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King of the Jungle (TV series)
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King of the Jungle

Directed by
Steven J. Santos
Presented by
Jeff Corwin
Judges
Nigel Marven
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
Production

Location(s)
Fort Pierce, Florida
Production company(s)
Jupiter Entertainment
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet
Original run
October 13, 2003 – July 27, 2004
King of the Jungle is an American reality television program, that appears on the Animal Planet cable television network. The original series debuted in Fall 2003 and starred a group of 12 "animal experts" (although only two were Doctors of Veterinary Medicine) and was hosted by Jeff Corwin. "Nasty" Nigel Marven (from the UK) was the judge who "booted" off a contestant each week. The show was plagued with inconsistencies in judging and content, but was a ratings hit for Animal Planet. A sequel was hosted by Madison Michele; it debuted in July 2004. This show failed to earn the ratings of the first season. A hastily produced third season consisting of teams of two was all but buried by Animal Planet before and during its airing. It was called King of the Jungle: Pairs and had 14 contestants instead of 12. The teams were: Lori and Lisa, twin science teachers from Boston; Hindley and Thomas, best friends from Alabama; Lolita and Matt, lifelong friends from Columbus; Kevin and Sherry, a married couple, also from the Columbus area; David and Petite, hair stylists from Kennesaw, Georgia; Wendy and Troy, brother and sister from Indiana; and Steve and Danielle, another married couple from Greensboro, North Carolina. As of November 2005 there are no plans to renew this show, and Animal Planet has removed all traces of it off its websites.

Name
Age
State
Season
Finish

Jennifer Benjamin 24 New Jersey Season 1 12th
Jamie Morrisey 37 New York Season 1 11th
Ed Rudberg 24 Minnesota Season 1 10th
Jarrod Davis 21 Florida Season 1 9th
Ernie Ward 38 North Carolina Season 1 8th
Christina Davis 25 Georgia Season 1 7th
Mike Maxcy 37 California Season 1 6th
John Elmore 33 Georgia Season 1 5th
Aletris Neils 21 Florida Season 1 4th
Jeremy Kirby 28 Georgia Season 1 3rd
Adam Stone 36 Georgia Season 1 Runner-Up
Kelly Diedring 23 Florida Season 1 Winner
Jen Burns 33 California Season 2 12th
Henry Gillman 50 Minnesota Season 2 11th
Lang Solurson 33 California Season 2 10th
Cherry Davis 36 California Season 2 9th
Cynthia Weiss 33 Pennsylvania Season 2 8th
Jacob Mason 24 Tennessee Season 2 7th
Roberto Figueroa 31 New York Season 2 6th
Lindsay Harrison 21 Tennessee Season 2 5th
Shannon Lowe 32 New Jersey Season 2 4th
Bee Truong 22 California Season 2 3rd
Patrick Spain 24 Massachusetts Season 2 Runner-Up
Tony Stallings 26 Kentucky Season 2 Winner
Troy Teipen 27 Indiana Season 3 - Pairs 14th
Lori DiMente 24 Massachusetts Season 3 - Pairs 13th
Lisa Morrison 24 Massachusetts Season 3 - Pairs 12th
Steve Hurley 36 North Carolina Season 3 - Pairs 11th
Hindley 23 Alabama Season 3 - Pairs 10th
Thomas, a.k.a. "Newt" 23 Alabama Season 3 - Pairs 9th
Lolita 32 Ohio Season 3 - Pairs 8th
Petite Harpenau 47 Georgia Season 3 - Pairs 7th
Sherry Bean Lloyd 33 Ohio Season 3 - Pairs 6th
Matt Bucella 32 Ohio Season 3 - Pairs 5th
Kevin Lloyd 33 Ohio Season 3 - Pairs 4th
David Dean 40 Georgia Season 3 - Pairs 3rd
Wendy Teipen 28 Indiana Season 3 - Pairs Runner-Up
Danielle Hurley 26 North Carolina Season 3 - Pairs  Winner

Season 3 Results[edit]
Episode Progress

Episode
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10a
10b

Danielle
IN IN IN IN IN IN IN KING IN KING WIN
Wendy
IN IN PIT IN IN KING IN IN PIT PIT OUT
David
PIT KING IN IN KING PIT KING IN KING OUT 
Kevin
IN IN IN IN IN IN PIT PIT OUT 
Matthew
KING IN IN IN PIT IN IN OUT 
Sherry
IN IN IN IN IN IN OUT 
Petite
IN IN IN KING IN OUT 
Lolita
IN IN IN PIT OUT 
Hindley
IN IN KING IN OUT 
Thomas
IN IN IN IN OUT 
Stephen
IN IN IN OUT 
Lisa
IN PIT OUT 
Lori
IN OUT 
Troy
OUT 
     (WIN) The contestant was crowned the ultimate King of the Jungle.     (KING) The contestant was that week's King of the Jungle.     (PIT) The contestant was sent to the Lion's Pit that week, but was not eliminated.     (OUT) The contestant was eliminated at that week's Lion's Pit.     (OUT) The contestant was eliminated outside of the Lion's Pit.     (OUT) The contestant was eliminated at the final Lion's Pit.
In season 2, Shannon was initially eliminated second and Roberto was initially eliminated third, but, in a midseason twist, all previously eliminated contestants returned for a chance to return to the game. Shannon and Roberto won this opportunity.
Also in season 2, Jacob was pulled out of the competition due to family problems.
External links[edit]
King of the Jungle at the Internet Movie Database
King of the Jungle II at the Internet Movie Database
King of the Jungle III at the Internet Movie Database
King of the Jungle (TV series) at TV.com
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Lassie (1997 TV series)
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Lassie
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DVD cover

Format
Children's television series
Starring
Corey Sevier
 Susan Almgren
 Tim Post
Walter Massey
Country of origin
Canada
No. of seasons
2
No. of episodes
52
Production

Running time
30 minutes
Broadcast

Original channel
YTV (Canada)
Animal Planet (U.S.)
Original run
1997 – 1999
Lassie is a Canadian television series which aired from 1997 to 1999 on YTV in Canada and Sunday nights on the Animal Planet network in the United States, as a modified remake of the original Lassie series (1954–1973) about a boy and his faithful dog. As with previous Lassie TV versions and several movies dating back to the original Lassie Come Home movie of 1943, the star was Lassie, a trained Rough Collie.[1]
Not to be confused with a previous, syndicated follow-up series entitled The New Lassie which aired 1989–1991, this Canadian-produced Lassie series starred Corey Sevier as 13-year-old Timmy Cabot in the fictional town of Hudson Falls, Vermont. The show was filmed in Quebec by Cinar Inc.. In this series' story line, Timmy and his recently widowed mother, Dr. Karen Cabot, move to Hudson Falls, where Karen takes over a veterinary practice.[2]
In the first (1997) season, Lassie was played by "Howard", an eighth generation collie descended from "Pal", the dog in the original 1943 movie Lassie Come Home. As with all previous Lassie movies and television series beginning with Pal, Howard was owned and trained by Weatherwax Trained Dogs, founded by brothers Frank and Rudd Weatherwax. Midway through production, Cinar replaced Howard with a non-Pal descended dog. Following Lassie fan protests, "Hey Hey", son of Howard and a ninth-generation direct descendent of Pal, was brought in to assume the role of Lassie for the final thirteen episodes of the show.[3]
Although young Corey Sevier impressed critics, others complained that the series relegated Lassie to a bystander role by focusing more on the Cabot family's dealings with various townspeople, at the expense of featuring Lassie's action stunts and feats as had been traditional in the famous canine's previous movie and TV incarnations.
The show was canceled after two seasons. A total of 52 episodes were produced.[4]
The entire first season is available on DVD in Canada since April 4, 2006.


Contents  [hide]
1 Cast
2 Episodes 2.1 Season 1
2.2 Season 2
3 DVD release
4 References
5 External links

Cast[edit]
Corey Sevier as Timmy Cabot (all episodes)
Susie Almgren as Dr. Karen Cabot[5] (all episodes)
Walter Massey as Dr. Donald Stewart (all episodes)
Tim Post as Ethan Bennet (51 episodes)
Tod Fennell as Jeff Mackenzie
Nathalie Vansier as Natalie
Al Vandecruys as Jay Mack Mackenzie
Chip Chuipka as Hank
Rick Mabe as Sean "Murph" Murphy (7 episodes)
Michael Yarmush as Clark Cairo (3 episodes)
Tyler Hynes as Darren (2 episodes)
Episodes[edit]
Season 1[edit]
"The Great Escape" (Timmy finds an injured collie after she cleverly escapes from the junk yard of her neglectful owner, Hollerin' Hank Cranforth. But just as Timmy and the collie, named Lassie, become instant friends, Hank returns to claim her, leaving a despondent Timmy.)
"Lassie Comes Home" (Hollerin' Hank Cranforth becomes accidentally pinned under a pile of junk yard rubble. Lassie escapes and goes to get Timmy for help, but will it be in time to save Hank?...)
"Swamp Thing" (Lassie tries to warn the unsuspecting Timmy and Billie that an alligator is loose in the swamp, where they've gone to look for the local legend, "Ol' Joe," the Swamp Thing.)
"The Raft" (Lassie swims a river to bring a rope to a runaway raft that's carrying Timmy and Geoff towards a treacherous man-made waterfall.)
"Horse Healer" (Lassie helps to restore the shattered faith of a "horse healer" named Maude Windrunner as she struggles to cure Lassie's friend, the thoroughbred Shadow.)
"Biker Boys" (Lassie and Timmy try to save a young boy stuck on the edge of a cliff after Lassie's playful Jack Russell Terrier friend, Mel, moves a pylon and warning tape from the path of a kids bike race.)
"Where's Timmy?" (Only the pre-planned arrival of a famous ballplayer in Hudson Falls prevents Timmy from going to New York when he thinks everyone's forgotten his birthday. But Karen's got some surprises in mind!)
"Lassie is Missing" (Hollerin' Hank secretly steals Lassie away from Timmy, but for what reason? Is it to help Lassie or hurt her?)
"The Big Smoke" (Even though Lassie led them to it, she strongly disapproves when Geoff and Timmy try to sell a stash of smuggled Cuban cigars buried in a crypt, instead of turning it in.)
"Open Season" (Lassie leads Karen to a fawn left motherless by a hunter while Doc Stewart instructs Timmy in proper hunting safety over mom's objections.)
"The Feud" (Timmy and Lassie develop a clever act to convince Geoff's father (Jay Mac) and Ethan to stop a silly feud between the two men.)
"A Day in the Life" (Timmy chooses Lassie and Natalie choose Big Bob, (among others) as subjects for a school assignment on "A Day In The Life" of someone important to him.)
"Cats Out of the Bag" (A litter of lost kittens serve as the focus for both Timmy and Doc Stewart, as they learn to let go of elements from their pasts.)
"On the Case" (A boy's penchant for stealing shoes reveals a troubled personality, but Lassie intervenes to help him.)
"Sweet Science" (Lassie can't help Timmy fight his battles with Oliver, a misunderstood school bully. And though she disapproves of Ethan's boxing lessons, Karen realizes that Timmy has to learn to defend himself, which he does, but not in the usual way.)
"Poster Pup" (Karen and Ethan are about to leave for a veterinarian association dinner where Karen is scheduled to give an important speech when Timmy gets food poisoning and a horse needs immediate emergency aid.)
"Rush to Judgment" (When all the town's dogs mysteriously fall sick, Ethan's uncle Roy is falsely accused of poisoning them. Lassie must solve the mystery and save both Roy and the other dogs.)
"Fathers and Sons" (When Ethan offers to take Timmy to The Hudson Falls Booster Association's Father and Son night, Karen and Timmy have a heart to heart about the absence of his late dad in their lives. Lassie's wisdom convinces the boy that his life must go on.)
"That Boy-Girl Thing" (When Timmy and Natalie team up on a science project, everyone teases them about being an "item", or in love. Timmy must choose between his reputation and friendship.)
"Friends of Mr. Cairo" (Timmy's diplomacy and friendships are put to the test when he becomes the director of the school play.)
"Bone of Contention" (When Lassie digs up a buried artifact, Timmy saves a Native American burial ground from destruction.)
"The Great Emu Hunt" (When kids join the search for an escaped emu, Timmy and Lassie get trapped inside an abandoned mine. While all the town mounts a search for the boy, Lassie tries to escape from the mine to get help.)
"Not on the Map" (Sequel to *"The Great Emu Hunt"; Lassie resumes her quest to save Timmy, who has been trapped in an abandoned mineshaft.)
"Dog Gone It!" (Lassie and Mel are stranded in Montréal where they must fend for themselves while finding their way home to Hudson Falls.)
"Collie Confusion" (Lassie is misidentified as the nasty collie that has been terrorizing a local farmer's livestock.)
"The Lassie Files" (Lassie must solve the mystery of a series of UFO sightings over Hudson Falls that has the town all a buzz with speculation.)
Season 2[edit]
"Dad's Watch" (Only Lassie can set things right when Timmy disobeys his mother and takes a precious heirloom to baseball practice.)
"Responsibility" (Timmy, left in charge of the clinic, loses a pregnant rabbit and a hungry boa constrictor.)
"Wild Goose Chase" (Lassie is befriended by a goose.)
"Tale of the Noisy Ghost" (Timmy takes an overnight camping trip with his pals, and tells a ghost story about the old Cabot house.)
"Full Circle" (Timmy consoles a forlorn girl with a sick cat; Ethan has trouble with his adopted greyhound.)
"Chain Letter ("Timmy gets the bright idea to write chain letters and ends up finding trouble when he sends Lassie out to receive and send)
"Monkeyin' Around" (A movie star and his monkey come to town with calamitous results.)
"Trains & Boats & Planes" (2 pts) (Timmy and his friends enter a paper-airplane contest in hopes of winning a trip to NASA headquarters. Part 1 of two.) (Conclusion. Timmy and Lassie make a daring escape from a moving train; Hank and Jeff go joy-riding in a vintage airplane. Part 2 of two.)
"Manhunt" (An innocent man in police custody escapes and is befriended by Lassie, who persuades him to turn himself in.)
"Pet Therapy" (Timmy enters Lassie into a pet therapy program, with surprising results.)
"Amazing Grace" (The faithful collie collapses as Timmy and his friends rehearse for a charity show)
"Mayor for a Day" (Timmy and his friends are hustled by the locals.)
"Sam Dupree" (Timmy gets a big surprise from a street musician who's not what he appears to be.)
"The Good Neighbor" (Timmy leads the stakeout of an illegal toxic dump site, hoping to bring the polluter to justice)
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (Timmy sees a wolf on April Fool's Day.)
"Feathered Friends" (Timmy and Jeff try their hand at the egg business.)
"Hookie for Hockey" (Jeff and Timmy are witnesses to a robbery while they're playing hooky.)
"Fit to Print" (Timmy and his pals publish a controversial newspaper.)
"Mad Dog" (Timmy and his pals think Buddy is rabid.)
"Secrets and Lies" (Jeff's disappearance forces Timmy and Natalie to choose between keeping a promise and helping a friend)
"New Dog in Town" (A stray basset hound chews up an exchange student's homework, and the faithful collie has to persuade Timmy to do the right thing)
"Breakout" (The new and overeager animal control officer meets his match in Lassie.)
"Bear Necessities" (Lassie finds deadly bear traps set by poachers.)
"Graduation" (2 pts) (Lassie's original owner arrives to take her back from Timmy. Part 1 of two.) (Conclusion. Timmy and Lassie are reunited. Part 2 of two.)

DVD release[edit]
Direct Source released the complete first season on DVD in Region 1 in 2006.[6] This release is now out of print.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Scott Moore, "Lassie", Washington Post, March 2, 1997.
2.Jump up ^ Variety TV series profile
3.Jump up ^ "Collie... Everybody's All-Star", Dog and Kennel Magazine, 2000.
4.Jump up ^ "Richard Morgan, "Cinar finds making profit is child's play"". Variety magazine. October 22, 1998.
5.Jump up ^ Susan Almgren at imdb
6.Jump up ^ http://www.amazon.ca/Lassie-Season-1-DVD/dp/B000EWBJQI
External links[edit]
Lassie Net
Lassie (1997–1999 TV series) at the Internet Movie Database


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Works featuring Lassie


Novel
Lassie Come-Home
 

Films
Lassie Come Home (1943) ·
 Son of Lassie (1945) ·
 Courage of Lassie (1946) ·
 Hills of Home (1948) ·
 The Sun Comes Up (1949) ·
 Challenge to Lassie (1949) ·
 The Magic of Lassie (1978) ·
 Lassie (1994) ·
 Lassie (2005)
 

Television series
Lassie (1954–1973) ·
 Lassie's Rescue Rangers (1973–1974) ·
 The New Lassie (1989–1991) ·
 Famous Dog Lassie (1996) ·
 Lassie (1997–1999) ·
 Lassie's Pet Vet (2007)
 

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Lemur Street
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Lemur Street
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Logo for Lemur Street

Also known as
Lemur Wars (Australia)
 Lemur Kingdom (US)
Genre
Nature, documentary, drama
Narrated by
Martin Shaw (UK)
 Franklin O'Smith (US)
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language(s)
English
No. of series
1
No. of episodes
20
Production

Producer(s)
Joanne Lunt
Location(s)
Madagascar
Cinematography
Robin Smith
Running time
30 minutes
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet International
Picture format
PAL
Audio format
Surround sound
Original run
20 November 2007 – 4 February 2008
External links
Website
Production website
Lemur Street is a British television show produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International which is based on the successful format of Meerkat Manor.[1] The series premièred in the United Kingdom on 20 November 2007 on the UK Animal Planet network with Martin Shaw narrating.[2]
On 8 February 2008 it aired in the United States under the name Lemur Kingdom, with fourteen episodes airing until 9 May 2008. It was removed from the air with the return of the channel's top series, Meerkat Manor. It aired in Canada on TVO from 13 February 2008 until 16 April 2008 and on Knowledge from 2 April 2008 until 31 May 2008, using its original name of Lemur Street.[3][4] Each episode is thirty minutes long.[5] Renowned primatologist Alison Jolly is the series scientific consultant and Joanne Lunt is the producer.[2]
Lemur Street was released in a three disc DVD set in the United Kingdom in September 2008 by Eureka Entertainment.


Contents  [hide]
1 Production details 1.1 National variations
2 The lemurs 2.1 Tornadoes
2.2 Graveyards
3 Episode listing
4 Media
5 References
6 External links

Production details[edit]
The twenty-episode series focusses on two competing matriarchal Ring-tailed Lemur troops in the Berenty Reserve on the island of Madagascar.[3] Along with following the lemurs' battles for dominance, against their natural enemies and against each other, the series is reported to include the first professionally-recorded footage of a ring-tailed lemur giving birth.[5]
Robin Smith, who filmed several series of Meerkat Manor, is the cinematographer for Lemur Street.[6]
National variations[edit]
The content of the UK and US versions of the programme are the same for most episodes, however Animal Planet US renamed the show Lemur Kingdom, added names for the episodes - which were referred to by number in the UK - and renamed the lemur troops and some individual lemurs. The troop called The Tornadoes in Lemur Street have been renamed "The Furies". Furies was chosen by Animal Planet US because of the constant infighting between the three families which make up the troop.[7]Crystal, the dominant female of the Graveyards, has been renamed Juno and her mate Blake was renamed Marcus.
The lemurs[edit]
Tornadoes[edit]
This group is made up of three separate families of lemurs and has approximately twenty members. In the US broadcast, they have been renamed to the "Furies" because of the regular fighting between the three families.[7]
AmazonFour years old, Amazon is a first time mother who ignores and neglects her first son, Gizmo. Her neglectful nature leads to the rest of the troop doing the same and Gizmo's eventual death after he injures a leg.[8] When she gives birth to her second baby, Orinoco, Amazon is a more attentive and caring mother. Between the fifth and six episodes, she and her mother Flame viciously attack and dethrone the pregnant Electra. Though she initially allows Electra to remain as the lowest ranking member of the troop, after Electra gives birth Amazon evicts her from the troop.[9]ElectraAt the start of the series, Electra is the queen of the group and known for her bad temper.[7][10] In the sixth episode, while she is pregnant, Amazon and Flame dethrone Electra. Electra goes into premature labour, giving birth to a son named Prince. After she gives birth, Amazon, joined by her sister Snowflake and mother Flame, evicts Electra and Prince from the troop.[9] During the night, however, Prince is unable to maintain his hold on his mother and falls from the tree where they are sleeping. Electra finds his body in the morning and mourns his death, guarding the body for several hours before leaving to return to the protection of the forest. In the final episode she returned to the family [11]SnowflakeAmazon's sister and Flame's daughter. In the ninth episode she helps her sister and mother to dethrone Electra and her newborn son Prince.FlameAmazon and Snowlake's mother. Amazon and Flame dethroned Electra. After Electra gaves birth, Flame helps her daughters Amazon and Snowflake dethroned Electra and her son Prince from family.StellaTornadoes' ex-queen and Chelsea's mother. She pets Chelsea and very concerned about her.ChelseaStella's spoiled daughter. In the fourth episode she throwed off Gizmo from branch, ruining his life, whereupon, in the next episode, he died. In the eight episode she is strayed of her family and lost. Family found her alive in a tree.FlashTornadoes' dominant male.GizmoAmazon's first son, who was born late and is the runt of the litter. At the start of the series, he is five months old and regularly neglected by his mother. He falls from a tree and injures his left rear leg after an unprovoked attack by spoiled princess Chelsea.[8] He tries to keep up with the troop, but with his injuries he is often left behind and dies in the third episode. It is unclear how he dies, but the narration suggests it was a predator.[12]
Graveyards[edit]
Made up of only one family, this twenty member gang is named from the fact that they live in an old graveyard. In the US broadcast, their name is changed to the "Graveyard Gang".
CrystalThe steady, dominant female of the Graveyards who has led the group for four years.[13]In the seventh episode, Crystal gives birth to her first baby Jasmine.[11]In the US broadcast, Crystal's name has been changed to Juno.TapasCrystal and Sophie's sister and Josephine's daughter.
Sophie
Tapas and Crystal's sister and Josephine's daughter.


JosephineGraveyards' ex-queen. Tapas, Sophie and Crystal's mother. She transferred power to Crystal before shooting.BlakeThe ageing, dominant male facing growing competition for his position from the younger lemurs. During a battle with Flash, the dominant male of the Tornadoes, Blake receives a bad slash to his right front paw.[14]In the US broadcast, he is renamed Marcus.[13]MiltonOne of the Graveyards' malesPeg LegAt thirteen years old, Peg Leg is the oldest, lowest ranking member of the troop.[7][15]He lost one of his back legs in a dog attack 11 years before the start of the series. Peg Leg usually gets out of the way during battles and avoids the mating fights. Despite having only three legs, Crystal chooses him as her mate when she comes into heat.[14]Crystal later gives birth to her first baby, Jasmine.[11]He is frequently in the company of his sidekick Nimbus, another low ranking male.[15]After six years with the Graveyards, Peg Leg, joined by Nimbus, attempted to leave the troop to find a new one, an act called Biological dispersal which helps avoid inbreeding. But they were unable to find another one and return to the Graveyards.[15][16]DerrickPeg Leg's best friendLibertyThe lowest ranking female of the Graveyards and mother of Hogarth. She mates with Blake, the dominant male, after he chases away a nomadic male named Titus.[17]With her family facing starvation and Crystal concentrating on feeding her immediate family during the dry season, and pregnant herself, Liberty leads her family to desert the Graveyards for a day.[11][18] A few days later, Liberty gives birth to a daughter named Lily.[15]EmilyLiberty and Peg Leg's daughter and Hogarth's elder sister. In the fourteenth episode she gave birth to a daughter named Willow.HogarthLiberty's independent son. He went into the woods during the attack of stray males and lost the family. He successfully returned home, but spent night alone. Fire cut off the road to his family. They returned the next day and found Hogarth alive.
Episode listing[edit]

#
Original Title (top)
 US Title (bottom)
Original Air Date
US Air Date[19]

1
"Episode 1"
 "Little Lost Lemur" 20 November 2007 8 February 2008
The Tornadoes invade the Graveyards' territory to steal some of their cactus. After a short battle, the Graveyards manage to chase them off. Exhausted after the raid, Crystal leads the group to the forest to find food. The elderly Peg Leg can't keep up and returns to the troop's favourite tree. They are able to enjoy some underground flowers after chasing off more aggressive Brown lemurs. Meanwhile, the Tornadoes go to the tourist camp to steal food from the houses and cars. The arrival of a thunderstorm traps the Graveyards where they found the flowers, while the Tornadoes are forced to spend the night in the tourist camp and Peg Leg must spend the cold night alone. In the morning, Crystal leads the Graveyards back to their home base, enjoying a banquet of fruit which fell from the trees during the storm. The Tornadoes use grooming to dry off, but first time mother Amazon doesn't groom her five month old son Gizmo.
2
"Episode 2"
 "Unfortunate Son" 20 November 2007 8 February 2008
Peg Leg tracks down the Graveyards and joins in the feast. In the afternoon, Gizmo is attacked by Chelsea, the daughter of former queen Stella. During the attack, Gizmo falls from a tree and injures his leg. When the group moves on, his mother refuses to carry him and, unable to keep up, he is left behind. As he rests his leg, a Madagascar Ground Boa comes after him, but a group of sifaka lemurs comes to his aid by distracting the snake. Gizmo hobbles home and painfully makes his way up the Tornadoes' sleeping tree. In the morning, he continues struggling as he forces himself to climb down to follow the troop, then has to climb another tree in order to eat. Exhausted from his efforts, he is abandoned as the rest of the troop goes home. The Graveyards enter the Tornadoes' territory and steal some cactus. On the way back to their home territory, they run into the Tornadoes at a watering hole and must fight to get past them. Outnumbered, the Tornadoes are forced to retreat. As they detour around the Graveyards to get home, they pass the lone Gizmo who has rested and he rejoins the group. As they make their way home, a group of feral dogs attacks the group. The troop takes to the high branches, but Gizmo is stranded on lower branches and unable to go higher. The dogs lay down and wait.
3
"Episode 3"
 "Gizmo's Fate" 27 November 2007 15 February 2008
The dogs leave and the Tornadoes are able to get out of the trees, but Gizmo is left behind again and later killed by a predator. The rest of the Tornadoes casually make their way down the road, but the dogs return and tree them again until something draws them off. The rest of the troop starts to leave, but Amazon is too scared to come out of the trees. Unlike with Gizmo, the troop returns for her. The Graveyards go to enjoy the fruits left behind in a harvest field, while Titus - a five year old drifter - and two of his followers from the Nomads, enter Graveyard territory. Titus scents out Luna, who is in heat, but then Blake, the dominant male of the troop, pounces on him from a tree branch 30 feet up and chases him off. Impressed, Luna allows Blake to mate with her. Titus returns three times while Blake is mating with her, but finally accepts defeat and leads his Nomads out of the territory. In the commotion, young Hogarth wanders off from the troop and ends up a mile from the troop and inside the Tornadoes territory.
4
"Episode 4"
 "Fire and Battle" 27 November 2007 22 February 2008
Six month old Hogarth safely makes his way back to the Graveyards' sleeping tree, only to find that the rest of the troop is not there. The farmers have started a fire in their fields to clear them of sisal and the flames are blocking the Graveyards from returning. In the morning, the flames die down and the troop is able to regroup and make its way back to the graveyard. \\Hogarth is finally reunited with his mother. Titus and his two nomad followers return to the\ Graveyards' territory, leaving scent markings to challenge the dominant male. Following the scent of Liberty, who is now in heat, Titus makes his move but Blake quickly spots him, attacks and easily chases him off. Once again, Blake earns the mating rights that Titus sought and mates with Liberty. Meanwhile, Titus leads his followers into the Tornadoes' territory, where Snowflake is also in heat. Flash, dominant male of the Tornadoes, attacks and sends him running again. However, Snowflake follows Titus and allows him to mate with her.
5
"Episode 5"
 "An Unlikely Suitor" 4 December 2007 29 February 2008
Mating season is in full swing at the Graveyard troop. Female lemurs only come into heat once a year and only one female at a time, with today's female being Josephine. The Graveyards males are all chasing after them, starting with Josephine. Blake, the dominant male, easily chases off all of them, though Milton, the second-highest ranking male, is slow to run. After making him chase off the males a few more times, she accepts Blake as her mate. Meanwhile, the Tornadoes enter the Graveyards' territory. Flash, the dominant male of the Tornadoes, attempts to mate with Josephine, but Blake launches a furious attack, joined by the other Graveyard males. Flash retreats, but he returns again. Though Blake is able to chase him off again, in the process his right front paw is badly slashed. When Flash returns one more time, Milton takes the lead in beating Flash and chasing off the rest of the Tornadoes. The next day, queen Crystal comes into heat. Milton takes advantage of Blake's injury to attempt to seduce Crystal, but she ignores him. In an unexpected turn of events, she mates instead with Peg Leg, one of the lowest ranking males.
6
"Episode 6"
 "A New Generation" 4 December 2007 7 March 2008
The dry season arrives. Amazon, with aid from her mother Flame, has viciously dethroned the pregnant Electra, making her the lowest ranking member of the Tornadoes. Amazon has a week old baby, Orinoco and is being a more attentive mother than she was with her first son, Gizmo. Electra goes into premature labour, giving birth to her son, named Prince. Electra, weary from giving birth, calls out to the group for help. Amazon, Flame and Amazon's sister Snowflake answer Electra's calls and go to her. They attack Electra, evicting both her and Prince from the troop, then lead the group to their watering hole. Alone and without the protection of the troop, Electra carries Prince to the same watering hole and warily approaches her former group. They don't attack her, but instead ignore her and leave to return to their sleeping trees.
7
"Episode 7"
 "The Cycle of Life" 11 December 2007 14 March 2008
Prince, Electra's day old baby, was too weak to maintain his hold on his mother during the night and died. Electra clings to her baby's body and gives calls for help and mourning. The females of the Tornadoes instinctively return her calls, but do not go to her and eventually stop answering. Flash, the dominant male of the Tornadoes, approaches her and attempts to seduce her to mate, but she attacks him and continues guarding Prince's body for hours, before finally leaving for her own safety. The dry season makes it difficult for the lemurs to find food and the Graveyards are becoming divided over food. Liberty and her family are showing signs of malnutrition and she is self-medicating by eating clay to compensate for the lack of good food, while Crystal and her immediate family remain well fed. Crystal leads them to a tamarind tree outside their territory, which requires them passing through a large field that offers little cover, enabling all members of the troop to eat well. Crystal unexpectedly calls the Graveyards to follow her back to their territory after a short feeding session. However the reason for this becomes clear in the morning. Overnight, Crystal has given birth to her first baby, Jasmine. In desperation for food, Liberty quietly leads her family away from the main troop, splitting the Graveyards.
8
"Episode 8"
 "Family Ties" 11 December 2007 21 March 2008
Liberty, driven by pregnancy, leads her troop of Graveyards deserters to the tourist camp, where food is abundant. Meanwhile, Crystal struggles to find food for the remaining Graveyards troop members. With her group also struggling, Amazon leads the Tornadoes into the Graveyards' territory to steal food. They do not find any food but, as they leave to return to their territory, the Graveyards find them. The males of both groups handle the fighting, but it ends in a draw, with the Tornadoes returning home and the Graveyards going to the watering hole. As they drink, Liberty and the others return. Though Crystal doesn't attack her, she leaves Liberty and her group to drink while she moves on. Electra, former queen of the Tornadoes, watches the Graveyards from a distance, but waits until they leave to go to drink. Though Liberty and her group are back with the Graveyards, they sleep apart from Crystal and the others. Crystal's mother, Josephine, gave birth overnight, but was attacked during the night while giving birth, most likely by Liberty. After months of drought, a downpour falls, replenishing the plant life. Crystal and Liberty feed side-by-side, their tensions gone. The members of the troops are all looking scruffy and ragged. Peg Leg, in particular, has lost a lot of fur possibly from illness.
9
"Episode 9"
 "More Mouths to Feed" 18 December 2007 28 March 2008
The lemurs are suffering from hair loss from malnutrition, but Peg Leg and his sidekick Nimbus are both showing signs of excessive loss. They have been eating lucina plants, a toxic plant that causes hair loss in lemurs. As the lowest ranking members, the males are left eating the lucina while the females eat higher quality food. Liberty leaves the foraging party to return to the troop's sleeping tree. There, she gives birth to a daughter named Lily. At the end of the day, Crystal leads the Graveyards back home, however Peg Leg and Nimbus break off from the group. They spend the night away from the group. In the morning, a fatigued Liberty joins the Graveyards as they eat from a cactus, but Lily is weak from lack of milk and struggles to hang on to her mother. The next day, Crystal leads the group to the watering hole, but when Liberty tries to drink Crystal chases her away. Liberty's four year old daughter Emily gives birth to her first baby, Pixie. Desperate to feed her daughter and the rest of the Graveyards, Crystal leads the group on a raid into the Tornadoes' territory.
10
"Episode 10"
 "The Royal Family" 18 December 2007 11 April 2008
Crystal leads the Graveyards on a rush for the trees in Tornadoes territory, but they are quickly chased off by their rivals. She leads them instead to the tourist camp, where four other lemur troops are also looking for food. They are able to eat their first good meal in days. A newborn baby from another troop is abandoned by its mother. One of the Graveyards females, Emily who has a newborn of her own, finds the baby and picks it up. However, the baby is too weak to hold on to her fur. The Graveyards return to their sleeping tree, but Emily stays behind for a short while. For the sake of her own newborn, she leaves the strange baby and follows her troop home. Peg Leg and Nimbus, unable to find another troop, return to the Graveyards. The troop finds some trees with fresh shoots, but must first chase off some sifakas. Crystal's sister Sophie, who is seven years old and has never had a baby of her own, begins showing an obsessive interest in her niece Jasmine. In the afternoon, while the troop eats at a group of cacti, Josephine bullies her daughter Crystal away from the choicest bits. Sophie uses the distraction to steal Jasmine.
11
"Episode 11"
 "Desperate Measures" 8 January 2008 
Crystal hears Jasmine's calls and quickly comes to take her back from Sophie. Amazon leads the Tornadoes into the Graveyard Gangs seeking water. Electra, who has been on her own for a week, follow the Graveyard Gang as they pass by her on their way to the same place where the Tornadoes have entered their territory. The Graveyard Gangs and Tornadoes clash, until Amazon and the Tornadoes flee. Electra watches from a distance. Crystal leads her gang into an unknown forest where they find a large number of tamarind pods. Though the area carries the scent of another troupe, Crystal and the others defiantly mark the trees. The forest troupe detects the Graveyards and remark the trees. Marcus marks another tree in view of the other troupe. The forest troupe fiercely attacks, forcing the Graveyard Gang to scatter in retreat. Exhausted from the two fights and long travel, the Graveyard Gang spends a night away from home in strange trees. During the night, lightning starts a brush fire near where the lemurs are sleeping. The troupe flees, but during their flight, Peg Leg loses sight of his sidekick Nimbus.
12
"Episode 12"
 "Lost But Not Forgotten" 8 January 2008 25 April 2008
After regrouping the morning after the fire, the exhausted Graveyard Gang begins the long journey home. As they move along the path, they encounter a radiated tortoise and a troupe of brown lemurs. While they watch the fast moving tortoise in confusion and curiosity, Peg Leg leaves the group to search for the missing friend. After hours of searching and calling, he finds Nimbus unharmed and sitting on one of the forest paths. In his panic from the fire, Nimbus had run in the opposite direction from the others. They greet each other with a mutual grooming session before heading home. Hogarth also breaks from the group, climbing a tree to investigate something. He is attacked by flycatchers who chase him back to his mother Liberty. The rest of the Graveyards return to find the Tornado gang covering their favorite cactus. The Graveyards are eventually able to chase the Tornadoes off. Peg Leg and Nimbus safely return to their home territory later that evening.
13
"Episode 13"
 "Lost Souls" 15 January 2008 2 May 2008
Humans visit the Graveyard Gangs home to perform a religious ceremony. Crystal is unable to take to the troop to their watering hole due to the number of people. Electra continues to live alone between the borders of the Tornado and the Graveyard Gang territories, eating termites to survive. In the afternoon, the Tornadoes invades the Graveyard territory. When the groups meet, another battle ensues. The Graveyards lose, and are forced to leave their graveyard and sleeping tree. The Tornadoes take over the Graveyard's former ground. During the battle, Amazon loses track of Orinoco and he becomes separated from the group. She doesn't notice his absence, but remains distracted. Electra uses the opportunity to rejoin the Tornadoes, which yield to her out of memory of her former leadership.
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"Episode 14" 15 January 2008 9 May 2008
The Graveyards return home to find that humans have ransacked it, digging up various bodies to rebury them with their other relatives. Three hours later, Amazon does not appear to have realized Orinoco is gone, concentrating instead of eliminating the scent of the Graveyards from the area. Amazon's mother Flame, however, hears Orinoco's cries from nearby and goes to retrieve him while carrying her own son Apollo. Reunited with his mother, Orinoco rides Amazon's back as she leads her troupe to their sleeping tree. After the human destruction of the cemetery, Crystal makes the decision to permanently move the group away from their former home in search of a new one. Amazon is more attentive towards Orinoco, while not noticing that Electra is back. While in the forest, Electra gives a warning cry after spotting a Madagascar Ground Boa nearby, enabling the group to get the babies safely away from it. Amazon moves the Tornadoes into the cemetery that the Graveyards abandoned a few hours earlier. The long running drought finally ends with the start of the rainy season, catching the homeless Graveyards huddled together in a tree.
15
"Episode 15" 22 January 2008 
16
"Episode 16" 22 January 2008 
17
"Episode 17" 29 January 2008 
18
"Episode 18" 29 January 2008 
19
"Episode 19" 4 February 2008 
20
"Episode 20" 4 February 2008 
Media[edit]
The complete series was scheduled for release on Region 2 DVD in Europe as a 3 disc box set by Eureka Entertainment on 22 September 2008.[20][21]
The DVD was released successfully,[22] and rumours of a Blu-ray release have surfaced.
References[edit]
General for UK broadcast"Meet the Residents". Animal Planet UK. Retrieved 18 January 2008.
General for US broadcast"Lemur Kingdom Episode Guide". Animal Planet. Retrieved 8 February 2008.
"Meet the Lemurs". Animal Planet. Retrieved 8 February 2008.
Specific
1.Jump up ^ "Production Programmes". Oxford Scientific Films. Archived from the original on 30 August 2007. Retrieved 10 December 2007.
2.^ Jump up to: a b "After Meerkat Manor comes Lemur Street". Telegraph. 26 November 2007. Retrieved 18 January 2008.
3.^ Jump up to: a b "TVO February 2008 Highlights". TVO. January 2008. Retrieved 18 January 2008.
4.Jump up ^ "Knowledge Network: Lemur Street". Knowledge Network. April 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
5.^ Jump up to: a b "Lemur Street". Southern Star Group. Archived from the original on 12 September 2007. Retrieved 18 January 2008.
6.Jump up ^ "Credits". Robin Smith. Retrieved 9 March 2008.
7.^ Jump up to: a b c d "Episode 1 (Little Lost Lemur)". Lemur Street. Season 1. Episode 1.
8.^ Jump up to: a b "Episode 2 (Unfortunate Son)". Lemur Street. Season 1. Episode 2.
9.^ Jump up to: a b "Episode 6 (A New Generation)". Lemur Street. Season 1. Episode 6.
10.Jump up ^ "Meet the Lemurs: The Furies". Animal Planet. Retrieved 1 February 2008.
11.^ Jump up to: a b c d "Episode 7 (The Cycle of Life)". Lemur Street. Season 1. Episode 7.
12.Jump up ^ "Episode 3 (Gizmo's Fate)". Lemur Street. Season 1. Episode 3.
13.^ Jump up to: a b "Meet the Lemurs: Graveyard Gang". Animal Planet. Retrieved 1 February 2008.
14.^ Jump up to: a b "Episode 5 (An Unlikely Suitor)". Lemur Street. Season 1. Episode 5.
15.^ Jump up to: a b c d "Episode 9 (More Mouths to Feed)". Lemur Street. Season 1. Episode 9.
16.Jump up ^ "Episode 10 (The Royal Family)". Lemur Street. Season 1. Episode 10.
17.Jump up ^ "Episode 4 (Fire and Battle)". Lemur Street. Season 1. Episode 4.
18.Jump up ^ "Episode 8 (Family Ties)". Lemur Street. Season 1. Episode 8.
19.Jump up ^ "TV Listings: Lemur Kingdom". Animal Planet. Retrieved 22 January 2008.
20.Jump up ^ "Eureka Entertainment in September". DVD Times. 5 August 2008. Retrieved 22 August 2008.
21.Jump up ^ "Lemur Street". Eureka Entertainment. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
22.Jump up ^ "Lemur Street [DVD]". Amazon. Retrieved 8 September 2009.
External links[edit]
Official Animal Planet US website for Lemur Kingdom
Official Oxford Scientific Films website
Lemur Street at TV.com
 


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Life (BBC TV series)
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Life
Life title card (BBC version)
Series title card from UK broadcast

Genre
Nature documentary
Narrated by
David Attenborough (BBC)
Oprah Winfrey (Discovery)
Juanes (Discovery en Español)
Composer(s)
George Fenton
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language(s)
English
No. of episodes
10
Production

Executive producer(s)
Mike Gunton
Running time
50 minutes
Production company(s)
BBC Natural History Unit
Open University
Broadcast

Original channel
BBC One
Picture format
16:9 1080p (HDTV) (Blu-ray)
 16:9 1080i (HDTV) (HD broadcast)
 16:9 576i (SDTV) (SD broadcast)
Audio format
DTS-HD HR 5.1 (Blu-ray)
Dolby Digital 5.1 (HD broadcast)
Stereo (SD broadcast)
Original run
12 October 2009 – 14 December 2009
External links
Website
Life is a British nature documentary series created and produced by the BBC in association with The Open University, it was first broadcast as part of the BBC's Darwin Season[1] on BBC One and BBC HD from October to December 2009.[2] The series takes a global view of the specialised strategies and extreme behaviour that living things have developed in order to survive; what Charles Darwin termed "the struggle for existence". Four years in the making, the series was shot entirely in high definition.[3]
Life premiered on 12 October 2009 in the United Kingdom consisting of ten 50-minute episodes. The opening programme gives a general introduction to the series, a second look at plants, and the remainder are dedicated to some of the major animal groups. They aim to show common features that have contributed to the success of each group, and to document intimate and dramatic moments in the lives of selected species chosen for their charisma or their extraordinary behaviour. A ten-minute making-of feature Life on Location aired at the end of each episode, taking the total running time to 60 minutes.
Life is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit and The Open University it is distributed under licence by the BBC in over 50 other countries, including by the Discovery Channel in the United States and Skai TV in Spain. The original script was written and narrated by David Attenborough.


