Geese have an image problem. Women we want to put down are referred to as "silly geese", talkative people are called "chattering geese". But after the dog, geese are the oldest domesticated animal. Man's other best friend. The research outpost in Grünau named after famed behavioralist Konrad Lorenz has a group of 140 grey geese they are studying. Their years of research have revealed a striking, p..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Boy - Bull Elephant of Kiev (182/268)

When Boy needs a pedicure, it's a major operation involving heavy-duty cranes and a team of experts from Kiev's partner city, Munich. After a deadly accident killed a caretaker a few years ago, the elephant's foot hygiene is a matter for experienced professionals only. Since Boy has a healthy, hearty appetite, his toenails grow quickly. His tough cuticles are treated by the team of experts in "p..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Hedgehog with the Long Ears (183/268)

Originally, the Long-Eared Hedgehog was a plains dweller in the Russian steppe, cooling its body with its large, sail-like ears. But as the global climate changes, the long-ears are encroaching more and more on the territory of the European Hedgehog. One has already been sighted in Czech forests. As the name indicates, all hedgehogs seek out human settlement. So does our little long-ear, who finds..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Dragon Island (184/268)

Huge, yellow, flesh-eating dragons are said to dwell in the dense primeval rain forests of the Indonesian island of Flores, presumably related to the Komodo Dragons of the neighboring islands. Although the big monitor lizards of Komodo have been thoroughly studied since their discovery 100 years ago, almost nothing is known about their yellow relatives. Are they a new species? And how could such..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Return of the White Wolf (185/268)

A folk tale recounts how a white she-wolf once came to the aid of a nomad tribe in the Ural, leading to a pact with the wolves which held for centuries. But not forever. In the post-Communist era, Bashkortostan, the Land of the White Wolf, has fallen prey to the new class of New Russians, the newly rich profiteers who can afford anything and are constantly looking for new ways to live out their..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Gorongosa - Paradise Reborn - Part 1 (186/268)

Gorongosa National Park in the middle of Mozambique is over 4000 square kilometers large. Once it was a haven for herds of animals similar to Tanzania's Serengeti. It was famed for its elephants with two-meter tusks, weighing hundreds of pounds. That was in 1975, one year before the outbreak of a 17-year civil war.Gorongosa was the main battlefield of the bloody conflict. Soldiers slaughtered the..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Gorongosa - Paradise Reborn - Part 2 (187/268)

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Year Of Production	2009
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81 Degrees North - Save the Polar Bear (188/268)

A race against time: The planet is getting warmer, reducing many species' habitats, some of which may disappear forever. Often these species facing extinction are forced to blaze new trails and adopt new survival strategies - including the world's largest predator on land, the polar bear. In late August 2009, a film crew headed for Spitsbergen, along with a team of scientists, crafting a documenta..

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Valley of the Eagle (189/268)

Between Canada's Olympic venues of Vancouver and Whistler lies the Squamish River valley, where a unique natural spectacle takes place every year in late January: Hundreds of bald eagles from all over North America converge on the town of Brackendale for the salmons' spawning journey. The bald eagle was almost extinct in 1960, as hunting and the pesticide DDT dramatically reduced the native popula..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Wolves in Tuscany (190/268)

For more than 12,000 years now, dogs have been man's faithful friend - obedient, playful and devoted. And yet - do dogs not still bear some characteristics of a wild animal which often is named to be a beast? After all, the legendary and dreaded wolf is the prime father of all dogs. But how can we envision the development from a wild animal to man's best friend? Andrea Ruethlein, the film's author..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Bears On The Ski Trails Of The Whistler (191/268)

There are many bears, but the bears of Whistler are really special. A ranger presents the animals that live in the vicinity of the Olympic city 2010. Each one has a name, its own character and its particular preferences. There is the negligent Jeany, who often forgets her children in the trees and who has rarely managed up to now to rear her offspring. Or Bella, who has one brown cub and one bla..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
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A Home For Franzi, The She-Bear (192/268)

For 18 years brown bear Franzi has been living behind bars on five square metres of concrete floor. Her everyday life consisted of walking in a never-ending circle, interrupted only at feeding time and by showers from a garden hose. A former circus magician had taken the bear to his farm near Opatija in 1991 when the zoo in Zagreb had to evacuate its animals due to the war in Yugoslavia. Croatia i..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The European Tree Frog - A King Without A Kingdom (193/268)