Contents  [hide]
1 Production 1.1 Production team
1.2 Filming
1.3 Television firsts
2 Broadcast
3 Episodes 3.1 1. "Challenges of Life"
3.2 2. "Reptiles and Amphibians"
3.3 3. "Mammals"
3.4 4. "Fish"
3.5 5. "Birds"
3.6 6. "Insects"
3.7 7. "Hunters and Hunted"
3.8 8. "Creatures of the Deep"
3.9 9. "Plants"
3.10 10. "Primates"
4 Inside Life
5 One Life
6 Reception
7 DVD, Blu-ray and book
8 References
9 External links

Production[edit]
Production team[edit]
Life was the first series commissioned by the then Network Controller of BBC One, Peter Fincham, just weeks after he took up the post in March 2005.[4] It was reportedly one of the most expensive documentaries ever ordered by the broadcaster, with a budget of £10 million (though the BBC have never confirmed this figure).[5] The Natural History Unit's production team includes series producer Martha Holmes (Life in the Freezer, The Blue Planet) and executive producer Mike Gunton (Galápagos, Life in the Undergrowth). Individual episodes were produced by Rupert Barrington, Adam Chapman, Martha Holmes, Neil Lucas, Patrick Morris and Ted Oakes. The specially-commissioned score was composed by George Fenton and performed by the Band of Life. The opening titles and brand imaging were created by Burrell Durrant Hifle.
In February 2007, Gunton revealed that the BBC were looking for a new narrator for the series owing to Attenborough's imminent retirement.[5] However, later that year it was announced that the veteran narrator would be collaborating on both this series and the forthcoming Frozen Planet.[6]
Filming[edit]
The first year of production was spent researching possible stories for the series. The Life team contacted scientists and experts around the world in search of new discoveries to film, and new approaches to familiar subjects. Nearly three years of filming followed, involving 150 shoots on all seven continents, many of them full-scale expeditions to remote wilderness areas.[7]
New camera technology was used to build on the cinematic techniques first employed in Planet Earth, notably the pioneering use of stabilised helicopter-mounted cameras. The Life crew succeeded in using gyroscopic stabilisation to create steady shots from moving vehicles, even on rough terrain, allowing the cameras to track alongside reindeer and elephant herds for the first time. Miniature high-definition cameras were used extensively for the "Insects" programme. In the forests of Mexico, the crew erected a spider's web of cables in the canopy to give the sense of flying alongside millions of monarch butterflies. In Zambia, they filmed from a hot air balloon to avoid disturbing the huge flocks of straw-coloured fruit bats.[8]
Following recent debate[9][10] about the use of artifice in natural history programmes, the BBC were more candid about sequences which had not been filmed in the wild. Close-ups of wild clownfish would have disturbed their natural behaviour, so captive animals were filmed in an aquarium at a Welsh university.[11]
Despite the best efforts of the film-makers, some sequences ended up on the cutting room floor. Scientists in Arctic Scandinavia had accumulated enough evidence to suggest that golden eagles were the main predators of reindeer calves, but an attack had never been witnessed. After two summers tracking the herds in Finland, cameraman Barrie Britton finally filmed a hunt in full. However, the attack had taken place nearly a mile away, and the footage was too distant to be considered for broadcast.[12]
Television firsts[edit]
The budget and timescale for the series enabled the producers to set ambitious filming challenges, and expedition crews brought back several sequences which have never been shown before.
Some involved highly specialised hunting behaviour that has only recently been discovered. In the shallow, muddy waters of Florida Bay, one pod of bottlenose dolphins have learned a unique hunting technique called mud-ring feeding. Aerial photography shows the lead dolphin circling a shoal of mullet, flicking its tail flukes to disturb mud on the seabed. The fish trapped inside the mud ring panic and leap out of the water to escape the trap, straight into the waiting mouths of the pod.[13] In Kenya's Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, three cheetah brothers have learned to take on prey many times their own size. They are filmed bringing down an ostrich, but also hunt zebra, eland and oryx.[14] A film crew travelled to the Falkland Islands to follow up reports of an orca that had learned to take elephant seal pups from a nursery pool. On the Indonesian island of Rinca, the first footage of komodo dragons hunting a water buffalo corroborated new scientific evidence suggesting the dragons used venom to kill their prey.[15]
Other sequences had previously proved too difficult to film. The humpback whale heat run has been dubbed "the biggest battle on Earth", but the whales move so fast that underwater cameras struggle to keep up. The Life crew used cameras mounted on helicopters and boats along with a team of free-divers to follow the action.[8] The biggest filming challenge was to show a year in the life of an oak woodland using timelapse photography. After capturing real-world footage of a Devon wood, the crew rebuilt the entire scene in a studio in Exeter and digitally superimposed 96 separate layers of footage to create the final one-minute sequence. The whole project took two years.[16]
Super high-speed cameras capable of shooting up to 8,000 frames each second were used to slow down dramatic action. For the first time, these were used underwater to reveal the hunting behaviour of sailfish.[17] They were also used to show 'Jesus Christ lizards' running on water, the courtship flight of the marvellous spatuletail and flying fish leaving the water. The first footage showing Antarctic Killer whales hunting a Crabeater seal, but the seal survived.
The pebble toad's strange escape method had been caught on tape for the first time.
Broadcast[edit]
Life debuted on British television on 12 October 2009, with a standard definition broadcast on BBC One and a high-definition simulcast on BBC HD.
The series was sold to international broadcasters by the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, and marketed under the BBC Earth brand used for all BBC-produced natural history content. The global success of Life was noted as one of the key factors behind BBC Worldwide's record profits in 2010.[18]
The series received its North American premiere on Discovery Channel Canada on 15 November 2009.[19] In the USA, the series premiered on 21 March 2010 with Attenborough's narration replaced by Oprah Winfrey reading from a different script tailored to American audiences.[20] Each episode was curtailed in length to accommodate commercial breaks. The behind-the-scenes shorts were dropped for the same reason, and instead were compiled into an eleventh episode.
Life was also acquired by several Latin American broadcasters[21] and debuted on 18 March 2010 on Discovery Channel Latin America and Discovery HD Theater, with narration by Colombian singer Juanes.[22]
In Israel the series aired on July 2010 as part of the new IBA channel Channel 1 HD and it was narrated by Orna Banay.
In Turkey, the series aired on May 2010 on NTV (Turkey). It was narrated by famous Turkish actor Tuncel Kurtiz.
In Australia, an edited version (without Life On Location) with Attenborough's narration aired on ABC1 each Sunday at 7:30pm from 25 July 2010.[23]
In Croatia the series aired each Saturday from 2 October 2010 on HRT1.
Episodes[edit]

"Our planet may be home to 30 million different kinds of animals and plants, each individual locked in its own lifelong fight for survival. Everywhere you look, on land or in the ocean, there are extraordinary examples of the lengths living things go to to stay alive."
— David Attenborough's opening narration
1. "Challenges of Life"[edit]




 "Challenges of Life" documents the capture of a young chinstrap penguin by a leopard seal (pictured).UK broadcast 12 October 2009,[24] 6.84 million viewers[25] (26.4% audience share)[26]
The opening episode introduces the series by showing examples of extraordinary feeding, hunting, courting and parenting behaviour from across the animal kingdom and around the globe. In Florida Bay, bottlenose dolphins catch leaping fish as they attempt to escape a corral of encircling mud, whipped up with the lead dolphin’s tail. Other unusual collaborative hunting techniques include three cheetahs combining to bring down an ostrich and Antarctic killer whales attacking a crabeater seal. In Brazil, tufted capuchins have learned to crack open palm nuts by smashing them with rocks. High speed cameras reveal flying fish taking an aerial route to avoid predatory sailfish, Venus flytraps ensnaring their unwitting victims and two male hippos clashing over the territorial rights to a stretch of river. In some species, parents go to great lengths to protect their young. A mother strawberry poison-dart frog carries each of her six tadpoles high into the rainforest canopy to the safety of a bromeliad pool, then provides them with nutritious unfertilised eggs. A female Giant Pacific Octopus makes the ultimate sacrifice, starving to death as she guards her eggs. On Deception Island, young chinstrap penguins are trapped on a beach by ice-strewn seas. Abandoned by their parents, they must reach open water to feed. A lone chick fights its way through the ice, only to be ambushed by a leopard seal. Life on Location shows how the filmmakers collaborated with a French yachtsman and the Royal Navy to film Antarctica's top predators.[24]
2. "Reptiles and Amphibians"[edit]




 "Reptiles and Amphibians" documents how a group of komodo dragons (pictured) kill and eventually eat a water buffalo using venom.UK broadcast 19 October 2009,[27] 4.93 million viewers[25] (18.9% audience share)[28]
In the opening sequence, an aerial camera zooms in on a solitary Komodo dragon from afar. This, states Attenborough, is the last place on Earth still ruled by reptiles. Though they may seem primitive, reptiles and amphibians still thrive thanks to diverse survival strategies. In Venezuela, a pebble toad evades a tarantula by free-falling down a steep rock face. The basilisk, nicknamed the Jesus Christ lizard, can literally run on water and the Brazilian pygmy gecko is so light it does not break the surface. Reptiles are cold-blooded, and some have developed unusual strategies to absorb heat. Namaqua chameleons darken the skin of the side of their body facing the sun. A male red-sided garter snake masquerades as a female using fake pheromones, attracting rival males which help raise its body temperature and thus its chance of breeding. Malagasy collared lizards conceal their eggs by burying them, but egg-eating hognose snakes stake out their favourite laying sites. Niue Island sea kraits lay theirs in a chamber only accessible via an underwater tunnel. Other reptiles guard their eggs. Horned lizards drive off predators, but larger adversaries such as coachwhip snakes prompt a different reaction – the lizard plays dead. Komodo dragons prey on water buffalo in the dry season. They stalk a buffalo for three weeks as it slowly succumbs to a toxic bite, then strip the carcass in four hours. In Life on Location, the Komodo film crew tell of the harrowing experience of filming the dragon hunt.[27]
3. "Mammals"[edit]




 A breaching humpback whale, a species featured in "Mammals".UK broadcast 26 October 2009,[29] 5.55 million viewers[25] (21.9% audience share)[30]
Intelligence, warm blood and strong family bonds have made mammals the most successful group of animals on the planet: they can even survive the Antarctic winter. Here, a Weddell seal leads her pup on its first swim beneath the ice. In East Africa, a rufous sengi uses a mental map of the pathways it has cleared to outwit a chasing lizard. A young aye-aye takes four years to learn how to find and extract beetle grubs, food no other mammal can reach. Reindeer move through the Arctic tundra, making the longest overland migration of any animal. Other mammals have evolved different ways of travelling long distances: ten million fruit bats congregate at Zambia's Kasanka swamps to gorge on fruiting trees. Mammals employ different strategies to find food. At night on the African savannah, hyenas force lions off a kill through sheer weight of numbers, whilst in the Arctic, dozens of polar bears take advantage of a bowhead whale carcass. Raising young is another important factor in mammals' success. Coatis and meerkats form social groups to share the burden of childcare. A first-time African elephant mother needs the experience of the herd's matriarch to get her young calf out of trouble. The largest animals in the ocean are also mammals. The seas around Tonga are both a nursery and mating ground for humpback whales. A female leads her potential suitors on a chase, the males battling for dominance behind her. Life on Location follows the never-before filmed humpback heat run.[29]
4. "Fish"[edit]




 "Fish" documents the breeding cycle of a clownfish, pictured hiding amongst the tentacles of an anemone.UK broadcast 2 November 2009,[31] 4.56 million viewers[25] (18.1% audience share)[32]
Fish, the most diverse group of vertebrate animals, thrive in the world’s rivers, lakes and oceans. Slow-motion footage reveals the behaviour of some of the fastest fish in the sea, sailfish and flying fish. The latter gather in large numbers to lay their eggs on a floating palm frond, which sinks under the weight. The eggs of weedy sea dragons, found in the shallow waters off southern Australia, are carried by the male. In the fertile seas of the western Pacific, competition is fierce. A sarcastic fringehead defends its home, an old shell, from a passing octopus and a rival. In Japan, mudskippers have carved a niche on the rich mudflats. Freshwater fish are also featured. Tiny gobies are filmed climbing Hawaiian waterfalls to colonise the placid pools upstream, while in East Africa, barbels pick clean the skin of the resident hippos and feed on their rich dung in return. Wrasses perform the cleaning duties on coral reefs, but jacks[disambiguation needed] also remove parasites by scratching against the rough skin of silvertip sharks. Clownfish, whose life cycle is filmed in intimate detail using macro cameras, are protected by the fronds of an anemone, but other species seek safety in numbers. A shoal of ever-moving anchovies proves too difficult a target for sea lions. Sometimes, predators have the edge: ragged tooth sharks are shown attacking sardines trapped in shallow waters off South Africa. Life on Location looks at the efforts of underwater cameramen to capture the sailfish and flying fish sequences.[31]
5. "Birds"[edit]




 "Birds" shows how lammergeiers in the Simien Mountains collect bones from animal carcasses and smash them by dropping them on to rock slabs.UK broadcast 9 November 2009,[33] 4.33 million viewers[25] (17.6% audience share)[34]
Birds, whose feathers have made them extremely adaptable and enabled them to fly, are the subject of programme five. The courtship flight of the marvellous spatuletail hummingbird is shot at high speed to slow down its rapid wing beats. The male must rest every few seconds due to the energy needed to display his elongated tail feathers. Lammergeiers, by contrast, soar on mountain thermals with a minimum of effort. A red-billed tropicbird bringing a meal back to its chick uses aerial agility to evade the marauding magnificent frigatebirds. Some birds nest in extreme locations to avoid threats from predators. Kenya's caustic soda lakes are a perilous environment for a lesser flamingo chick, while chinstrap penguins breed on a volcanic island off the Antarctic Peninsula. In South Africa, declining fish stocks force Cape gannets to abandon their chicks to search for food, presenting great white pelicans with the chance to snatch an easy meal. Feathers can also be used for display. Male sage grouse square up to one another at their leks, courting Clark's and Western Grebes perform an elaborate ritual to reaffirm their bond and thousands of lesser flamingos move in a synchronised display. Male Birds of paradise show off their brilliant plumes in wild courtship displays (some of this footage is from Planet Earth). In West Papua, the small, drab Vogelkop bowerbird uses a different strategy. The male decorates his bower with colourful jewels from the forest, and uses vocal mimicry to attract the attention of a female. Mating is filmed for the first time, the end result of a long and difficult quest featured in Life on Location.[33]
6. "Insects"[edit]




 Two billion monarch butterflies (pictured) hibernate in a small area of high altitude forest in Mexico.UK broadcast 16 November 2009,[35] 3.80 million viewers (14.6% audience share)[36]
The sixth episode enters the world of insects. By assuming a variety of body shapes and incorporating armour and wings, they have evolved diverse survival strategies and become the most abundant creatures on Earth. In Chilean Patagonia, male Darwin’s beetles lock horns and hurl their rivals from the treetops in search of a mate. A damselfly’s chance to mate and lay eggs can be cut abruptly short by a leaping frog. Monarch butterflies use their wings to power them on an epic migration to their hibernating grounds in the forests of Mexico’s Sierra Madre. Many insects carry chemical weapons as a form of defence. High-speed cameras show oogpister beetles squirting formic acid into the face of an inquisitive mongoose and bombardier beetles firing boiling caustic liquid from their abdomens. Some insects gain an advantage through co-operation. When an American black bear destroys a bee’s nest, the colony survives by carrying their honey to a new site. Japanese red bug nymphs will move to a different nest if their mother fails to provide sufficient food. In the Australian outback, male Dawson’s bees fight to the death over females emerging from their nest burrows. As a result, all will die, but the strongest mate most often. Argentina’s grasscutter ants form huge colonies five million strong. They feed on a fungus which they cultivate underground, in nest structures which have natural ventilation. Life on Location documents the Mexico crew’s attempts to rig up aerial camera shots of the awakening monarch butterflies.[35]
7. "Hunters and Hunted"[edit]




 A killer whale's unique hunting strategy is revealed in "Hunters and Hunted".UK broadcast 23 November 2009,[37] 4.04 million viewers (15.9% audience share)[38]
Mammals have adopted diverse strategies to hunt their prey and evade predators. As well as revisiting the cheetah and dolphin hunts first shown in episode one, the programme shows how a sure-footed ibex kid escapes a hunting fox by bounding across a precipitous mountainside above the Dead Sea. Slow motion footage reveals the fishing behaviour of greater bulldog bats in Belize and brown bears at an Alaskan river mouth, the latter awaiting the return of spawning salmon. The play-fighting of juvenile stoats helps train them to run down prey such as rabbits, which are many times their own size. The alpha female of an Ethiopian wolf pack stays at the den to wean her cubs while other adults hunt rats on the highland plateau. The extraordinary nasal appendage of a star-nosed mole enables it to hunt successfully underground and, by using bubbles to detect its prey, underwater. A tiger’s stealthy approach to a group of feeding chital deer is thwarted when a langur, watching from above, raises the alarm. The final sequence shows a female killer whale taking elephant seal pups from their nursery pool in the Falkland Islands. This is a risky strategy as she could easily become beached in the shallow water. She is the only killer whale known to hunt this way, but her calf shadows her moves, ensuring her knowledge will be passed on. Also close by were the film crew, who reveal how the sequence was shot for Life on Location.[37]
8. "Creatures of the Deep"[edit]




 The Australian giant cuttlefish is one of the marine invertebrates featured in "Creatures of the Deep".UK broadcast 30 November 2009,[39] 3.95 million viewers (15.6% audience share)[40]
Marine invertebrates, the descendants of one billion years of evolutionary history, are the most abundant creatures in the ocean. In the Sea of Cortez, packs of Humboldt squid make night-time raids from the deep to co-operatively hunt sardines. Beneath the permanent Antarctic sea ice of McMurdo Sound, sea urchins, red sea stars and nemertean worms are filmed scavenging on a seal carcass. A fried egg jellyfish hunts amongst a swarm of Aurelia in the open ocean, spearing its prey with harpoon-like tentacles. In the shallows off South Australia, hundreds of thousands of spider crabs gather annually to moult. Many invertebrates have simple nervous systems, but giant cuttlefish have large brains and complex mating habits. Large males use flashing stroboscopic colours and strength to win a mate, whereas smaller rivals rely on deceit: both tactics are successful. A Giant Pacific Octopus sacrifices her life to tend her single clutch of eggs for six months. As a Pycnopodia starfish feeds on her remains, it comes under attack from a king crab. Coral reefs, which rival rainforests in their diversity, are the largest living structures on Earth and are created by coral polyps. Porcelain crabs, boxer crabs and orangutan crabs are shown to illustrate the many specialised ways of catching food on a reef. Marine invertebrates have a lasting legacy on land too – their shells formed the chalk and limestone deposits of Eurasia and the Americas. Life on Location documents the recording of Antarctic sea life and the birth of a reef.[39]
9. "Plants"[edit]




 The dragon's blood tree survives in semi-desert conditions by collecting moisture from mist and fog.UK broadcast 7 December 2009,[41] 4.30 million viewers[25] (18.0% audience share)[42]
Plants endure a daily struggle for water, nutrients and light. On the forest floor where light is scarce, time-lapse shots show ivies and creepers climbing into the canopy using sticky pads, hooks or coiled tendrils. Epiphytes grow directly on the topmost branches of trees. Their bare roots absorb water and trap falling leaves, which provide nutrients as they decompose. Animals can also be a source of food: the sundew traps mosquitoes with sticky fluid, and venus flytraps close their clamshell leaves on unwitting insects. Sandhill milkweed defends itself against feeding monarch caterpillars by secreting sticky latex from its leaves. The milkweed endures the onslaught because, like most plants, it produces flowers, and the newly hatched butterflies pollinate them. After flowering, brunsvigia plants in South Africa are snapped off by strong winds, sending their seed heads cartwheeling across the ground. Saguaro cacti produce succulent fruit to attract desert animals which ingest and disperse their seeds. Some plants have adapted to survive environmental extremes. Dragon's blood trees and desert roses thrive on arid Socotra, and coastal mangrove trees survive by filtering salt from seawater. Bristlecone pines live above 3,000m in North America’s mountains. They have a six-week growing season and can live for 5,000 years, making them the oldest living things on Earth. Grasses are the most successful of all plants. Of their 10,000 varieties, two cover more land than any other plant: rice and wheat. Life on Location goes behind the scenes of a time-lapse sequence in an English woodland. Because actually growing plants outdoors would prove a challenge to film (with constantly changing conditions) this scene used plants grown in a studio on a bluescreen duplicating a real outdoor backdrop. The entire process took two years to make.[41]
10. "Primates"[edit]




Japanese macaques are the most northerly primates, enduring winter temperatures of −20 °C (−4 °F) in the Japanese Alps.UK broadcast 14 December 2009,[43] 5.14 million viewers[25] (21.9% audience share)[44]
Intelligence, curiosity and complex societies have enabled primates to exploit many different habitats. In Ethiopia, male Hamadryas baboons restore discipline after a skirmish with a rival troop. In Japanese macaque society, only those members from the correct bloodlines are permitted to use thermal springs in winter; others are left out in the cold. Examples of primate communication include a silverback gorilla advertising his territory though vocalisations and chest-beating, and the piercing calls of spectral tarsiers which help keep their group together. In Thailand's rainforests, lar gibbons use song to reinforce sexual and family bonds. By contrast, ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar broadcast sexual signals using scent glands. A young orangutan's upbringing equips it with all the skills it needs to survive in the forest, including finding food, moving through the canopy and building a shelter. On South Africa's Cape Peninsula, chacma baboons forage kelp beds exposed by the lowest tides for nutritious shark eggs and mussels. White-faced capuchins collect clams in Costa Rica's coastal mangroves, but lack the powerful jaws to pierce the shells. Their solution is to beat the shellfish against trees or rocks, which eventually exhausts the muscle that holds the shell closed. Life on Location follows camerawoman Justine Evans to Guinea to film tool use in chimpanzees. Dextrous hand movements enable them to dip for ants and termites using plant stems. They have also learned to crack nuts using precise and efficient blows with a stone. One male chimp is filmed sharing his stone with a female.[43]
Inside Life[edit]
Main article: Inside Life
A complementary children's TV series, Inside Life, aired on the CBBC Channel and followed young volunteers as they go behind the scenes with the Life production team and accompany the film-makers on expeditions in the field.[45] It began airing on 13 October 2009.
One Life[edit]
In 2011, BBC Earth used Attenborough's footage of animals to create a documentary film called One Life narrated by Daniel Craig.
Reception[edit]
The series was nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards in July 2010. These included a nomination for Outstanding Nonfiction Series along with selections in a number of technical categories.[46] The episode "Challenges of Life" went on to win the Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming award.
In June 2010, Life won two Rockies at the Banff World Television Festival for best wildlife and natural history programme and best documentary.[47][48][49]
In October 2010, Life was awarded the Jury's Special Prize at the Wildscreen Festival.[50]
DVD, Blu-ray and book[edit]
The series was released in the UK as Region 2, four-disc DVD (BBCDVD3068) and Blu-ray Disc (BBCBD0055) box sets by 2Entertain on 30 November 2009.[51][52] Region 1 DVD and Blu-ray Discs of both the BBC and Discovery versions of the series were released on 1 June 2010. In Australia, a Region 4, four-disc DVD and Blu-ray Disc was released by ABC DVD/Village Roadshow on 7 October 2010.[53]
A hardcover book written by producers Martha Holmes and Michael Gunton accompanies the television series. Life was published in the UK by BBC Books (ISBN 9781846076428) on 1 October 2009.[54]
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3.Jump up ^ Khan, Urmee (10 July 2009). "David Attenborough Life series goes deeper than ever into world of the wild". London: The Daily Telegraph.
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5.^ Jump up to: a b Sherwin, Adam (5 February 2007). "Is anyone a natural to replace Attenborough?". London: The Times. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
6.Jump up ^ Holmwood, Leigh (21 September 2007). "Attenborough is back – again". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
7.Jump up ^ Barrington, Rupert (November 2009), "Life", BBC Wildlife 27 (12)
8.^ Jump up to: a b "BBC "Life" – Mammals". WildlifeExtra.com. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
9.Jump up ^ Nikkhah, Roya (11 November 2007). "New TV scandal as BBC foxes viewers again". London: The Daily Telegraph.
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11.Jump up ^ "BBC is finding Nemo... in Swansea". BBC News Online. 3 November 2009. Retrieved 17 November 2009.
12.Jump up ^ "Eagles filmed hunting reindeer". BBC Earth News. 20 October 2009. Retrieved 17 November 2009.
13.Jump up ^ Clarke, Tom (November 2009), "Life: Dolphin Genius", BBC Wildlife 27 (12)
14.Jump up ^ Chapman, Adam (November 2009), "Life: Cheetahs hunting Ostriches", BBC Wildlife 27 (12)
15.Jump up ^ Fothergill, Alastair (10 June 2008). "Should we really be scared of the Komodo dragon?". London: Daily Mail.
16.Jump up ^ Collins, Fergus (November 2009), "Life: A Year in a Minute", BBC Wildlife 27 (12)
17.Jump up ^ Blakeney, Simon (November 2009), "Life: Delicate Sword-work", BBC Wildlife 27 (12)
18.Jump up ^ Sweney, Mark (5 July 2010). "BBC Worldwide reports record profits". London: The Guardian.
19.Jump up ^ Daswani, Mansha (23 October 2009). "BBC Worldwide announces Canadian slot for Life". Worldscreen.com.
20.Jump up ^ Stelter, Brian (2 November 2009). "Oprah to Narrate Nature Series on the Discovery Channel". New York Times.
21.Jump up ^ "BBC Worldwide brings Life to Latin America". BBC Press Office. 6 October 2009.
22.Jump up ^ "Juanes narró 'Vida', un nuevo documental de Discovery y la BBC". El Tiempo. 15 March 2010.
23.Jump up ^ "ABC1 Programming Airdate: Life". ABC Television Publicity. 23 September 2010.
24.^ Jump up to: a b Produced by Martha Holmes (2009-10-12). "Challenges of Life". Life. BBC. BBC One.
25.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "Weekly Top 30 Programmes". BARB. Retrieved 14 November 2009. (data available for Life broadcast weeks by searching archive)
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27.^ Jump up to: a b Produced by Rupert Barrington (2009-10-19). "Reptiles and Amphibians". Life. BBC. BBC One.
28.Jump up ^ "ITV1's 'Murderland' dents 'FlashForward'". DigitalSpy.co.uk. 20 October 2009.
29.^ Jump up to: a b Produced by Ted Oakes (2009-10-26). "Mammals". Life. BBC. BBC One.
30.Jump up ^ "2.7 million see latest 'FlashForward'". DigitalSpy.co.uk. 27 October 2009.
31.^ Jump up to: a b Produced by Adam Chapman (2009-11-02). "Fish". Life. BBC. BBC One.
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33.^ Jump up to: a b Produced by Patrick Morris (2009-11-09). "Birds". Life. BBC. BBC One.
34.Jump up ^ "1.2 million see Gary Glitter 'hanged'". DigitalSpy.co.uk. 10 November 2009.
35.^ Jump up to: a b Produced by Rupert Barrington (2009-11-16). "Insects". Life. BBC. BBC One.
36.Jump up ^ "Katie Price 'Celeb' entrance draws 9.4m". DigitalSpy.co.uk. 17 November 2009.
37.^ Jump up to: a b Produced by Adam Chapman (2009-11-23). "Hunters and Hunted". Life. BBC. BBC One.
38.Jump up ^ "9.5m see Katie Price quit 'I'm A Celeb'". DigitalSpy.co.uk. 24 November 2009.
39.^ Jump up to: a b Produced by Neil Lucas (2009-11-30). "Creatures of the Deep". Life. BBC. BBC One.
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41.^ Jump up to: a b Produced by Neil Lucas (2009-12-07). "Plants". Life. BBC. BBC One.
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43.^ Jump up to: a b Produced by Patrick Morris (2009-12-14). "Primates". Life. BBC. BBC One.
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54.Jump up ^ "Life (hardcover), by Martha Holmes and Mike Gunton". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 23 March 2009.
External links[edit]
Life at BBC Programmes
Life on the Eden website
Life website at Discovery Channel US
Life at the Discovery Channel (Canada) website
Life at the Internet Movie Database
Behind-the-scenes information at OpenLearn, the BBC/OU online learning portal
"The Wildlife of Life – 62 clips from the series and information on the animals, plants, habitats and adaptations featured" at BBC Online
A first look at Life, preview video from the Discovery Channel (USA)
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Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo
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Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo

Date opened
June 1989[1]
Location
Gulf Shores, Alabama, Alabama
Coordinates
30.261690°N 87.688472°WCoordinates: 30.261690°N 87.688472°W
Land area
17 acres (6.9 ha)[2]
Number of animals
300[2]
Annual visitors
100,000[3]
Website
www.alabamagulfcoastzoo.com
The Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo opened in June 1989 in Gulf Shores, Alabama, United States as Zooland Animal Park. It is operated by the Zoo Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and relies on admissions, memberships and contributions for its funding.[1] It was the basis of the Animal Planet show The Little Zoo That Could.
The zoo is several blocks north of the beach and is home to more than 290 animals including lions, tigers, bears, monkeys, and macaws. It includes a petting zoo, reptile house, and aviary, as well as daily animal shows in the summer.


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1 History
2 The Little Zoo that Could
3 The future
4 Notes
5 External links

History[edit]
The Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo started as the private project of Joey Ward of Gulf Shores, and opened in June 1989 as Zooland Animal Park. The Ward family created the Zoo Foundation Inc. (a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization) in 1991 to operate the zoo, at the same time donating the 17 acres (6.9 ha) that make up the zoo today. An additional 13 acres (5.3 ha), which are still undeveloped, was donated by the Ward family and the Erie Meyer Foundation in 1994.[2][3]
In July 1997 Hurricane Danny hit Gulf Shores. Then in 1998, Hurricane Georges hit, causing more flood damage. The zoo evacuated all of its animals in both cases, transporting them 15 miles (24 km) inland to higher ground and becoming the first zoo to have a full scale evacuation during a hurricane. These expensive evacuations, and the repairs following the hurricanes, almost caused the zoo to close in 1999, but fund raising efforts were successful in raising enough money to keep it open. Hurricane Ivan in 2004 caused $500,000 in damage, forcing another evacuation and closing the zoo for 14 months. Several animals were not caught during this evacuation, and were lost. More evacuations resulted from Dennis and Katrina in 2005, but the zoo was able to reopen fairly quickly in October 2005.[3]
The Little Zoo that Could[edit]
The flurry of activity around the zoo attracted media attention during Hurricane Ivan, and the zoo was approached about doing a series for Animal Planet. Shooting for the series started in 2005, and the first of 13 episodes of "The Little Zoo that Could" aired in February 2006. The series focused on the zoo's efforts to reopen after being battered by 3 major hurricanes in 2004 and 2005: Hurricane Ivan, Hurricane Dennis, and Hurricane Katrina. A one-hour follow-up on the series aired in February 2007. The zoo announced that they are in the process of making a new show, suspected to air about the same time the new zoo opens.[3]
The future[edit]
The local community and businesses have donated money, building supplies and services in the past. On-going funding through sponsorships, grants, and endowments from major corporations did not exist before 1998, but are now being pursued to ensure the zoo’s future.
In 2009 the zoo unveiled a plan to move to new quarters that are farther inland and less susceptible to flooding. The 25 acres (10 ha) for the new zoo facilities were donated by Clyde Weir and his daughter Andrea Weir Franklin. The new facilities are scheduled to open in early 2013.[4]
Notes[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "About the Zoo". alabamagulfcoastzoo.com. Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo. Archived from the original on 30 April 2010. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c "Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo". alabamagulfcoastzoo.com. Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo. Archived from the original on 15 May 2010. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c d "Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo". encyclopediaofalabama.org. Encyclopedia of Alabama. August 18, 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
4.Jump up ^ "New Facilities". alabamagulfcoastzoo.com. Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
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Living with Tigers
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Living with Tigers is a 2003 documentary about tigers in Africa. It aired on Discovery.
The sequel to Living with Tigers is Tiger Man of Africa on the National Geographic Channel.[1]
This documentary features a Bengal tiger re-wilding project started by John Varty in 2000. This project involves training captive-bred Bengal tiger cubs by their human trainers so that the tigers can regain their predatory instincts. Once they prove that they can sustain themselves in the wild, they would be released into the wilderness of Africa to fend for themselves. Their trainers, John Varty and Dave Salmoni (big-cat trainer and zoologist), have to teach them how to stalk, to hunt, and, most importantly, to associate hunting with food.
It is claimed by some that two Bengal tigers have already succeeded in re-wilding, and two more tigers are currently undergoing their re-wilding training. This project is featured by The Discovery Channel as a documentary, Living With Tigers. It was voted one of the best Discovery Channel documentaries in 2003.
A strong criticism about this project is with the chosen cubs. Experts state that the four tigers (Ron, Julie, Seatao and Shadow) involved in the re-wilding project are not purebred Bengal tigers and should not be used for breeding. The four tigers are not recorded in the Bengal tiger studbook and should not be deemed as purebred Bengal tigers. Many tigers in the world's zoos are genetically impure, and there is no reason to suppose these four are not among them.[2] The 1997 International Tiger Studbook lists the current global captive population of Bengal tigers at 210 tigers. All of the studbook-registered captive population is maintained in Indian zoos, except for one female Bengal tiger in North America.[3] It is important to note that Ron and Julie (two of the tigers) were bred in the USA and hand-raised at Bowmanville Zoo in Canada,[4] while Seatow and Shadow are two tigers bred in South Africa.[5]
The tigers in the Tiger Canyons Project have recently been confirmed to be crossbred Siberian/Bengal tigers. Tigers that are not genetically pure are not allowed to participate in the tiger Species Survival Plan, which aims to breed genetically pure tiger specimens and individuals.[6]
The documentary has been alleged by some to be a fraud.[7] One source claims that the tigers are unable to hunt, and the film crew chased the prey up against the fence and into the path of the tigers just for the sake of dramatic footage. Cory Meacham, a US-based environmental journalist mentioned that "the film has about as much to do with tiger conservation as a Disney cartoon." An additional assertion is that the tigers have not been released and still reside in a small enclosure under constant watch and with frequent human contact. Some conservationists fear the public's being misled by false representation of footage.[8]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Tiger Man of Africa
2.Jump up ^ Releasing Captive Tigers - South Africa
3.Jump up ^ Save The Tiger Fund | Bengal Tiger
4.Jump up ^ Ron and Julie, Living with Tigers, Tiger Canyons, John Varty
5.Jump up ^ Seatao and Shadow, Tiger Canyons, John Varty
6.Jump up ^ Purrrfect Breed?
7.Jump up ^ http://www.wildeye.co.uk/wildlife-film/Wfn/wfn56.htm
8.Jump up ^ http://www.nomadtours.co.za/article_2006-6-2_5.html
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Lost Tapes
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Genre
Found footage
Horror
Thriller
Paranormal
Format
Live-action
Voices of
Max Brooks series 3 episode 1
Narrated by
Rick Robles
Theme music composer
Devin Powers
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
3
No. of episodes
34 (List of episodes)
Production

Running time
Approx. 22 minutes
Production company(s)
Go Go Luckey Entertainment
Distributor
Discovery Communications
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet
Original run
October 30, 2008 – November 9, 2010
External links
Website
Production website
Lost Tapes is an American television horror series that aired on Animal Planet. Produced by Go Go Luckey Entertainment, the program presents found footage depicting traumatic encounters with cryptozoological creatures, including the Chupacabra and Bigfoot, and even supernatural creatures such as the Werewolf and Vampire, and extraterrestrials: Alien and Reptilian.[1]
The pilot (Chupacabra) aired on Animal Planet October 30, 2008, for Halloween, but the series officially premiered on January 6, 2009.[2] Animal Planet commissioned a second season, which premiered on September 29, 2009.[3] Season 3 premiered on September 28, 2010, with episodes featuring zombies and the Kraken. The show also used to air on Planet Green.


Contents  [hide]
1 Overview
2 Episodes
3 Critical reception
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Overview[edit]

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Lost Tapes depicts traumatic scenarios where people are attacked and/or killed by mysterious, dangerous, deadly, savage, and ferocious paranormal wild cryptids. The series is shot in a mockumentary style. Most episodes begin with a quick introduction of facts, which include interviews with experts explaining scientific theories or facts and folklore behind the episode's titular creature. In the second season, some episodes began with footage of a person being attacked and often killed by the episode's creature, an introduction meant to set up the events of each episode. In the third season, every episode had such an introduction, though the events of every episode in all three seasons are accompanied by videos of scientists, cryptozoologists, and folklorists giving their thoughts and opinions of the creatures, which are called Lost Tapes: Revelations.
A common formula in Lost Tapes involves the human characters, usually either a single person or a small group, ending up in a remote part of the world or otherwise in a place with few options of escape, such as enclosed areas like buildings or underground tunnels. They soon encounter the episode's creature in a series of stressful events, which sometimes result in the deaths of some or all of the featured characters. Many episodes end in cliffhangers which state that the creature which appeared in the episode was never found, and may "live among us". With the exception of a brief injury in Thunderbird, no children have been physically harmed on-screen, though sometimes they become traumatized after the events of the episode, as in Chupacabra and Death Raptor.
In most episodes, the creatures are often only partially revealed to the audience, and in brief glimpses or otherwise only as silhouettes, shadows, or are obscured by darkness; sometimes they are never seen at all (such as in Thunderbird and Chupacabra), but their presence is made obvious by sounds and the characters' reactions to them. To give the show a mysterious atmosphere, techniques such as those used in Jaws are employed, and the creatures are almost never fully seen. Hellhound, the last episode of the first season, marked the first time that a creature was fully shown on camera, and the second season revealed more creatures than the first: in Jersey Devil, for instance, the creature's legs, hooves, and face are briefly shown; in Vampire, the creature's entire body can be seen on several occasions, though only briefly; and in the season's last episode, Dover Demon, the entire creature can be seen in the background when a night vision camera is turned on. The third season showed even more creatures, and many of them in full view of the camera. However, realism was better-maintained with human-like creatures, such as in Zombies and Reptilian. Even non-human-like animals were shown more frequently, though this led to some negative criticism among fans as many of the creatures in the third season were less convincing with low budget animatronics and CGI, such as in Kraken and Q: The Serpent God, or even simply people in costumes, as in Devil Monkey and Yeti.
While most episodes feature the titular cryptid as the antagonist, in some episodes they benefit the people that the story follows. For example, in Bigfoot, the creature seems to be watching over and protecting the main character, even killing a poacher that was trying to attack her; Mothman implies that the featured cryptid was trying to warn people about the imminent collapse of a bridge.
While there is normally no connection between episodes, the third season introduced the recurring Enigma Corporation, "a private security firm that specializes in the unexplained," though it is not exactly clear what order each of the episodes featuring them is supposed to be in chronologically or if the characters Noel Connor and Elise Mooney remember their experiences in each episode, as no connection between each time besides the third (and in Strigoi Vampire fourth) agent being killed. The Enigma Corporation first appeared in the third season's premiere, Zombies, and reappeared in Strigoi Vampire and again in Q: The Serpent God.
Episodes[edit]
Main article: List of Lost Tapes episodes

Season
Episodes
Original airdates

Season premiere
Season finale
 1 14 October 30, 2008 February 17, 2009
 2 10 September 29, 2009 November 24, 2009
 3 10 September 28, 2010 November 9, 2010
Critical reception[edit]
Lost Tapes has received mixed reviews from critics. In a preview of the season one DVD, TV Squad writer John Scott Lewinski gave the film a mostly unfavorable review, stating that in the case of this series, "Animal Planet could be accused of repacking a horror/sci-fi show as an animal documentary" and that much of the program is "outright bollocks." He did, however, state that the show holds some appeal for audiences looking for a scare, or "incredibly gullible people."[4] Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media gave the series three out of five stars, noting that while the acting was "subpar", the show overall was "simultaneously scintillating and bone-chilling."[5]
The show currently holds a 83% "Fresh" audience score at Rotten Tomatoes.[6]
See also[edit]
Found footage
Cryptozoology
Cryptid
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://animal.discovery.com/tv/lost-tapes/
2.Jump up ^ http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/lost-tapes/episode-guide/EP01086200
3.Jump up ^ "ANIMAL PLANET UNLEASHES BOLD ENTERTAINMENT SLATE IN 2009-2010 UPFRONT SEASON" (Press release). Animal Planet. 2009-04-02. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
4.Jump up ^ Lewinski, John Scott (2009-07-18). "Mysterious creatures haunt Animal Planet's Lost Tapes DVD". TVSquad.com. Retrieved 2010-02-13.
5.Jump up ^ http://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/lost-tapes
6.Jump up ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lost_tapes/
External links[edit]
Official website
Lost Tapes at the Internet Movie Database


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The following is a list of episodes of Lost Tapes, a thriller docudrama television series that airs on the Animal Planet channel. Each episode is either "TV PG" followed by V or L, or "TV 14" followed by V or L. The plot of each episode is described, below, using in-universe tone.


Contents  [hide]
1 Series overview
2 Season 1 (2008–2009)
3 Season 2 (2009)
4 Season 3 (2010)

Series overview[edit]

Season
Episodes
Original airdates

Season premiere
Season finale
 1 14 October 30, 2008 February 17, 2009
 2 10 September 29, 2009 November 24, 2009
 3 10 September 28, 2010 November 9, 2010
Season 1 (2008–2009)[edit]

Series #
Season #
Title
Subject matter
Original airdate

1
1 "Chupacabra" Chupacabra October 30, 2008
On July 5, 2006, the Ramirez family in Nogales, Mexico are celebrating their daughter Eva's birthday, and receive two gifts from Eva's brother in the United States: one is a video camera, and the other is a letter saying that they will be brought across the border into Arizona. Eva's father Carlos is excited about going to America, but her mother and grandmother are concerned about the threats that they may encounter, ranging from wild predators to death from heat exposure. Nonetheless, they prepare to leave for the border. Two days later, they are taken into the Sonora Desert by a hired smuggler and hide in his pickup truck but he suddenly stops at around noon, two hours away from the border: instead of fulfilling his part of the bargain, the smuggler forces them out at gunpoint and abandons them in the desert, taking their money and water with him. With few other options, they decide to try to reach the border on foot; Eva suddenly drops her camera without realizing it, but is reminded of it by Carlos. As she goes to retrieve the camera, she suddenly hears a fierce snarl coming from the brush, but makes nothing of it. At about 8:30 in the evening, at the border area, they begin to hear growling and hissing from foliage nearby; this worries them, but Carlos tells them to ignore it.
Suddenly, they are attacked by an unseen creature and begin running from it. Meanwhile, two American border-patrol agents, T. Valentine and M. Santino, receive a report that the Ramrirez family is trying to cross the border illegally and go to apprehend them; the same thermal images from an unmanned aerial vehicle that show them where the Ramirez family is also showing that their attacker is a strange, dog-like creature. When they arrive at the scene, following conflicting reports of three, then four, and then zero people in the desert, they discover the two corpses, the bodies of Eva's parents. They at first attribute both deaths to heat exposure, but suddenly find both of their necks have three unusual puncture marks on them, and the bodies are mysteriously drained of blood. While Valentine reports the deaths via radio, Santino hears bizarre sounds coming from a nearby bush and goes to investigate.
Instead, he discovers Eva, who is terrified but unhurt, and hiding from her parents' attacker. As darkness falls, they take Eva to their car; Valentine tries to console her and acquire information while Santino searches the area for other survivors. He hears strange sounds coming from the darkness, and finds animal carcasses which have been drained of blood in a similar way. After a while, he runs back to the car, telling Valentine to join him so that they can track and destroy the thing that is making the sounds, knowing that it is extremely dangerous. They search in the dark of the brush, and are suddenly confronted by the chupacabra, which is seen only as a pair of glowing eyes, and they open fire, before running back to their car just as backup arrives.
The agents' official report stated that the cause of death for Eva's parents was unknown, but noted the puncture wounds and missing blood. Eva was returned to her grandmother in Nogales, but was plagued by nightmares of the creature. The official report made no mention of any unknown animal, and whether or not the chupacabra escaped or was shot dead by the border patrol agents remains a mystery. For Eva, the encounter was all too real.
2
2 "Bigfoot" Bigfoot October 30, 2008
Between August 14, 2005, forest ranger Rachel Glen performs a study in the woods, concerning the declining population of black bears in the Pacific Northwest. During the course of her study, recorded with portable and stationary cameras, she not only observed the bears but also heard strange sounds coming from the forest, and had a feeling she was being watched. After setting up a camera trap one day, she hears strange sounds and climbs a hill, only to be snared by an illegal poacher's trap. Unbeknownst to her, she is being watched and taped by a poacher as she disables the traps the poacher had set up. Some of her cameras capture brief glimpses of a large, hairy creature that cannot be identified. Meanwhile, the poacher discovers and destroys a few of her cameras.
She grows more and more suspicious of the strange sounds and unidentifiable subjects in many of her photos. While examining a camera that had been tampered with, she hears more strange sounds and discovers a den in the woods. Inside, she discovers some strange hair, which she sends to the game warden. Over the phone, the warden tells her that the hair belongs to some kind of primate, and warns her to be careful of hostile poachers. After she gets off the phone, she suddenly hears someone call her name and goes to the door, but only finds a threatening sign that says, "WHO'S WATCHING YOU?" pinned to her door with a hatchet.
She requests help, but has to wait for it to arrive because of how remote her outpost is. She later finds the poacher lurking outside her outpost and makes him hand over the camera he was holding at gunpoint, which contains pictures where the poacher seems to be stalking her. In the last hours before she leaves, she begins to wonder about the strange creature she keeps seeing, and gets the feeling that it seems to be watching over her. As she is making her final video journal entry at her outpost, the poacher tries to break into her cabin. She suddenly hears screams for help and strange animalistic sounds outside. She discovers the poacher, who has apparently been killed by the creature and is now hanging upside down from one of his own traps. She hears more strange sounds, but finds no other signs of the creature. After the poacher's death, the black bear populations began to rise again, but there is no confirmation of any other unusual creatures in the area.
3
3 "Monster of Monterey" New Nessie January 6, 2009
On July 17, 2007, journalist and outdoor enthusiast Sharon Novak entered the final day of her solo, three-month sailing trip around the world; her boat was rigged with several cameras so that her journey could be broadcast live over the Internet, which she also used to maintain contact with her boyfriend Charles through live video chat. When she was about thirty-five miles west of Monterey Bay in California, the wind died down and Sharon took a moment to thank the people who had given her moral support during her trip. At about noon, Sharon's radio suddenly picked up a distress call via radio from another boat, but it cuts out before the other sailor can tell her what has happened. Sharon tries to raise the ship on her radio, but there is no response.
Using her ship's motor, she sails to the coordinates that were given out by the man on the radio before it cut out. As she heads in that direction, she decides to tell Charles about her plan so that he doesn't worry. As she talks to him, her boat is suddenly hit by something underwater with enough force to knock her sideways and the engine dies. As she goes outside to take a look, one of the cameras mounted high on the boat captures the silhouette of a creature moving just beneath the surface of the water, outside her line of sight. Sharon decides to go into the water to investigate what has happened, which worries Charles, but she assures him that nothing will happen to her. She tethers herself to the boat, as well as attaching a waterproof video camera to her lifejacket, so that she could broadcast whatever she found to her viewers. Minutes later, she re-emerges from the water, having discovered a chunk of flesh that she assumes has come from a whale which was stuck in her motor. Her current problem resolved, Sharon continues to the coordinates given by the distress call, which are located on top of the Monterey Canyon. As she approaches the other ship, she sees no one aboard. She sails around the boat to try to locate the captain, but instead finds blood spattered on the vessel.
Now worried for her safety and the missing captain's, Sharon tries to call the Coast Guard, but fails. As she tries to leave the area--concluding that whatever happened on the other boat is in the jurisdiction of the Coast Guard, not her--she puts on a wet suit and her lifejacket again. Her boat is suddenly rammed again, killing the engine. Growing more and more frightened, Sharon contacts Charles again and confides in him everything that has happened since she got the distress call two hours ago; they both conclude that she will not go in the water again, just to be safe, and that Chares will call the Coast Guard himself while Sharon tries to sail out of there.
Just as she finishes setting up the sail, the boat is rammed again and she falls overboard. Fortunately, she is still wearing her lifejacket; Charles, who can see her in the water thanks to the high-mounted camera, tries to calm her down and tells her to get back in the boat, but she is unable to as the railings are out of her reach and she can't swim around because of her tether. Charles tells her to cut herself loose so that she can reach the ladder at the back of the boat. As she swims back, the high-mounted camera again captures the silhouette of a very large, plesiosaur-like creature swimming close to the boat. The wind picks up again and Sharon is unable to reach the boat as the monster's silhouette appears again, now very close to the surface and heading straight for her. As the boat drifts away from her, Sharon is attacked by the creature, which pulls her underwater. The Coast Guard was unable to recover Sharon's body even after an extensive grid search of the area, though her camera was discovered; the camera's footage could not identify what had attacked her.
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4 "Swamp Creature" Honey Island Swamp monster January 6, 2009
On October 13, 2006, a university professor Diane Chasny and her nephew Ethan decide to examine the ecosystem of the Honey Island Swamp following Hurricane Katrina, especially the alligator population. While attempting to test her equipment, an alligator suddenly surfaces and destroys their equipment. As they try to find their way out of the swampy terrain, the nephew hears a strange sound, but dismisses it. They become lost, but luckily encounter a local fisherman, Bud Ray, who agrees to lead them out of the area. The nephew hears more strange sounds and sees the obscured shape of a creature moving through the bush, and becomes briefly separated, accidentally stepping on a nest of eggs and destroying one of them. They discover a bizarre footprint that they conclude must belong to an upright animal, and the fisherman urges them to return to his camp. As the professor examines the photographs she took of the footprints, the fisherman tells them stories about the a creature purportedly half-man, half-alligator, but the professor dismisses these as being superstitious stories about a bogeyman. Around midnight, the fisherman wakes the two because of strange sounds that they heard, and he leaves the tent they had been sleeping in. There are strange sounds, gunshots, and a yell of pain as the creature attacks the fisherman, then tries to get into the tent. The fisherman returns, still alive, and the three manage to fend off the creature. The creature eventually leaves, leaving behind the egg Ethan had destroyed. The professor recovered the eggshells, which matched no known creature. The nephew returned to the bayou to create a feature documentary based on his experiences. The fisherman survived his injuries and still goes into the swamp, but is fearful of going out after sunset.
5
5 "Oklahoma Octopus" Gigantic octopus January 13, 2009
In the summer of 2008, Sean Conklin and his classmates Tracy, Tyler, Bruce, and Ruthie decide to spent their last weekend together at a local lake after graduating from high school. Shortly after arriving, they head into the water, but Sean suddenly sees some tentacles splash out of the water, but no one else does and he dismisses it at first. Tyler finds a canoe and proposes that they go out to a floating platform in the lake to spend the rest of the day. Sean and Tracy discuss their future as they row out to the platform. Tyler attempts to scare them by pretending something has grabbed him and pulled him under, but they easily predict when he would resurface. As the day progresses, Ruthie is suddenly pulled underwater, and the group panics, but it turns out to be Tyler playing another trick.
They scold him, and Tyler angrily leaves in the canoe, leaving no easy way for the others to return to shore. Sean tells them not to worry, as Tyler will probably return, but they suddenly hear a yell and see that Tyler is missing again, and the canoe has been capsized. They immediately assume that he is trying to play a prank on them again, but Bruce decides to see if he can find him. After swimming over to the canoe, he says that he cannot find Tyler, and suddenly starts yelling, claiming something is grabbing him from underwater, and disappears as well. Sean confides in the remaining two that he saw the tentacles from before, but they have no way of escaping from the creature and resort to yelling for help as night falls. The raft is suddenly attacked, and Ruthie falls into the water. Sean and Tracy conclude that they have to try to swim to shore, or the creature will kill them anyway, but are attacked as they attempt to make the crossing. However, they were found on the shore, having survived drowning and were treated for exhaustion, shock, and unidentified blister-like wounds all over their bodies. The bodies of Tyler, Bruce, and Ruthie were never found.
6
6 "Devil Dragon" Megalania January 20, 2009
In 2007, amateur adventurer Tim Akrin attempted to film the pilot episode of his survival reality show, Stranded, in the Daintree Rainforest of Australia. The premise of his show is he will be dropped into remote locations without any crew or means of contact to civilization and attempt to survive for seven days. On Day 1, he attempts to show the audience how to make a shelter to avoid venomous snakes and rain, and then goes out to look for food. He discovers human bones in the jungle, and mentions some of the dangerous animals in the rainforest before deciding to reshoot the scene. While his back is turned, a large, scaly form bumps the camera as it walks by. When Akrin sees this, he thinks nothing of whatever could have knocked it over. He goes on to demonstrate aboriginal techniques for finding food in the form of grubs under tree bark. He discovers a den in the forest and tries to find out what kind of animal is inside, using another aboriginal technique to do so. However, while he does so, Akrin is suddenly bitten viciously on the arm by an unseen creature inside the lair but he pulls free.
After bandaging his wound, he tries to start a campfire, but is unable to do so because of his injury. That night, it begins to rain and he decides to show the audience what the rainforest is like at night. He hears strange sounds coming from the bush and claims that the creature making the sounds has been prowling nearby for a while. He tries to scare it off, but to no avail. As soon as he wakes up on Day 2, Akrin notes that he feels sick, and his arm has become swollen and discolored, apparently badly infected with some kind of blood poisoning. He concludes that he must try to reach a village a few miles north of his location. As he makes his trek, he hears hissing in the jungle; the creature is stalking him, and he concludes that it is not a crocodile.
The infection becomes increasingly worse, causing Akrin to begin vomiting. After it becomes dark, Akrin becomes utterly lost, constantly plagued by the strange calls of the creature and tries in vain to scare it away. He finally makes one last desperate break for the village, but becomes even more ill as he does so. When it becomes obvious that he will not reach the village, he uses his last minutes to send a message to his wife Catherine and daughter Maria. He suddenly hears the sounds of the megalania growing closer: it has become fed up with waiting for him to die. He tries to run, but the creature catches up and drags him off into the dark of the jungle. Tim Akrin's body was never found, but his camera was recovered by aboriginal trail guides less than a quarter of a mile from their village. The camera was covered with saliva, which was swarming with bacteria that belonged to no known species of reptile.
7
7 "Cave Demons" Ahool or Olitiau January 27, 2009
On January 24, 2002, Sergeant Carlos Ramos and Corporals Latrel Wade and Derek Sawyer were sent to investigate bizarre interference that had been disrupting a new sonar-based cave-mapping system. The USMC has been using this system at Tora Bora in the wake of an intense bombing campaign in the winter of 2001, and believe that the interference is coming from a new jamming device developed by Al-Qaeda or the Taliban. Ramos was only a few days away from his return to the United States and was looking forward to seeing his wife Danielle and infant son AJ in Chicago, who he sends a video recording to just before going on the mission. After being briefed by their gunnery sergeant on their mission--to locate and destroy the thing that is causing the interference--the three marines made their way to the cave and arrive there shortly before midnight, recording the mission with helmet cameras. After confirming their status with base command, Ramos warns Wade and Sawyer to keep their wits about them; none of them have any idea how deep the caves run, and there could be land mines and improvised explosive device anywhere. Shortly after entering the cave, they hear the squeaking of bats as they try to maneuver their way through the darkness by light provided by their helmets. Suddenly, there is a screech as a huge shadow briefly obscures the light from one of their flashlights. As they travel further into the cave, they come upon a disgusting smell and quickly identify it as guano also known as bat faeces.
Ramos takes out a portable device which he uses to track a signal deep in the cave, which they believe is the source of the interference. As they follow the signal, they hear a strange sound and question what it is; when they hear the squeaks of increasingly numerous bats all around them, they assume that they were the source of the noise to them. Sawyer comments that he is afraid of bats, and Ramos jokingly chastises him, which Sawyer doesn't appreciate given their situation. As Wade joins in on teasing Sawyer, there is a sudden explosion as he accidentally sets off a land mine and plummets into another chamber of the cave fifteen feet below them, where their radios will no longer work. Ramos and Sawyer yell towards him to find out if he's okay; Wade is alive, but his spinal cord is broken. As Ramos and Sawyer climb down to him, Wade hears the sound of wings flapping and suddenly sees a large winged creature fly past him. Once Ramos and Sawyer find Wade, they discover that he is unable to move and he warns them that something else is in the cave. A frightened Sawyer asks what it was that he saw, but Ramos insists that Wade has been so badly hurt that he's delirious; Wade insists that he did see something, which resembled a woman, which spawns a brief argument between Sawyer and Ramos. Ramos' portable device begins pulsing rapidly; the source of the interference is very close-by. Resolving to destroy the source of the interference first and then help Wade, Ramos and Sawyer leave him to finish their mission. Sawyer doesn't like this idea, but Ramos insists that everything will be alright. Unbeknownst to Sawyer and Ramos, as they approach the strongest source of the signal, another, smaller source has appeared on the portable device, approaching Wade. Wade is suddenly attacked by a mostly unseen creature, which resembles a giant bat, and opens fire at the creature.
His screams compel the other two marines to return and try to help him, but arrive too late; he is dead. Sawyer starts sobbing at the loss of his friend, saying that they never should have left him behind. Ramos believes that it was the work of insurgents hiding somewhere in the cave and insists that they go and destroy the source of the interference once and for all. As they again approach the deepest part of the caves, they hear louder chirps and other bizarre sounds; unknown to them, in the darkness all around them, at least five smaller sources of interference are lurking about. The portable device starts beeping constantly as they find themselves at the heart of the interference: not a terrorist hideaway, but some kind of nest. They are suddenly attacked by several large, flying monsters which are only seen as shadows and brief glimpses of leathery wings and teeth. Screaming in terror, the marines open fire as their flashlights are destroyed. Nine hours afterward, in the morning on January 25, a rescue team located Ramos near the cave entrance; he had suffered severe blood loss, but survived and was taken to a military hospital for treatment of a rare form of rabies, and was reunited with his wife and child after several months in quarantine. The bodies of Wade and Sawyer were never recovered, and Ramos' injuries--including a large bite wound on his neck--were too large, severe, and extensive to have been caused by any known species of bat.
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8 "Death Raptor" Owlman January 27, 2009
In 2007, paranormal investigators Peter Grey and Jolene Sharrock were called to a church in a small California town of Fallview; according to the locals, a mysterious winged creature, which they believe to be the source of demonic activity, is haunting both the church and the forest in the surrounding area. The investigators are well-known for both their serious research into paranormal events such as ghosts for a popular television show; Jolene works a video camera to record their findings. While looking for the local church leader, they are suddenly startled by an old woman, Hazel Van Lear, who appears to be mentally unstable. She begins to tell them of the demon, but a man interrupts her as he approaches them.
He sends Hazel off to calm herself down and then introduces himself as Grant Bolton, the archdeacon with whom Peter previously had a conversation over the phone; it is he who asked them to come to the church to investigate the demonic activity. Peter interviews him in order to learn more about the purported activities: Bolton tells them that the "demonic presence" has been disturbing his congregation for years, and describes it as being as large as a man and winged with pointed ears and glowing red eyes; it was only recently that the creature became more active. As Hazel tells them about her own encounter with the demon, she claims that it followed her to the United States from her native Mawnan in Cornwall. Steady-nerved Peter suggests that the creature is actually just a large owl, so he and Jolene climb high into belfry of the church to see if they can find it. They immediately discover a horrible stink and disgusting leavings all over the belfry, along with the skeleton of a bird small. There is a sudden screech, which frightens Jolene, but Peter concludes that it was just some pigeons taking flight. They climb higher into the belfry, where they discover an owl pellet as big as a human head. Peter dissects it with a knife, first extracting a rat skull, and then an entire human mandible. After turning over their new findings to police as possible evidence of a crime or missing persons case, they initiate the next step of their investigation: interviewing the family of Sue Ann Mills, a little girl who also claims to have seen the demon. After arriving at the Mills residence, they immediately notice sidewalk chalk drawings in the driveway, including one that resembles a cross between a man and a great horned owl that closely resembles the description of the demon given by Bolton. Sue Ann's mother, Janis, claims that her daughter hasn't been the same since encountering the demon, and has been suffering from insomnia and nightmares when she does manage to get to sleep. As they interview Sue Ann, she, too, claims that the creature is a demon; when Peter asks her about why she thinks this, she explains that she had an irrational fear in its presence, as well as that the creature chased her and was still trying to get her. She also claims that the creature knows that the investigators are pursuing it and intends to stop them. At about 6 o'clock that evening, and even though great risk is involved, the investigators decide that the best way to flush out the creature is to return Sue Ann to the forest where she saw it. Peter resolved to take every precaution possible to ensure Sue Ann's safety, including bringing her mother along with them and using IR and thermal cameras and a digital audio recorder to record any electronic voice phenomena. It is already very dark as they walk into the forest, and Jolene suddenly begins to feel lightheaded and strange for no apparent reason. Soon, they arrive at the exact spot where Sue Ann saw the creature before, but they find nothing in the immediate area. Peter asks if Sue Ann is feeling okay, and she says that she's just feeling a little hot; Peter then notices that Jolene is also experiencing a rise in her body temperature with the thermal camera. Suddenly, there is a loud screech and the sound of rustling wings as something swoops down on them; Sue Ann immediately claims that it is the creature, but it disappears into the darkness almost immediately. Peter, trying to maintain his composure, tells Jolene to try to get audio recordings of what is going on around them when she is suddenly attacked by the creature, which knocks her off her feet; it is so fast that no one even saw it. They suddenly notice that Sue Ann has disappeared and frantically begin searching for her. They find her quickly, and the girl again states that the creature is trying to stop the investigators. They retreat to the church with the creature in hot pursuit, its dark, winged silhouette crossing in front of the camera several times and screeching at them. Finally reaching the church at about midnight, they take refuge inside and begin to feel that they are now safe. Suddenly, Hazel appears from behind a pillar and starts yelling at the investigators that they never should have come, that they have only aggravated the "demon." Bolton shows up next, demanding to know what is going on. After Peter explains what transpired in the woods, Hazel concludes that creature wants Sue Ann. The creature suddenly appears in the church, screeching and flying around the room, only seen as the shadows cast by the investigators' camera lights. Bolton tells everyone to hide in the altar, as it is the holiest place in the church, but the owlman chases them there, too. As everyone hides, they see that Hazel is still standing out in the open and tell her to hide with them. Hazel then claims that the creature is after Sue Ann because she is young and vulnerable, easy prey. She then says that an old woman is vulnerable, too, and walks out in full view of the owlman, ignoring the others' screams for her to hide. The following morning, Peter relinquished his tapes to the local authorities so that they could complete their own investigation, and he and Jolene suspended all future investigations indefinitely; ultimately, this case would prove to be the last one that they would ever perform, and was never aired on their television show. Hazel's disappearance was never officially explained, and her body was never recovered; as such, any connection between the creature and events concerning her in Cornwall will likely never be established. Sue Ann, however, recovered from the encounter and is now enrolled in the fifth grade. Though the creature was never seen again, locals still report hearing strange sounds in the woods near the church.
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9 "Megaconda" Giant anaconda February 3, 2009
In the summer of 2008, just after midnight, two animal rights activists named Scott Sumner and Evan Medcaf set out to investigate allegations of illegal animal trading in a local textile warehouse by businessman Ken Tobar. They had previously tried contacting Tobar through proper channels to investigate, but were repeatedly ignored and have decided to take matters into their own hands. Armed with only a video camera and a crowbar, they lay a rug over the barbed wire lining the top of the fence that surrounds the facility and climb over, and then break into the building. Unbeknownst to them, security guard Larry Johnson and his guard dog Bishop are patrolling the area; Larry suspects Tobar of being involved in illegal activities, but has not questioned his volatile boss about it. However, there is one particularly large crate that Bishop barks at whenever they pass by it. Meanwhile, Scott and Evan immediately find wooden crates with stamps reading "LIVE ANIMALS" in the warehouse and grow increasingly assured that their suspicions about Tobar are true. As they move deeper into the warehouse, they suddenly see heatlamps in a corner of the warehouse, discovering non-native reptiles and a crate containing a live wild cat. They are excited over the prospect of putting Tobar in jail, having found more than they had ever expected to. Suddenly, they are confronted by Larry, who demands that they leave as Scott explains what they are doing; Larry threatens to call the police, but Scott mocks him, saying that the police would be far more interested in Tobar's customs violations than a trespassing. Suddenly, they hear the sound of wood splintering, and Larry demands to know who else is in the warehouse, but Scott and Evan claim that they are the only ones there. Larry reluctantly leaves to investigate the noise, but not before confiscating the tape with all of their evidence on it at gunpoint. Scott is upset at the loss of their tape, but Evan reveals that he has a spare tape with him. After reshooting the scene, they try to leave but become lost in the confusing warehouse. Larry investigates the giant crate, which has been broken open from the inside, and finds it empty. While his back is turned, the enormous shape of an exceptionally large snake slithers past him, partially obscured by a large shelf. Bishop grows increasingly aggravated while, elsewhere, Scott and Evan hear rather loud hissing somewhere else in the warehouse. As they try to find their way out, they discover crates filled with ice and animal body parts, including the gall bladders of bears which are used to make pharmaceutical products; Scott also explains that the active ingredient in bear gallbladders has been synthetically replicated by pharmaceutical companies, making this a greater crime than normal on Tobar's part, and that he is now absolutely certain that Tobar will go to jail. As they again try to leave, Evan hears the hissing again, and is growing increasingly worried over it. Meanwhile, Larry calls Tobar to tell him about Scott and Evan, but more importantly to tell him that whatever was in the large crate has gone missing. Suddenly, Bishop gets loose and runs off into the darkness; Larry hangs up on Tobar to follow Bishop. Shortly thereafter, Scott and Evan come across the crate as well, discovering an enormous snakeskin inside; this greatly worries both of them, as they now know that a snake at least fifty feet long is lurking somewhere in the warehouse. As Larry keeps searching for Bishop, he suddenly hears a yelp and runs over to find his dog, which has been killed and dragged to a corner by something. As he is investigating the blood trail, he suddenly hears the hissing and decides to leave as well. After he leaves, Evan and Scott find Bishop as well, and now know that they absolutely need to get out. As they become more and more desperate to escape, Scott climbs on top of a crate to see if he can find a way out. He sees the crates that they passed by as they entered, but is suddenly grabbed by an unseen creature and lifted up and out of sight. Evan panics when Scott's crowbar drops onto the crate and he runs away, bumping into Larry and they try to escape. Larry leads them to a door and tries desperately to get it open, but it is stuck. A security camera captures an image of the enormous anaconda slithering towards them, and they just barely manage to get out of the building and over the fence in time, but Evan drops his camera in the process. Evan wants to go back to get the camera, as it is their only proof of what happened in the warehouse, but Larry insists that they just leave; as he does, the camera captures a brief image of the anaconda slithering past it, unable to pursue them any further. At about 3 o'clock in the morning, Tobar arrives at the facility, heeding the call that Larry had made earlier. Tobar finds Evan's camera, still recording, on the ground, and remarks, "It's my lucky day," immediately before he is attacked by the anaconda. Security cameras failed to record what happened to Tobar that night, but he has not been seen since then. The testimony of Evan and Larry allowed the FBI to seize numerous exotic and illegal animals and animal parts from the warehouse, but the giant anaconda that they claimed to have seen was never found.
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10 "Thunderbird" Thunderbird February 3, 2009
On November 16, 2007, brothers Kevin and Cole sneak away from their home to meet up with their friend Paxton and film a skateboarding video of themselves with their parents' video camera at a place called "The Ditch." Paxton doubts the abilities of Cole, the younger of the brothers, but Kevin convinces him that they should take him along. They enter a restricted area of a national park to do so. As night falls, they leave the paved road and enter the forest itself. Cole goes to relieve himself in a bush as Paxton taunts him about being scared. Strange calls can be heard, but Kevin and Paxton ignore them until a large shape swoops down on them, blocking out the remaining sources of light for a brief moment. Cole returns, but thinks they're trying to scare him when they tell him about the bird. A short while later, they discover a dead possum in a tree, which they poke with a stick before leaving. They finally come to The Ditch at about 8:30 at night, and Paxton decides to tell them a ghost story about a kid simply disappearing in The Ditch. They begin filming their video, re-energized from finally reaching their destination, but Paxton startles Cole as he tries to perform a skateboarding trick, which causes him to fall and break his leg. They reluctantly leave Cole to get help, but leave behind a cell phone for Cole to use. As they head for help, Paxton tries to come up with excuses so that he and Kevin do not get in trouble, but they suddenly hear a screech from above them and receive a call from Cole, who is asking for help before they suddenly hear a screech over the phone. They run back to find Cole is missing, though his shoe is hanging from a tree branch. Cole was found the next day at the bottom of a freeway overpass half a mile from The Ditch, battered and bruised but still alive. He has no recollection of what happened to him, and the creature was never found.
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11 "Skinwalker" Skin-walker February 10, 2009
Andy Miller returned to his home at Skinwalker Ranch to visit his parents after two years away at college studying political science, as well as to try to repair the strained relationship he developed with his father after leaving for college instead of staying to work on the ranch. He videotapes the trip to show his girlfriend when he returns to college. Shortly after arriving, his parents approach. Andy joins his father as they drive out onto the ranch to check on a mother sheep that had recently given birth. His father tells him of a recent coyote problem that had developed at the ranch, and after a while they drive past a strange Native American woman walking along the road, who is wearing animal hides and making strange growling sounds. When Andy asks him about it, his father dismisses it as simply being that there are several reservations in the area around the ranch. As they arrive at the north end of the ranch, where the mother sheep is being kept. As they walk up into the hills, they spot tracks in the dust. Andy notices that, while the tracks start off looking like those of a coyote, they turn into what appear to be human footprints as they progress through the sand. They suddenly hear Andy's mother calling from the truck. At first, they think that they had left the truck's radio on, but when they arrive, they find that it has been off the whole time. They then hear coyote calls from up in the hills and the bleating of a sheep. Andy's father grabs a rifle from the truck and they head towards where the sheep is being kept. A coyote suddenly appears on a ridge, and Andy's father shoots at it, but it seems to disappear. They finally arrive at the pen where the mother sheep is being kept, but find it slaughtered, and the lamb is missing. They suddenly hear what appears to be an entire pack of coyotes approaching them and they decide to leave as night begins to fall. As they drive back, they see what appears to be the woman from before up on a ridge. It is completely dark in a short while, and a person, presumably the same woman from before, suddenly walks out into the road in front of them and seems to be hit by the truck. When they get out to check on her, they find only the missing lamb wrapped up in the animal hides the woman had been wearing. Andy suddenly hears a sound and turns just in time to see a coyote running away at the edge of the headlights' beams. Andy returned to college, switching his field of study to Native American mythology. The coyote problem ceased shortly after his visit, but his parents continue to report strange animal calls sounds on their ranch at night.
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12 "Mothman" Mothman February 10, 2009
On December 18, 1967, following the collapse of the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, the FBI arrested a man named Roy Kirby who had filmed the collapse and events preceding it. They suspect him of being involved in the collapse. They begin to question him, and it is revealed that his marriage has recently become a bit strained because of Roy's apparent obsession with the mothman. He claims that the mothman came to warn them all of the impending collapse, and that, two weeks prior, he heard something outside his home and saw the mothman outside his window, filming it long enough to catch a brief glimpse of its silhouette, though his wife thinks it was just a bird, having not seen the creature herself. Roy attempts to describe the creature, but the agents do not believe him. He continued to see (and film) the creature as time progressed, but his wife does not believe him, instead attributing to vandalism in their house to mischievous children. The day before the collapse, Roy filmed himself at the site, claiming that something drew him to the bridge and thinking that the mothman is trying to tell him something (which he later concludes is the collapse of the bridge). He becomes increasingly exasperated as the agents refuse to believe him, and eventually reveals that he and his wife had an argument just prior to the collapse of the bridge. On the day of the collapse, he managed to capture the mothman on tape in a tree near the bridge, though it is obscured by branches and the camera being out of focus, and shortly afterwards witnesses the collapse of the bridge. After all this, the agents still do not believe him, and news footage reveals that he rescued a woman from the river who also claims to have seen the creature. Following an extensive investigation by the FBI, no charges were brought against Roy and the collapse was officially attributed to a structural flaw. He returned home to his wife and vowed never to speak of the creature again, and the FBI confiscated his tapes. Following the collapse, there were no further sightings in the area, though a woman claimed to have seen it (or a similar creature) before the I-35 collapse.
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13 "Death Worm" Mongolian death worm February 17, 2009
In the summer of 2008, longtime friends and extreme sports enthusiasts Greg and Benton competed in a three-day, five-hundred-mile (310 km) ATV race across the Gobi Desert, following a tradition in which they pushed each other to new challenges each year. As they find they are in last place in the race, they agree on next year's challenges before continuing. They become thoroughly lost as night falls, but assume that they will be able to find their way once it becomes light again. As they rest and joke around with each other, Greg is suddenly bitten by an unseen creature, and Benton's camera captures a trail of sand being pushed up by something under it. After sleeping for a short while, Greg suddenly wakes up screaming in pain, unable to feel his legs, with some kind of acid on his leg that has already melted part of his clothing. Benton tries to start Greg's ATV, but the engine has died. However, Benton's vehicle still works, and he tries to help Greg onto it, but panics as he sees another trail left by the creature in the sand, and finally manages to get Greg onto his ATV.
 They drive for a while, but the vehicle runs out of gas, stranding them. Benton suddenly feels a sensation like static electricity and briefly sees a large worm-like creature appear under the ATV. Greg insists that Benton leave on his own for help while it is still cool out, and Benton promises that he will return. Shortly after leaving, Greg is suddenly attacked by at least one creature, apparently with electricity, and falls off the vehicle and is dragged under the sand. In desperation, Benton drops the camera and yells for help before suddenly being attacked by a creature which is seen only as a trail in the sand charging at him. He uses his last moments to send a message to whoever finds the camera about the creatures before he is suddenly attacked by a group of them. Their bodies were never found, but their vehicles and the camera were found. Their deaths were officially attributed to heat exposure, and the strange burrows found around their equipment were not investigated.
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14 "Hellhound" Black Shuck February 17, 2009
In the autumn of 2005, a group of goth college students planned to visit a local cemetery in order to film a new segment for the website of their leader, Annabel Lilith. Accompanying Annabel are three of her classmates, who go by the aliases of Ophelia, Luna, and Severin (Severin being the only male member of the group). Annabel planned to induct a new member into their group, a girl named Nora Callarman that Annabel had not yet met. She doubts Nora's worthiness and plans to play a prank on her. They pick up Nora and begin to drive to the cemetery, blindfolding Nora as they do so. Shortly after arriving at the cemetery, a large dog resembling a rottweiler with glowing red eyes suddenly jumps up onto the hood of the car in full view of their camera. As suddenly as it appears, the dog vanishes, seemingly into thin air, but they assume that it ran off. As midnight approached, they set up a table and other items for Nora's initiation in front of a tombstone. As part of the initiation, Annabel asks the "spirits" for a sign, and the dog suddenly appears again, seemingly larger than before, barking and snarling at them. Like before, it disappears very quickly and even more suddenly than before, leaving behind a patch of scorched and smoking earth where it had been standing. While most of the group are terrified by this, Annabel shrugs it off by assuming it is the sign she asked for and insists that they finish the ritual. They finish the ritual and Nora is officially inducted into their group. As they start to leave, Nora and Severin split from the group to take a walk together, during which time Nora asks how many times Severin has seen the dog so far, but he does not have time to answer before they hear the dog approaching again. They hide behind a tombstone and Nora tells him to close his eyes as the dog approaches. They regroup, and Nora warns them that the dog three times means an untimely death for whoever has seen it three times. As they try to leave, Luna trips and nearly cracks her skull, which only panics the group even more. They finally get back to the car and drive off, with Annabel still arguing with the others that there is nothing to worry about, refusing to believe that there was anything supernatural about the dog. As they drive away, still arguing, Annabel does not see another car coming right towards them and they crash. The camera captures an image of Nora, now injured and bleeding, trying to wake up Severin before realizing that he is dead and comes to the conclusion that he saw the dog three times. As she gets up to leave, the dog suddenly appears again, but is acting very friendly this time and Nora begins to pet it as she leaves the scene. There were no official records of Nora anywhere, and to this day, her true identity remains unknown (it is implied she is a ghost). The others were all proclaimed dead at the scene. Traces of sulfur were found in and around the car, but no evidence of any dog was found anywhere near the site.
Season 2 (2009)[edit]