Experts believe that a third of the world's amphibian species will become extinct within the next few years. During the past years, the population of frogs, toads and amphibians decreased heavily and 13 of the 19 amphibian species are endangered. Whereas the tree frog could be found in almost every garden in the past, it now disappeared almost everywhere. The direct destruction of its habitats mor..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Donkey Race (194/268)

Donkeys are said to be stubborn and mulish. How can it be that of all animals donkeys run in a race? The annual donkey race in the Bavarian town of Hersbruck has a long tradition and takes place already for the 30th time in 2010. It is the most popular donkey race in Germany. Thousands of spectators attend this spectacle. "Animal World" visited three horse breeding farms and watched the donkeys du..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Prickly Knight (195/268)

The hedgehog is a welcome inhabitant of front yards and woods - its life, however, is clouded in secrecy. For scientists and many of its enemies the animal with its prickly fur is a hard nut to crack. Even though the prickly knight's brain is tiny and archaic, it masters its life with cleverness and confidence as it is a designated expert with a phenomenal sense of smell. The film team accompanied..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Bavarian Rodeo (196/268)

The ox race in the Bavarian town of Haunshofen has a long tradition. Since 1985, the ox race is held once every four years. 2009 was one of these years: thousands of visitors came to see the spectacle. The film team visited the massive animals on their home farms and watched the owners and their oxen during their preparations for this amazing race.

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
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How Much Of A Wolf Is Hidden In A Dog? (197/268)

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Snow Leopards - About Cute Kittens And Wild Cats (198/268)

They are only cute as long as they are small. But who is actually lucky enough to have the possibility of watching snow leopards in their den? The camera team managed to show the birth of triplets and to accompany their first months in a Swedish zoological garden North of Gothenburg. This would have never been possible in the wilderness where even grown up snow leopards are hardly ever to be seen...

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Mysterious Deaths Of The Crocodiles (199/268)

When visitors of the Kruger National Park in South Africa reported about several dead crocodiles along the Olifant River, the veterinarians of the park could at first find no reason for these mysterious deaths. In order to figure out possible causes for this disaster they set off towards the Olifant-Gorge, a canyon through which the river enforces its way towards the border to Mozambique. And in..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Snakes In The City - Secret Meetings In Salzburg (200/268)

Mozart, world cultural heritage and the Salzburg Festival - these things are usually associated with the city of Salzburg. Nobody would think of snakes when speaking of Salzburg - however, the city is in fact the secret home of a lot of snakes. The saga about the "Snake-Catcher of Salzburg" gives evidence of their existence in former times. Aesculapian snakes are in fact no rarity in and around th..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

European Bison - The Shy Heavyweights Of The Primeval Forest (201/268)

Living quietly, hidden away in the dense forest, the shy bison, Europe's largest wild animals, once faced extinction; today they range again through the primeval forests of Eastern Europe. Felix Heidinger has been tracking them. During the summer, it is hard to even find them in the dense forests despite their being the largest land animals in Europe. In winter, the chances are better: in fresh..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Hunting Leopards Of The Kalahari (202/268)

Hunting Leopards or Cheetahs are the fastest runners in the world. Their slim, elongated body is perfectly designed for this purpose and enables them to reach a top speed of almost 120 km/h. This is unrivalled in wildlife. Nevertheless, these cats also like to climb trees and as long as they are young, they live closely with their mothers. Hunting Leopards can be found in the south of the Kalahari..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Summer In The Mountains (203/268)

A Summer in the Alps - pictures that enable us to witness the vibrating life in this oftentimes extreme and inhospitable landscape. Once the snow starts to continuously vanish from the slopes of the mountains, life slowly returns to the high valleys of the Alps. Marmots awake from hibernation, chamois and red deer welcome their offspring and the flora shows off in its most wonderful robe. When the..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Bad Dogs From The Jungle Book (204/268)

Some people might know the dhole (cuon alpinus) from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book as "the red danger". These stories describe such a frightening animal that even an entire pack of wolves flees from the dholes' hunting ground.Even if Kipling does not strictly stick to the facts - wolves and dholes hardly ever meet in reality as their ranges do not overlap - this evil character in the Jungle Book r..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Winter In The Alps (205/268)