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1 "Vampire" Vampire September 29, 2009
In July 2009, the Redding family tried to refurbish an old house that they moved into after the father, Dennis, lost his job during the recent economic down turn. Worried about her son Eddie because of his history of sleepwalking, Sarah installs a stationary camera in his new room. Eddie is not very enthusiastic about his new surroundings, especially after he sees the door to his closet open on its own. After he and his mother leave the room for a snack, the camera he left behind on the bed captures an image of the closet door closing by itself. Shortly thereafter, in the middle of the night, the door opens again and a strange, humanoid creature emerges. It creeps around the room, lingering near Eddie's bed and finally stealing his teddy bear. However, Eddie wakes up and screams at the sight of the creature and it flees right before his parents come in. Eddie claims that there is a monster in his closet, but Dennis finds nothing. Suddenly, there is a scrabbling sound as something in the ceiling moves above them, which Dennis attributes to raccoons. The following day, Eddie goes looking for his missing teddy bear, following a trail of cotton to the closet. Sarah finds the shredded remains of the teddy bear, which worries her as she assumes Eddie was responsible, but Dennis dismisses it as simply being the result of their recent move. He plans to have Eddie help him fix up the house so that they can bond. Meanwhile, the parents have hired an exterminator, Stan Polanski, to deal with what they assume is a raccoon infestation. In the basement, Polanski discovers a hole in the wall which he examines with a snake camera. His camera reveals several nests made of various debris, and he suddenly sees a strange creature in the nest in full view of his camera. While he wonders what it is, it suddenly attacks and kills him. Dennis and Eddie, meanwhile, are having a fun time fixing the house, but Sarah notices that the exterminator has been missing for a while. Eddie goes down into the basement to find him, discovering the nests through the now much larger hole in the wall, as well as Polanski's body. Polanski's snake camera then catches a humanoid like creature watching Eddie . One of the creatures suddenly emerges and chases Eddie up the stairs. The Reddings try to hold the basement door shut, but it breaks the door off the hinges and Eddie and Sarah flee. Suddenly, another one emerges and roars at them, chasing them through the living room, briefly appearing in full view of Eddie's camera several times. They run into Eddie's room, and are quickly joined by Dennis. Eddie yells that there are three creatures in the house, and they barricade the door. However, one of the creatures merely punches through the door and claws a large hole, grabbing at Dennis. In desperation, he grabs a broken chunk of wood and stabs at the vampire's chest. The creature quickly bleeds out and disappears. The Redding family managed to escape from the house, and Stan Polanski's body was recovered, but was mysteriously drained of blood. The nests were discovered, but there was no other sign of any creature or creatures. Shortly after the attacks at the Redding home, similar attacks were reported from a mining village sixty miles North. These new attacks prompted a reinvestigation of the Redding Case.
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2 "Lizard Man" Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp September 29, 2009
In 2008, news reporter Chrissy Cooper and her cameraman Derek Green arranged to follow local fire fighters Trevor Andrews and Dana Caldwell into the sewer to rescue a lost cat as part of a human interest story. Apparently, the cat was pulled into a storm drain by an unidentified person or creature. Shortly after entering the sewer, they discover a horribly mauled carcass that they assume belongs to the missing cat and wonder what could have committed such an act. Trevor mentions rumors of sewer alligators, but the others dismiss it. Deciding that their story has ended, they begin heading back to the surface, but suddenly hear a cat meowing in the other direction, so they head back to find him. They hear growls in the sewer and wonder what is causing it, but suddenly hear a meow and see a cat walking away from them, and Dana runs after it. She hears more growling as she continues, and suddenly a yowl as the cat is apparently attacked by something. As she approaches a corner in the tunnel, a large, human-like shape suddenly jumps out and she screams in surprise, alerting the others. They run in the direction of her screams, but find only her flashlight. Trevor tells the news crew to return to the surface as he leaves to find Dana, hearing more strange sounds echoing through the sewer. He sees Dana with the creature looming over her and yells at it, but it runs away. Dana is injured, but alive. Chrissy and Derek, meanwhile, have become lost. They hear water splashing, and Derek's camera suddenly gives out as they are attacked by the creature. The fire fighters hear the news crew being attacked and rush to their aid, but find them dead and partially eaten. They approach a drainage outlet with the creature in hot pursuit. They come to a storm drain which is barred off, and Trevor cannot fit between the bars. He insists that Dana push him back into the sewer so that he can try to kill the creature once and for all. Wielding an axe, he runs back down the sewer and is suddenly attacked by the creature. Dana hears the sounds of the fight, and becomes worried when everything grows quiet for a moment. She hears raspy breathing, presumably that of the creature, and sees a silhouette approaching her. She threatens that she will kill it if it comes any closer, but it's just Trevor, carrying what appears to be a severed arm, presumably belonging to the dead creature. He says that they now have nothing to fear. Dana was treated for her injuries and later released, and the bodies of Chrissy and Derek were recovered. Trevor and Dana turned over everything that they found in the sewer to authorities, but the results of DNA testing performed on the evidence was not released to the public.
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3 "Southern Sasquatch" Fouke Monster October 6, 2009
In the fall of 2007, Matthew Barton went to rural Fouke, Arkansas to become acquainted with Levi and Corbin Knox, the brothers of his fiancee, Abby. They invited Matthew on a deer hunting trip into the forest. While watching for deer up on a hill, they spot a shape moving in the brush that they think is either a bear or a person, but Levi shoots at it and it flees before they can identify it. When they investigate where it had been standing, they suddenly smell something very foul and see fur on the ground, from which the smell is coming. They arrive at a deer stand, but Matthew's inability to climb the ladder leads them to stay on the ground. After hours of waiting without seeing a single deer, Levi and Corbin decide to play a prank on Matthew by sending him on a snipe hunt. While they hide in a bush and mock Matthew, they suddenly hear a growl and see something walking up behind him. They shoot at it, but miss, and run over to find Matthew is missing. As they gather their senses, they realize that the forest has become absolutely quiet. Corbin fires a round into the air, and they hear a growl and follow it. As it becomes dark, Corbin voices that it may have been the Fouke Monster that they saw, but Levi insists that there is no such thing. They hear a loud growl and Levi fires a round into the darkness. Shortly afterward, they discover an orange hunting jacket that Matthew had been wearing, along with blood. Corbin begins to panic while Levi tries to get him to be quiet so that he can think. Suddenly, Levi is attacked by the creature, which grabs him from behind and claws him. Corbin flees in a panic as Levi is killed, and bumps into Matthew. They conclude that they must escape, and Matthew turns on the camera's night vision in order to try to keep the creature from spotting them. Corbin is put on point, and as they progress through the dark forest, Matthew tries to keep him calm. They hear more and frequent growling. Finally, Corbin cannot take it anymore and runs ahead, ignoring Matthew's protests, and he hears Corbin yell. It turns out that he has only bumped his head against a tree, but when they examine their surroundings, they discover Levi's body is hanging from the tree. They try to reach the deer stand, but Corbin says that he dropped his rifle. Matthew goes back to get it, but when he returns, he suddenly sees the creature, which attacks and kills Corbin as Matthew runs away. He finally makes it to the stand, only to find that the rope ladder has been torn down. He yells for help and tries to reach the remaining ladder in vain as the creature closes in and finally attacks him as well. News reports suggested that they were killed by a bear, but locals insist that the real culprit was the Fouke Monster.
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4 "Werewolf" Werewolf October 13, 2009
In 2003, following the death of twenty-one people at the hands of a savage and animalistic serial killer known as "the Beast Killer," independent filmmaker Austin Pace arranged access to the investigation of the murders by Sergeants Clifford Warren and Javier Mendoza in order to make a documentary about the killings. The victims bear little similarity to one another, save that they were all seen at the same bar before being found dead, and the way in which they were killed, which included teeth and claw marks, post-mortem trauma that was unrecognizable, and traces of both human and animal DNA at the scene, as well as fur. Mendoza returned from the bar, having been undercover to watch out for suspicious individuals that fit their profile, and noticed a man flirting with a woman. The suspect and the woman leave shortly thereafter, and the officers follow them to a residence. It turns out that the man has been arrested before for assault, and the woman is acting strangely, as if drunk or drugged. At first, they think nothing of the man's criminal record, but he closes the blinds and they have no choice but to get closer to the house and try to establish visual contact again. As they approach, they hear a yell and growling, and decide to enter the house. Mendoza tells Pace to stay in the van while he enters the house after Warren, but they lose contact. As Mendoza enters the dark house, he suddenly sees a reflection in a mirror and turns around with his gun drawn, only to see that it is Pace, who has entered the house against all advice. Warren contacts Mendoza over their radio and they meet in the kitchen, where they discover a window that has been broken from the inside. As they wonder why the suspect did not just open the window, they discover fur and bloody paw prints on the floor and counter. The officers decide to clear the rest of the house, and Pace follows Mendoza into the basement. There, they find the woman, named Sophie Montero, who seems battered and bruised with a few cuts and scrapes, but is otherwise unhurt. She is barely able to speak, and Mendoza tells Pace to stay with her when he cannot raise Warren on the radio. Mendoza walks upstairs to a bedroom and is checking under the bed when he sees someone enter the room. He jumps up, only to find that it is Warren. They come to a stairwell where they see their suspect dead, apparently a victim of the Beast Killer. Meanwhile, in the basement, Pace tries to calm Sophie down, but she begins acting strangely, looking up as if something is there. She beckons him into a darker part of the basement, but then the officers run down the stairs and demand that he step away from her. Bewildered, Pace turns around only to see that Sophie, partially obscured by the darkness, has acquired a more beastly appearance and attacks him as the officers open fire, killing her. The murders of Pace and the suspect were posthumously attributed to Sophie's actions, and Warren and Mendoza were separately given paid psychiatric leave before resigning from the force. Because of the circumstances of each murder and questions left unanswered as to how Sophie was able to commit such grisly and gruesome crimes, the case remains open. The term "werewolf" was not used in any of the official files, though Pace's film raises many questions.
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5 "Death Crawler" Gigantic centipede October 20, 2009
In 2002, entomologists Karen and Jonah Ergo became stranded on an uninhabited island due to engine trouble after spending their summer documenting various insects. While Jonah tried to fix the engine, Karen began exploring the jungle, discovering exceptionally large walking-sticks and tarantulas. She suddenly comes upon a human skeleton and with a video camera clasped in its hand. She takes the camera in search of an explanation of what happened to him, but does not immediately check the film. She brings Jonah into the jungle to see the skeleton, but Jonah is suddenly bitten by a gigantic centipede. He becomes ill almost immediately, and at their camp, Jonah says tells her that the centipede was some three feet long, but Karen states that no centipedes of that size are known to exist and suggests that it may have been a snake, but Jonah insists that he was not wrong, pointing out that the wound is consistent with a centipede bite. Hours later, after dark, he becomes extremely ill, suffering from a serious fever as his wound begins festering. Karen leave the tent and suddenly sees a gigantic centipede near the tent. Looking for an explanation as to what this place is, she looks at the film on the camera, from around June 1999, which shows several Latin American men, possibly soldiers, being attacked and killed by other giant centipedes. Seeing that the men had a medical kit with them, Karen returned to the jungle to find it, but hears hissing all around her. She discovers the abandoned campsite and the medical kit, which she brings back to camp along with a machete. That night, a tropical storm strikes as she returns to help Jonah. While getting out her supplies, she sees the silhouette of a three-foot centipede on the side of the tent when lightning flashes, but manages to knock it off and prevents another centipede from entering the tent. She leaves the tent and hacks it up with the machete before trying to help Jonah into the boat. They stumble halfway to the boat, and Karen fights off several more centipedes as they try to attack them. Finally, they reach the boat and escape from the island. As they resolve to give up their search for new insect species, they suddenly hear all too familiar hissing in the boat. Their skiff washed up on the coast of Florida two weeks later. Karen and Jonah's bodies were still in the boat, decomposed and covered in puncture wounds and bite marks. The centipedes that had apparently climbed into the boat were never found, but a series of tracks in the sand leading from the boat to the brush were found on the scene. The location of the island that they found the centipedes on remains unknown.
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6 "White River Monster" White River Monster October 27, 2009
In June 2009, Mac Bering and Tyler Crenshaw decided to try out the sport of catfish noodling in the White River, and documented their adventure with the help of an experienced fishing guide, Earl Gaze. Earl continually rejects all the potential fishing spots that they suggest, pointing out such threats as traps set up by other fishermen, fast water, and rising water. When Mac and Tyler question him, Earl finally admits that he is worried about the presence of the fabled White River Monster, but they just mock him. After some goading, Earl finally agrees to using the last spot they suggested. He finally shows them how to noodle, capturing some images with a waterproof camera of a catfish which he successfully lands. As he tries to give them another demonstration, the fish he is going for bites him, and he fends it off with a knife. When he brings his arm out, they see that he is bleeding profusely. Earl suggests that they leave, insisting that whatever bit him was not a catfish. Mac and Tyler suggest that they stay and try to catch some fish, and Earl agrees to stay but refuses to re-enter the water, warning them of the creature and the water that will be rising soon. Mac and Tyler try, unsuccessfully, to catch some fish themselves. Mac's leg suddenly becomes stuck and he cannot free himself. Earl goes back into the water to help Mac, but is suddenly pulled under the water by an unseen creature, and his blood bubbles to the surface. They begin panicking, knowing that something big and aggressive is in the water, and wonder if it is the White River Monster. As Tyler tries to help Mac, he is unable to free him. With the creature lurking in the rising water, Tyler retrieves a shovel from his bag and tries to free Mac before suddenly being attacked by the creature. All alone, Mac yells for help in vain, and his camera captures brief glimpses of the creature underwater, which resembles a piranha, as it attacks him. However, the force of the impact frees him and his swims to safety. Mac suffered a fractured foot, but survived to petition the Arkansas government to drag the river in the hopes of finding the bodies of Tyler and Earl, as well as prove the existence of the creature, but was repeatedly denied. Tyler and Earl's deaths were officially attributed to alligator attacks, which are a rare occurrence in Arkansas, but satisfied the local authorities.
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7 "Jersey Devil" Jersey Devil November 3, 2009
In the summer of 2006, Greg and Wendy Stark returned from a vacation on the Jersey Shore with their daughter Christina and Jolene, taking the scenic route through the Pine Barrens. Wendy is mere weeks from giving birth to her third child. As Christina and Jolene argue about the camera recording, Greg accidentally hits an unidentified animal in the road. When they pull over to check on the car and find out what happened to the animal, their dog Cooper jumps out of the car and Greg leaves to go find him. An hour passes and there is no sign of their father, so the three women leave to find him. As they walk through the woods, they find Greg's hat on the ground, which, to their fright, has some blood on it. They suddenly hear a loud roar and they run down the trail to an abandoned house. They go inside, seeking refuge, but instead find that the walls are covered with satanic imagery, the number 13, and the words "It Lives". They suddenly hear pounding on the door and scream as it flies open, but it is only Greg. He tells them to hide as they hear glass breaking when the creature tries to get in after them. Christina and Jolene break from the group, heading for the back door of the house. They hear Cooper barking outside and try to encourage their dog to defeat the creature, but he is apparently slaughtered by it. Suddenly, they see a hoofed foot kick through the door and they hide. They watch as the Jersey Devil enters the house, but they see only its feet and, briefly, its head. The girls become absolutely quiet, hoping the devil will leave, but one of their cell phones suddenly rings. As it approaches them, Wendy suddenly appears and, wielding a large plank, manages to scare the creature off. She suddenly goes into labor, and as night falls the family makes a break for their car. They hear the Jersey Devil flying above them as they run. When they see how close they are to the car, they drop everything, including the camera, and escape. The last image captured by the camera is the Jersey Devil's feet. The Stark family managed to make it to a nearby hospital, where Wendy gave birth to a son and Greg received stitches for minor injuries. Authorities never located any unknown creature, nor could they locate the family dog.
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8 "Alien" Alien parasitic wasp November 10, 2009
In the spring of 2008, former astronaut Miranda Bach was pulled over by a state trooper for driving erratically and placed under the psychiatric care of Dr. Lee Morris and Rebbecca Damon. After being placed under medical observation, she awoke sudden at night, screaming, "Get it out of me!!!" as she attempted to commit suicide, and was strapped to the bed for her own safety. A video recording of Bach's debriefing from her last mission reveals that Bach was exposed to dust from a comet that had hit the shuttle she was on, but the correspondent scientists regarded it as harmless. As Damon comes in to examine her, Bach claims that her shoulder is hurting and the nurse discovers a bizarre rash that resembles a festering wound, and becomes concerned when her stethoscope alerts her to two distinct heartbeats, but blood tests confirmed that she was not pregnant; an x-ray instead revealed an unidentifiable object in her chest cavity. Over a matter of hours, the skin condition spread all over Bach's arms and torso, and she attacks a man who tried taking a skin sample, but has no memory of her actions mere moment later. Damon speculates that some kind of parasite has made it into Bach's body and is the cause of the atopic eczema. Morris plans to move Bach to a more secure facility where her conditions can be monitored, but an alarm suddenly goes off as Bach begins convulsing violently and screaming even louder and more agonizingly, and unearthly hissing screeches can be heard as well. By now, the rash has spread all over Bach's face as well. By the time Morris, Damon, and a security guard named Alzedo arrive in her room, Bach is dead and there is a large, bloody cavity in her chest. Suddenly, a strange creature swoops down on them, hiding under Bach's cot. The doctors decide that they cannot let the parasite escape the hospital and put the entire building on lockdown, leaving them with two minutes to evacuate. However, they do not make it to the doors in time, though all other staff members had evacuated. Alzedo takes out his taser and decides to try to kill the creature. Moments later, the doctors hear screams and find him dead. The creature flies at them, so they take refuge in an office. Damon figures out that Bach must have picked up the parasite in outer space and worries about what would happen if it escaped, but Morris assures her that it cannot get out of the building. They hear screeching just outside, and Morris picks up a jar of acid to use as a weapon. As they open the blinds on the office window, they suddenly see the alien, which resembles a gigantic wasp, in full view of their camera for a brief moment. They hear cicada like chittering above them, and a large insect-like leg tries to reach them through a ventilation shaft. Morris yells for them to run and Damon escapes, but Morris is caught by the creature. As Demon returns to try to help him, she sees it apparently eating him and flees in terror, using a fire extinguisher to force open a door. She runs down a flight of stairs and into the main lobby of the hospital. She makes it to the door before the alien flies at her, and she falls, causing the automatic doors to open and the alien flies out into the night sky. All records of the alien's existence and what happened in the hospital were confiscated by the government, and the official causes of death for Capt. Bach, Dr. Morris, and Alzedo remain unstated. The alien was never found, though similar attacks have occurred as far away as South America.
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9 "Bear Lake Monster" Bear Lake monster November 17, 2009
On June 21, 2008, Erica Jameson celebrated her twenty-second birthday with friends Jan Hollis, Rose Peters, and Sally Rudolph at Bear Lake, Utah, by planning an overnight camping trip. They set up their campsite and begin chatting, wondering if their friend Mary Allen Stewart will be arriving or not. Rose leads them in a toast to Erica, poking fun at her in the process. Just then, they hear a strange, growl-like sound coming from the lake. As they try to find the source of the noise, a car horn suddenly honks: Mary Allen has arrived, and they attribute the sound from before to her car. Jan uses her cell phone to take a video recording, but the others mistake it for her making a call--which they had previously agreed not to do during the camping trip--and start playing keep-away with it. They accidentally throw the phone into the lake; while contemplating what to do, the waterproof phone captures an image of a reptilian-looking creature, obscured by the murk. As they search for the phone, Erica feels something brush against her leg twice; the others dismiss this as a fish, but she returns to shore, convinced that it was something much bigger. Rose, who is floating nearby on a pool toy, dives underwater to find the phone. When she doesn't immediately resurface, the others begin to worry, but she suddenly reappears--victorious--with Jan's phone in hand. Jan asks for the phone back, but Rose decides to return to the inflatable and keeps the phone with her, continuing to record with the still-working device. At 8:07 that night, everyone but Rose is sitting around a campfire while Rose continues floating in the water. She hears a splash nearby, and screams as she is suddenly pulled underwater by an unseen creature. The others immediately jump up, trying to find Rose. Sally tries calling for help as Jan goes into the water, but her phone isn't getting any service. Jan searches underwater with a flashlight, but the other girls suddenly see a shape moving towards her and yell for their friend to return to shore. They are helpless as the phone's camera on the inflatable capture an image of Jan being pulled away from shore and underwater. Sally drives away to the nearest location where she could call for help while Erica and Mary Allen mourn the loss of their friends. They hear strange sounds coming from the direction of their campfire and ask aloud if it is Sally. They see something moving near their tents and standing lanterns, and suddenly hear a screech as one of the lanterns is violently knocked over. As they flee in terror towards Mary Allen's car, Erica stumbles and falls to the sand, then screams as she sees the creature approaching: the lake monster can move on land, too. They run into Mary Allen's car and try to escape, but Mary Allen breaks down in hysterics as she realizes a huge mistake: she left her car keys back at the campsite. Essentially trapped in the car, they try to locate the creature by sight, but are unsuccessful. Suddenly, the monster slams into the vehicle, causing the car alarm to go off, and they conclude that it's been attracted to the car lights, and that their friends were attacked because they had flashlights with them. As they continue panicking, Erica proclaims that she is not going to die on her birthday just as they hear Sally honking her car's horn, signalling her return. Erica devises a plan: they will try to distract the creature with the headlights and then make a break for the other car. Just as they are about to turn on the lights, the monster suddenly attacks them again; their camera--now in night vision mode--captures an image of the creature's tail in front of the car as the lights go on. They run and see Sally's car ahead of them, its lights blaring, but the monster has already caught up to them. They yell at Sally to turn off the car's lights as the lake monster begins attacking the car, causing it to rock back and forth. Sally finally turns the lights off and yells for them to get in; they run to the car, but the creature suddenly attacks and kills Mary Allen. Miraculously, Erica and Sally escape to safety and told police about what had happened; though the lake was dredged, the bodies of Jan, Rose, and Mary Allen were never recovered. Tourism to Bear Lake continues in spite of the rumors of the creature and the grisly footage from that night.
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10 "Dover Demon" Dover Demon November 24, 2009
In April 2007, unemployed construction worker Chad Hurliss recruited his wife Shannah and friends Glenn Diffy and Royce Best to fake evidence of a sighting of the Dover Demon. Chad and his companions do not actually believe that the creature exists, and instead plan to capitalize on a resurgence of the creature's popularity that coincides with the 30th anniversary of the sightings in Dover, Massachusetts. Glenn expresses concern over the hoax, as he is the only member of the group who takes the legends about the Dover Demon seriously, but Chad just berates him, saying that those who believe in the creature are the very people he plans to fool. While milling around their car, Glenn sees what appears to be a pair of glowing eyes in the brush, but when he tries to tell the others about it, Royce suddenly startles and distracts him. When he looks back at the bushes, the eyes have disappeared. Chad retrieves a shotgun from the car, saying that it is only for "believability." It becomes dark as they hike deeper into the woods, and Glenn discovers deep scratch marks in the trees and bizarre footprints on the ground, and he becomes very worried. Chad, however, refuses to believe that the creature exists and simply says to continue filming, as the material can be used for their video. Glenn suddenly falls into a hidden pit, which only panics him further as he thinks that it was deliberately camouflaged. They finally reach a suitable spot to film a fake attack. Royce puts on an unconvincing monster costume, which bears no resemblance to the alleged creature, while Shannah puts on makeup to look as though she had been attacked. As Royce and Shannah walk off into the darkness, Glenn suggests that they use a night vision function on the camera. As the night vision is turned on, it captures the Dover Demon, which vaguely resembles a gray alien on film in full view of the camera as it watches them, unseen, from a tree above them. Chad tells him to turn off the night vision though, and they begin discussing what kinds of shots they want to capture. Suddenly, they hear a screeching and chattering in the forest and Shannah runs towards them screaming, claiming that the demon is real. In the confusion, Chad fires the shotgun into the darkness and then claims that what Shannah saw was just Royce in the costume, but she insists that it really was the Dover Demon. Chad takes the camera to use as a light, and suggests that they split up to try to find Royce, but Glenn begins yelling at him for being responsible for the danger they are in, and that splitting up is a bad idea. Nonetheless Chad insists they split up, Glenn goes off on his own, taking out a pocket knife to defend himself. Chad and Shannah hear more chattering and screeching in the forest, and they suddenly come upon Royce, who was accidentally shot by Chad earlier. He, too, insists that he has seen the demon. They suddenly see the demon not far away, but it is obscured by the darkness. Unable to move Royce because of his injury, they leave to find something to carry him with, but hear screams only moments after leaving him. They return to find Royce missing, apparently taken away by the creature. As they flee in terror, Shannah trips and discovers Glenn's bloody jacket on the ground. They continue running, but Chad suddenly falls into another hole and breaks his leg. Shannah is about to leave to find help, but suddenly sees a mutilated animal corpse in the pit next to him, causing her to realize that the hole is, in fact, a trap that was laid by the Dover Demon. With Chad unable to move, the two huddle together as Shannah turns on the camera's night vision, which captures another image of the demon approaching them. Chad picks up the shotgun and fires at it, and seems to hit it, but the creature disappears a moment later. Suddenly, the demon appears in front of them and attacks. None of the bodies of any of the hoaxers were ever found, but blood discovered on the ground and on the remains of the costume was identified as belonging to them.



Season 3 (2010)[edit]
This season does not present facts or interviews regarding the creature in the prologue compared to the last two seasons; instead, it introduces the episode's creature attacking random victims. This season also introduces recurring characters in Agents Elise Mooney and Noel Connor of the Enigma Corporation. It also shows much more of the creatures body and with a clearer view than the last two seasons.

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1 "Zombies" Zombie September 28, 2010
In February 2010, during Mardi Gras, Josephine Leduc was murdered by Malcolm Clement, a man who she had been housing in one of New Orleans Haitian communities. Because of unique and strange circumstances surrounding the murder, New Orleans police hired the Enigma Corporation, a private security firm, to find and arrest Clement. During their briefing, Agent Noel Connor reveals that Clement apparently died eight years ago in Haiti. Accompanied by tactical specialist Elise Mooney and rookie agent Tanner Noble, he goes to the boarding house where they believe other Leduc's other boarders may be harboring him, a building which has been condemned since Hurricane Katrina. They enter the house but find nothing other than a mess. While searching the house, Mooney hears growls from the upper level of the house and demands that anyone who is hiding show themselves and surrender. They enter a room where they discover a voodoo shrine to Leduc, along with tetrodotoxin, a powerful and lethal neurotoxin. Downstairs, Connor discovers dismembered human remains and notifies the other agents that they may need to use deadly force. A motion sensor that Tanner is carrying with him suddenly picks up movement just outside the building and he leaves to investigate it while Connor moves upstairs. While Mooney continues examining the shrine, she suddenly sees a man who is acting strangely approaching her, brandishing a wooden board like a club. Mooney kicks him out into the hall right as Connor arrives, and he attacks the man as well, causing to fall from the second floor to his apparent death. Meanwhile, Tanner is securing the perimeter outside when he is suddenly approached by a girl, who is acting similarly the man who attacked Mooney. Connor tells him to apprehend her and be extremely careful over the radio, but she suddenly attacks and bites him and their struggle moves off-screen. Connor, disturbed by the feel of the boarding house, suggests that they simply find Clement and leave. He and Mooney begin to leave, but are suddenly attacked by the man from before, who is still 'alive.' Connor manages to wrestle him to the ground and hold him down, and they question how the man was able to recover from a seemingly fatal fall. Outside, it is revealed that Tanner is still alive and well, and has apprehended the girl, who he takes to the Enigma Corporation's van. During a brief conversation over the radio, Connor tells Tanner to keep the engine running in case they need to escape quickly and be prepared to call for backup. Suddenly, the man Connor has subdued wakes up and begins snarling as he tries to attack Connor yet again, and refuses to give up even after he is tased. Clement suddenly approaches Mooney from behind, and he refuses to stop even after Mooney shoots him at point blank range. The noise of the struggle has attracted the attention of the other residents of the boarding house, who are all zombies. Connor and Mooney barricade themselves in the shrine room and restrain Clement while trying to hail Tanner on the radio who, unbeknownst to them, has passed out and is being eaten by the zombie girl in the van. Mooney suggests simply leaving Clement behind and torching the building in order to keep whatever is causing the residents to act strangely from spreading, but Connor insists that they do the job they were hired to do as the other residents try to break into the room. Suddenly, the girl that Tanner arrested returns through the balcony window, but Mooney and Connor shoot and subdue her as they escape through the window, tossing Clement to the ground below. Even after such a fall, Clement is still active and growling at them. They run back towards the van, only to see that the other residents have caught up to them. As they approach the van, they see Tanner emerge. However, he is acting strangely, too, and suddenly attacks them. Early in the morning following the events surrounding Clement's arrest, the boarding house was demolished, and it is not known if the residents were inside when it was destroyed or if they are roaming the streets of New Orleans. A statement was made that the demolition had been ordered long ago, and that a full report would be released, which never happened. Tanner was given a quiet funeral in his home town of Laredo, Texas, with Connor and Mooney in attendance.
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2 "Kraken" Kraken September 28, 2010
In 2005, two workers (Per and his friend) are attacked by an unknown creature. Their bodies were never found. Later in Spring 2006, documentarian James Werner follows a treasure hunter named Derrek Barrow and his crew of three (Brad Downing, Sasha Porsis, and Ron McCorkle) when he goes to recover the wreck of a Finnish ship supposedly loaded with Tsarist gold and treasure in the Baltic Sea. On their way to the site of the wreck, their boat hits something, but it does not damage the ship. Once they reach the wreck, Brad makes a dive to try to find the treasure, intending to do so in just one dive. While submerged, he notices that the shipwreck appears to be crushed like a beer can, but they dismiss water pressure because the depth is too high for that. Then he sees something in the distance which he cannot identify, and is suddenly attacked by a mostly unseen creature. Radio contact with Brad is lost, and while the crew goes to the deck to wait to see if he will resurface, the underwater camera captures what appears to be an enormous squid mantle. After hours pass and there is no sign of him, Sasha decides to go down to try to rescue him. She discovers Brad's body far below, and is suddenly attacked, too. Captain Barrow and Werner try to locate her by sight (seeing a tentacle slap the window), but instead find Ron dead, his rib cage crushed and covered with a strange ink. The two see a light in the distance, and Barrow takes out a rifle, saying the light is not a boat while the glowing creature (giving an outline of an enormous squid) heads under the boat. Sasha surfaces, but is pulled back into the water by a giant tentacle and killed. The creature whacks Barrow with one of its tentacles, and then suddenly emerges behind Werner, who turns and captures the gigantic eye of the creature on camera right before it kills him. A search party located only floating debris from the destroyed boat, and Captain Barrow was the only survivor, but he refuses to talk about the incident, and vows never to go to sea again. The bodies of James Werner and Barrow's crew were never recovered.
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3 "Strigoi Vampire" Strigoi October 5, 2010
On August 2010, in Silver Rock, New Mexico, the Enigma Corporation is hired to investigate the mysterious deaths of workers at an oil outpost. Noel Connor and Elise Mooney are accompanied by doctors Naomi Robeson and Seldon Fischer, wearing hazmat suits in case of a gas leak or airborne virus. They find that the workers all died very suddenly, with fresh food still being on the tables and the phone in an office still having a dial tone. They find a dead man still seated in his office in one of the buildings, and Fischer takes a blood sample. He finds that most of the man's blood has been drained from his body. They suddenly hear shuffling above them and part of the ceiling falls down, wrecking Mooney's hazmat suit. When nothing happens to her, they conclude that whatever killed the workers is not airborne and everyone but Fischer takes their helmets off. They discover more bodies outside, in the same state as the man in the office. Mooney notes that one of the dead workers is holding what appears to be a wooden board ending in a sharpened point as though it were some rudimentary weapon. A black dog suddenly appears, and a suspicious Mooney shoots it with a tranquilizer dart, but it flees into a container. As they go over to the container, a man suddenly jumps out, claiming to be a worker named Clint Webber, who alone somehow survived what he described as an enormous orange sandstorm. While Robeson and Fischer conduct a medical exam on him, Connor and Mooney go to the office to look up Webber on the company profiles. They discover that the man claiming to be Webber is not him, and call for backup. As the doctors continue their examination, Fischer pulls a tranquilizer dart identical to the one Mooney shot at the dog out of Webber's mouth. Webber suddenly acquires a demonic grin and fangs and kills Fischer and Robeson. Mooney receives word from headquarters that they will not be receiving backup because a quarantine had been placed over the area. They see someone who appears to be Fischer approaching, but when he ignores their warnings to not come any closer they shoot at him in suspicion, and he vanishes into thin air. Connor investigates a growling sound behind them while Mooney goes to find the dead doctors. The dog from before appears, barking at her aggressively, while Noel appears behind it, claiming it is not what it appears to be. Mooney flees, finding a truck, and attempts to drive away when Webber suddenly pops up from the back seat with the same demonic grin as before. Mooney crashed the truck, but miraculously survived, while Connor escaped with only minor injuries. The deaths of the workers and the doctors were officially attributed to a gas leak, and the company ceased operations in North America. Animal hairs and saliva samples were confiscated by the FBI, and no lab results were released to the public.
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4 "Poltergeist" Poltergeist October 5, 2010
In June 2009, in Lakeview, Colorado, Megan Golden is talking with her friends via her laptop computer. Her younger brother Troy comes in and asks her for help with a project to show their grandparents. Annoyed, Megan tells him to get out. They soon get in an argument which causes one of Megan's stuffed animals to go flying from her bookshelf and then the entire case falls on her when Troy angrily responds to his sister's comment about him being a "freak". After this incident, the parents Mark and Jenn Golden hire a paranormal investigation team consisting of Jeremy Reynolds, Kristy Johns, and Bill "Shots" Cooper, to help the family. The team film the account for their TV show, "Paranormal Encounters". While testing to see if Troy could move a pen without touching it, the pen suddenly moves. That night, Troy suddenly wakes up screaming after objects in his room move on their own, and a teddy bear in his arms is replaced by a butcher knife of unknown origin. After moving the Goldens to Jenn's parents house (where they moved Megan after the bookshelf incident), the team begins their investigation. They enter Troy's room, where the paranormal activity seems to be strongest. The closet doors shuts behind Shots on its own, knocking him into a wall and revealing a box. They find newspapers inside the box that tell them of a man named Charles Weatherly, who lived in the house twenty years ago murdered his wife and children with a knife and then killed himself. They conclude that Charles's ghost is haunting the house as a poltergeist, and they become determined to get rid of him. They hear ghostly utterances of "Leave," and Jeremy sees something in a window. When he investigates, he sees an image of himself holding a knife through the window, but it vanishes. Kristy, who is paraplegic, suddenly gets thrown against the wall and begins convulsing, and the lights in the house go out. When Jeremy and Shots try to help her, a sinister-sounding voice says through her, "Leave!" She dies soon afterward. While Jeremy refuses to let the poltergeist win, Shots tries to leave with Kristy's body, but sees a message written in blood on a mirror: "Too Late." Seconds later, he is killed as well. Finally, Jeremy concedes victory to the ghost and tries to leave, but the door keeps locking itself as he tries to get out. He suddenly hears the voice of Troy calling for help from the bedroom. Jeremy warily walks upstairs and enters the bedroom, to find it empty. Then, he turns around to see the apparent ghost of Charles Weatherly, which can only be seen by him and the camera he is holding, with a knife in hand and covered in blood. Jeremy screams as the poltergeist attacks him. After the investigators' bodies were discovered, their deaths were officially attributed to cardiac arrest. The Goldens sell the house and move away. According to state law, they were not required to disclose why they moved.
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5 "Devil Monkey" Devil Monkey a young cousin of bigfoot October 12, 2010
In April 2009, a reporter from West Virginia named Stacie Foster accompanied ATF agents Ollie Moye and Mark West and law enforcement officer Ernest Tybee as they ventured into the Appalachian forests to bust an illegal moonshining operation. Tybee and the agents have been tracking the moonshiners for some time, and hope to catch them red-handed and end their illegal business. It is becoming dark as they enter the forest and come upon a wooden sign with the words "KEEP OUT", but they see claw marks on the sign which Tybee cannot identify. They then hear loud rustling in the trees, but assume it is the moonshiners trying to scare them off. Shortly afterwards, one of the agents discovers a tripwire connected to a rudimentary alarm system, which they carefully step over. Suddenly, they hear strange sounds as the alarm is suddenly triggered by an unseen creature. When they go back to check on what happened with the alarm, they discover a footprint in the dirt that Tybee does not recognize as belonging to a local animal. They discover another tripwire, this one connected to a booby trap in the form of a crossbow set to fire when the wire is disturbed. They hear more rustling and sounds, and, suddenly, a teenager named Matt Jones, who along with his friend Owen was attacked earlier that day, emerge from the darkness, bloodied and terrified. He claims that monsters are following him and warns that they must leave immediately or they will be killed, but the agents cannot let him compromise their mission. Ignoring Matt's pleadings, they continue into the dark forest until they finally come upon the moonshiners' camp. Moye and West break off to investigate the far side of the camp. They discover claw marks and fresh blood on a barrel, and as they continue, they find that the camp has been trashed, and there is no sign of the moonshiners. Moye hears more sounds from the forest, and West suddenly discovers the mauled corpse of one of the moonshiners and tells Moye to come to him. West is suddenly attacked by an unseen creature from behind, which disappears as suddenly as it appears. They hear more screeching and leave to regroup with Tybee and Foster, who have begun to investigate the distillery where the moonshiners have been brewing their product. Inside, they discover the dismembered body parts of Owen and hear the sound of scraping claws on the outside of the still. Moye and West, meanwhile, are attacked and killed by mostly unseen creatures. Tybee and Foster hear growling coming from behind a board in the still, and Tybee demands that whoever is hiding there come out. Suddenly, a creature emerges from behind the board in full view of their cameras, and Tybee tells Foster to run as it attacks him. Foster yells for him in desperation, and everything suddenly becomes quiet. Seconds later, the devil monkey emerges from the still, screeching as it chases her. Foster runs to a fence, but it is locked. In a last-ditch effort to escape, she tries crawling under the fence, but the devil monkey catches up to her. Matt escaped from the forest, telling authorities about the creatures. A search of the area was performed, and the bodies of all the other people who entered the forest were recovered, but were so badly mutilated that they could only be identified through DNA and dental records. A team of zoological experts was assembled to identify what perpetrated the attacks, and though it was obvious that the creatures were mammals, it is not known what kind.
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6 "Yeti" Yeti October 12, 2010
In March 2005, renowned billionaire explorer Mark Hordstrom went missing while climbing Mt. Everest. Three years later, his body was discovered along with another huge discovery. Two journalists, Jared Slate and Alex Turner, bribed Charlie Newhouse, a man working on the cargo ship Inventus that was rumored to be carrying Hordstrom's remains and the discovery, in order to break the story a day early. Newhouse takes them aboard, and they sneak into the inner workings of the ship. Turner asks Newhouse what he knows about the discovery, but says that he knows nothing more than they do, and has in fact agreed to get them aboard because his employers have recently let him go. Newhouse takes them into a cold storage area where the crates containing Hordstrom and the discovery are being kept. Slate sees some dead rats on the floor; Newhouse says that the ship's staff have been putting out poisons to deal with the pest problem, but Turner notes that the rats look more like they were ripped apart. They suddenly hear loud banging noises, but assume that it is machinery shifting. They find a crate, and Slate opens it with a crowbar, expecting to find Hordstrom's body inside. However, the crate is instead filled with fruit. Suddenly, the mauled corpse of one of Newhouse's co-workers falls down from the ceiling. While wondering whether they should call the police, Slate notices a crate behind them labeled "BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN", which they conclude is the major discovery that they heard about. As they examine the crate, they see that it has been forcibly opened from the inside, and they discover white fur caught on some of the splinters. They hear more clanking, and Newhouse explains that no one else was instructed to enter this part of the ship, so the sounds must be being made by the creature. Newhouse refuses to continue on to find the creature and tries to convince the journalists to leave with him. Slate tries to convince Turner to come along, but she insists that they get a shot of the creature before they do. Newhouse makes for the exit, but the door is jammed. As his flashlight begins to go out, the hulking form of a mostly unseen and very hairy animal suddenly comes into view of a security camera and attacks him as everything goes dark. Hearing him screaming, Slate panics and runs, but slips in a large puddle of fresh blood on the floor, and they see a huge, bloody footprint. Turner again insists that they capture the creature on film, or else they will be accused of staging the scene. They follow more footprints to where the creature is apparently hiding and begin to hear low growling sounds. Slate picks up a hammer to defend himself, and the creature emerges in full view of the camera for a brief moment. Now terrified, they flee, but Turner smashes her knee against a vise. As Slate tries to help her, the yeti comes out and tries to attack her on-camera. Slate manages to hit it, and they escape, thinking that they've scared it off, but it emerges from behind some boxes roaring. They hide behind a metal storage container where they can see the door. As they prepare to run, Newhouse's severed arm suddenly falls down on them from above, its hand still gripping the flashlight, and they discover the rest of him immediately afterward. They reach the door and get out of the cold storage area. Thinking that they're safe at first, they suddenly see that the yeti is still following them. They run up toward the main deck with the creature in hot pursuit. They finally reach a door out onto the deck, but it's locked. A security guard appears on the other side, but he does not have a key to the door. He runs away when he sees the yeti approaching them, obscured by the darkness, and Slate and Turner try to break the door down until it finally attacks and kills them. The remains of Newhouse, Slate, and Turner were never recovered, and though their video evidence would suggest otherwise, their deaths were officially attributed to drowning. The press conference awaiting the arrival of Hordstrom's body, and the creature was abruptly canceled, and the Inventus was diverted to Plum Island, a government-controlled island notorious for biological experiments and research.
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7 "Wendigo: American Cannibal" Wendigo October 19, 2010
The episode opens with "recovered footage" of four campers looking for food by fishing, the camera then cuts to day ten with one of the campers killing a squirrel, finally a girl is shown running from something, when she stumbles upon a strange altar of junk then the camper who killed the squirrel comes into full view of the camera looking extremely demented and roaring;In September 2009, four students on a spring break camping trip became lost in the Appalachian wilderness and tried to catch fish and squirrels so that they would not starve, but to little success. A search party composed of tracker Porter Voss, paramedic Trent Dorsey, and leader Shelby Nash was organized to try to find them. The search party knows that the campers have been lost for approximately two weeks, and know that the campers are named April Desoto, Vince Gabriel, Matthew Gaahl, and Lane Corey, and that they have no first aid experience. After hiking for about four hours, they hear a strange wailing sound coming from the forest. Dorsey suggests that it may have been made by a human, but they cannot identify the sound or see what made it. Shortly after they hear the wailing, the come upon the students' campsite, which has been trashed, and they discover blood on one of the tents. Nash tries to hail their base camp on the radio, but they are out of range. Nash and Voss send Dorsey to a nearby stream to replenish their water supplies. When he is alone, he hears another wail in the forest and goes to investigate it, coming upon a bizarre scene of items and animal parts hanging from the branch of a tree by strings, including a pair of glasses and what appears to be skin. At the campsite, Voss suddenly discovers the body of Vince Gabriel hidden in the brush. When they uncover his leg, they see that something has been eating his body and rule out black bears as the cause because the flesh has been chewed off cleanly, not crushed as would be the case with a bear. When Voss mentions that there is obviously something vicious in the woods, they realize that Dorsey has not returned yet and rush to find him. As Dorsey continues examining the scene before him, he is suddenly attacked by a strange creature with claws and a head resembling a deer's skull, which kills him with an axe. As night falls, Nash and Voss continue looking for Dorsey, but to no success. They come across a cave and enter it, lighting the way with a flare. They suddenly discovery one of the hikers, Lane Corey, who is utterly terrified and defending herself with a spear. As Lane tries to explain that there is a dangerous creature out in the woods, recovered footage from the hikers' camera reveals the events leading up to her hiding in the cave. Mere days before the search party set out, Lane found Matthew eating something that she could not identify and April becomes severely injured and unable to move. Matthew confided in Lane that something is making him act strangely and suggested that they try to leave on their own, but Lane questioned him about where Vince had disappeared to. When Matthew changed the subject about what they should do about April, he began to imply that they cannibalize her and Lane became angry with him. Later that night, Lane found Matthew lingering over April's body and making strange sounds, only to turn to her with a monstrous-looking face and roar. Presently, Voss decides to try to find Dorsey, as it has become clear that the search party's only option is to leave the mountains and return with a much larger group. As he searches, he comes across the same scene that Dorsey did before, only it now includes some of Dorsey's belongings. As he hails Nash on the radio, he suddenly hears a sound and turns around just in time to see the same monster that killed Dorsey roar and swing the axe at him. Back in the cave, Nash and Lane overhear Voss' death on the radio, and Nash says that they have to leave the cave to try to save him, but Lane insists that he is already dead. They suddenly hear a loud wail and Nash goes to investigate the entrance to the cave. Matthew, now fully transformed into a wendigo, enters the cave, but they manage to escape. As they run through the woods, Lane suddenly trips, and Nash hears what sounds like Dorsey calling her. Ignoring the pleadings of Lane, she leaves to find the source of the sound. Instead, she finds Dorsey's corpse and the wendigo's "shrine," which now includes Voss' still activated camera, which captures an image of her being maimed by the creature. Lane discovers the corpses of the rescuers and, knowing that she will never escape from the forest, uses her last moments to try to send a message to her family before she, too, is attacked and killed. A larger search party was organized and found the bodies of all three rescuers as well as those of April and Vince. In spite of video evidence to the contrary, their deaths were officially attributed to bear attacks. The bodies of Matthew and Lane were never recovered, and the search for them continues to this day. The final image shown is recovered footage of Matthew partway into his transformation into a wendigo as he roars at the camera.
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8 "Q: The Serpent God" Quetzalcoatl October 26, 2010
In the spring of 2008, in response to a series of ritualistic murders in which the victims' hearts were cut out, the Mexico City police department hired the Enigma Corporation to investigate. Agents Noel Connor and Elise Mooney were dispatched, accompanied by Dr. Nadja Santo, an expert on cult activities, and Santiago Vargas, an informant with ties to the murderers. During their briefing, Santo points out that the Aztec numeral for 52, which is significant to Aztec religion, is painted on the walls where the bodies were found. It is also clear that the victims were murdered elsewhere, as there was little blood where the bodies were found. They plan to have Vargas make contact with two of the alleged murderers, including the leader, Lucas Marzo, a local businessman who has ties to cult activity. Connor confiscates an obsidian knife that Vargas has, which Marzo has told him to bring, and tells Vargas to tell the cult members to meet him tomorrow instead so that the Enigma Corporation can arrest them. Marzo becomes furious when Vargas tells hims that he does not have the knife and tells him to meet the cult at Los Portales, an abandoned train depot, at 11 o'clock that night. Vargas tries to get out of the deal, but Connor and Mooney will not let him. After arriving at Los Portales, Vargas tells them that it was built on top of Aztec ruins, and that anyone who comes there is putting their life in grave danger. Connor tells him there is nothing to worry about, and Santo gives him the knife with which to bribe the cult members. Suddenly, Vargas takes Santo hostage, claiming that they do not understand what they are dealing with. Connor convinces Vargas to let Santo go, which he does, and he runs off. Mooney uses bolt cutters to open another gate into a warehouse where they believe the murderers are hiding, and need something that will stick with the local laws or else the cult will get away with its crimes. Shortly before midnight, they split up and enter the warehouse. Connor and Mooney hear chanting and suspect that the ritual is already underway. Santo, meanwhile, comes upon what appears to be a nest made out of hay and finds Vargas, who has been murdered, and is suddenly attacked from behind. Connor and Mooney discover a bizarre sight: men wearing masks are patrolling around a sacrificial altar, and they see that Santo has been captured and is about to be sacrificed. They try to save her, but there is a sudden explosion and a loud, inhuman screech as the lights go out. They see that all of the cult members have inexplicably died and discover the body of Marzo, who was the one who killed and sacrificed Santo. They suddenly hear strange screeching and hissing in the darkness, and see the shadow a huge, bat-like wing against the lights on their guns. They open fire at the creature, but do not seem to hit it and run away to find cover. As they hide, Mooney looks at the creature through a night vision camera. She sees the creature, which is still obscured by the darkness, as it flies at them. Seconds later, they see that the creature has disappeared. They decide to try to lure the creature to the altar so that they can try to kill it. Mooney begins banging the obsidian knife that Marzo used to kill Santo against her gun to try to attract it. Suddenly, the creature emerges in full view of their cameras, looking like an enormous snake with wings and covered in feathers, and they open fire on it. What the creature was and what happened to it remains unknown, and the Mexican government burned Los Portales to the ground. Marzo was posthumously convicted of all the killings, including the murder of Santo, and Connor and Mooney escaped with minimal injuries.
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9 "Beast of Bray Road" Beast of Bray Road November 2, 2010
In May 2009, a militia group led by a man named Brian Cavanaugh came under attack by what they suspected were federal agents. In order to thwart future attacks, Cavanaugh hired investigative reporter Randal Steiner and cameraman Mike Monroe for an exclusive interview. They were driven to the militia's headquarters deep in the woods of Wisconsin. Shortly after arriving, Monroe sees deep scratch marks on a tree which appear to be stained with blood. Steiner and Monroe are brought into a cabin that the militia is using as their base of operations, where they meet Cavanaugh for the first time. Cavanaugh states that he and his militia are simply exercising their Second Amendment rights and plan to take control from big government and return it to the individuals through any means necessary. They have recently hidden numerous stationary cameras in the woods as well as attached cameras to the scopes of their rifles so that, if a raid is ever instigated, the actions of the federal agents will be documented. When Steiner asks Cavanaugh how he is so certain that the government is behind the attack, Cavanaugh shows him the brutally mauled corpse of Bruce Renfo, a militiaman who was killed two days before. Steiner notes that the damage looks more like it was inflicted by some kind of animal, but Cavanaugh insists that an agent with a government-issue combat knife could have created the wounds to look like an animal attack. Just then, they hear loud growls from the woods outside, which Cavanaugh credits to federal agents trying to throw them off-guard. As he checks a computer, one of the stationary cameras suddenly goes off-line and the militia conclude that an agent is in the woods. Cavanaugh sends Tom Kiniry to investigate, who hears more growling in the woods. Kiniry hears a twig snap and turns around, so he does not see a large shadow looming up in the darkness behind him. Suddenly, another militiaman, Bobby McCrea, runs up and yells at Kiniry to get down before firing his gun. Kiniry is suddenly attacked by something with such ferocity that it tears a piece of flesh off his body and hurls it at a surveillance camera, causing it to short out. Though the creature itself is unseen, it casts a shadow that resembles a werewolf. Seconds later, another camera fifty yards away is taken off-line as well, which leads the militia to believe that it is a raid. Cavanaugh and Nancy Nyson go to investigate, taking Monroe with them, but Cavanaugh tells Steiner to stay with the cabin and warns that he will personally kill him if he had anything to do with the 'raid.' As they enter the woods, they hear gunshots and Nyson breaks from the group at Cavanaugh's order. Back in the cabin, Steiner begins recording himself as he wonders about what is really behind the attacks. Meanwhile, Nyson checks a stationary camera. While her back is turned, the shape of what appears to be a wolf emerges from the shadows, crawls across the upper-right corner of the screen and silently disappears off-camera. Nyson suddenly discovers Kiniry's corpse, which has been mauled in the same way Renfo had been. She discovers fur on his body, and suddenly sees McCrea emerge from the darkness. Nyson questions him about what happened, and McCrea says he is unsure if federal agents or an animal were responsible, and Nyson becomes suspicious because the fur she found on Kiniry looks like the jacket that McCrea is wearing. While arguing about whether or not he may have accidentally shot Kiniry, they are both suddenly attacked and killed by the creature. Cavanaugh and Monroe hear gunshots and screaming and go to investigate, only to find the two militia dead and partially eaten. Cavanaugh questions Monroe about having anything to do with the raid, and Monroe says that Steiner might have brought another cell phone with him. Monroe panics as they head back to the cabin and runs, yelling for help. He runs to a car that he finds unlocked, but cannot find the keys before Cavanaugh catches up to him and insists that they get to the cabin. After hearing another roar in the woods, Monroe begins to seriously doubt that the government is behind the attacks, but Cavanaugh ignores him, and uses Monroe as a shield on the final stretch to the cabin. Cavanaugh catches Steiner making a recording, which he interprets as him breaking their deal for no outside contact. Believing Steiner ordered the attack himself, he forcefully pulls him out of the cabin, ignoring Monroe as he insists that they had nothing to do with the attacks. Cavanaugh threatens the 'feds,' saying that he will kill Steiner if they do not cease and desist at once. Suddenly, they hear a loud growl as the beast lunges at them from the roof of the cabin, briefly appearing in full view of the camera. Monroe survived the attack and managed to crawl to a fire road. Information provided by him prompted federal agents to raid the Wisconsin woods two days later. They discovered the maimed bodies of Steiner and the militia, whose deaths were officially attributed to wolf attacks. However, the federal agents and animal control were unable to locate any such creatures.
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10 "Reptilian" Reptilians November 9, 2010
In the fall of 2008, a dramatic rise in teenage disappearances in New York City prompted the mayor's office to assemble a task force to investigate the disappearances. Detectives John Sloan and Rhonda Ramirez were dispatched to follow a lead which suggested that secret underground raves in abandoned subway tunnels had something to do with the disappearances. They apprehend Steven "Spike" Mills, who works for the rave organizers as a promoter. While interrogating him, they learn that the directions to the raves are marked by bizarre symbols which can only be seen in night vision cameras. As they journey into the tunnels, they hear a whistling sound, seemingly a means of communication, which Spike seems to understand. They are suddenly approached by a man with snake-like eyes, who is wearing a coat with a snakeskin-like texture that completely covers his body and obscures his face most of the time. The man marks their hands with stamps designed like the directional symbols, but says nothing, and they continue, Spike noting that Sloan got the "V.I.P. stamp." They come upon the rave momentarily, and see another person in a coat walking down another tunnel. When Sloan questions Spike about what it is, he claims that he does not know--nor does he want to--and that the officers do not want to mess with the organizers of the rave. Nonetheless, they convince Spike to come along with them by threatening to revoke his immunity. As they begin investigating the area around the rave, they see another person in a coat, whose eyes seem to shine in the dimly lit room, watching them. They continue into the tunnels and notice that no one seems to be following them, but suddenly see another person in a coat walking by at the end of the tunnel. Sloan walks ahead and sees what appears to be a gigantic lizard's tail disappear as someone or something climbs up a ladder. Sloan runs ahead, leaving Spike and Ramirez behind as he goes to apprehend the person. He draws his gun and follows strange sounds into a very dark part of the tunnels; he comes upon what appears to be a larder, where the bodies of some of the missing teenagers are hanging upside down from the ceiling. He sees a reptilian tail slither around a corner and follows it, coming out onto a catwalk. Suddenly, another victim's body, wrapped up in plastic, is thrown at him; Sloan only has time to utter, "Oh no," before he is suddenly attacked from behind as an unseen figure attempts to asphyxiate him. Sloan passes out, but wakes up momentarily to see that it is one of the hooded people from before, who also has snake-like eyes, who attacked him. The hooded person drags him down the tunnel, and Sloan is unable to free himself or resist. Meanwhile, Ramirez and Spike come upon the larder, and see that there is a stationary camera watching them. Spike's camera reveals that there are many more symbols, comprising an entire language, all over the walls. With her gun drawn, Ramirez walks down a flight of stairs, and they hear hissing all around them. Spike keeps insisting that they simply leave and save themselves, but Ramirez refuses to leave without Sloan. They discover more bodies, and Spike's camera reveals that the bodies' hands are marked with the same symbol that Sloan was given. Ramirez investigates something dripping from a catwalk above them, and they suddenly see Sloan on above them, face-down and wrapped up in plastic like the bodies. However, he is still alive. When their presence becomes known, the person who was dragging him runs away before they can see him. Ramirez runs to free Sloan before he can suffocate, and Spike, fed up with the situation, leaves on his own. Sloan tells Ramirez to leave him behind and get out while she can, but she refuses. She suddenly hears squealing and hisses all around her, and fires at a shape with a tail, but seems to miss. Another person suddenly appears below them, snarling at them and staring with piercing snake-like eyes, but she fires at him, too. Ramirez frees Sloan, but the hissing is growing louder. Spike, meanwhile, is utterly lost and in a panic. As he tries to read the directions out of the tunnels, he sees another stationary camera above him. He tries to escape, but suddenly sees one of the hooded figures, who attacks him. Ramirez and Sloan try to escape as well, and Ramirez fires twice at another of the hooded figures at the top of a flight of stairs and hits her mark. She discovers Spike, who has suffocated to death, at the top of the stairs. Ramirez comes upon the body of the man she shot, who seems to be bleeding glowing blue blood, and removes his hood. For a brief moment, in full view of her camera, Ramirez sees that the man no longer looks like a human, and instead has a very scaly-looking face. Sloan yells for her to look out, but it is too late; another of the reptilians has snuck up on Ramirez and asphyxiates her. The bodies of Sloan, Ramirez, and Spike were never recovered. Though their surveillance equipment was confiscated, no arrests were made, and the task force was abolished because of "budget cuts." The raves continue to occur throughout the country, and with them the disappearance of those who attend them.
 


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Meerkat Manor
Meerkatlogo.jpg
Genre
Nature
Documentary
Drama
Created by
Vinay Patel
Narrated by
Bill Nighy (UK/Canada)
Mike Goldman (Australia)
Sean Astin (US, Series 1–3)
Stockard Channing (US, Series 4)
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language(s)
English
No. of series
4
No. of episodes
53 (List of episodes)
Production

Executive producer(s)
Vinay Patel (NZ)
Producer(s)
Vinay Patel (NZ)
Editor(s)
Renoir Tuahene
 Amanda Young
 Matt Meech
 Mike Bolsover
Location(s)
OGGB, Auckland, NZ
Cinematography
John Brown
 Robin Smith
 Gavin Thurston
 Ted Giffords
 John Waters
 Ralph Bower
Running time
24 minutes
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet International
Original run
2 September 2005 – 22 August 2008
Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International that premiered in September 2005 and ran for four series until its cancellation in August 2008. Blending more traditional animal documentary style footage with dramatic narration, the series told the story of the Whiskers, one of more than a dozen families of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert being studied as part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, a long-term field study into the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of the cooperative nature of meerkats. The original programme was narrated by Bill Nighy, with the narration redubbed by Mike Goldman for the Australian airings and Sean Astin for the American broadcasts. The fourth series, subtitled The Next Generation, saw Stockard Channing replacing Astin as the narrator in the American dubbing.[1]
Meerkat Manor premiered in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2005, and the first 13-episode series concluded on 24 October 2005. With the success of the programme in the United Kingdom, Animal Planet started broadcasting it on its national channels in Australia, Canada, and the US. It has since been rebroadcast in more than 160 other countries.[2] The fourth, and final, series aired initially in the United States from 6 June 2008 to 22 August 2008; it aired in the United Kingdom in April 2009.[1][3][4] In August 2009, it was reported that the programme had been cancelled.[5]
Although the show faced criticism from viewers for not intervening when a meerkat was injured and faced death, as a whole Meerkat Manor enjoyed considerable success and was Animal Planet's top series in October 2007, both on the cable channel and through its video-on-demand service. The show's experimental format broke new ground in animal documentary filming techniques and allowed viewers a long term, intimate look into the lives of its meerkat stars, breaking the traditional wall between viewer and subject found with most documentaries. In 2007, Meerkat Manor was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards. It has won three awards at the 2006 Omni Awards, and at the 2006 and 2007 New York Festivals Award Galas. The first three series of the programme have been released to DVD in both Region 1 and Region 2. In 2007, a book entitled Meerkat Manor – The Story of Flower of the Kalahari was released in the UK, detailing the life of Flower and the Whiskers before the series filming began. A television film, Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins, documenting Flower's birth and rise to matriarch of the Whiskers aired on Animal Planet on 25 May 2008.


Contents  [hide]
1 Production details 1.1 National variations
2 The meerkats 2.1 Changes in representation
3 Reception 3.1 Awards
3.2 Impact on the genre
4 Merchandise 4.1 Film
5 References
6 External links

Production details[edit]
Meerkat Manor was created by Vinay Patel, executive producer and series editor at Oxford Scientific Films, and commissioned for Animal Planet International by executive producer and commissioning editor Mark Wild.[6][7] Filming for a 13-episode series took seven to eight months, and was limited to the Kalahari spring and summer seasons, as meerkats are less active during winter.[8][9] Series three was filmed from November 2006 through April 2007, and Series four began filming in October 2007.[10] Most scenes were filmed on location at the Kuruman River Reserve, where the Kalahari Meerkat Project that the meerkats are a part of is based. However, the meerkats seen in commercials and on the show's website were not the same animals portrayed in Meerkat Manor. Instead, tamer-rescued meerkats from the Fellow Earthlings Wildlife Center were filmed against a green screen.[11]




 Robin Smith finds himself surrounded by foraging meerkats while filming them
The show was primarily filmed using Sony DSR570 cameras, although special equipment was needed for some unique footage. For scenes inside the animals' burrows, mini fibre-optic infra-red cameras were employed; wide-angle shots were filmed with a seven-metre crane and a remote-controlled camera platform.[12][13] An off-camera wireless microphone was also used to record many meerkat vocalizations, only partially audible to cameras' on-board systems.[12] Most filming was done by a single cameraman and a single sound engineer; researchers have required a minimal human presence to avoid stressing the animals.[9] Eye-level shots were difficult to achieve at times, due to the meerkats' small size and the limited height of even the smallest tripods.[12]
For tracking purposes by the researchers, the dominant female of each group is fitted with a radio collar, as are some dominant and roaming males. The meerkats – especially younger animals – are marked with dye to differentiate them.[9] As the meerkats are habituated, they would tend to ignore the camera crew as long as their "personal space" was respected.[12]
National variations[edit]
The UK and US versions of the show have the same content for most episodes; however, the latter was sometimes edited for length to allow for more commercial breaks. Content was also sometimes altered; mating scenes in particular were often removed. Animal Planet US occasionally changed the names of meerkats and episode titles.[9] Two of Flower's pups were renamed from Ren and Stumpy to Len and Squiggy; the title of the episode was also changed.[14][15][16] De la Soul (named for the rap group of the same name), one of the sisters who started the Starsky group, was renamed Whoopi in the US as a tribute to actress Whoopi Goldberg, an early fan of the series.[14][15] Animal Planet US has also renamed some of Flower's pups born in season three to honour two other famous fans of the show, Elizabeth Taylor and Denis Leary.[9] Several episodes were renamed: the title of the final episode of the second series was changed from "The Killing Fields" to "The Quiet Fields".[14][15] During the third series, the third episode's title was changed from "Something's Got to Give" to "Sister Act" (another Goldberg reference), while the sixth episode's title changed from "The House of Zappa" to "Sibling Rivalry".[14][15]
The meerkats[edit]
Main articles: List of Meerkat Manor meerkats and List of Meerkat Manor episodes




 The use of underground cameras allows the crew to capture never before seen footage of a meerkat mother and her pups deep in their burrow.
The show follows several groups of meerkats, who act communally for the benefit of the groups in which they live. These groups are typically led by a dominant female and male, who maintain almost exclusive rights to have offspring.[17] The group followed most closely is known as the Whiskers family. This group was chosen because of its matriarch Flower, an unusually successful dominant female who led the group for five years.[10][18] During series three, Flower died from a snake bite and was succeeded by her daughter Rocket Dog.[9][19]
Animals in neighbouring groups were highlighted in each series as well.[9] In the first series, a group called the Lazuli were shown frequently in competition with the Whiskers family, and the opening credits referred to them as the "neighbours from hell".[17] Although their dominant male Big Si died between series, the Lazuli appeared in the second series, mostly as a source of roving males.[20][21] Another group called the Commandoes, led by a one-eyed male named Hannibal, introduced themselves by attacking the Lazuli burrow, killing a pup and badly wounding the babysitting adult. The Commandoes became the new major rivals in the area, killing the pups of evicted Whiskers female Mozart and taking over some of the Whiskers' territory.[22][23]
The Whiskers' new neighbours were the Zappa and the Starsky.[21] Although smaller than the Whiskers, the Zappa attacked frequently, and when they fled after one attack, the Whiskers – in a rare occurrence – adopted an abandoned Zappa pup.[19][24] The Starsky group, on the other hand, was no threat to the Whiskers. Formed by a trio of Flower's daughters permanently evicted from the Whiskers, the small group was ravaged by illness, predators, and a lack of new pups.[25] The constantly struggling Starsky succumbed in the penultimate episode, with the death of the last survivor, Mozart, who was killed by a jackal.[26] Former Whiskers female Maybelline broke away from group at the end of the third series, forming a new group called the Aztecs which became the Whiskers' rivals in the fourth series.[27]
Changes in representation[edit]
While the show portrays real events among the Kalahari Meerkats, it also removes repetitive elements of the animals' lives. Because many days are filled with behaviour related to grooming and foraging, these routines were often left out of the show in favour of more unusual events.[28]
The meerkats are all named by Kalahari Meerkat volunteers; the individual who first sees a new litter emerge from the burrow is awarded naming rights. This has produced a variety of names, frequently drawn from volunteers' favourite books, movies, musical groups, family and friends, historical figures and geographical locations.[28] Animal Planet sometimes renamed the meerkats for narration, arguing that researchers' names were too limited, often relating to spices and food condiments.[9][16] Because of these changes, fans of the series who seek information on the Friends of the Kalahari Meerkat Project website sometimes have trouble locating particular animals. The project has created a list of alterations to help viewers connect the animals on the show to their real-life counterparts, and to match episodes to the monthly KMP Life History reports. The list, however, is only available to paying members of their website.[28][29]
Two of the major Whiskers family rivals were composites, created with footage and blended stories from multiple groups. For example, the Commandoes group on the show uses some of events from the real Commandoes group, but was primarily shown with footage from the Vivian research group – including its dominant couple.[30] Similarly, the show's Zappa group was mostly presented using footage from a group called the "The Young Ones" (named after the British television show); however, the actual story and dominant couple were from the real Zappa Group.[18][30] Axel, the abandoned pup from series three, has a research number that indicates he was probably a Young Ones pup, rather than being a Zappa as the show claims.[31]
Reception[edit]
Meerkat Manor has been well received by viewers and critics alike. In October 2007, it was Animal Planet's top series, with an audience of more than four million in the United States alone.[32] In the United States, its first episode was viewed by one million viewers, and the second and third series premieres were watched by approximately 800,000 viewers each. The fourth series premiere did not fare as well, with fewer than 500,000 viewers.[33] The viewership of the on-demand video offerings for Meerkat Manor grew 20% in September 2007, when Discovery offered each third series episode, video capsules of series one and two, top ten moments from the show, and a memorial sequence for Flower.[34] Building on the success of Meerkat Manor's unique format, Animal Planet commissioned two similarly formatted programmes: Orangutan Island, which focuses on a group of orphaned orangutans at the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, and Lemur Street, which looks at the lives of two rival gangs of ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar.[35][36]
Some fans have criticized the show for its non-interference policy with regard to the meerkats, asking why the film crew and researchers do not give anti-venom to snake-bitten meerkats, or euthanize those dying and suffering.[32] US Executive Producer Mick Kaczorowski pointed out that Meerkat Manor was a show about the real lives and deaths of the meerkats. The research group has a policy against film crews interceding in natural events "because they don't want to have an effect on the gene pool by saving a weaker meerkat [or] affecting the outcome of what's natural in the Kalahari."[10] As the research project is monitoring "...the breeding success and survival of individuals and ... the factors that affect reproduction and survival" interfering in the natural processes would render the research results invalid.[28] There is one exception to this rule: researchers will euthanize meerkats that contract tuberculosis, to prevent outbreaks that would threaten both the meerkat population and nearby cattle.[10][28]
Awards[edit]
Meerkat Manor was nominated for a 2005 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival Award in the "Animal Behaviour" category, and in 2007 for "Best Original Score".[37] At the 2006 Wildscreen Festival, the series was a finalist in three categories: "Animal Behaviour", "Innovation", and "Popular Broadcast".[37][38] The series won Gold Statues in "Natural History" and "Cinematography", and a Silver Statue for "Writing", at the 2006 Omni Awards.[37] The eight episode of series three, "Journey's End" which depicts the death of Whiskers matriarch Flower, was awarded the 2008 Wildscreen Festival Panda Award in the "Five Award for Popular Broadcast Programme" category.[39] Meerkat Manor was a two-time Gold Medal winner in the "Nature & Wildlife" category at the New York Festivals Award Gala, in 2006 for series one, and again in 2007 for series one and two.[37][40] The series was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2007: one for "Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming" and one for "Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming".[37][41] In 2009 the series was awarded the Grand Award at the New York Festivals International Television Programming and Promotion Awards in the "Family Programmes" category.[42]
Impact on the genre[edit]
Meerkat Manor's innovative new methods of filming allowed the Kalahari Project scientists a chance to uncover aspects of meerkat life never before seen, including life within the burrows. The film crew was also the first to capture meerkat infanticide on film.[13]
While many documentaries maintain an emotional distance from their subjects, Meerkat Manor – due to its extended length, soap opera like narration, romanticization of the animals' lives, and close-up filming techniques, provides a closer, more personal view of the meerkats.[43] Viewers describe being emotionally involved in the animals' lives, sometimes forgetting they are watching a documentary. The meerkats' frequently short lives and brutal deaths become surprising and disturbing to some audiences. This experimental format was seen as expanding the boundaries of both the nature documentary genre and the nature of reality TV.[44]

Like the meerkats, Manor is an odd beast. The crew is forbidden to intervene, and the producers don't sugarcoat the animals' less cuddly habits (infidelity, abandonment of young, occasional cannibalism). But the meerkats are named and given human traits ("courageous," "caring," "bully[ing]"), and their antics and tragedies take place over a sound track. Manor is both brutal and melodramatic and thus more devastating than most documentary or scripted drama.
—James Poniewozik, Time Magazine, 2 November 2007[45]
Merchandise[edit]




 Cover of the original UK release of Meerkat Manor: The Story of Flower of the Kalahari
A book written by Professor Tim Clutton-Brock entitled Meerkat Manor: The Story of Flower of the Kalahari (ISBN 0-297-84484-9) was released in the UK in a hardback edition on 4 October 2007.[46] The book focuses on Flower's life and the story of the Whiskers, tracing how the group started, providing a timeline of Flower's life, and detailing all of the pups she had over her lifetime, as well as their current locations. The book also gives more background on how the Kalahari Meerkat Project started, the research goals and results, and researchers' personal lives.[47] A paperback edition of the book has been announced for release in the United States by Simon & Schuster through their Touchstone imprint on 15 April 2008. The US release will be titled Meerkat Manor: Flower of the Kalahari (ISBN 1-4165-8767-5).[48][49] In November 2007, Discover Communications announced that it was partnering with Activision to make a video game based on Meerkat Manor as the first in a new series of nature-based games. The announcement stated the game would be released to multiple platforms in late 2008, but no game was ever released.[50]
Film[edit]
Main article: Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins
Oxford Scientific Films produced a feature film for Discovery Films that acts as a prequel to the Meerkat Manor series.[51] Originally announced as Flower: Queen of the Kalahari, Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins was directed by Chris Barker and Mike Slee and narrated by Whoopi Goldberg.[52] The film documents Flower's early life as she grows from a young meerkat to become one of the most successful leaders of the Whiskers clan.[53] The film was introduced at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival in the Spotlight section,[52] and then aired in the United States on Animal Planet on 25 May 2008 as a lead into a thirty-minute Making of Meerkat Manor: the Story Begins special.[54] It was released to Region 1 DVD in North America on 3 June 2008, with the making of special, and another special The Science of Meerkat Manor included as extras.[55]
The film included re-edited footage and a new musical score. The Whiskers story was simplified, with the Lazuli being the only rival group to appear in the film. Unlike with the Meerkat Manor series, the film does not actually depict any of the real Whiskers meerkats. Untrained "meerkats actors" play the role of Flower and her family, with the camera crew searching out appropriately aged meerkats, then following them until the meerkats acted in a way that was needed for the film. Flower herself was depicted by approximately eight female meerkats.[16]
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External links[edit]
Official Southern Star Entertainment UK Meerkat Manor website
Official Animal Planet US Meerkat Manor website
The Kalahari Meerkat Project
Friends of the Kalahari Meerkat Project
Meerkat Manor at the Internet Movie Database
Meerkat Manor at TV.com


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 Region 2 (Europe) Official Series 1 DVD cover
The episodes of the British documentary Meerkat Manor first premiered on Animal Planet International in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2005. The programme was originally created by Caroline Hawkins, executive producer and series editor at Oxford Scientific Films,[1] and commissioned for Animal Planet International by executive producer and commissioning editor Mark Wild.[2] The original episodes are narrated by Bill Nighy. The Australian and American channels redubbed the episodes using their own narrators. the Australian episodes are narrated by Mike Goldman. In the US, episodes for the first three series were narrated by Sean Astin. For the fourth series, Astin was replaced with Stockard Channing.[3] Meerkat Manor is also broadcast in more than 160 countries.[4]
The first 13-episode series concluded on 24 October 2005. With the success of the programme in the UK, Animal Planet began broadcasting Meerkat Manor on its national channels in Australia, Canada, and the United States. The programme premiered in the United States on 9 June 2006, with the first series airing through 25 August 2006. The second series aired simultaneously in both the US and the UK, starting 29 September 2006. The third series premiered in the US on 10 August 2007, followed in the UK on 10 September 2007, and in Canada on 3 October 2007. Because each channel had different broadcasting schedules, the UK sequence of new episodes ended well before those in the US and Canada. The fourth, and final, series premiered in the United States on 6 June 2008 with the subtitle of The Next Generation.[3][5] It was originally slated to begin airing in the United Kingdom in February 2009, but the premiere was later moved to April 2009.[6][7]
Notable merchandise based on the series include multiple DVD episode sets covering the first three series released in two regions, an upcoming feature film that will be a prequel to the Meerkat Manor series,[8] and a book by Professor Tim Clutton-Brock entitled Meerkat Manor – The Story of Flower of the Kalahari (ISBN 0-297-84484-9).[9]
As the show is based in the United Kingdom, this article refers to seasons as series. In the case of changes made in the American broadcast, the title it aired under in the US will be listed below the original title, while meerkat name changes will be noted in the episode summary.