During Winter, one not often gets an insight into the animal world - especially in the outdoors. Particularly the pictures of the winterly, usually completely hidden underwater world are absolutely unique. This film fascinates with its numerous new and unknown images. How do animals experience the Winter in the Alps? Are they hibernating like the marmot or the badger or are they actually not much..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Coatis - The Bears With The Sassy Nose (206/268)

Coatis in the wild do not care about humans at all and usually present themselves rather timid. The Iguacu Falls' coatis which this film shows, however, are completely different. The coatis living around the Iguacu Falls follow their long nose to wherever tourists gather to see Brazil's largest natural spectacle. The coatis however, have learned what delicacies they can get from the tourists also..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Likeable Housebreakers (207/268)

Scene Australia. Family McEnvy like their animal lodgers which live in a bucket in the shed. When there is no family member in the room, however, the windows need to be kept closed since they arrived. The McEnvys' lodgers are possums, but phalangers (phalangeridae), not to be mixed up with American opossums (didelphidae). The brushtail possum is the most popular species in Australia. The ring-tai..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

A Health Resort For Bears (208/268)

The bears park in the Southern German community Bad Fuessing is an animal hospice for old circus bears. The enclosure is large enough for plans to also integrate wolves in the future. A thrilling question - how will the oftentimes disturbed bears react to the wolves? Not far away from the steaming hot springs resorts of the Bavarian spa town Bad Fuessing, very special spa guests flounder about in..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

European Otters - Clever Swimmers (209/268)

Otters still belong to the most endangered mammal species in Europe. A project in Lower Bavaria is intended to again interconnect various otter populations in Europe as well as to improve the natural immigration conditions for the animals. The interconnection of up to now isolated populations is of immense importance as the interchange of the genes is a basis for the conservation of the biological..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Russian Wolf Experiment (210/268)

This program reports about a very unique experiment: two groups of wolves that used to live in contact with people in their youth are to be set free, furnished with radio transmitters. The explosive nature about this topic is the fact that the animals are to be released in the nearer vicinity of human settlements with all their freewheeling production animals. This experiment bears a high risk whi..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia
Language Versions	German [OV]

About Wolves, Dogs And Humans (211/268)

For quite some years already a small team of the Vienna University's Konrad-Lorenz-Research Center has been studying the nature of the human-animal bonding. It began with a study about people and their cats during which 40 households were repeatedly visited and the interaction between the cats and their owners was analyzed. This research showed that the owners' personal characteristics do not only..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia
Language Versions	German [OV]

Common Hamsters, Where Are You? (212/268)

Only few people are aware of the fact that these animals live in Bavaria and only few people have ever seen them: the common hamsters. This is no wonder as they are in danger of extinction. Just some decades ago this was completely different - until the 1970ies, the common hamster was one of the most popular small mammal species and was considered a varmint to be killed by gas or poison or which w..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Nuremberg Zoo's Laguna (213/268)

After almost 3 years of construction time, the Nuremberg Zoo opened its new laguna which vastly enlarges the dolphinarium and thus the habitat of the zoo's dolphins and sea lions. For the first time in their lives the dolphins have the possibility to move around outdoors and to swim and dive through six interlinked pools.The manatees' new home is directly connected with the laguna. The new facilit..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia
Language Versions	German [OV]

School under Palm Trees (214/268)

Ripe coconuts are hanging in dizzying altitude - harvesting them is a hazardous attempt for human beings. Therefore, about 99 % of this work is carried out by monkeys in Thailand's South, the Stump-Tailed Macaques. They are about ten times as fast as people and can harvest up to 1,000 coconuts a day. Unfortunately though, the macaques are trapped in the wilderness and oftentimes trained by means..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Operating On Malta (215/268)

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Autumn Hunt in Bavaria - Hounds Tracking Hot Scents (216/268)

Fortunately we are talking about unbloody events. The traditional horse hunting for deer on the hoof is prohibited in Germany since 1934. Drag-hunting is a reasonable alternative. In this case, a horseman simulates the wild animal which is to be followed and rides along a line which has been prepared beforehand. Once he finished the trail, the dogs get the signal to go off. Short after that, the..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

What does a Kangaroo do up in a Tree? (217/268)

Tree kangaroos are living only in the rain forests of Northern Queensland and on some islands of New Guinea. They are the Red Continent's monkeys. They are and remain kangaroos though and although evolution has remodeled their body, they are not perfect climbers. Thus it can actually happen that a tree kangaroo falls from a tree or a baby is lost while hopping in a tree's branches. Jeffrey and Dor..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Birdman in London (218/268)