Contents  [hide]
1 Episode list 1.1 Series 1: 2005
1.2 Series 2: 2006
1.3 Series 3: 2007
1.4 Series 4: 2008
2 Distribution 2.1 Online episodes
2.2 DVD releases
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links

Episode list[edit]
Series 1: 2005[edit]

#
Original Title (top)
 US Title (bottom)
UK airdate
US airdate

1.1
"A Family Affair" 12 September 2005 9 June 2006
Flower, the matriarch of the Whiskers meerkat group, brings her three-week old pups above ground for the first time. One of Flower's oldest daughters, Tosca, is pregnant. While the Whiskers are out foraging, Flower's teenage pups, led by Kinkajou, grab Mitch and take him from the babysitting burrow to play. When they get bored, they abandon Mitch in the desert, but he is found by his older brother Shakespeare who carries him home. Three days later, the Whiskers are out foraging when they come upon a puff adder in one of their bolt holes. During the futile battle to remove the snake, Shakespeare is bitten on his face and thigh and, unable to keep up with the foraging group, must limp his way home alone.
1.2
"Love Thy Neighbour"
 "Love Thy Neighbor" 12 September 2005 9 June 2006
Severely weakened Shakespeare is unable to go foraging, so his sister Mozart stays with him to keep him company and act as his protecter. Having given birth during the night, Tosca emerges from the burrows late and joins the already foraging Whiskers. Though Tosca makes apologetic gestures and noises, Flower attacks her when she smells the pups on her. Carlos, a roving male from a rival group called the Lazuli, finds the Whiskers' burrow, causing the babysitters to get nervous. One goes and brings back Flower and Zaphod, who quickly chase off the roving male before returning to the foraging group. With the Whiskers to the border between their territories, members of the Lazuli appear and challenge the Whiskers. Though they quickly retreat after the Whiskers take up the challenge, the Lazuli return again with their full group. After a short fight, the Lazuli are forced to retreat again. As the sun sets, Carlos returns to the Whiskers burrow, meeting with Flower's young daughter Daisy and mates with her.
1.3
"Some Like It Hot" 19 September 2005 16 June 2006
Four days since he was bitten by a snake, Shakespeare is still partially paralyzed and starving from being unable to eat. His sisters Mozart and Tosca continue to watch over him as he goes to forage for food early in the morning. Shakespeare is temporarily separated from his sisters while he's out, but Tosca finds him and they are quickly reunited. Though resources are scarce, Flower allows Tosca's four pups to live, as well as four pups Mozart gave birth to overnight. The next day, after being humiliated by Zaphod, nervous natured Yossarian returns to the burrows and pulls all of Tosca and Mozart's newborn pups out of the burrow to initiate a burrow move. The babysitters and Tosca are confused and begin trampling the pups, and leave them lying under the scorching desert sun.
1.4
"Revolution" 19 September 2005 23 June 2006
Pooky, one of Flower's teenage sons, ends the chaos and leads the other babysitters in moving the pups to the burrow entrance. When Flower and the remaining Whiskers return, Flower quickly moves the pups back below ground. The next day, Flower's four pups go on their first foraging trip. After a few days of being snubbed for his attempted burrow move, Yossarian again drags Mozart and Tosca's helpless pups above ground to initiate a burrow move. This time the babysitters go along with the plan, picking up the pups and following Yossarian's lead. Along the way, they pass the foraging Whiskers. Seeing Flower furiously descending on them, Yossarian drops the pup in his mouth and slinks off. Flower and Zaphod reassert their dominance over the babysitters, then lead the group to a new burrow. However, no one notices the pup Yossarian dropped until they reach the new burrow and Mozart realizes one of her pups is missing. She goes out to search for it, but can't find it and the pup dies.
1.5
"Childhood's End" 26 September 2005 30 June 2006
Flower's pup Mitch attacks one of Mozart's seven-week old pups. Shakespeare joins the family in a foraging trip for the first time since being bitten by a snake. All of the pups are taken with the family on the day's foraging trip. While the group takes a mid day break, Flower viciously attacks Mozart and evicts her from the family, forcing her to leave her pups behind. With thunderstorms approaching, the Whiskers take shelter for the night in an empty Lazuli burrow. In the morning, the Whiskers claim the burrow for their own. Hours into the day, the Lazuli appear and attempt to retake the burrow. After a lengthy, ferocious battle, the Lazuli retreat, giving over that part of their territory to the Whiskers.
1.6
"Boys Will Be Boys" 26 September 2005 7 July 2006
Pregnant again, Flower evicts Tosca from the Whiskers and joins Mozart in following the Whiskers and watching their pups from a distance. While out foraging, the Whiskers accidentally cross into the territory of a neighboring meerkat family called the Gattaca, a small group with only a few adults. After some brief war displays, the Whiskers leave, but Yossarian and Big Will stay behind to look for Gattaca females without success. They are eventually run off by the Gattaca males. Mitch eats something that makes him very sick, to the point he can barely move. He manages to drag himself to the burrow for the night. During the night, Mitch recovers while Flower gives birth to a new litter of four pups. After Mozart carefully approaches Flower and makes extensive apologetic gestures, she is allowed to return to the group. Later in the day, Carlos, the wandering Lazuli male who previously impregnated Daisy, approaches the Whiskers den and mates with Mozart.
1.7
"Divided Loyalties" 3 October 2005 14 July 2006
Flower and Zaphod are finding it more difficult to control the now forty strong Whiskers. While the entire group are out foraging, the group begins to split into two. Seven meerkats, including Zaphod and Mozart and two other adults, stay near Flower, while the rest of the Whiskers wander in another direction and end up a mile away at the Whiskers favorite watering hole. The larger group, primarily made of teenagers, doesn't post any sentries and come under attack from Big Si and the Lazuli. Confused, the group flees in a blind panic, going even further from Flower and the others. Flower's group waits at the burrow that night for the others to return, but they do not. The larger "Splinter" group, successfully escaped the Lazuli. Daisy, showing signs of pregnancy, assumes leadership of the group, and Yossarian tries to woo Daisy into accepting him as her dominant male. Tosca finds the Splinter group, but stays at a distance.
1.8
"The Good, The Bad, And The Desperate" 3 October 2005 21 July 2006
Tosca, who was evicted from the Whiskers, reappears and deposes the more timid Daisy as leader of the Splinters. The Whiskers and Splinters are reunited, with Flower resuming her leadership of the group. Flower viciously re-evicts Tosca from the group. Though Daisy is pregnant from her encounter with Carlos, Flower allows her to stay in the group.
1.9
"Daisy's Choice" 10 October 2005 28 July 2006
Daisy gives birth to her new litter of pups, but she gives birth in the wrong burrow. With the rest of the Whiskers in another burrow, Daisy and her pups are alone and in danger. However, Yossarian finds Daisy and helps her carry her pups to the Whiskers burrow. The next day the babysitters initiate another burrow move and Daisy's pups are left behind. Daisy stays behind with her pups, but eventually abandons her pups and rejoins her family. Too young to survive on their own, the pups die.
1.10
"Flower Power" 10 October 2005 4 August 2006
Flower has her next litter of pups. When she goes foraging with the group the next day, Tosca's young sons Jogu and McMurphy are left behind as babysitters. Bored and hungry, the two abandon their duty and go off by themselves, leaving the newborns unprotected. Shakespeare returns to the burrow, though, and takes over babysitting. While out foraging, the Whiskers find a burrow containing a litter of Lazuli pups and begin digging them out. A Lazuli male attempts to mate with Flower but is chased off by the Whiskers males. Tosca makes an attempt to rejoin the Whiskers, but is fiercely rebuffed.
1.11
"An Awfully Big Adventure" 17 October 2005 11 August 2006
Now three weeks old, Flower's newest pups are almost old enough to go foraging. One of the pups, Columbus, sneaks away from his babysitters to join the foraging party, spending the day close to Flower. By mid-day, the exhausted pup has to be carried by his brother Shakespeare. As the day ends, the gang returns to the burrow and catches the last rays of sun with his family. The next day an eagle owl threatens the group, requiring them to sneak around it to get back to their home burrow.
1.12
"The Calm Before the Storm" 17 October 2005 18 August 2006
Realizing Flower will never allow her back into the Whiskers, Tosca begins to search for a roving male to start a new group with. The Lazuli come into the Whiskers territory while the Whiskers are out foraging. They find the Whiskers burrow, guarded by lone babysitter Shakespeare. When the Lazuli dominant male Big Si comes into the burrows, Shakespeare puts himself between him and the young pups to protect them.
1.13
"Moving On" 24 October 2005 25 August 2006
The Whiskers return and rout the Lazuli invading their burrows. The pups are alive, however Shakespeare is nowhere to be found. The next day, the group goes foraging, taking the pups. They stumble onto an area with multiple raptors, but Mitch saves the day by leading them into a nearby bolt hole. Yossarian runs into roving male Carlos and chases him off. Carlos runs into the lone Tosca and mates with her. Flower leads the Whiskers to a new burrow. Shakespeare is not seen again, and the narrator notes that he may have died underground in his battle with Big Si.
Series 2: 2006[edit]

#
Original Title (top)
 US Title (bottom)
UK airdate
US airdate

2.1
"Cold Comfort" 29 September 2006 29 September 2006
Three months after the end of series 1, it is now late winter in the Kalahari. Neither Shakespeare nor Tosca have been seen by researchers between the filming sessions and both are presumed dead. The Lazuli group has also seen losses over the winter, with the death of their dominant male Big Si, who contracted tuberculosis and was euthanized to avoid an epidemic. His son JD has taken over as the group's temporary dominant male, but as the dominant female, Cazanna, is his mother, he can not mate with her leaving Cazanna on the hunt for a new partner. Whiskers male Yossarian makes his way towards the Lazuli and attempts to mate with Cazanna, but he is chased off by the Lazuli males. Yossarian later runs into and mates with Pancake, who was evicted from the Lazuli by Cazanna. Flower has a new set of pups.
2.2
"The Three Amigos" 29 September 2006 29 September 2006
Flower's newest pups are taken out on their first foraging trip, but the group is attacked by the Lazuli and are temporarily separated. The two groups are reunited on the way home and safely return to the burrow. The Whiskers are unaware that a Cape Cobra is sleeping in their burrow, but the night passes without any harm done. Meanwhile, two roving Whiskers males, Mitch and Big Will, join Yossarian in his quest for Lazuli females. All three take aim for Cazanna but are all driven off by the Lazuli males.
2.3
"Young Blood" 6 October 2006 6 October 2006
While out foraging, the Whiskers end up battling a bird for its eggs. While the bird is busy with most of the Whiskers, Einstein, Mitch's brother, manages to grab an egg for himself. A new rival group of meerkats, the Commandoes, appears and spends a night in an unoccupied Whiskers burrow on the edge of their territory. In the morning, the Commandoes, led by Hannibal, their one-eyed dominant male, invades the Lazuli territory. They find the Lazuli burrow and kill one of the two Lazuli pups in the burrow and badly wound Marilyn, the Lazuli babysitter.
2.4
"Iron Lady"
 "The Iron Lady" 6 October 2006 6 October 2006
Pregnant again, Flower initiates a burrow move and is growing less tolerant of her daughters, Mozart, Daisy and Kinkajou. The Whiskers find some unprotected tortoise eggs and enjoy a rare treat, though the pups struggle to figure out the secret of cracking them open. Despite Flower's short temper, Mozart mates with Stinker, a Lazuli roving male and grandfather of Carlos. Flower attacks her and gives her a warning bite at the base of her tail.
2.5
"There's No Place Like Home"
 "No Place Like Home" 13 October 2006 13 October 2006
Mozart, now pregnant from her encounter with Stinker, has been evicted from the Whiskers by Flower. She struggles to find food and stay safe on her own while wounded from Flower's attack. Flower steals food from some of the younger Whiskers pups as her time to delivery her newest pups come closer. The rains arrive, ensuring plenty of food for all, and Flower gives birth to five pups.
2.6
"When Flower Met Hannibal" 13 October 2006 13 October 2006
Mozart tries to rejoin the Whiskers while they are out foraging, but her efforts are thwarted by roving male Carlos, who keeps following her around and refusing to leave her alone. With his presence, she can't risk getting too close to the group and retreats. She later tries to sneak into the burrows but is unsuccessful. During a foraging trip, the Whiskers come under attack from a goshawk and are split into two groups. Flower and her pups end up taking shelter in a Commandoes burrow. Mozart miscarries her litter. The Commandoes return to their burrow to find the Whiskers there. They go on the attack and attempt to dig them out and kill the pups.
2.7
"United We Stand" 20 October 2006 20 October 2006
The Whiskers are able to win the battle against the Commandoes when the rest of the Whiskers rejoin Flower and the others. During the battle, one of the Commandoes dies. Mozart is allowed to rejoin the Whiskers. The Whiskers get into a confrontation with a Cape Cobra. After three weeks of drought, the heaviest summer rains in decades fall and Flower's five pups make their first appearance above ground.
2.8
"The Enemy Within" 20 October 2006 20 October 2006
Yossarian is left to babysit Flower's pups, but abandons them to look for Lazuli females. Pancake has been allowed to rejoin the Lazuli by Cazanna and gives birth to two pups. The Whiskers discover the Lazuli near their waterhole. The Whiskers chase off the Lazuli, but Flower decides to lead a deep invasion into Lazuli territory to chase them back further. During the battle, many of the Whiskers split off from the main group after they spot Yossarian in the distance and mistake him for a Lazuli male. Flower, having only a few adults with her now, is forced to retreat. After having to wait out a bad storm for a couple of hours, Flower's group safely return homes, while the Splinters spend the night elsewhere. Yossarian, having safely escaped the attacking Whiskers, spends the night alone in the Lazuli territory.
2.9
"The Art of Leadership" 27 October 2006 27 October 2006
With the Lazuli and Whiskers burrows too close for comfort, Flower initiates a burrow move even though the Splinter group hasn't returned yet. The adults carry the pups at first, but after an eagle owl is spotted in a bush, the adults must stay on high alert and the pups are left to run on their own. They safely reach a new den in the evening, but Flower also discovers that her daughter Mozart is pregnant. After a week apart, the Splinter group finds and rejoins the Whiskers.
2.10
"Balance Of Power" 27 October 2006 27 October 2006
Flower is pregnant again. The also pregnant Mozart begins overstepping her bounds and attempts to assert her own dominance over the Whiskers, particularly her sister Daisy. In a rare event for meerkat society, Mozart evicts her sister Daisy. Though Flower sees the eviction, she doesn't seem bothered by the actions at first. While out foraging, Flower kills and eats a bird, another rarity for meerkats. Flower lets Daisy rejoin the group and gives Mozart a punishing bite on the tail for her insubordination. While Yossarian is babysitting Flower's pups, her daughter Blossom wanders off but he is able to find her and return her home safely.
2.11
"Growing Pains" 3 November 2006 3 November 2006
The heavy summer rains have turned the Kalahari into a landscape of lush grass and beautiful flowers. The rich grass is too tall for meerkats to see over, so the Whiskers must be extra vigilant while foraging. During the trip, however, Blossom gets too far from the others and can't find her way back. Her brother Mitch comes closer to reaching her, but turns back to the group before he gets within earshot. Without the protection of her family, Blossom is killed by a goshawk.
2.12
"The Godmother" 10 November 2006 10 November 2006
Flower gives birth to three pups. Mozart also gives birth to her own litter of pups. After a few weeks, Flower's pups emerge from the burrow and go foraging with the main Whiskers group. Mozart and her pups, who are too young to forage yet, are left behind at the burrow. At the end of the day, Flower leads the Whiskers to a new burrow, abandoning Mozart and her pups.
2.13
"The Killing Fields"
 "The Quiet Fields" 10 November 2006 10 November 2006
The lone Mozart struggles to care for her pups at the abandoned burrow. Initially she stays in the burrow to wait for her family returns, but hunger drives her to leave the pups to attempt to find food. The Commandoes, driven by a food shortage, cross into the Whiskers territory to forage. While foraging, they find Mozart's pups alone in the burrow and kill them all. Due to a tawny eagle flying over head, the Whiskers are forced to start foraging late. Daisy is left behind to babysit Flower's pups while the rest go out, unaware that the Commandoes are approaching their position.
2.14
"Meerkat Manor Re-Cap"  3 August 2007
This special gives a summary of the major events that occurred in Series 2.
Series 3: 2007[edit]

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3.1
"On Dangerous Ground" 10 September 2007 10 August 2007
The Whiskers are having to adjust to a hostile new territory after they were evicted by the Commandoes. Flower leads the Whiskers, including her newborn pups, on a dangerous journey to try to find better living grounds. Along the way, they run into their new neighbors, the Zappa. They are able to win the fight relatively easy, however Flower's pups disappear.
3.2
"The Mission" 11 September 2007 17 August 2007
Sophie and Jogu guard Flower's pups as Mitch leaves to find the Whiskers. Flower leads the Whiskers into the Zappa territory to search for the lost pups. The evicted Zappa female Melanie visits the burrow, then leaves followed by Jogu who mates with her. The Zappa find the Whiskers scent marks and follow them towards Sophie and the pups. During his search, Mitch discovers the seven member Starsky group, formed by Mozart, who was evicted from the Whiskers three months ago and is pregnant, former roving Lazuli male Carlos, and Mozart's half sister Kinkajou, who is also pregnant. Sophie tries to call Jogu back, but her calls lead the Zappa to the burrow. Spotting the Zappa, Sophie rushes the pups into the deepest part of the burrow. Before the Zappa reach the burrow, the Whiskers arrive, easily chasing them off. Once again pregnant, Flower decides to make the new burrow their home. Mitch and Jogu safely return before night fall.
3.3
"Something's Got to Give"
 "Sister Act" 12 September 2007 24 August 2007
As the Starsky goes foraging, Kinkajou leads the group while the heavily pregnant Mozart makes no attempt to assert her dominance. The Zappa make another attempt to raid the Whiskers burrow and take back their territory. Babysitters Columbus and Daisy take the pups inside the burrow as the Zappa arrive and start digging their way towards the pups. The Whiskers return from foraging before the Zappa can get inside the burrow and the outnumbered Zappa quickly turn and flee for their lives. Mozart goes into labor while the Starsky are out foraging, but when she makes lead calls to encourage the group to return to the burrow, they ignore her. When night approaches, Kinkajou leads the group to an abandoned den instead of the burrow. Mozart reluctantly follows into the strange burrow and gives birth during the night. In the morning, the Starsky leave to go, again following Kinkajou's lead. Left alone, Mozart is forced to leave the pups unguarded while she goes to find food. When Kinkajou sees Mozart join the foraging group, she sneaks back to the burrow and kills all of Mozart's newborn pups. Having fed, Mozart returns as quickly as she can, but all she finds of her pups is a partially eaten paw. Kinkajou fully assumes the role of dominate female.
3.4
"The Death of Romance" 13 September 2007 31 August 2007
The Starsky group is looking for a new burrow again. Dominant male, Carlos is suffering from an infection in the bite mark left by Hannibal. Meanwhile, Houdini is roving around the Whiskers, but Zaphod has his guard down since his brother Yossarian had left for an extended roving trip. When Zaphod steals food from Flower, she forages away from him and is found by roving Zappa male Houdini. Houdini managers to mate with Flower before Zaphod spots him and chases him. Before the Starsky reach their new burrow, Carlos dies from his infection.
3.5
"Tale of Ren and Stumpy"
 "Tale of Len and Squiggy" 14 September 2007 7 September 2007
Ren and Stumpy, now three weeks old, venture out of the burrow for the first time.[10] However, Stumpy was born with a deformed front leg. While foraging over a wide area, the Whiskers ends up splitting into two groups. Flower's daughter Rocket Dog leads the group that is with the pups. With resources scarce from a lack of rain, Rocket Dog leads her group on a foraging expedition and to a hopefully new, more promising burrow. Along the way Mitch is the only one of the group to try and care for the two pups and Ren is eventually picked off by a bird of prey. The group arrives at the new burrow without Mitch, who stayed behind in the desert with Stumpy. Eventually Mitch leaves Stumpy behind, who dies from starvation. Meanwhile, Flower has led the rest of the group to a burrow two miles (3 km) away from Rocket Dog's group. Houdini and some Zappa males manage to successfully mate with Maybelline, Daisy, and Rocket Dog.[n 1]
3.6
"The House of Zappa"
 "Sibling Rivalry" 17 September 2007 14 September 2007
After getting bitten by a puff adder, Zappa dominant female Lola gets separated from the group for two days. Finally making her way back to her burrow, her sister Punk takes advantage of Lola's weakened state and takes over as dominant female after anal marking Lola. Houdini returns from his roving mission at Rocket Dog's Whisker Group and Frank is unhappy with the welcome his family gives him. After a short battle for dominance, Houdini chases Frank away and takes over as dominant male. The combination of Punk and Houdini make an ideal leadership pair for the Zappa, but a nightmare for the Whiskers.
3.7
"Heavy the Crown" 18 September 2007 21 September 2007
The food supply of Rocket Dog's group is dwindling, and Flower's group wanders back to their old manor in search of food. Instead, they find the familiar trough of water, only to be met by Hannibal and the Commandoes, who are experiencing the same crisis as the Whiskers. In a deadly battle, the Commandoes drive Flower's group from whence they came. Back at the new manor, Rocket Dog's stress of leadership causes herself to give birth to her premature pups above ground, who die. The rains come and flourish the manor, bringing the group back together. Rocket Dog hands leadership back to Flower without a struggle.
3.8
"Journey's End" 19 September 2007 28 September 2007
When the Whiskers fend off an attack from the Zappas they adopt Axel, a pup left behind as the Zappas fled. Returning to the burrow they chase off a Cape Cobra. However, the snake enters the burrow where new pups have recently been born. Flower goes in to protect the pups and is bitten in the face by the snake. Two days later, she succumbs to the venom and dies.
3.9
"A New Day" 20 September 2007 5 October 2007
Rocket Dog is the new leader of the Whiskers and, with the group numbering 40+ meerkats, the burrow is crowded and crawling with parasites. Rocket Dog initiates a burrow move, but her sister Maybelline chafes under her decision and is unwilling to move her two-week old pups. When Lyric tries to pick up one of Maybelline's pups to move it, Maybelline strikes out at him. Rocket Dog goes back to try to calm the situation, but without their leader in the front the other Whiskers get confused and the young pups are dropped everywhere. Zaphod, a veteran in burrow moves, picks up a pup and starts moving in the direction Rocket Dog had been taking them. Soon the rest of the group follows, including Maybelline. The next day, the Whiskers run into the Zappa group by the new burrow site and a battle ensues, which the Whiskers win.
3.10
"Farewell My Lovely" 21 September 2007 12 October 2007
With the death of Flower, Zaphod leaves the group to become a roving male, but his efforts to find a new mate in the Zappa group are thwarted by dominant male Houdini. The pups come out of the burrow for the first time on their own, and Wilson, a young roving male from the Commandoes is hanging around the Zappa group.
3.11
"Three Degrees of Separation" 24 September 2007 19 October 2007
The newest Whiskers pups go on a foraging trip and learn about life in the Kalahari. At the Starsky burrow, sisters Mozart, Kinkajou and De la Soul (called Whoopi in the US version) are the only members of the group left. They take the risk of going into the Commandoes territory to look for food and possible roving males, but run into the Commandoes group and are chased off. The three get split up during their flight. Mozart and Kinkajou eventually make it back to their burrow, but De la Soul never returns. Mozart and Kinkajou are dangerously underweight and two days after their flight, a storm sends them into a bolt hole to avoid the rain. During the night, Kinkajou dies. Alone, Mozart attempts to rejoin the Whiskers, but is chased off as an intruder.
3.12
"The Graduate" 25 September 2007 26 October 2007
Wilson, the roving male from the Commandoes, attempts to mate with Rocket Dog at the Whiskers burrow. Zaphod makes a surprising return to the family and resumes most of the duties of the dominant male, including running off rival males. However, Wilson runs into the lone Mozart at the Starsky burrow and gets a better reception. Wilson stays the night at Mozart's burrow and they survive a small bush fire together. Wilson and Mozart make their way back to the Commandoes territory upon sun up. The Whiskers get too close to the Commandoes territory, and another clash ensues with the Commandoes running off the Whiskers. Wilson and Mozart are separated during this fight, so Wilson returns to his group's burrow for the night. In the morning, he rushes back over to Mozart's burrow to find her dead from a presumed jackal attack.
3.13
"A Family at War" 26 September 2007 2 November 2007
The Whiskers group is now fifty members strong. New matriarch Rocket Dog is having troubles keeping things together while dealing with an increasingly rebellious Maybelline. Maybelline, determined to be a dominant female, breaks free from the Whiskers and takes some others in the group with her. This permanently splinters the Whiskers and Maybelline's new group is given the name Aztecs.
Series 4: 2008[edit]

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4.1
"To Have and to Have Not" 13 April 2009 6 June 2008[11]
Zaphod, the oldest and most experienced of Whiskers group, has been fitted with a radio collar. During the winter, most of Maybelline's Aztecs left and returned to the Whiskers and the burrowless group sleeps in a bolt hole. Rocket Dog is finding management of the 33 strong Whiskers difficult during the winter as food is in short supply. During their daily foraging trip, Mitch spots a roving male circling the Whiskers. Rocket Dog shows interest in the male as she needs a mate, but Zaphod quickly chases him off, with help from six other Whiskers males. During the chase, however, Zaphod and the others end up far from the rest of the family in unknown territory. The Aztecs are able to safely leave the bolt hole later in the day, and begin searching for a permanent burrow site. The Whiskers head back to their burrow and run into the roving male that Zaphod has chased off earlier, now accompanied by the remaining Commandoes group. Nikita, the dominant female of the Commandoes, leads her group in an attack against the Whiskers. With the loss of seven males, Rocket Dog chooses to flee instead of fight, and the Commandoes drive them completely out of their territory. As the now twenty-five member Whiskers group is forced to sleep in a bolt hole, the Aztecs successfully commandeer a new burrow from a yellow mongoose.
4.2
"All Manor of Love" 14 April 2009 13 June 2008[11]
The seven member Aztecs settle into their new burrow. Wilson, from the Commandos, visits the Aztec burrow and mates with Maybelline. He begins scent marking the territory and other Aztec members to signify he is now the group's dominate male. Zaphod and his group of roving males arrive at the Aztec burrow as well. Zaphod and his group join the Aztecs without any struggle, but it is a futile take over as Maybelline is another of Zaphod's daughters. Zaphod's arrival sends Wilson running, leaving Maybelline without a partner again. Wilson makes his way to the Whiskers group, where he meets with and mates with Sophie, a subordinate female. Zaphod settles with the Aztecs, but the other males who came with him leave, recognizing that they cannot mate with their sisters. Wilson returns to the Whiskers with Sophie, and is quickly chased off by the Whiskers males. Rocket Dog attacks Sophie for mating with a rover.
4.3
"Rising Star" 15 April 2009 20 June 2008[11]
The Whiskers enter the Commandoes territory, but are again badly beaten by their rivals and forced to retreat. Seacrest, one of the Whiskers males, gets separated during the retreat and becomes a rover. He manages to make his way back to the Commandoes burrow and mates with Nikita. Seacrest sleeps above ground near the Commandoes burrow and mates with her again in the morning before Nikita viciously runs him off. Some roving males approach the Whiskers burrow, but the Whiskers males quickly chase them off.
4.4
"The Family Way" 16 April 2009 27 June 2008[11]
The Whiskers are relaxed and playing together, after weeks of strained relationships, as Rocket Dog shows signs of being pregnant. Rover Seacrest joins with the Aztecs, who move to a new burrow as their old one became infested with fleas. While out foraging for caterpillars, Sophie takes a bad fall from a tree and injuries her paw. Led by Rocket Dog, the other Whiskers leave her behind to continue foraging. A roving male comes near the group, and the pregnant Rocket Dog quickly asserts herself as dominant female, scent marking all the females. Sophie is able to walk off her injury and rejoin the family. After submitting to Rocket Dog and being allowed to stay, Sophie meets up with the roving male. The watching Whiskers attacks, chasing off the male. Rocket Dog, joined by Hawkeye, viciously attack Sophie and evict her from the group. The Whiskers, still in search of a home, find the Aztec burrow. The outnumbered Aztecs quickly flee, leaving the Whiskers to claim the newly renovated burrow as their new home.
4.5
"The Mark of Zorro" 17 April 2009 4 July 2008[12]
Exiled Sophie struggles to find food and is plagued with ticks. Axel, her adopted brother, finds her, grooming her and keeping her company until nightfall. Zorro and the other four roving Whiskers males approach the foraging Commandoes but are kept at bay. In the morning, Zorro and his group come at the Commandoes from all sides. The youngest of the rovers, Duke, finds Nikita's sister Rosie and mates with her. After an eagle owl causes both groups to flee to the Commandoes burrow in a panic, Zorro and his brothers take over the group. Zorro and the other rovers scent mark Nikita, with Nikita submitting to their actions, something the announcer notes is an event never seen before in the manor. Zorro is now the dominant male of the Commandoes group, infusing the group with new blood.
4.6
"Great Expectations" 18 April 2009 11 July 2008[12]
Rocket Dog's litter is due in a few days, and Mitch has stepped into the role of dominant male of the Whiskers, though he can not be a mate to his sister. At the Commandoes, Nikita is also pregnant and ten females in her group face potential eviction, particularly her sister Rosie. The Whiskers see a strange meerkat and chase it off, resulting in their finding a new burrow. In the morning, Nikita evicts Rosie with aid from her daughter Serena, followed by one of Nikita's other daughters. The other females make submissive gestures, but Nikita eventually evicts eight of the ten females in her group, reducing the Commandoes group count from twenty to only twelve, and leaving the group with few babysitters for her coming litter. Rocket Dog gives birth to two pups.
4.7
"The Bodyguard" 19 April 2009 18 July 2008[12]
The Whiskers go foraging, leaving one-year old Axel and Sophie, who has been allowed to rejoin the Whiskers, as babysitters. As the day wears on, Axel struggles to stay awake, eventually falling asleep on the job. When he wakes up, he leaves the burrow to go eat, not realizing that Wilson is approaching the burrow. Wilson enters the burrow in search of Sophie, who was inside with the pups. She follows him outside to do some mutual grooming, leaving the pups alone and unprotected. Axel returns and runs Wilson off, despite Wilson being twice his size. They return to the burrow entrance, and are later joined by the pups on their first excursion outside. Wilson returns, with another adult male. Axel goes after the second male, while Wilson rejoins Sophie. The Whiskers return home and the two Commandoes rovers flee. Mitch goes after Wilson to teach him a lesson. Axel finds a puff adder in a side entrance to the baby sitting burrow. They attempt to chase it off, but it sends the snake further into the burrow as it has no other way out. Sophie is able to lead one of the pups safely out another entrance. When the other pup does not emerge, Rocket Dog runs into the burrow, followed by Sophie. They find him and he is safely brought out of the burrow. Limping from his battle with Mitch, Wilson once again approaches the burrow and Sophie follows again.
4.8
"Divided We Fall[n 2]" 20 April 2009 25 July 2008[12]
Rocket Dogs two pups, Nugget and Beaker, are the largest sized pups on record to be born in the manor. The twenty-strong Whiskers go out to forage while Sophie and Simon babysit. The two babysitters eventually lead the pups away from the burrow for their first foraging trip. While out foraging, the Whiskers find an old burrow that was once occupied by the Aztecs, sending the Whiskers into a fury of scent marking and on a search for the trespassing group. When they find them, they give chase, inadvertently sending the Aztecs straight for the pups and the babysitters. Sophie, Simon, and the pups are sleeping where they foraged, unaware that the Whiskers had sent the Aztecs their way. Sophie awakens at the sound of an approaching storm and the Aztec's calls. She and Simon lead the pups to a bolt hole, with the Aztecs giving chase. Back at the burrow, the Whiskers discover the pups are missing, but a thunderstorm temporarily keeps them from going back out to search for them. As Sophie fights to keep the Aztecs from entering the bolt hole, Simon confronts a deadly snake sleeping in the back of the hole. In the morning, it's revealed that the rain forced the Aztecs to flee, allowing Sophie and the pups to flee and return to the Whiskers, while Simon was killed by the snake.
4.9
"To The Manor Born" 21 April 2009 1 August 2008[12]
At the Aztecs burrow, Maybelline and her three sisters are all pregnant. The Lazuli group returns and chases the Aztecs from their new burrows, leaving the Aztecs without a home again, and Maybelline no place to give birth. Eventually, Maybelline leads her Aztecs back to their burrow where they successfully fight off the Lazuli to reclaim their home. At the Commandoes, Nikita has given birth. Zorro struggles to keep his place as dominant male due to challenges from his brothers. Three weeks later, Maybelline has given birth, and evicted two of her pregnant sisters. The third was allowed to remain, having lost her pups after being injured in the battle with the Lazuli. Nikita is pregnant again by an unknown male, as Zorro has not mated with her recently.
4.10
"The Birds" 22 April 2009 15 August 2008[13]
The Whiskers initiate a burrow move after their burrow becomes infested with parasites. Rocket Dog is pregnant again, as are all of her subordinate females. Rocket Dog evicts four of them, including Sophie. At the Commandoes burrow, Nikita's pups are eating solid food, but must deal with Zorro's refusal to share and Nikita's stealing any food they do find. Zorro's brother Miles gives too much attention to Nikita, and after scent marking Nikita again, he traps Miles in a bolt hole and attacks him. When the dust settles, the wounded Miles has been evicted, which the announcer notes is the first male eviction in the history of the manor. Acknowledging Zorro's leadership, the researchers fit him with a radio collar. The Whiskers, meanwhile, settle in a new burrow.
4.11
"The Rovers Return" 23 April 2009 22 August 2008[13]
Rover Wilson attempts to return to his family, the Commandoes, but Zorro will not allow him to. Instead, Wilson joins with Phillipe, a fellow rover. At the Whiskers burrow, evicted pregnant sister Sophie continues to linger near her family. Wilson and Phillipe arrive and attempt to take over of the group, but quickly backed off when confronted by the Mitch and the other males. Sophie and Wilson mate again, while Phillipe provides a distraction by leaving. They spent the afternoon together at a bolt near the Whiskers group. As night falls, Sophie attempts to sneak back into the burrow as she has done each night before, but Wiley Kat chases her off and she must spend the night alone again. In the morning, Rocket Dog evicts Wiley Kat, whose pups are now due. Wiley Kat joins her sister Sophie for companionship. That night, she gives birth but the pups are all stillborn. Wilson and Phillipe find the Aztecs, where Zaphod not only acts as dominant male, helping the group retain its small territory, but also acts as babysitter. Realizing Zaphod is aging, Wilson and Phillipe make a move on the group, but Wilson lets Phillipe distract him while he attempts to woo Maybelline. However, she has no interest in mating or taking on a dominant male. So the duo return again to the Whiskers, where Wilson and Sophie again reunite. Together with Phillipe and Wiley Kat, they have the tenuous foundation for a new group.
4.12
"Home Alone" 24 April 2009 22 August 2008[14]
With only nine members, mostly youngsters, the Whiskers are at their weakest in the group's history. Rocket Dog has only allowed Rita, an adolescent female too young to survive on her own, to stay. Rocket Dog gives birth to four pups, then, driven by hunger, goes to forage along with the other Whiskers. Babysitter Rita follows her instincts and kills the pups. She later gives birth to a single pup, Juno, which is largely ignored by the Whiskers and Rita. After a week together, Sophie and Wiley Kat have been abandoned by Wilson and the Phillipe and return to the Whiskers burrow. Three weeks later, Juno is old enough to explore outside the burrow under the watchful eye of babysitter Sophie. She and her sister have been allowed to remain in the group. Sophie also gave birth to three pups of her own, now a week old. A large number of vultures gathering near the burrow, the Whiskers must change burrows. Their normal three week move was delayed by the new births. When the vultures are drawn off to other prey, the group springs into action. With the adults carrying Sophie's pups, they leave the burrow, accidentally leaving the confused Juno behind. Rita hears his distress calls and returns for him, saving him from a circling hawk. The Whiskers find a new burrow and settle in.
4.13
"The Darkest Day" 25 April 2009 22 August 2008[14]
The night after the burrow move, a puff adder enters the Whisker's burrow. In the morning, the Whiskers panic as they quickly evacuate the burrow, bringing Sophie's young pups above ground. Rocket Dog went head-to-head with the snake to protect the pups, leaving her with a nasty bite to the head. Her head swollen, she would remain still to give herself the best chance for survival, but with the pups in danger above ground, she summons the strength to initiate a burrow move. Sophie helps her get the group under control and the pups moved, with Axel coming to her final pup's rescue when the other adults are too confused to do anything. As they move, Mitch spots another group in the distance, and they quickly take to the grass to find a bolt hole for temporary refuge. At the Commandoes, Zorro is nowhere to be seen, Miles tries to rejoin the group. Baker, Mile's littermate, is keeping watch, and the two begin posturing for power. Rocket Dog is unable to go further, so Sophie steps in to take over and leads the others, with her pups, for a new burrow. A short distance away, they run into a mole snake. Axel and the others surround and attack the snake to allow Sophie to get the pups safely past. Mitch, Juno, and two other Whisker adults remain behind to watch over the ailing Rocket Dog. Zorro's collar is found up a tree, all that remains of Flower's son who became leader of the Commandoes; it is thought that a bird of prey caught him. At his former group, Miles and Baker continue to brawl, pulling in the other males. Nikita also joins in, attacking Baker. Sophie finds a new burrow for the Whiskers group, showing the potential to be a new leader for the group. Rocket Dog slowly recovers from the snake bite and staggers to her feet. Slowly she and the others make their way to the new burrow. At the Commandoes, Baker has gotten out of Miles death grip and Nikita has pulled back out of the fight. Three days later, Rocket Dog has recovered from her snake bite, and Sophie's pups are old enough to come out of the burrow to explore.
Distribution[edit]
Online episodes[edit]
All episodes aired in the United States have been released for download from iTunes, except for the "Meerkat Manor Re-Cap" special from series 2. Discovery Channel's website also offers documentary videos featurettes about the series, top ten moments from the series, and a memorial sequence for Flower through their online video on demand system.[15] Season 4 is currently available for instant watching on Netflix.
DVD releases[edit]
In Europe, DVD Region 2, Animal Planet International released the first three series to DVD in the form of four disk series box sets containing all 13 episodes within each series; with the first series set released by Go Entertain on 9 October 2006.[16] For the second series set, released 5 November 2007, Demand Media took over distribution of the series.[17] The company released the third series on 23 June 2008.[18] In addition to the standalone series sets, the company has released an intro disc containing the first three episodes of series one and two special edition box sets: the first containing both the series 1 and 2 sets, and the second containing all three series sets.[19][20][21]
In Region 1, which includes the United States and Canada, Animal Planet US began releasing Meerkat Manor to DVD through its on-line store on 30 November 2006. Four season sets have been released, with each set containing all 13 episodes in its respective seasons, and with an optional meerkat stuffed toy. All three seasons were also released together in an "Ultimate Fan" collection.[22] These sets were done in Discovery's usual "burn-to-order" fashion, in which the DVDs are burned to DVD when someone places an order. As such, they were only available on Discovery's online store and through Amazon.com. On 9 October 2007, Discovery began releasing the series in regular DVD season sets, through distributor Genius Products, starting with the first season set.[23][24] The company has released all four aired seasons of the series, with the final season set being released on 27 January 2009.[25]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Although the pups are named Ren and Stumpy, in the US they were renamed Len and Squiggy, respectively.
2.Jump up ^ "Divided We Fall" is the first Meerkat Manor episode to be split into two sub-episodes, "The Pup's Story" and "Rocket Dog's Story" which initially cover the same time period before coming to the same conclusion at the end. For simplicity, this episode summary tells the whole story in a linear fashion.
References[edit]
General"Official Meerkat Manor Episode Guide". Animal Planet. Retrieved 30 December 2007.
Specific
1.Jump up ^ "Key Personnel - Southern Star Group". Southern Star. Archived from the original on 30 August 2007. Retrieved 11 November 2007.
2.Jump up ^ "Animal Planet Begins Production on Third Season of Meerkat Manor". World Screen. 12 March 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2007.[dead link]
3.^ Jump up to: a b Starr, Michael (21 April 2008). "Starr Report". New York Post. Retrieved 21 April 2008.
4.Jump up ^ "Primetime Emmy Nominations for Meerkat Manor" (Press release). Southern Star. 21 August 2007. Retrieved 31 October 2007.
5.Jump up ^ Owen, Rob (7 August 2009). "TV Q&A with Rob Owen". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. PG Publishing. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
6.Jump up ^ Smith, Lynn (6 June 2008). "'Meerkat Manor' stars enter the next generation of drama". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 7 June 2008.
7.Jump up ^ "Meerkat Manor - The Next Generation". Southern Star Entertainment. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
8.Jump up ^ Thomson, Desson (29 July 2007). "March of the Cuddly-Wuddly Documentaries". The Washington Post. Retrieved 29 July 2007.
9.Jump up ^ "Tim Clutton-Brock's Meerkat Manor book". Friends of the Kalahari Meerkat Project. 29 September 2007. Retrieved 24 December 2007.
10.Jump up ^ Episode Note: In the UK, the pups are named Ren and Stumpy, but in the US airing they are called Len and Squiggy, respectively.
11.^ Jump up to: a b c d "TV Listings: Meerkat Manor". Animal Planet. Retrieved 6 June 2008.
12.^ Jump up to: a b c d e "TV Listings: Meerkat Manor". Animal Planet. Retrieved 4 July 2008.
13.^ Jump up to: a b "TV Listings: Meerkat Manor". Animal Planet. Retrieved 25 July 2008.
14.^ Jump up to: a b "TV Listings: Meerkat Manor". Animal Planet. Retrieved 5 August 2008.
15.Jump up ^ Reynolds, Mike (9 November 2007). "Short-Form Content Drives Discovery VOD Gains". The New York Multichannel News. Retrieved 21 November 2007.
16.Jump up ^ "Meerkat Manor : Series 1". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
17.Jump up ^ "Meerkat Manor - Series 2". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
18.Jump up ^ "Meerkat Manor Series 3". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
19.Jump up ^ "An Introduction To Meerkat Manor". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
20.Jump up ^ "Meerkat Manor - Series 1 & 2 Box set". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
21.Jump up ^ "Meerkat Manor - Series 1 - 3". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
22.Jump up ^ "Meerkat Manor DVDs". Discovery Channel. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
23.Jump up ^ Lambert, David (9 January 2008). "Meerkat Manor - 2nd Season DVDs Popping Out of the Ground for Retail Release Soon!". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
24.Jump up ^ Lambert, David (11 March 2008). "Meerkat Manor - Two Meerkat DVD Releases This June Include 3rd Season Set". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
25.Jump up ^ "Meerkat Manor (2005)". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
External links[edit]
Official Discovery Channel Meerkat Manor blog with episode summaries
List of Meerkat Manor episodes at the Internet Movie Database


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Miami Animal Police

Genre
Reality
Documentary
 Crime
 Mystery
Format
Live-action
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
Production

Location(s)
Miami, Florida
Camera setup
Multiple
Running time
45 minutes
Production company(s)
Lion Television
Distributor
Discovery Communications
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet
Original run
January 5, 2004 – 2010
External links
Website
Miami Animal Police is an American documentary reality television series that premiered on January 5, 2004 on Animal Planet. Produced by Lion Television, the program is set in Miami, Florida and the surrounding Miami-Dade County, an area of more than 2,000 square miles (5,000 km2). It depicts the everyday duties of Miami-Dade Police Department Animal Services Unit, focusing on the work of twenty ACOs (animal control officers), five civilian animal cruelty investigators, six Miami-Dade Police Department administrators, and a pitbull investigator.
The show also highlights the work of various private companies that remove wild animals from places they shouldn't be, including escaped exotic pets which can pose a hazard to native wildlife and/or local residents if left unchecked. The most frequently featured of these private contractors is Todd Hardwick of Pesky Critters Wildlife Control.
Kevin Hefner directs the show, which is the fourth of Animal Planet's top-rated shows and is part of an "umbrella rotation" of shows known collectively as "Animal Planet Heroes".