"You always have to look upwards"! - this is the first lesson you'll get from David Lindo, England's most famous "urban birder". A cool, young black man - the former DJ could not be more alien from the cliché of the usual bird watchers' image of an old pinched codger in an anorak. David Lindo already discovered almost 400 bird species in the English capital. Birds are his passion and he knows or..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Mushing Along - Sled Dogs On Mont Blanc (219/268)

Every year a spectacular race takes place against the majestic backdrop of the Mont Blanc massif. Bavarian, Thomas Hoffmann has been a musher for 25 years and travels with a team of 40 dogs. Adventures in dog sledding: a Bavarian and his 40 dogs prepare for the most spectacular sled dog race in Europe. Thomas Hoffman waits excitedly for the first cold days of October the way some of us look forwar..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Guardians Of The Birds Of Paradise (220/268)

The people of New Guinea have been always worshipping their birds of paradise, occurring in 38 different species. For Zeth, a man from the mountains in the West as well, the birds of paradise are up to now a part of an inveterate ancestor worship. Seeing though that hunters and wild animal dealers become an ever increasing danger for them he draws a decision which not everybody in his village is w..

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany, Papua New Guinea
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Seducers Of Papua (221/268)

The season of bower building has started again in the woods of West Papua New Guinea: earlier visitors of Papua New Guinea thought the constructions which are similar to huts and oftentimes have a diameter of more than 1 meter with a height of also more than 1 meter, were Wendy houses of the children from the nearby villages. At last, natural scientists could explain that these constructions are p..

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany, Papua New Guinea
Language Versions	German [OV]

Big Tusker - The Mightiest African Elephants (222/268)

A "tusker"- what is that? An especially grand, old and mighty elephant. And what features characterize its "grandness"? At first its appearance but above all its huge tusks which weigh at least 55 kilos each. There are about 40 tuskers left in Africa. The film team had the opportunity to go on a search after them together with the tusker-expert Dr. Johan Marias. They found Mashangange, Mastuthele..

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Raven In The Drum (223/268)

It looks like an outsized gobbler with lacquered black feathers and red cheeks. Plus there is its enormous beak which makes it even appear dangerous: the hornbeam. These birds live in groups of up to ten animals and roam a territory of more than 100 square kilometers. But the dominant pair of the group is the only pair that may breed. The film team accompanies the scientist Scott Ronaldson throu..

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Winnetou's Horses (224/268)

It was here in the Dinaric Alps in the former Yugoslavia that Karl May's world-famous Winnetou movies were filmed in the 1960s. To this day, the region is still wild and untouched. And here, against what was once a film backdrop there now live wild horses. These are feral workhorses, which have lived for several generations in the mountains of Bosnia Herzegovina at altitudes of 1,500 metres. Their..

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Mute Giants Of Parfuri (225/268)

The "African baobab" is one of the largest tree species on the continent. These trees grow to be 800 years old and from about their 80th year have a diameter of up to six metres with a height of up to 20. They are home to many bird species but also other forms of life. In the most northerly corner of Kruger Park, in a place called Thulamela, there is a peculiar collection of these giants. Her..

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Surviving - With A Little Help (226/268)

For a long time, the wild horses were very much left to their own devices. In hot, dry summers or extreme, long winters they simply died. However, since their island became part of the Rostowski National Park, they now have access to water from an old, re-commissioned water conduit. The foal had a dramatic start in life. It was born in the wretchedly hot, high summer of southern Russia, when the..

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Come Back Home, Little Spirit Bear (227/268)

Only a handful of the small spirit bears remain in Canada. "Animal World" was fortunate to visit a care and re-release station: the unique and touching images of this rare species of bear make this film something quite special. There are only 300 to 1,000 spirit bears left in existence. They are as rare as the Giant Panda and only live in North Western Canada, in a world of islands and fjords. Rec..

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Tears Of The Cheetahs (228/268)

Cheetahs in Namibia don't have it easy: they are regularly hunted and killed, often leaving behind orphaned cubs. They can be lucky though: many are brought to rescue centres where they are raised and then released back into the wild when ready. Namibia's Bushmen tell an old folk tale about how the cheetahs got their "tears" permanently imprinted on the pelt of their faces - it was after one cheet..

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Polar Bears Who Graze On Grass (229/268)

There are 19 different populations of polar bear on Earth. Each one comprises approximately 800 to 1,200 animals. Some scientists say that they are so different that we can even speak of different sub-species. In truth, there are not only huge differences in behaviour but also in lifestyle. The TV crew visited the only polar bear population that lives predominantly on grass; they even give birth t..

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Rio's Wildlife (230/268)

Rio de Janeiro is surrounded by the jungle of the Atlantic rainforest. As a result, countless wild animal species have made their home in the teeming metropolis over the past decades. It is not only the marmosets introduced in the 1980s that have since become common sights even near roads, but also large constrictors and the caimans that live in the city's waterways. Sloths have been able to survi..

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Dolphin Farm (231/268)

Dolphins and fishermen are engaged in a bitter battle for the last resources of the Mediterranean. But in the Golfo di Arancia in Sardinia, they manage to co-exist peacefully - on a dolphin farm.

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Rhinoceros - The Golden Horn (232/268)

Rhino horn is gold on the black market because of its alleged healing properties. As a result criminal gangs are hunting down these animals and killing them all off - simply because of their horn. On a farm in South Africa, attempts are being made to help the at-risk animals.

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Pilot Whales at Risk (233/268)

Out in the Alboran Sea - where the Atlantic and the Mediterranean meet - live the last of the Mediterranean's pilot whales. In this area of extremely heavy shipping traffic, the whales have only a slim chance of survival. A pilot whale needs 50 kg of food every day, comprising primarily squid and other fish. In their (mostly nocturnal) search for food, the whales dive to depths of up to 600 meters..

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

A Hedgehog in the Land of the Pharaohs (234/268)

A Hedgehog in the Land of the PharaohsHot sand, hardly any water and no shade - the desert is no place for a weakling. Only the best survive here. And the long-eared hedgehog is one of them. This is a portrait of a desert dweller.Its feather-light weight allows it to almost hover over the desert ground. The large ears help him to sweat because the upper part of his body is covered with spines whil..

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Whale Sharks (235/268)

The whale shark is a giant of the oceans - the largest of all fish. And yet our knowledge of these imposing creatures is still scant. This made the information passed onto the film-makers all the more astonishing and proved reason enough for them to travel to New Guinea. In the west of the large island, in the Bay of the Birds of Paradise, or Cenderawasih Bay, as it is also known, it was said that..

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Bay of the Birds of Paradise (236/268)

The Bay of the Birds of ParadiseBirds of paradise are an almost daily sight for Zeth Wonggor. In his village in New Guinea, he has successfully ensured that these beautiful birds are no longer hunted. Visiting bird watchers from around the globe have ultimately proven more profitable for the village than hunting and the pet trade. But what is the situation like in other areas of this large island?..

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

My Little Alpaca (237/268)

Many children long for pets, there's nothing unusual there, but a baby alpaca? Among the Qéros people in the Andes of Peru, this is actually quite normal. And when eight-year old Berta is finally entrusted with the care of an alpaca calf, she will be taking on a responsibility that will last a lifetime.

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Ibex Man (238/268)

The Alpine ibex was as good as extinct, but with the help of a breeding and reintroduction program run by European zoos, it has been possible to re-establish them in their native habitat.

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Enchanted Fox (239/268)

By selecting the tamest silver fox cubs, an experiment that has been ongoing for 60 years in Novosibirsk has succeeded in breeding particularly devoted animals. As a result, it has proven that domestication takes a significantly shorter period of time than previously assumed.

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Return of the Bat (240/268)

The Greater Horseshoe Bat is a particularly special species of bat, which had been all but wiped out in Germany as a result of the use of pesticides. The film shows that with commitment and know-how the species can be saved, and that Bavaria is richer for having this natural jewel. State-of-the-art high-speed and infrared camera technology offers the viewer fascinating insights into the hidden wo..

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Dogs, Ice and White Bears (241/268)

The High Arctic is an extreme habitat, as witnessed by our film crew who spent two weeks on snow mobiles travelling through the east of the main island of the Svalbard archipelago. Their aim was to record some exciting footage of a polar bear hunt, of bear fights over a female and with a little luck even a polar bear mating.