Contents  [hide]
1 Comparisons to Animal Cops: Miami
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Comparisons to Animal Cops: Miami[edit]
The Miami-Dade Animal Services Department is currently the only agency in the Animal Planet Heroes rotation that has been featured in two different shows. Animal Cops: Miami, which premiered in 2010, also focuses on Miami-Dade Amimal Services. While many of the on air staff were involved in both shows, there are several fundamental differences. For example, two television series are produced by different production companies (Animal Cops: Miami is produced by Anglia Television, which produced the majority of the shows in the Animal Planet Heroes rotation. Miami Animal Police was produced by Lion Television). In addition, Animal Cops: Miami includes segments focusing on the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department's Venom One unit. The main difference, however, is that production of Animal Cops: Miami occurred after the unit's 2005 separation from the Miami-Dade Police Department to become a stand alone county department.
See also[edit]
Animal Cops
Animal Precinct
References[edit]

External links[edit]
Official website
Miami Animal Police at the Internet Movie Database
Miami Animal Police at TV.com
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Monkey Business (TV series)
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Monkey Business is a 1998 long-running TV series about the exploits of various primates who reside at Monkey World, a rescue centre and sanctuary for primates in Dorset, United Kingdom. The series features Jim and Dr. Alison Cronin, directors of Monkey World, as they travel around the world rescuing primates from lives of abuse, and returning them to Monkey World. Their goal is to rehabilitate the rescued primates and allow them to live in as natural a habitat as possible, being part of a group and living with friends of their own kind. The series was narrated by Chris Serle.
Jim Cronin, MBE lost his short battle with cancer on 17 March 2007 at Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan. Born and raised in New York Jim moved to England and worked at various animal parks/zoos, and then in 1987 he leased an old pig farm and converted it, with his long term friend Jeremy Keeling, into what is now a 65 acres (26 ha) sanctuary, Monkey World.
The series was made by Meridian Broadcasting and ran for 9 series on both ITV Meridian and Animal Planet. Previous season episodes can also sometimes be seen on National Geographic Channel. After ten years of successful production of Monkey Business, first filmed by Tigress and then Meridian ITV, Monkey Business culminated in a 3-part series called 10 Years of Monkey Business.
Monkey Life was created in 2006 by Primate Planet Productions Ltd. Shown on Five in the UK, and on Animal Planet and other channels worldwide, Monkey Life is now in its 7th series. The first series is narrated by Andy Serkis, famous for his voice as Gollum in Lord of the Rings. Series 2 - 6 are narrated by Ralf Little.


Contents  [hide]
1 Human elements
2 Chimpanzees
3 Orang-utans
4 Other primates
5 External links

Human elements[edit]
Alison Cronin is owner of Monkey World. Along with running a zoo-like sanctuary, she also nurses and feeds the animals living there. However, the Animal Director is Jeremy Keeling.
Chimpanzees[edit]
There are several chimpanzees, divided in three groups. The Nursery group, consisting of matriarch Sally and several young chimpanzees, including Bryan rescued from Cancun, Mexico.
Alpha male Butch leads the Bachelor Boys, an all male group of chimps. One of their most famous residents was named Charlie, he was rescued by Jim Cronin from being a beach photographer's prop in Spain.
Paddy's group and Hananya's group are both family groups, and Bart is the youngest in Paddy's group. Politics within these groups determine how long each Male is leader.
Orang-utans[edit]
There are 3 orangutan groups. Tuan's group, Gordon's group and the Nursery group, looked after by foster mum A-mei. They are part of the international breeding program.
Other primates[edit]
At Monkey World, there are 16 different species of primates include woolly monkeys, capuchins, squirrel monkeys, marmosets, cotton-top tamarins, siamang gibbons, golden-cheeked gibbons and other gibbon species.
Monkey World is also part of the international species breeding program for golden-cheeked gibbons, orang-utans and woolly monkeys.
External links[edit]
Monkey World official site
watch Monkey Business on Discovery Broadband
Monkey Business page on Animal Planet UK
 


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Monkey Life (TV series)
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Monkey Life is a TV series documenting the work of Dr. Alison Cronin, Jeremy Keeling and their team at Monkey World. Monkey Life follows on from ITV Meridian's Monkey Business, based on the work of the largest monkey and ape rescue centre in the world.

Monkey Life
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Genre
Documentary Series
Narrated by
Ralf Little
Andy Serkis
Composer(s)
Joseph Metcalfe
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language(s)
English
No. of series
7
No. of episodes
134
Production

Location(s)
Dorset, United Kingdom
Running time
30 mins
Production company(s)
Primate Planet Productions Ltd
Broadcast

Original channel
Channel Five
Animal Planet
Picture format
16:9 576i (SDTV)
 16:9 1080i (HDTV)
Audio format
Stereo
Original airing
2007
Chronology

Preceded by
Monkey Business
Related shows
Monkey Business
10 Years of Monkey Business


Contents  [hide]
1 The Monkey Life Series
2 Monkey Life – Series 1-8 (134 half hour episodes) so far
3 Merchandise 3.1 DVDs
4 Monkey Life On Demand
5 Social Media
6 Monkey Business
7 Jim Cronin
8 In the press
9 References
10 External links

The Monkey Life Series[edit]
Nestled in Dorset, United Kingdom, this 65 acres (26 ha) sanctuary grew from a humble derelict pig farm, and is now home to over 250 primates from 19 different species.[1]
This long-running and heart-warming TV series is now in its seventh year. Primate Planet Productions Ltd. is based on site, and accompany Dr. Alison Cronin and her staff on all international and UK rescues, documenting the team's unwavering hard work in their ongoing mission to stop the illegal smuggling of primates from the wild.
Monkey World has rescued primates from 18 countries, where they were being mistreated in laboratories, as exotic pets, as photographer's props, or as circus animals. The crew from Primate Planet Productions documents the rescue and re-homing of primates at Monkey World[2] in the Monkey Life series, and then continues to follow their stories as the primates integrate into family groups and settle into their new home with friends of their own kind.
Monkey Life – Series 1-8 (134 half hour episodes) so far[edit]
In 2014, Series 8, Primate Planet Productions are filming the series. An attempting to produce the first 6 episodes with funding from a Kickstarter project which only ran for a short time and ended on 22nd July 2014 Failed. Animal Planet do not plan to air the series.[3]
In 2013, Series 7, Primate Planet Productions produced 20 half hour episodes for Discovery Networks. Narrated by Ralf Little, this series is broadcast on Animal Planet and other channels worldwide.
In 2012, Series 6, Primate Planet Productions produced 20 half hour episodes for Discovery Networks. Narrated by Ralf Little, this series is broadcast on Animal Planet and other channels worldwide.
In 2011, Series 5, Primate Planet Productions produced 20 half hour episodes for Discovery Networks. Narrated by Ralf Little, this series is broadcast on Animal Planet and other channels worldwide, as well as Channel Five in the UK & Ireland.
In 2010, Series 4, Primate Planet Productions produced 20 half hour episodes. Narrated by Ralf Little, this series is broadcast on Nat Geo WILD[4] worldwide, as well as on Channel Five in the UK & Ireland.
In 2009, Series 3, Primate Planet Productions produced 20 half hour episodes in Association with Athena Films. Narrated by Ralf Little, this series was shown on Channel Five in the UK & Ireland and on Animal Planet worldwide.
In 2008, Series 2, Primate Planet Productions produced 20 half hour episodes in Association with Athena Films. Narrated by Ralf Little, this series was shown on Channel Five in the UK & Ireland and on Animal Planet worldwide. This series was also made available on HULU in the USA.[5]
In 2007, Series 1 was the last series in which Jim featured, as he died on March 17, 2007 from cancer. Produced in association with Athena Films,[6] it’s narrated by Andy Serkis, (the voice of Gollum in Lord of the Rings) this series is 14 half hour episodes and was shown on Channel Five in the UK and on Animal Planet worldwide.
Merchandise[edit]
DVDs[edit]
Monkey Life Series 1-4 have been produced on DVD,[7] and are available worldwide. Series 1 was released in 2007 as a 2 disc box set whilst Series 2-4 were released in subsequent years as 4 disc box sets. They are all presented in stereo sound, widescreen video and are region-free.
Monkey Life On Demand[edit]
In 2014 Primate Planet Productions launched the series on Vimeo VOD.Monkey Life Series 1-7 are available on VIMEO VOD in many countries around the world.[8]
Social Media[edit]
The Official Monkey Life Facebook page[9] and Twitter[10] feed keeps fans up to date with information on the series. Primate Planet's YouTube Channel[11] showcases clips from Monkey Life.
Monkey Business[edit]
The series that preceded Monkey Life, was produced by Tigress and then Meridian Broadcasting. Nine series of Monkey Business were produced and broadcast on the local ITV Meridian TV channel, and Animal Planet worldwide. A final 3-part TV series, 10 Years of Monkey Business, summarised the work of Monkey World over the previous 10 years. Monkey Business was narrated by Chris Serle.[12]
Jim Cronin[edit]
The late Jim Cronin and Animal Director, Jeremy Keeling founded Monkey World – Ape Rescue Centre in 1987. He and established himself as an international expert in the rescue and rehabilitation of abused primates and the enforcement of international treaties aimed at protecting primates from illegal trade, exploitation, and abuse.
Jim passed away on March 17, 2007.[13] In his memory, the Jim Cronin Memorial Fund[14] has been established to continue Jim’s legacy and support primate conservation and welfare around the world. Dr. Alison Cronin, Jeremy Keeling and the dedicated team at Monkey World continue Jim’s legacy both at Monkey World set up the Jim Cronin Memorial fund - a charity dedicated to Primate Conservation and Welfare, in his memory.
Monkey World set up sister sanctuary in Vietnam. Dao Tien is run by the charity Endangered Asian Species Trust (E.A.S.T) who rescue and rehabilitate endangered Vietnamese primates.[15] The work of Dr. Marina Kenyon and her team has also been documented within the Monkey Life TV series since Series 2.
In the press[edit]
Media Guardian - Fans go Ape
Monkey Life triples ratings on Five
Back in Business...
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.monkeyworld.org/home.php
2.Jump up ^ http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/jan/30/animalwelfare.world
3.Jump up ^ "Monkey Life". Retrieved 10 July 2014.
4.Jump up ^ https://natgeotv.com/uk/monkey-life
5.Jump up ^ http://realscreen.com/2011/07/19/hells-kitchen-monkey-life-head-for-hulu/
6.Jump up ^ http://www.athenafilms.com/programmes/wildlife/prog_wild_monkeylife.swf
7.Jump up ^ http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/shops/storefront/index.html?ie=UTF8&marketplaceID=A1F83G8C2ARO7P&sellerID=AUY7OROPU3ASU
8.Jump up ^ https://vimeo.com/pppltd/vod_pages
9.Jump up ^ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Monkey-Life-The-Official-Facebook-Page/156090444409283
10.Jump up ^ https://twitter.com/Primate_Planet
11.Jump up ^ https://www.youtube.com/user/PPPLtdOfficial
12.Jump up ^ http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2254317.Back_in_Business___/
13.Jump up ^ http://www.monkeyworld.org/news/110/monkey-worlds-founder-jim-dies.htm
14.Jump up ^ http://www.jimcroninmemorialfund.org/
15.Jump up ^ http://www.go-east.org/Pages/about_us.html
External links[edit]
Monkey Life at five.tv
Monkey Life on Nat Geo WILD
Monkey World – Ape Rescue Centre
Jim Cronin Memorial Fund
Endangered Asian Species Trust
Monkey Life Series on DVD
 


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Monsters Inside Me
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Monsters Inside Me

Genre
Medical
Directed by
Kyle McCabe, Alexis Siggers, Sally Freeman, Ed Hambleton
Presented by
Dan Riskin
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
4
No. of episodes
36
Production

Executive producer(s)
Nicola Moody
 Erin Wanner
 Dominic Stobart
Running time
45 min.
Production company(s)
Optomen Productions
Distributor
Animal Planet and Discovery Channel
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet
Original run
July 1, 2009 – present
Chronology

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Monsters Inside Me is a television documentary series about parasites that live on or, in many cases, inside the human body. It is filmed in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.[citation needed]


Contents  [hide]
1 Summary
2 Episodes
3 Episode list 3.1 Season 1: 2009
3.2 Season 2: 2010
3.3 Season 3: 2012
3.4 Season 4: 2013
4 Reception
5 Spin-off
6 References
7 External links

Summary[edit]
Each episode has dramatizations that show illnesses caused by parasitic infection. Once the parasites have been identified, their life cycles are illustrated. Justin Peed is the narrator, and biologist Dan Riskin, explains how and why each parasite finds its host.[1]
The second season premiered on Wednesday June 9, 2010 and then returned for a third season on October 5, 2012.[2] As of January 7, 2011, Monsters Inside Me was broadcast in Canada by DiscoveryScience.
Episodes[edit]
Three seasons have been aired consisting of 6 episodes in the first one and 10 in the second.[3] The third season consisted of 10 episodes finishing on December 7, 2012. A fourth season of 10 episodes begin airing in September 2013.
Episode list[edit]
Season 1: 2009[edit]

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Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date

1
"Sleeper Cells"   July 1, 2009
A baby boy gets infected with Baylisascaris procyonis worms that cause him to sleep excessively and lose his balance and vision. An elderly veteran who used to fight in the Vietnam war gets infected by Wuchereria bancrofti, a parasitic worm that causes swelling and leaking pus-like fluid from his leg. A young man gets Schistosoma mansoni flukes in his brain, causing dizziness and nausea.
2
"Outbreak" Steve McLaughlin Steve McLaughlin and Dominic Stobart July 8, 2009
A closer look at the parasite outbreaks from across the U.S. A group of teenage students are affected by Angiostrongylus cantonensis worms after they ate salad that had infected snails accidentally chopped up in it in Jamaica. An outbreak of Cryptosporidium hominis occurs in the south part of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and kills 101 people, caused by human feces contaminating the city's water system and evaded the water treatment since it can survive chlorine-based chemicals. An old delivery man in Dallas, Texas gets infected with Leishmania tropica parasites transferred from a swarm of Sandflies.
3
"Sex Maniacs" Alexis Siggers Alexis Siggers and Dominic Stobart July 15, 2009
A young man gets Botfly maggots in his head after he went on a trip to Belize, a country known to have high Mosquito and Botfly population. A chemical applicator who used to smoke contracts the Paragonimus kellicotti from eating raw crayfish, causing him severe coughing and hemoptysis. A teenage waitress deals with bed bugs who have hitched a ride in her suitcase after staying in a hotel on vacation.
4
"Masters of Disguise" Sally Freeman Sally Freeman and Dominic Stobart July 22, 2009
The most deceptive parasites. A teenage girl is infected with the one of the Acanthamoeba species that almost destroys her sight. An elderly Indian man is infected with strongyloides stercoralis worms from 60 years ago. A 56 year old runner is infected with Babesiosis caused by being bitten by a tick.
5
"Hijackers" Edward Hambleton Dominic Stobart July 29, 2009
Parasites that take over bodies. A 4 year old boy almost goes blind in his left eye due to being infected with a parasitic worm called toxocara canis, whom he picked up this worm from ingesting dog feces. A 11-year old boy is killed by Naegleria Fowleri. A man is infected with african trypanosomiasis.
6
"Living with the Enemy" Kyle McCabe Kyle McCabe and Dominic Stobart August 5, 2009
About parasites people must live with that doctors cannot cure. A Bolivian woman is infected with taenia solium cysts that reduce her flow of spinal fluid. A boy is infected with toxoplasma gondii that threatens to take his sight. A New York banker is infected with malaria.
Season 2: 2010[edit]

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1
"Suicide Attackers"   June 9, 2010
A fit and active teenage dance instructor is suddenly stopped in her tracks by unbearable abdominal pain and vomiting, and a mysterious mass in her colon is revealed to be decaying Anisakis worms after eating raw salmon in sushi. A middle-aged banker gets seizures from taenia solium that he picked up from traveling to his home country of Haiti, a developing nation harboring lots of diseases and parasites. In 1981, a scientist is infected with the worms that cause onchocerciasis.
2
"Feeding Frenzy"   June 16, 2010
The vicious Entamoeba histolytica parasite (formerly known as man-eating amoeba) eats 60% of a schoolteacher's liver from the inside out. Doctors tried to drain the abscess containing the parasite from his liver with surgical tubes, but instead they malfunctioned and increased the size of the abscess by forcing water into them. So the doctors performed a liver transplant. A teenage dancer becomes concerned when her allergic skin outbreaks become lumpy and weak which is discovered to be the result of a parasitic worm called Trichinella spiralis. When infected, the worm burrowed into her muscle tissue and nerves, damaging them. A retiree gets scabies from sarcoptes scabiei he got from staying in a dusty hospital in the past.
3
"Cold Blooded Killers"   June 23, 2010
A 9 year old professional hockey player comes down with encephalitis from the Acanthamoeba, which causes him to lose his concentration and balance, and slips into a 1 month coma in hospital. A computer programmer gets severe malaria from the plasmodium malariae parasite that makes him lose control of his mind and post-malarial neurological symptoms two weeks after an apparent recovery. A Chinese marathon runner gets infected with Leishmaniasis, which causes his spleen to inflate severely into a the size of a 4 month-old baby.
4
"Lurkers"   July 7, 2010
The cryptosporidium parasite infects a toddler giving her severe vomiting and diarrhea, caused by cattle feces contaminating their well water and accidentally drinking it. A microscopic amoeba called balamuthia mandrillaris kills a firefighter with an autoimmune disorder caused by AIDS and gives him severe meningitis. A rare, vicious tapeworm almost detaches the retina in a teenage girl, partially destroying vision in her left eye. Tests reveal the tapeworm was taenia crassiceps, whom she picked it up when she failed to wash hands after gardening and eaten soil contaminated with the tapeworm during lunch.
5
"Flesh Eaters"   July 14, 2010
A teenage college student from Austin,Texas gets a strange wound that slowly grows and oozes due to being infected with Cutaneous Leishmaniasis after traveling to two countries Bolivia and Peru in South America. In 1994, a teenage animal volunteer deals with a cat hookworm when a hookworm infected kitten scratches her on the chest. In 1993, an old couple deal with a strange rash that spreads on their bodies caused by the gnathostoma roundworm they picked up after eating sushi with raw catfish in Africa.
6
"Stowaways"   July 28, 2010
A 54 year old carpenter gets infected with the paragonimus westermani or Japanese Lung Fluke, which causes him to have trouble breathing, from eating live crabs in a Chinese restaurant. An Irish bike rider develops a rash on her groin and upper thighs caused by a parasitic worm called Schistosoma, which almost have given her bladder cancer. A black guidance counselor, who was an army veteran, develops an insatiable appetite, unusual weight loss, and abdominal pain and pulls out a parasitic roundworm called Ascaris lumbricoides, which he picked up from eating contaminated food while serving in the army.
7
"Breeders"   August 4, 2010
A 16 year old teenager gets a maggot in his eye, making it impossible for him to see clearly. A Portuguese construction worker deals with a grapefruit sized Hydatid Cyst in his pelvis containing a parasitic tapeworm named echinococcus granulosus and causes him severe pain in his pelvis and legs. A 9 year old girl gets infected with the Giardia parasite, which gives her severe stomach cramps.
8
"Double Agents"   August 11, 2010
In 1973, A teenage pace volunteer in the Himalayas Mountains gets a leech in his nose, which gives him a strange nosebleed. A British nature-loving landscaper gets a severe allergic reaction when he gets multiple bee stings at once and deliberately infects himself with a hookworm parasite during a vacation to Cameroon (an African country next to Nigeria known to have a great number of hookworm population) to relieve his symptoms. A 6 year old girl from South Africa gets a maggot in her foot called Cutaneous Myiasis.
9
"Homegrown Enemies"   August 18, 2010
A middle-aged man who has been caring for his ailing elderly mother gets Babesiosis from walking barefoot to the mailbox. Since he lost his spleen from cancer, he gets severe diarrhea, in addition to fever, fatigue, and night sweats. An active, busy middle-aged woman experiences stomach cramps, explosive diarrhea, lightheadedness, and blurred vision from the Toxocara parasite, which she probably got from contaminated food. A 57 year old mother of five children suffers nausea, loss of appetite, muscle spasms, and vomiting caused by the Strongyloides worms eating her intestines and stomach cells, which she might have picked up from being in contact with infected soil. Because of steroids she took for her Asthma problems, her body became more vulnerable to the parasitic worms.
10
"Shape Shifters"   August 25, 2010
A 7 year old girl suffers seizures from a pork tapeworm after being adopted at the age of three from Nepal, a developing Indian nation in the Himalayas. A 45 year old machinist and welder suffers blurry and double vision, leaving him partially blind in his left eye, caused by a raccoon roundworm that he picked up from his turkey hunting. A 45 year old anaethesiologist, along with 28 other anaethesiologists from 3 different counties, suffer severe stomach cramps and crippling diarrhea caused by the Cyclospora parasite after eating unwashed raspberries contaminated with human feces in a luxury restaurant. (Note: At the time when this episode was shot, people and restaurants were not washing raspberries due to the fact that water pressure causes them to break apart since raspberries are brittle).
Season 3: 2012[edit]

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1
"My Child Will Only Eat Cat Food" October 5, 2012
A toddler suddenly starts worrying her parents when she loses appetite for the foods she normally eats. Then, she starts craving salt, cat food, including dog food, but becomes stunted in her growth. After the little girl develops a strange rash, her parents learn that she has been infected by the Toxocara canis parasite. A middle-aged executive of a company had been living a healthy life, until he suddenly starts feeling pain in his abdomen. Initially, it seems he simply has a colon condition called diverticulitis. However, the abdominal cramps return and become so intense that they force him to go to the hospital and get surgery. There, the man discovers that his colon has been invaded by an antibiotic-resistant bacteria called ESPL Escherichia coli. An older married couple is celebrating for their planned future, when suddenly, they both have flu-like symptoms. When the doctor discovers swollen lymph nodes on them both, the couple learn that they have been infected by the Bubonic plague. The husband's condition, though, is much worse, as he develops gangrene and even has to get his calves amputated.
2
"Something's Eating My Son Inside Out" October 12, 2012
A teenage boy has been enjoying his summer vacation, but after a swim in a lake, he starts complaining of nasal pain and fever. At first, he appears to have sinusitis, but his sinuses have been shown to be dry. The boy soon develops swelling in his eye, nose, and gums and decaying flesh from inside his nose. It turns out that he has a weakened immune system, dealing with a rare, flesh-eating bacterium called Chromobacterium violaceum. A young model and actress has been living happily with her husband. When she breastfeeds her baby daughter, though, the young mother feels pain and even notices blood on herself. These symptoms are apparently due to a breast condition called mastitis. Although this clears up, she develops pain and numbness in her limbs, itchiness on her chest, headaches, and fatigue. Her doctors and husband doubt the young model/actress' condition, but a dream and surgery confirm that her illness has been caused by a fungal infection in her breast implants caused by aspergillus niger. A teenage college student has been enjoying college life, until she suddenly she feels chest pain. Her breathing becomes more difficult and painful. Initially, she appears to have walking pneumonia, but antibiotics fail to treat her. Her doctor soon learns that the girl's lungs have been infected by a fungus called Blastomyces.
3
"My Face Eating Parasite" October 19, 2012
A young man and his girlfriend have been enjoying life together, traveling in South America. During their trip, the man suddenly discovers what appears to be a pimple on his face. It seems minor at first, but his face becomes swollen, and the pimple becomes an oozing wound. Soon, the man also starts having bumps in his throat, and thus soreness in that area and lesions on his back. It turns out that he has been suffering from mucocutaneous leishmaniasis. A young man working at a homeless shelter suddenly feels sharp pain in his back. It appears to be a simple back injury, but the pain is extremely sharp and spreads to his hands and arms. He also gets red spots on his skin from a condition called vasculitis. After many tests, it becomes clear that he has rat-bite fever. A school-aged boy suddenly develops a headache after spending time at a friend's house. At first, it doesn't appear to be an issue, but the boy's pain spreads to most of his body, he develops a fever, and he is even found completely unconscious. It turns out that the boy has been suffering from a condition called valley fever.
4
"My Daughter is Losing Her Mind" October 26, 2012
A young part-time student has been living happily with her new husband, when suddenly, she feels a throbbing headache. Initially, she appears to have the flu, then meningitis. Soon, though, she starts experiencing hallucinations. Doctors start to believe that she is schizophrenic, but it turns out that actually, she has a teratoma on her ovaries that contains brain cells. An eight-year-old boy suddenly starts worrying his parents when he comes down with a stomachache and vomits. It appears to be simple food poisoning, but soon, the boy begins experiencing intense pain and swelling in his legs. It becomes clear that he has been suffering from Viral Myositis with Rhabdomyolysis, a disease in which the flue virus attacks muscle cells. A self-employed plumber was taking night shifts when he starts vomiting. He attempts to hide his condition and just deal with it, but the next thing he does is starts misspelling common words. It is suspected that he has stomach cancer, and he loses his appetite. However, further examinations indicate that the man has actually been infected by the Blastocystis hominis parasite.
5
"Something's Eating My Dreams" November 2, 2012
A teenage girl has been enjoying her life of gymnastics and nature, when she suddenly receives a scratch on her hand. The problem seems minor, but the scratch fails to heal and becomes several lesions, which also spread to her eyes. The infection appears to be caused by the MRSA bacteria, but it turns out that it is actually caused by Mycobacterium marinum, that was contracted from her fish. A middle-aged man suddenly feels as if he's choking and coughs hard. Initially, it appears to be a case of pneumonia, but after a surgery to fix his spine, he develops stabbing pain in his throat. The coughing returns, and it turns out that he did, indeed, swallow a can tab. A young man suddenly starts complaining of itchiness in his body. He develops a headache, nausea, body aches, and an inability to urinate. Tests show that the man has developed meningitis from rat lungworm disease.
6
"A Monster's Taking My Baby" November 9, 2012
A middle school teacher has been having a healthy pregnancy until suddenly, she starts experiencing abdominal cramps and diarrhea. It initially appears to be a case of the flu, but she soon starts bleeding during episodes. At this point, the young woman appears to have hemorrhoids, which progressively worsen. Tests show that she has been infected by the Cryptosporidium parasite. A retired schoolteacher enjoys his retirement with his wife, when suddenly, he feels a lack of appetite for his favorite food. It doesn't appear to be an issue at first, but his appetite continues to decline, and he starts coughing frequently. His coughing fits worsens to the point where breathing becomes incredibly difficult. It appears to be pneumonia, but it turns out that a pea has been lodged in his lung. A young truck driver has been fairly healthy, when suddenly, discovers a strange speck in his vision. Later, he develops pain, irritation, and blurry vision in his right eye. It turns out that he has had a pork tapeworm in his right eye.
7
"I Coughed Up Worms!" November 16, 2012
A young mother expecting her second child suddenly comes down with a stuffy nose and itchy throat. They appear to be typical flu symptoms, but she still feels feverish and soon starts coughing. Her breathing deteriorates to the point where she cannot breathe on her own anymore. It turns out that the young woman has developed an Acinetobacter baumannii infection. An energetic college student has been healthy, until she suddenly feels like she can't get enough oxygen and starts wheezing. She develops bouts of coughing so bad that she even coughs up worms. The student learns that she has been infected by the ascaris lumbricoides worm the whole time. A teenage girl living in the countryside suddenly gets headaches. At first, it appears to be from stress, but she soon becomes irritable and develops triple vision. Worse, she even collapses and experiences a seizure. Only when it's too late that it becomes clear that the teenager has died from rabies.
8
"My Brain Has Been Hijacked" November 23, 2012
A baby boy born prematurely alarms his parents when he suddenly comes down with a fever. Soon, he also starts resisting food and coughs severely to the point of coughing up blood. It is revealed that the baby has swallowed a button battery, which has burned a hole in his esophagus. A young, newly independent university student suddenly gets a headache, which persists longer than she is used to. Next, she experiences audible hallucinations, twitching of her head, confusion over her age, and even grand mal seizures. As she rests in preparation for a brain surgery, the young woman suddenly yells, then passes out. It turns out that she has an abscess in her brain caused a Streptococcus milleri infection from her tongue piercing. A mother/wife has been enjoying a vacation with her family, until she suddenly gets a headache. As her condition progresses, she also experiences a fever; cloudy, foul-smelling urine; dizziness and disorientation, body aches, and even petechiae on her legs. Her doctor discovers that the woman has been suffering from a viral infection called Dengue fever the whole time.
9
"You Left What Inside Me?" November 30, 2012
A little girl's health begins to deteriorate when she suddenly comes down with a fever. She then develops reddish spots on her body, stops breathing on her own, and even suffers kidney and liver failure. A spinal tap reveals that the little girl has meningococcal disease. A home contractor has been relatively healthy, until he suddenly begins to gain weight in his abdominal area, which turns out to be caused by a large tumor. After removal of the tumor, the man feels excruciating pain that spreads from his abdomen to his lower back and chest. Initially, it appears to be part of his recovery process, but an x-ray shows that a retractor has been left in his body after the surgery. A young baseball star's life is turned upside down when he starts experiencing a fever, headache, and vomiting. Doctors suspect the little boy might have meningitis, but as he deals with seizures, it turns out that he actually has the life-threatening Naegleria Fowleri.
10
"Killer in my Neck" December 7, 2012
A young aspiring artist suddenly comes down with flu-like symptoms and a swollen face. To make matters worse, his eyes are yellow, he has trouble breathing, and one of his eyes protrude strangely. It turns out that he has Lemierre's syndrome. An active girl's life is put on hold when she starts feeling fatigue and out of breath. Later, she also starts experiencing extreme joint pain, and she gets diagnosed with Lyme disease. However, further testing shows that the girl has Babesiosis, in addition to chronic Lyme disease. An active middle-aged woman becomes concerned when she suddenly feels lumps in her chest. After getting them removed, she then starts experiencing bleeding from her right breast. After getting that taken care of, though, she feels a growing lump in her right breast, which turns out to be two surgical sponges.
Season 4: 2013[edit]

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1
"The Flesh-eating Monster" September 30, 2013
A 7-year-old girl contracts the Bubonic plague and suffers a 107 fever, vomiting, painful buboes, and seizures; a yoga instructor finds out that her case of Influenza is actually a case of Necrotizing fasciitis; a state wrestling champion gets infected with Angiostrongyliasis.
2
"There's a Worm in My Eye" October 7, 2013
A two-year-old boy suffers major intestinal damage after swallowing 8 magnetic beads; a teenage ballerina suffers painful migraines, ear pain, headaches, and muscle failures for nearly 5 years due to infection from the West nile virus; a preacher gets infected with the Loa loa parasite.
3
"Choosing Between Life and Limb" October 11, 2013
A newly engaged Illinois man mysteriously collapses and suffers organ failure from Legionnaire's disease. His fiance gazes in horror as she must choose between life and limb; a perky animal-loving eight-year-old suffers flu-like symptoms and paralysis from contracting Rabies; a college freshmen gets blindsided from an infection in his eye caused by Acanthamoeba keratitis.
4
"It Came From a Tick..." October 18, 2013
A mother-of-four struggles with a mysterious lump that emerges on the neck of her two-year-old daughter. But as doctors quarantine her, it's a race against time to save her life. At the hospital, she ends up testing positive for Tularemia, caused by Francisella tularensis, in which the bacterium was caused by an American dog tick; A mother suffering from nausea and abdominal pain for four years finally find out her symptoms have been caused by Fasciola hepatica; A 5-year-old suffers paralysis from Guillain–Barré syndrome.
5
"My Husband is Hallucinating" October 25, 2013
A small-town boy's summer fun is cut short by an apparent flu that suddenly transforms into a life-threatening condition because of meningococcal meningitis; A daredevilist/oil rig worker experiences disorienting hallucinations from Trichinella spiralis after eating bear meat; A former beauty queen suffers an extreme case of asthma for one year from a nasal packing, of which her white blood cells treated as a foreign agent who is Aspergillus.
6
"Dying Abroad" December 11, 2013
A Peace Corps volunteer traveling to Burkina Faso suddenly suffers from excruciating bouts of nausea and diarrhea from Entamoeba histolytica, and must find medical help before it is too late; a young woman's lungs fill with fluid from having hantavirus pulmonary syndrome; an 18-month old gets infected with Baylisascaris procyonis worms.
7
"Maggots Are Eating Me" December 11, 2013
A teenager caught in the 2011 Joplin tornado in Missouri is recovering from a trauma wound when he suddenly suffers from a life-threatening Zygomycosis infection. Doctors race against time to help him before his body shuts down; a couple traveling to Uganda, Rwanda, and South Africa get maggots in their skin; a man suffers coughing fits, severe headaches, vertigo, and violent episodes (including chasing his son with a wrench and punching him in the face) before doctors discover lesions on his brain from the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.
8
"A Deadly Swim" December 18, 2013
A teenage boy develops stomach pains, vomiting, hematemesis, and nausea from accidentally swallowing a bristle from a grill brush, which got lodged in his intestines; a 16-year-old girl who swam in a local river develops Encephalitis from Naegleria fowleri; an industrial painter has difficulties breathing and walking from Blastomyces.
9
"My Christmas From Hell" December 18, 2013
A special episode with three cases that happened during the holidays - A newlywed woman gets a constant pain in her scalp from bot fly larvae; a Virginia man gets sharp back pains and develops a hole in his heart from Viridans streptococci; a female business consultant and part-time photographer gets muscle weakness and a constant cough from a lesion in her lungs caused by valley fever.
10
"I Almost Killed My Baby" December 18, 2013
A newborn baby gets Blindness and Hydrocephalus from a parasitic disease called Toxoplasma gondii, which was contracted from his mom; an 11-year-old boy suffers headaches, vomiting, and even starts speaking pure gibberish and has a horrific seizure from being infected with eastern equine encephalitis; a teenager living on a farm suffers a severe cough and fever from contracting Paragonimus kellicotti.
Source for Episode Guide:[4]
Reception[edit]
Mike Hale of The New York Times said that "there’s science amid the frightening stories and said that the series really grossed him out."[5] Anne Louise Bannon of Common Sense Media said that "parents need to know that there is a lot of gross stuff in the series and the show has good educational content except for the tips on how to protect yourself from parasites because the information is vague".[6]
Spin-off[edit]
In 2013, a UK spin-off called Bugs, Bites & Parasites premiered on Discovery Channel UK.[citation needed]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Perigard, Mark (July 1, 2009). "Buggin’ out: Animal Planet’s horrifying ‘Monsters’ worms its way into your brain". Boston Herald. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
2.Jump up ^ "Expect the Unexpected in an All-New Season of Animal Planet's "Monsters Inside Me"". The Futon Critic. September 11, 2012. Retrieved October 12, 2012.
3.Jump up ^ "List of Monsters inside me episodes at TV.com". Retrieved March 25, 2012.
4.Jump up ^ "Monsters Inside Me Listings". Retrieved October 20, 2012.
5.Jump up ^ Hale, Mike (June 30, 2009). "The Enemy Within: Wrigglies From Hell". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
6.Jump up ^ Bannon, Anne Louise. "Monsters Inside Me Review". Common Sense Media. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
External links[edit]
Official website
Monsters Inside Me at the Internet Movie Database
 


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Monsters We Met

Format
Documentary
Narrated by
Ian Holm (UK Version)
William Hootkins (US Version)[1]
Country of origin
United Kingdom
No. of seasons
1
No. of episodes
3
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet
Monsters We Met is a documentary produced by the BBC and later aired on Animal Planet in 2003 (under the title, Land of Lost Monsters) but also had footage from Walking with Beasts and Walking with Cavemen both made by BBC but the footage only appeared on the US airing. The show used computer-generated imagery to recreate the life of the giant animals that lived during the last ice age and explains how early humans encountered them. It also features humans as the main reason to the extinction of all great animals.


Contents  [hide]
1 Episodes 1.1 Episode 1: Eternal Frontier (Alaska, United States, North America, 14,000 years ago)
1.2 Episode 2: The Burning (Australia, 65,000 years ago)
1.3 Episode 3: The End Of Eden (New Zealand, AD 1208)
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Episodes[edit]
Episode 1: Eternal Frontier (Alaska, United States, North America, 14,000 years ago)[edit]
Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus Primigenius)
American Lion (Panthera leo Atrox) (live-acted by a African Lioness)
Homotherium (Scimitar-tooth Cat)
Smilodon (Saber-tooth Cat)
Megalonyx (Jefferson's Ground Sloth)
Camelops (Giant Camel) (live-acted by a Dromedary Camel)
Arctodus (Short-Faced Bear)
American mastodon (Mammut Americanum)
Steppe Bison (live-acted by an American Bison)
Hagerman Horse (live-acted by a Grevy's Zebra)
American Cheetah (live-acted by a Snow Leopard)
Wild horse (live-acted by a Przewalski's Horse)
Horse (live-acted)
Grey Wolf (live-acted)
American Bison (live-acted)
Andean Condor (live-acted)
Brown Bear (live-acted)
Muskox (live-acted)
Caribou (live-acted)
Saiga (live-acted)
California Condor (live-acted)
Dall Sheep (live-acted)
Crow (live-acted)
Wolverine (live-acted)
It starts with animals living during the Ice Age. It also shows how humans became top predators and started hunting mammoths on the continent with deadly spears. We also had to compete with other predators like the Short-faced Bear and the Saber-toothed cats. We destroyed them by depleting their food supply, and making them starve to death. Later after realizing what they done to the great beast's demise they hunted not all the time and then there were no more extinctions in the Americas. That wasn't until pioneers from Europe like Christopher Columbus, several Conquistadors and lots of horses were brought by the Conquistadors arrived in North America. Howevever horses are returning to the land of which they evolved in. Also inventing the gun, which in North America, was used primarily for hunting big game animals like the bison. By 1893 only 500 wild buffalo remained, marking the end of the megafauna in the Americas.
Note: This episode used most of the extinct mammal models from Wild New World.
Episode 2: The Burning (Australia, 65,000 years ago)[edit]
Genyornis
Diprotodon
Megalania
Saltwater Crocodile (live-acted)
Red Kangaroo (live-acted)
Emu (live-acted)
Perentie (live-acted)
Frilled lizard (live-acted)
Black cockatoo (live-acted)
Brown snake (Pseudonaja) (live-acted)
Green ants (live-acted)
It starts by showing how humans migrated to Australia. We also hunted the native wildlife. We encountered the huge birds and the giant lizard, megalania. A megalania kills two humans and in revenge, the tribe plans on setting fire to the fields and vined forests to burn the giant lizard and other beasts to extinction. We then start to colonize other lands in the New World. While after the burning the of forests, most of the animal species survived the forest fires, this also changed the habitat of Australia as it is today. Marsupials, small lizards, birds and other animals are doing better than their counterparts who all died in the fire.
Episode 3: The End Of Eden (New Zealand, AD 1208)[edit]
Giant Moa
Haast's eagle (live-acted by a Harpy Eagle)
Bottlenose Dolphin (live-acted)
Sperm Whale (live-acted)
New Zealand Sea Lion (live-acted)
Seagull (live-acted)
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (live-acted)
Snares Penguin (live-acted)
Kakapo (live-acted)
Weta (live-acted)
Brown Kiwi (live-acted)
Tuatara (live-acted)
Polynesian Rat (live-acted)
Dog (live-acted)
Sumatran Rhino (live-acted)
Rat (live-acted)
It starts with humans populating New Zealand. We encounter the giant moa. We start to see it was harmless. We then discover Haast's eagle, which hunts moas and starts to target us. We then start to steal the moa's giant eggs and go after the adults for food. We then realize we brought a huge amount of animals to extinction. The program has a part with footage of most of the animals shown in the series and starts to ask the question that if we can't live with these monsters, are we monsters ourselves? The program then ends on Easter Island about the aftermath of New Zealand's old world with the giant birds gone and forests as so did the early settlers of New Zealand.
Note: This Episode used footage from the previous 2 episodes, Walking with Cavemen, Walking with Beasts and Wild New World.
See also[edit]
Paleoworld
Dinosaur Planet (TV series)
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
Monsters We Met is part of a series of BBC documentaries that also include:
Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)
Walking with Beasts (2001), depicting life after the dinosaurs
Walking with Cavemen (2003)
Walking with Monsters (2005), depicting life before the dinosaurs
The following are Walking With... series specials:
The Ballad of Big Al (2000)
Chased by Dinosaurs (2002)
Sea Monsters (2003)
The following are similar programs, produced by the BBC:
"Prehistoric America" (2002)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/land-of-lost-monsters/285067
External links[edit]
BBC official website
Animal Planets Official website
TV Guide
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The Most Extreme
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The Most Extreme

Genre
Nature documentary
Developed by
Shelby Wilson
Country of origin
New Zealand
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
5
No. of episodes
77
Production

Running time
46 Minutes
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet
First shown in
United States
Original run
July 1, 2002 – June 12, 2007
External links
Website
The Most Extreme is a documentary television series on the American cable television network, Animal Planet. It first aired on July 7, 2002. Each episode focuses on a specific animal feature, such as strength, speed, behavior, anatomy, or diet, and examines and ranks ten animals that portray extreme or unusual examples of that quality. The rankings serve only to give a broad depiction; a scientifically rigorous procedure is not employed to quantify them.
Along with each animal on the countdown, each episode presents a computer-animated segment which compares the animal's ability with something equivalent in humans, followed by an interview segment with people who share some common trait. For example, in "Super Sharks", the animal ranked #1 was the Hammerhead shark, for its extreme senses of vision and smell, along with its ability to sense voltages as small as a half-billionth of a volt. This was then compared with a team of human hackers, including StankDawg, who were war-driving around a neighborhood and looking for faint wireless signals. Old, often public domain, cartoons, movie clips and trailers are often included.
The series is made in New Zealand by a small production team at NHNZ. The termite has had the most #1 ratings but has only been in 15% of the top 10's.
The series airs in Australia on Channel Seven (first run) and on subscription channel Animal Planet (replays).