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Summer Adventures on Fellhorn (242/268)

In the Allgäu region of southern Germany, there live two young female calves who cannot be separated from one another. This summer the two friends get to leave their stall and for the first time go up to the Fellhorn, a nearby mountain. This is where their summer pasture is in the high meadows. There is a lot for the young calves to discover because they are not alone here: during the summer they..

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Saving Poseidon's Children - The Monk Seals of the Mediterranean (243/268)

The monk seals of the Mediterranean have been hunted for centuries, and only very few have survived. Two monk seal researchers, Panos Dendrinos and Alexandros Karamanlidis have taken up the fight. Together with international conservation organizations, they have set up a breeding station for monk seal orphans and their activities and conservation seminars are constantly raising awareness for the..

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Tam Dao - A Ray of Hope for Vietnam's Bears (244/268)

In Vietnamese bear farms the animals suffer incredible torment: bile is drained from their bodies and is then sold at a very high price. Some bears are lucky though; these are the ones that find themselves in the Tam Dao rescue center run by "Animals Asia".

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Hellabrunn's Polar Bear Twins (245/268)

The Hellabrunn Zoo has welcomed a new generation of polar bears. Within just one hour on December 9, 2013, seven-year old Giovanna gave birth to not one but two male cubs. The baby polar bears are only as large as guinea pigs, weighing in at approx. 400 grams, and are still blind and deaf. The fact that a monitoring camera in the mother and baby house filmed the birth of the bears has caused a min..

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

On The Trail of the Maned Wolf (246/268)

The maned wolf is the largest representative of the dog family in South America. The name is deceptive, because he is not in fact a wolf. His size, however, has made him the victim of a bad reputation linked to the stories of the "big bad wolf". With long legs measuring on average 90 cm, his is a distinctive shape on the savannas of Central Brazil. But this habitat is increasingly falling foul of..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

For the Love of Wolves (247/268)

For the first time, two wolves of different origins have succeeded in establishing new corridors for themselves in Europe, thereby connecting two populations that have been separated from each other for centuries - in the central Alps of Italy no less. Italian biologists have long hoped that this would happen, particularly since it is expected to provide a huge boost to the gene pool of the Italia..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Sperm Whales - Leviathans in the Med (250/268)

Sperm whales are the largest predators on earth, but only a few hundred have survived in the Mediterranean. "Animal World" embarks on an adventure-filled search for the last leviathans of the Mediterranean.Evi Tsougiopoulou has dedicated her life to the sperm whales of the Mediterranean. A Sisyphean task, given that only around 200 sperm whales still live in the eastern Mediterranean today, with b..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Meerkats - how they sleep, dream and cuddle (251/268)

Meerkat - How They Sleep, Dream and CuddleOne meerkat after the other slips from the den. They stand on their hind legs and squint into the sun. Each one in turn takes a stand, searching the horizon and the sky for possible enemies. The air is clear: on a signal the youngsters scrabble out of the den. In high spirits, they frolic and tumble around. This (or a variation on it) is pretty much h..

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Harry Potter's Owls (252/268)

Barn owls are among the most beautiful but also the most mystical of the owl species. Since they like to nest in old ruins, abandoned towers or in graveyards, they have landed themselves with the reputation of being omens of death and as a result were often forced from their habitats by their human neighbors. However, the success of the "Harry Potter" series has spelled disaster for owls after it..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Han Solo - The Lonely Dolphin (253/268)

After they leave their mothers, male bottlenose dolphins team up with another male and set off to explore the oceans together, forming a friendship that lasts a lifetime. Somewhere in the Caribbean, however, one such pair is struck by tragedy when one of the dolphins died. The six year old survivor must have felt this loss as if he had lost his own life. The psyche of the most intelligent creature..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Bruno and the Bear (254/268)

The Abruzzi bears live in a densely inhabited country, just a 2-hour drive from a major city. This makes their survival until today all the more remarkable. Despite considerable conservation efforts however, their future remains uncertain.The Abruzzi bear, a sub-species of brown bear, is only found in the Italian National Park of Abruzzi, Lazio and Molise and its surroundings, where it is protecte..

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Year Of Production	2015
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Strong Neighbours - Hummingbirds and Condors (255/268)

This documentary looks at the lives of two very different neighbours in the Andes, the tiny hummingbird and the huge Andean condor.The Andes are home to a huge variety of tiny, fragile hummingbirds that weigh only a few grams. They share their habitat with the largest bird of prey in the word, the Andean condor. The contrast between the birds is startling. The hummingbirds appear so vulnerable, of..

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Year Of Production	2015
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Gober - An Orangutan's Story (256/268)

Life is hard for Gober the orangutan. The forest where she lives and which she depends on for her survival is shrinking at an alarming pace and she is losing her eyesight. But with a little help, first from her daughter and then from conservationists, things seem to be looking up.Fate has not been kind to Gober, a female orangutan living on the island of Sumatra: the expansion of the oil palm plan..

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Year Of Production	2015
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Gober is Free (257/268)

Gober is Free follows the story of Gober, the orangutan, who after operations to restore her sight, and the birth of twins is about to be returned to her native habitat. There are many questions hanging over the plan; Gober is no longer young and has spent years in a rescue center, her children have never known life in the wild. Will the family be able to cope?For Gober, an orangutan mother, and h..

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Year Of Production	2015
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Boto, the Pink River Dolphin (258/268)

The pink river dolphin of the Amazon is a mysterious creature, and the subject of many myths and legends. However, its habitat is under threat from human activity and the boto, as it is known, is endangered. On his journey along the Amazon, Silvio Carallio Romáo meets scientists and activists who are trying to study and thereby protect the boto, and he soon comes to share their fascination.

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Year Of Production	2015
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Lord of the Birds of Prey (259/268)

Falconer Willi Holzer has dedicated his entire life to protecting birds of prey. He cares for them, teaches them to fly and then attempts to return them to the wild. He also endeavors to make the world a safer place for these majestic creatures.Falconer Willi Holzer has dedicated his entire life to protecting birds of prey. Practically every stranded bird of prey in the area ends up in his care. B..

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Year Of Production	2015
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Where Are You Going, Little Honey Buzzard? (260/268)

A chance crash landing in Munich hands researchers a golden opportunity to discover the migratory habits of a very secretive bird of prey, the honey buzzard. They are known to winter in West Africa but their summer residence has never been quite clear, until now.When a young honey buzzard crash lands in Munich city center it poses a puzzle and sparks an intriguing research project. The young bird..

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Year Of Production	2015
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Learning to be a Lion (261/268)

Lions and humans have always had a fraught history in Africa, but now as their numbers dwindle, the lions are in need of human assistance if they are to survive into the next century.There is an old Bushman legend that people and lions were once friends. Until an argument broke out... To this very day the conflict between lions and people in Africa continues to smolder on. A hundred years ago, it..

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Year Of Production	2015
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Donkey Work on the Way of St. James (262/268)

Nicole Grasser decides to travel the Way of St. James in France on a donkey. The film that results is both an exploration of a little known region of France and the story of a blossoming friendship between one woman and her donkey.Donkeys are one of the oldest domesticated animals in the world. For millennia, people have used donkeys for transportation and as beasts of burden. 2,000 years ago Jesu..

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Year Of Production	2015
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Brazil's Colorful Parrots (263/268)

The film follows biologist Lydia Möcklinghoff and includes moving footage from the family life of wild hyacinth macaws and their colorful relatives. German biologist Lydia Möcklinghoff is actually researching anteaters on the Barranco Alto fazenda, a plantation in the Brazilian South Pantanal. But the largest wetlands on earth are also home to other fascinating creatures, including an extraordinar..

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Year Of Production	2015
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Guinea Pig and his Grumpy Neighbors (264/268)

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Year Of Production	2015
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Portugal - The Return of the Wild Creatures (265/268)

Portuguese biologist, Bernardo Rebelo de Andrade returns home to find a whole range of species conservation projects underway in Portugal, as experts here work to prepare the way for the return of the Iberian lynx, the Iberian wolf, as well as native species of goat, rabbit, red deer, horse and cattle.Biologist, Bernardo Rebelo de Andrade has spent the last number of years working on species conse..

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Year Of Production	2015
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Raccoon Party (267/268)

Raccoons are cute, intelligent and hugely adaptable. Their striking markings have long been interwoven into the legends and stories of the Native American peoples. In Germany, though, they are making a bit of a nuisance of themselves, constantly on the search for food in towns and cities across the country.Raccoons are cute and intelligent and their great adaptability means that over the years the..

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Year Of Production	2015
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Jaguar Safari (268/268)

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Year Of Production	2015
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Dreams of Bears

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Albatross Island

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Year Of Production	2015
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Wolves arrive

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Year Of Production	2016
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

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