Contents  [hide]
1 Episodes 1.1 Season 1
1.2 Season 2
1.3 Season 3
1.4 Season 4
1.5 Season 5
2 References

Episodes[edit]
Season 1[edit]




Parasitic worms, like this tapeworm, are among the most horrific animals of the world, according to episode 9.
#
Original airdate
Title
Overview
Animal that was Number-one
1 7 July 2002 Speed The fastest animals on land, air and water. Tiger Beetle
2 14 July 2002 Births Extreme reproduction in number of young, size and other factors. Tapeworm (Cestoda)
3 21 July 2002 Cheats The ways animals trick one another. Cuckoo
4 28 July 2002 Survivors The animals who best survive extreme conditions. Water bear
5 4 August 2002 Jumpers The fastest, highest and best jumpers. Flea
6 11 August 2002 Gluttons The greediest eaters in the world. Caterpillar
7 18 August 2002 Builders The animal kingdom's most innovative construction engineers. Termite
8 25 August 2002 Fighters Warriors of the animal kingdom. Ant
9 8 September 2002 Horrors The animals that most inspire terror in human beings. Parasitic worm
10 27 October 2002 Strength Proportionally, the strongest animals in the world. Rhinoceros Beetle
11 3 November 2002 Biters The deadliest, most prolific and most extreme biters. Cookie-cutter shark
12 10 November 2002 Smarts Intelligence in the animal kingdom. Kea, African Grey Parrot
13 17 November 2002 Lovers Most extreme courtship rituals. Redback spider
Season 2[edit]




 According to episode 17, the Mimic Octopus is one of nature's best disguisers. To discourage its predators, it mimics the species that prey on them.[1]
#
Original airdate
Title
Overview
Animal that was Number-one
14 11 May 2003 Moms Moms with the heaviest, hardest or most unusual jobs on the planet. Sea louse
15 15 June 2003 Dads Dads in the wild can go to extremes to take care of their young. Seahorse
16 22 June 2003 Venom Animals with the most lethal venom. Box Jellyfish
17 29 June 2003 Disguise These animals are experts at pretending to be what they're not. Mimic Octopus
18 13 July 2003 Swarms Hordes in the animal kingdom including millions and even billions of individuals. Argentine ant
19 7 September 2003 Body Parts Animals with relativelty large body parts. Giraffe
20 14 September 2003 Predators The most efficient predators come in many sizes. Shrew
21 21 September 2003 Stinkers The worst smelling animals, including one with stench that kills. Skunk
22 28 September 2003 Super Senses The world's best at keeping up with their environments. Shark
23 23 November 2003 Eaters Animals with the most unusual menus. Vulture
24 30 November 2003 Daredevils Top stunstmen of the natural kingdom. Barnacle Goose
25 7 December 2003 Defenders The best and most unusual self-protectors. Africanized Bee
26 21 December 2003 Oddities Strange animals and their human equivalents. Anglerfish
Season 3[edit]




 One of the members of the world's most invasive animal, according to episode 41, the Botany Bay Cockroach makes its home in Australia.
#
Original airdate
Title
Overview
Animal that was Number-one
27 3 August 2004 Gross Outs The most disgusting behavior in the wild. Fly
28 10 August 2004 Home Designers The most extreme, unusual and innovative animal architects. Termite
29 7 September 2004 Tough Babies The strongest babies in the animal kingdom, with human comparisons. Sand tiger shark
30 14 September 2004 Wild Partiers How the most extreme partiers in the wild compare to human get-togethers. Red crab
31 21 September 2004 Monster Myths The reality behind some of the most feared animals in the world. Wolf
- 25 September 2004 The Best of the Best Retroactive examination of #1s from earlier episodes, with a countdown to the most extreme among them. Cookie-cutter shark (from Biters)
32 12 October 2004 Killer Cats The deadliest felines in the world. House cat
33 19 October 2004 Battle of the Sexes Males and females of some species have very little in common with one another, and they aren't always good for each other's health. Whip-tailed lizard
34 23 November 2004 Big Mouths Proportionally, the ten largest mouths in the world. Wide-mouth frog
35 30 November 2004 Deadly Snakes The most venomous, dangerous and prolific killer snakes. King cobra
36 14 December 2004 Killers The animals with the highest human kill counts. Mosquito
37 8 February 2005 Bloodsuckers Vampires in the animal kingdom. Tick
38 15 February 2005 Super Sharks The "highest tech" sharks in the water. Hammerhead shark
39 22 February 2005 Poison The deadliest toxins. Golden dart frog
40 1 March 2005 Super Dogs The 10 dog breeds that have evolved the farthest from their wolf ancestors. Chihuahua
41 8 March 2005 Global Conquerors The most invasive animal species. Cockroach
42 15 March 2005 Outrageous Flirts The unusual ways that animals attract one another. Elephant
43 27 April 2005 Athletes The most athletic animals and their human equivalents. Arctic tern
44 4 May 2005 Odd Couples When two species unite: unexpected animal matings. Greenland shark/Ommatokoita
45 25 May 2005 Movers The animals that move the best with the least limbs for movement. Scallop
  Troublemakers The animals that causes the most troubles for humans just doing what the do. Termite
Season 4[edit]




 In spite of persistent myths, discussed in episode 57, lemmings are not suicidal.[2]
#
Original airdate
Title
Overview
Animal that was Number-one
46 25 October 2005 Hissy Fits The worst temper tantrums in the animal world. Elephant
47 1 November 2005 Living Dead Not actual zombies, these extreme hibernators can appear to come back from the dead. Water bear
48 8 November 2005 Divers The animals that can hold their breaths the longest or dive the relative deepest. Sperm whale
49 29 November 2005 Dieters Some animals can eat a lot without gaining weight, while others can go long times between meals. Tick
50 24 January 2006 Loudmouths The world's loudest animals. Snapping Shrimp
51 2 February 2006 Appendages The most unusual animal attachments. Deep-sea Anglerfish
52 7 March 2006 Transformers 10 transformers capable of altering themselves in extreme ways. Ribeiroia
53 14 March 2006 Fashion Disasters Animals whose appearances can put them in danger. Moose
54 21 March 2006 City Slickers Animals best adapted to life in human urban environments. Macaque
55 28 March 2006 Workaholics The hardest working species in the natural world. Honey bee
56 25 April 2006 Slime Balls The animals who have found the most or most innovative ways to use slime. Banana slug
57 2 May 2006 Animal Myths The most misunderstood animals. Lemming
58 6 June 2006 Gourmets Not all animals gobble their food. These species put time and effort into their food preparation. Honeybee
59 13 June 2006 Diggers Extreme underground dwellers. Termite
60 20 June 2006 Weird Weapons The strangest ways animals defend themselves or attack. Electric eel
61 26 September 2006 Cleaners Nature's most unusual neat-freaks. Japanese macaque
62 3 October 2006 Pirates Animals who act like pirates, taking from others or hunting for treasure. Amazon ant
63 10 October 2006 Gardeners The unusual ways that animals impact vegetable growth. Lemon ant
64 17 October 2006 Freeloaders Opportunistic species that gain benefits by associating with others. Tapeworm
65 24 October 2006 Awesome Ancestors Now-extinct animals larger than their modern descendents. Megatherium
Season 5[edit]

#
Original airdate
Title
Overview
Animal that was Number-one
66 24 April 2007 Inventors Innovative tools nature-built right into a species' body. Wood Frog
67 1 May 2007 Night Lights The brightest animals in the wild. Deep-sea Anglerfish
68 8 May 2007 Leaders Species with extreme numbers of followers. Termite
69 15 May 2007 Medics The unusual ways some animals self-treat. Axolotl
70 22 May 2007 Freaky Fliers Species with unusual ways of moving through air. Spider
71 5 June 2007 Bodysnatchers Species that take over the bodies of others. Toxoplasma
72 12 June 2007 Gadgets The animals which create/use the most tools. Chimpanzee
73 19 June 2007 Psychics Species that seem to predict the future. Ladybird beetle
74 26 June 2007 Dirty Jobs The "jobs" of animals that are the most revolting. Dung Beetle
75  Crazy Collectors  Pack Rat
References[edit]
"The Most Extreme Season 1-4 Episode Guide". tv.com. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
1.Jump up ^ Roach, John (20 September 2001). "Newfound Octopus Impersonates Fish, Snakes". National Geographic News. National Geographic. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
2.Jump up ^ Woodford, Riley. "Lemming Suicide Myth Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior". Alaska Fish & Wildlife News. Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
 


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Ms. Adventure
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Ms. Adventure was an American documentary reality television series that premiered on Animal Planet on January 19, 2007. The program was hosted by Rachel Reenstra.
Trivia[edit]
Rachel Reenstra's audition video reveals that the Ms. Adventure series was originally intended for the Travel Channel, not Animal Planet. Rachel Reenstra is also the first female host of a show on Animal Planet.
External links[edit]
Ms. Adventure at the Internet Movie Database
Rachel Reenstra's Blog



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Must Love Cats
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Must Love Cats

Genre
Documentary
Format
Television series
Starring
John Fulton
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
2
No. of episodes
13
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet (2011–present)
Picture format
480i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original run
February 12, 2011 – present
Must Love Cats is an Animal Planet television series hosted by John Fulton which premiered in the United States in February 2011. In each episode, he travels through different parts of the United States and explores various aspects of the cat lovers lifestyle. Animal Planet announced in April 2011 that the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on March 10, 2012.[1] The second season features countries outside of the U.S.


Contents  [hide]
1 Episode list 1.1 Season 1
1.2 Season 2
2 Notes
3 See also
4 External links

Episode list[edit]
Season 1[edit]
1.Cat Poo Coffee and Klepto Kitties - West Coast of the United States (Premiered February 12, 2011)
2.Kitty Tree Houses and the Cat Guys - Great Plains (Premiered February 19, 2011)
3.Cat Musicians and Garfield's Dad - Midwestern United States. Featured a special appearance by Jim Davis and Garfield. (Premiered February 26, 2011)
4.Kitty Fashion Plates and NYC's Best Mousers - Northeastern United States (Premiered March 5, 2011)
5.Kitty Wigs and Fat Cats - Southwestern United States (Premiered March 12, 2011)
6.Cat Colleges and Kitty Heroes - Southeastern United States (Premiered March 19, 2011)
Season 2[edit]
1.Cat Crazy in Japan - Japan (Premiered March 10, 2012)
2.Tough Guys and Acupuncture Save Cats - West Coast of US (Premiered March 17, 2012)
3.English Kitties and Stowaway Cats - England (Premiered March 24, 2012)
4.Kitty Kidney Transplants and the Cat Who Jogs - Germany (Premiered March 31, 2012)
5.Swimming Cats and Cat Fur Jewels - Eastern United States (Premiered April 7, 2012)
6.Prison Kitties and Apps for Cats - Eastern United States (Premiered April 14, 2012)
7.Cats For Love - Russia (Premiered September 1, 2012)
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Animal Planet Unleashes Entertainment Slate for the 2011-12 Upfront Slate, Discovery, (April 14, 2011).
See also[edit]
Dusty the Klepto Kitty
Japan Cat Network
External links[edit]
Official website
Must Love Cats at the Internet Movie Database
 


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Wild Kingdom
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Wild Kingdom
Marlin Perkins Wild Kingdom.JPG
Marlin Perkins bottle-feeding a young kangaroo.

Format
Edutainment
Starring
Marlin Perkins (1963-1985)
Jim Fowler
 (co-host 1963-1985,
 host 1985-1988)
Stan Brock
Stephanie Arne (2013-present)
Narrated by
Marlin Perkins
Country of origin
USA
Broadcast

Original channel
NBC (1963–1971)
Syndicated (1971–1988)
Animal Planet (2002–)
Original run
January 6, 1963–1988
 September 17, 2002 – present
Wild Kingdom, sometimes known as Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, is an American television show that features wildlife and nature. It was originally produced from 1963 until 1988, and was revived in 2002. The show's second incarnation currently airs on Animal Planet in the U.S.


Contents  [hide]
1 Original show
2 Revival
3 New host and web series
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Original show[edit]
The original Wild Kingdom grew from discussions that started in 1962 between zoologist Marlin Perkins and V. J. Skutt, the chairman and CEO of insurance company Mutual of Omaha. The company had been the sponsor of an earlier animal-related show, Zoo Parade, that Perkins had hosted from 1952 until 1957. Also intimately involved with the creation of Wild Kingdom was Zoo Parade producer Don Meier, who was credited as the series' creator.[1] Mutual of Omaha sponsored and lent its name to the new program.
Liz and Henk Maartens, from Irene, Pretoria in South Africa won five Emmy Awards for the documentary series Wild Kingdom in 1970. One Emmy Award was for camerawork while the other Emmy Awards were for aspects of production.[2]
Wild Kingdom was first broadcast by NBC. The half-hour show aired on Sundays starting January 6, 1963.[3] and continued until 1971, when the program entered syndication. As a prime-time syndicated program, Wild Kingdom enjoyed great popularity. Although most of the programs aired after 1971 were repeats, new shows continued to be produced until 1987. Several episodes were filmed by cameraman Roy Pinney. Perkins was the host for most of the show's history until he was forced to retire in 1985 for health reasons. He died of cancer the following year at age 81 and Jim Fowler, Perkins' long-time assistant and sidekick, became the host.[4]
One of Wild Kingdom's film editors, Bernard Braham, A.C.E., was invited to membership with the American Cinema Editors in 1979 and won a prestigious EDDIE award in Hollywood for best documentary of the year, for the episode "Desert Spring". His competition for the award was a National Geographic episode titled "Gold". He was also nominated for several other awards.[citation needed]
Perkins often introduced commercial spots by tying them into the subject of the show. For example, at the end of a segment about lions, he might say something like, "Just as the mother lion protects her cubs, you can protect your children with an insurance policy from Mutual of Omaha..."
The format of the show often featured Perkins narrating off-camera, describing Fowler's on-camera work with the wild animals. This was commonly parodied as Perkins saying "I'll wait here [someplace safe] while Jim [does something or other with the dangerous animal]". However, according to a 1997 interview with Fowler, Perkins never said any such thing: according to Fowler, "Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues".[5]
Perkins often featured pet chimpanzees in the studio: one named "W.K." (Wild Kingdom); the other named "Mr. Moke", after the Mini Moke vehicle.
Wild Kingdom can be credited for increasing ecological and environmental awareness in the United States. Its exciting footage brought the wilds of Africa, the Amazon River and other exotic locales into the living rooms of millions of Americans. It created an interest in commercial nature programming that was a precursor to cable television networks such as the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet.
The original series has not been seen since it went off the air. (Mutual of Omaha owns the rights to the series.) However, several episodes have now been released on DVD from BCI Eclipse (under license from Mutual of Omaha). Some episodes are also available on an official YouTube channel.[6]
Revival[edit]
In 2002, a completely new Wild Kingdom, also sponsored by Mutual of Omaha, began airing new Wild Kingdom specials on Animal Planet. The specials proved to be so popular that in 2005, the network began airing new weekly episodes during the original Sunday night timeslot.
New host and web series[edit]
On November 3, 2013, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom premiered a series of webisodes that featured a new host, a new format and new stories about the world’s wildest places and creatures.
Hosted by wildlife educator and global adventurer Stephanie Arne, winner of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Guide contest, the new Wild Kingdom combines Arne's energy and expertise with great stories and fun graphics to create short, engaging “webisodes.”
Webisode 1: “Reef Madness” Wild Guide Stephanie Arne dives with the Coral Restoration Foundation to explore efforts to save the precious coral reefs of the Florida Keys.[7]
Webisode 2: “Where the Buffalo Roam” What’s big, brown and built for survival? Wild Kingdom follows one of America’s iconic animals across the South Dakota plains.[8]
Webisode 3: “Tegu Invasion” Containing the unwanted guests that are taking over the Florida Everglades.[9]
Webisode 4: “California Condor: Extreme Survival” Back from the brink of extinction, the California Condor is one of the world's great conservation success stories.[10]
A second season of new Webisodes began in July, 2014.
See also[edit]
Stan Brock (philanthropist)
Wild America (TV series)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Animal Planet :: Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom[dead link]
2.Jump up ^ screenafrica.com
3.Jump up ^ "Classic Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom: Nostalgia". Wildkingdom.com. 1963-01-06. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
4.Jump up ^ "The Fearless Guides". Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Official Website.
5.Jump up ^ "TV's Wild Man; Jim Fowler talks about his life as one of the world's best-known naturalists". weeklywire.com. 1997-09-02. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
6.Jump up ^ Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom WildKingdomTV's YouTube Channel
7.Jump up ^ Wild Kingdom - Episode 1 - Reef Madness WildKingdomTV's YouTube Channel
8.Jump up ^ Wild Kingdom - Episode 2 - Where the Buffalo Roam WildKingdomTV's YouTube Channel
9.Jump up ^ Wild Kingdom - Episode 3 - Tegu Invasion WildKingdomTV's YouTube Channel
10.Jump up ^ Wild Kingdom - Episode 4 - Condor: Extreme Survival WildKingdomTV's YouTube Channel
External links[edit]
Official website (site sponsored by Mutual of Omaha)
Animal Planet Wild Kingdom site
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom at the Internet Movie Database



Preceded by
60 Minutes
1972 Wild Kingdom
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1973[citation needed] Succeeded by
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1974
 


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My Cat from Hell
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My Cat from Hell

Genre
Reality
Starring
Jackson Galaxy
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
5
No. of episodes
46+
Production

Executive producer(s)
Melinda Toporoff
Pat Dempsey
JD Roth
Todd A. Nelson
Adam Kaloustian
Chandrea Miller

Running time
42 minutes
Production company(s)
Eyeworks USA
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet
Picture format
480i (SDTV)
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Original run
May 7, 2011 – present
External links
Website
My Cat from Hell is an American reality television series that airs on Animal Planet and premiered in May 2011. It stars Jackson Galaxy, a cat behaviorist by morning — and a musician by night — who visits the homes of cat owners in order to resolve conflicts or behavior issues between the owners and their cats or between pets.
The series returned for a 16-episode fifth season in April 26, 2014.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Philosophy
2 Episodes 2.1 Season 1 (2011)
2.2 Season 2 (2012)
2.3 Season 3 (2012)
2.4 Season 4 (2013)
2.5 Season 5 (2014)
3 Reception
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Philosophy[edit]
Jackson Galaxy believes that he can help any "problem cat"—provided that its human guardians follow the advice he provides—and that most behavioral problems result either from triggers in the cat's environment or from mishandling of the cat by humans.
Jackson teaches that cats are territorial, needing spaces within homes to call their own, and that they send signals when they no longer desire petting, a condition he refers to as "overstimulation". Cats do not like being cornered, and lash out when overstimulated. Certain cats (whom he calls "tree-dwelling cats") behave better when they have access to above-ground perches, and he often instructs owners of such cats to install an above-the-floor walkway with no dead ends, in order to provide these cats with the psychological comfort of escape routes.
Jackson does not believe in cats being surgically de-clawed, believing that the animals suffer for it.[2] On episode 5 of season 2, "Cat Fight!", he said that cats become hyper aware of the weapons they have left, going straight for back claws (if these have not been removed) and teeth, because that's what they have to fight with. Later on in life, they suffer a lot more arthritis. Instead of de-clawing, he encourages owners to use soft claws or vinyl claws which cover the claws rather than having the claws removed.[3]
He teaches that there are correct and incorrect ways to pick up a cat, and that when cats are picked up incorrectly, they will often injure humans in an attempt to escape. Some cats need exercise to release excess energy in a positive way; toys and play with owners are outlets Jackson encourages. When this is not done, such cats find ways to release energy on their own, which are often undesirable to their owners and/or destructive to the home.
In multi-animal situations, Jackson creates barriers in homes to divide the space into areas which the animals can claim as places of their own. He slowly introduces the cat to the other animals in positive situations (such as a feeding). Occasionally, Jackson suspects that certain behavioral problems which defy conventional explanation are due to an underlying health problem (such as arthritis), in which case he instructs the owners to take their cat to a veterinarian before continuing efforts at modifying the behavior.
Episodes[edit]
Season 1 (2011)[edit]

No. in
 series
No. in
 season
Title[4]
Original air date

1
1 "He Hates My Boyfriend" May 7, 2011
An aggressive and unpredictable cat aptly named Bear takes his toll on owner Hannah's love life. Recently engaged Matt loves fiancee Amanda, but hates her cats and has reached his breaking point.
2
2 "Fifi's Ruining My Love Life" May 14, 2011
Sean cozies up to pet scorpions, snakes, tarantulas and fiance Lindsey at home but can't deal with Avery, the rambunctious sphynx cat. From the moment Leslie moved into her boyfriend David's home, Fifi the cat has made it clear she's not welcome.
3
3 "Wildcat!" May 21, 2011
Minibar is a feral cat rescued by Carre and Brian. In addition they already have two cats, Bonsai and Foobar. Duff is an unpredictable cat owned by Garret & Jenny.
Season 2 (2012)[edit]

No. in
 series
No. in
 season
Title[5]
Original air date

4
1 "Terrorizing My Clients" January 7, 2012
A female cat named Larry with disturbing bouts of aggression threatens to keep Josh and Tara from getting married. Heather and Alan's cat Ruby ruins their in-home Pilates studio and threatens their livelihood with her sudden fits of aggression.
5
2 "Mad Max" January 14, 2012
A Bengal cat named City the Kitty with jungle energy is disrupting the peace between girlfriends Shanna and Lori. Ned and Kellee's cat, Mad Max, sneaks into their neighbor's apartment, and is too dangerous to be around their soon-to-be-born baby.
6
3 "On the War Path" January 21, 2012
A vicious cat named Kleo attacks Tim's cats, keeping him from proposing to his girlfriend, Brooklyn. War veteran Bobby and his girlfriend In-Hae deal with Marco, a cat that reacts violently towards their tiny dog, Yuki.
7
4 "Pissed Off!" January 28, 2012
A vicious cat named Stella prevents Rob and Stephanie from adding a baby to their family. Jessica's cat, Mr. Fluff, chases her and her boyfriend Cameron around the house, scratching up everything in sight.
8
5 "Cat Fight!" February 4, 2012
A cat named Penny Lane hates her owner's roommate. Roxy and Max are two cats that begin to attack each other after they move into a new home.
9
6 "Spitting Mad" February 18, 2012
Two warring Sphynxes, Mathilde and Black Rose are constantly keeping their owners, Steve and Dierdre up at night. Travis and Dorothy fear that their temperamental cat Polly may and could attack toddler son Rex.
Season 3 (2012)[edit]

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1 "Cat Fight!" June 30, 2012
Jackson heads across the U.S. to help two NYC couples with their aggressive cats: Mufasa, a silver Bengal has been constantly jumping and attacking Susanne, while boyfriend Justin takes it lightly. A uber-cramped apartment for engaged couple Mike and Emilie have become wargrounds for Olive who constantly attacks Pepper daily, forcing the couple instead of enjoying what will be their life together, to sleep in separate rooms at any sign of a fight between the two cats.
(Note: This episode features Justin Brown, a comedian, known for his work with Barely Political, a comedic Youtube channel.)
11
2 "My Cat or My Family" July 7, 2012
Xena has been on a tear with Jen's family and house for the last several months, going into random screaming and hissing fits which have also left Jen, dad Mike and five-year-old son Chris scratched up and the latter even scared to go in his room. Gigi has taken such an aversion to new kitten Suki so much that Brit journalists Julie and Nick fear that her aggression may lead to the latter getting killed.
12
3 "Kitty Dearest" July 14, 2012
Best friends Travis and Diane are struggling to co-parent Oscar the Sphinx peacefully together, as he lashes out at Diane whenever she picks him up, urinates everywhere but his litter box and disturbs Travis in his at-home office by constantly yowling at night. Vet Tech Esther and musician hubby Vincent are at ends with rescue tabby Riley who repeatedly lashes out whenever hands are outstretched.
13
4 "Kitty Jail" July 21, 2012
Finn's incessant crying often wakes his owners, Lara and David, up at 4am. The couple argues about locking him up in their guest bathroom also known as kitty jail. Nancy and Jim are at the end of their rope, as their cat, Molly chews on everything.
14
5 "Roscoe the Menace" July 28, 2012
Terror cat, Mufasa, is threatening the planning of engaged couples', Rudy and Andrea's perfect wedding. Ruben and Danielle's cat Roscoe is a menace knocking things off shelves, destroying furniture and climbing window screens trying to escape.
15
6 "Cat Escape!" August 4, 2012
Michael and Khrys have an escape artist in their home in the form of an unneutered Russian Blue named Kitty, who also marks all over the house. Addie, an 8 year old Tabby, repeatedly swaps and scratches whoever comes near her, specifically in her cat tree, be it either owners Don and Joy or anyone else entering the house. Behavior, Joy directly fingers blame on more canine-centric hubby Don, who roughhouses while playing with her, as like with a dog
16
7 "My Cat Eats Everything!" August 18, 2012
Mark and Angela have to childproof their home because their cat, Gus eats everything. Stella just chased off Melissa's latest boyfriend with her brutal behavior, and shows no signs she willing to accept any more gentleman callers.
17
8 "My Cat Is a Bully" August 25, 2012
Mother and daughter Melissa and Mariah are at odds with the latter's pet cat Miley who constantly attacks the prior's two chihuahuas, but the problem may not be so much in Miley but the humans themselves, specifically Melissa, who continues to use the cat's "aggression" as an excuse to treat the dogs as if they were human babies. Burmese Gracie had been adopted from and returned to the shelter twice before finally coming home with Kristen, but the welcoming has not been so sweet, as Kris' boyfriend Lei, his family, friends and guests and the legions of former cat-sitters who've quit over Gracie have been subject to her attacks.
18
9 "Big Boi Ruins Our Social Life" September 1, 2012
College roommates Nicole and Shoshana got more than what they bargained for when they took in pregnant stray Cutie, as unneutered and only surviving kitten Big Boi had turned their social lives upside down. As they also prep for the upcoming birth of their first child, Lucas and girlfriend of seven years, Candice have come at loggerheads over the fate of Lucas' 23 year old tabby Pump, who Candace sees as an interference with her work as an at-home holistic therapist.
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10 "Bitten" September 8, 2012
Achilles is owned by Amy, but has become aggressive to both Amy and Mike, Amy's boyfriend who, is thinking of leaving over Achilles behavior. Kevin and Megan are the proud parents of a one year old little girl, Quinn as well as two four-legged "children" in cats Bitten and Chompy, but it is Bitten’s vicious attacks on the once abused and now rescued Chompy that has both taking sides (Megan: the prior, Kevin the latter) in trying to protect their daughter from getting in the middle of these “fights’
Season 4 (2013)[edit]

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20
1 "Deaf, Blind, and Biting" April 6, 2013 0.93[8]
Burberry is mostly deaf and blind, has stopped using her litter box and has become violent towards them and their new kitten Purrodox. David and Rebecca's plans of starting a family are on hold due to the violence between their cat Leo and dog Nala.
21
2 "Roommates From Hell" April 13, 2013 0.94[9]
Deborah was forced to move out of her home and now lives in a tiny studio apartment with two cats that hate each other.95-year old Callie survived WWII, but her daughter Pam fears she won't be able to survive her cat, Allie, and her vicious attacks
22
3 "Penny Hates Puck" April 20, 2013 1.21[10]
Penny's attacks on Puck are so violent that they result in bloodshed every time, and Puck is so terrified she pees on herself after every fight. Tony's bizarre behavior with his stuffed animal has Cliff and Betty scratching their heads.
23
4 "Feral Scottish Fold" April 27, 2013 0.99[11]
Bob and Stephanie have a stray cat who they've named Buddy. Buddy is a Scottish Fold who has managed to both pull on Stephanie's heartstrings and rip her to shreds. Angela and Gloria's cat Kali goes into full out-to-kill attack mode on their other cats.
24
5 "Macho Cat" May 4, 2013 0.94[12]
Ryann and Derek's cats do not get along. In fact, Buddy has resorted to being a full time bully to Lita. Jen and Nicole have been roommates for five years. Everything was going great until Jen got a cat named Princess Puffy Pants who pees on everything.
25
6 "Graveyard of Peed on Things" May 11, 2013 0.85[13]
Louise's cat Pip is a one-eyed cerebral hypoplasia cat, who won't stop tormenting and attacking Louise's other cat, Red. Erin's cat Autumn pees everywhere! She pees on the couch, beds, countertops, microwave, computer monitor, and backpacks.
26
7 "The White Tornado" May 18, 2013 0.81[14]
Kristen's cat Moose is marking everything in her house. Can Jackson change his marking ways? Liz and Michael have lived in peace with their sweet senior cat Remy, until Kimba entered their lives. Will Jackson be able to tame Kimba?
27
8 "Chubs" June 1, 2013 0.78[15]
Sara and John are now expecting their first child. The only glitch in their happily ever after story, is Sara's aggressive cat, Lucy. Keri wants to become an animal behaviorist. Will the daily fights between her two cats make her change her career path?
28
9 "Bea Hates CeCe" June 8, 2013 0.85[16]
CeCe and her sweet cat Aragon continuously find themselves being terrorized by Krista's cat, Bea. Megan loves her 5 year old Persian Fi, the only thing she doesn't love is the fact that Fi has not used a litter box since she got her 2 years ago.
29
10 "Cat Horror Show" June 15, 2013 0.70[17]
Rick and Laura started showing Snickers in cat shows when she was a kitten. Now she's older and bites and scratches the judges. Jeremy has Crohn's disease and his cat, Dexter's constant meowing is the greatest stress in his life.
30
11 "My Cat Ruined My Wedding" June 22, 2013 0.99[18]
Aimee and Katy love each other and are ready to take the next step and move in together. However, Katy's cat pink is putting a wrench in their plans. Jon and Michelle never thought their marriage would be riddled with stress over their demonic cat Zooey.
31
12 "Max Hates My Family" June 29, 2013 0.95[19]
Like most Italian families, Anna and her son Chris, know how important it is to have a close-knit family. However, thanks to Max's hellish behavior, this family bond has been broken. Adrienne moved in with Summer not knowing her cat, Capri was Psycho.
32
13 "Buddha Bullies Hector" July 6, 2013 0.76[20]
Hector and Rick are best friends and roommates who are at odds over Rick's cat, Buddha. Buddha bullies Hector.Diane and Richard haven't slept through the night in the same bed in four years and that's all because of their cat Dylan.
33
14 "Evil Kashmir" July 13, 2013 0.71[21]
Dean thought Brenda and her cat, Kashmir would be the perfect fit to his home. Unfortunately for them, Kashmir has turned into "resident evil". Arman is frustrated that Theresa's cat's Turbo and Riyo have turned their new space into a giant litter box.
34
15 "Devil Cat" July 13, 2013 0.82[21]
Ingrid, Anicka and Nikki have been friends for over 10 years, but this long-standing friendship is on the verge of ending, because of Ingrid's hellish cat, Milo.Sherin and her Bengal cat, Gus, may be kicked out of her parents home due to his behavior.
35
16 "Crazy Daisy" July 20, 2013 0.67[22]
Leanne and Steve's cat, Daisy flies into rages over 20 times a day, causing self-inflicted wounds to her tail and body. Samantha and Adam have been happily married for over 5 years but their cat, Gizmo is biting and scratching her way into their bliss.
36
17 "Where Are They Meow?" July 20, 2013 0.59[22]
After 4 seasons, Jackson Galaxy checks in with previous seasons cat owners, to recap on their story, and find out how they and their cats are doing since filming wrapped.
Season 5 (2014)[edit]

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37
1 "Sky Dive Nightmare" April 26, 2014 
In Austin, a professional skydiver, is being terrorized by his two high-flying Savannahs. Wolfie, a Maine Coon, is notorious for pooping all over Heather and Bijan's house and then covers up the evidence with their belongings.
38
2 "Bloody Thirsty" May 3, 2014 
A couple is at odds over their vicious cat Coco. Foley, a cat with night terrors, is driving a wedge between newlyweds Joseph and Ruth.
39
3 "Surprise Attack Cat!" May 10, 2014 
Littlez is a little black cat that's a big holy terror. Whisky will poop anywhere and everywhere; on the dining room table, on the stairs, on the couch, even on Kate and Cameron.
40
4 "Stalking Miss Daisy" May 17, 2014 
The minute Dexter entered the house; he was out to kill Daisy. Corey got Giver for Sarah's birthday, but this is one gift he'd like to give back.
41
5 "Einstein Hates Izzy" May 31, 2014 
Einstein is the perfect cat, until he sees Izzy and then goes into full out-to-kill attack mode. Scott and Tiffani are expecting their first baby, but before they can bring home their bundle of joy, their cat Ben must stop his hell cat behavior.
42
6 "Puma on a Rampage" June 7, 2014 
When John married Samantha, he committed to for better or for worse, but he didn't realize her cat Puma would put their vows to the test. Jimmy and Maggie have been married for 45 years, but their 8-year old snowshoe cat, Riley is tearing them apart.
43
7 "911, My Cat's Holding Me Hostage!" June 14, 2014 
Jackson travels to Portland to help Lee and Teresa, the couple that called 911 on their cat Lux..
44
8 "Mama Mia!" June 21, 2014 
Parents Greg and Dina have three loving children and one vicious cat named Mia! Chris and Tenille are in love, but the only thing keeping them from moving in together is Tenille’s cat, Precious who is anything but!
45
9 "Multi-Million Dollar Nightmare" June 28, 2014 
Daniel and Desiree just moved into their multi-million dollar dream home, but Desiree's cat, Frankie, is turning their dream into a nightmare. Leiann and Joey adopted Dyna so their cat Sugar would have a friend, but instead she ended up with an enemy.
46
10 "Demon Cat" July 5, 2014 
Andy is in love with his girlfriend, Alyssa, but hates her cat, Tosh. Once Andy moved in Tosh became a "demon cat". Eric and Kaotar's problem child is Vincent. Vincent will try anything to escape. He rips through window screens and opens doors.
47
11  July 12, 2014 
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12  July 19, 2014 
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13  July 26, 2014 
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14  August 2, 2014 
51
15  August 9, 2014 
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16  August 16, 2014 
Reception[edit]
Neil Genzlinger of the New York Times wrote, "Mr. Galaxy—yes, it feels ridiculous writing that—looks like a Hells Angel, but his love and respect for cats seems genuine, and his advice appears actually to help the clients, most of whom are couples whose crazed pets are affecting their relationships."[24] Brad Wete of Entertainment Weekly commented, "Galaxy offers useful tips, even if your animal’s not nuts."[25]
See also[edit]
Housecat Housecall
It's Me or the Dog
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Bibel, Sara (September 5, 2013). "'My Cat from Hell' Renewed by Animal Planet for Season 5". TV by the Numbers (Press release).
2.Jump up ^ http://jacksongalaxy.com/2010/10/01/cats-and-claws-living-happily-ever-after/
3.Jump up ^ http://bc.ctvnews.ca/declaw-dilemma-some-veterinarians-refusing-to-declaw-cats-1.1207643
4.Jump up ^ Amazon.com: My Cat From Hell Season 1: Amazon Instant Video
5.Jump up ^ Amazon.com: My Cat From Hell Season 2: Amazon Instant Video
6.Jump up ^ Amazon.com: My Cat From Hell Season 3: Amazon Instant Video
7.Jump up ^ Amazon.com: My Cat From Hell Season 4: Amazon Instant Video
8.Jump up ^ Yanan, Travis (April 9, 2013). "Saturday's Cable Ratings: "Marvin Marvin," "Wendell & Vinnie" Top Viewers for Nickelodeon". The Futon Critic.
9.Jump up ^ Yanan, Travis (April 16, 2013). "Saturday's Cable Ratings: "Marvin Marvin" Leads Viewers, "Ultimate Fighter" Tops Demos". The Futon Critic.
10.Jump up ^ Yanan, Travis (April 23, 2013). "Saturday's Cable Ratings: NBA Playoffs Tripleheader Puts ESPN on Top". The Futon Critic.
11.Jump up ^ Yanan, Travis (April 30, 2013). "Saturday's Cable Ratings: NBA Playoffs, "Marvin Marvin" Top Charts". The Futon Critic.
12.Jump up ^ Yanan (May 7, 2013). "Saturday's Cable Ratings: TNT Tops Charts with Bulls/Nets Finale". The Futon Critic.
13.Jump up ^ Yanan, Travis (May 14, 2013). "Saturday's Cable Ratings: "Beverly Lewis' The Confession," "My Cat from Hell" Top Originals". The Futon Critic.
14.Jump up ^ Yanan, Travis (May 21, 2013). "Saturday's Cable Ratings: Game 6 of Knicks/Pacers Puts ESPN on Top". The Futon Critic.
15.Jump up ^ Yanan, Travis (June 4, 2013). "Saturday's Cable Ratings: TNT Tops Charts with Game 6 of Heat/Pacers". The Futon Critic.
16.Jump up ^ Yanan, Travis (June 11, 2013). "Saturday's Cable Ratings: "Sam & Cat" Opens on Top for Nickelodeon". The Futon Critic.
17.Jump up ^ Yanan, Travis (June 18, 2013). "Saturday's Cable Ratings: NBC Sports Network Tops Charts with Stanley Cup Finals". The Futon Critic.
18.Jump up ^ Yanan, Travis (June 25, 2013). "Saturday's Cable Ratings: "Sam & Cat" Tops Viewers, "Jodi Arias" Leads Demos". The Futon Critic.
19.Jump up ^ Yanan, Travis (July 2, 2013). "Saturday's Cable Ratings: "Anna Nicole," "Sam & Cat" Snag Top Spots". The Futon Critic.
20.Jump up ^ Yanan, Travis (July 10, 2013). "Saturday's Cable Ratings: TNT Races to the Front with NASCAR Coverage". The Futon Critic.
21.^ Jump up to: a b Yanan, Travis (July 16, 2013). "Saturday's Cable Ratings: Nickelodeon Tops Charts with "Sam & Cat," "Haunted Hathaways"". The Futon Critic.
22.^ Jump up to: a b Yanan, Travis (July 23, 2013). "Saturday's Cable Ratings: Nickelodeon Tops Viewers, Demos with "Sam & Cat"". The Futon Critic.
23.Jump up ^ Amazon.com: My Cat From Hell Season 5: Amazon Instant Video
24.Jump up ^ Neil Genzlinger (May 6, 2011). "And You Used to Think Hairballs Were Bad". The New York Times. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
25.Jump up ^ Brad Wete (May 8, 2011). "'My Cat From Hell' debuts on Animal Planet: Who knew cats were this bonkers?". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
External links[edit]
My Cat From Hell at the Internet Movie Database
 


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Nature's Great Events
Screenshot of series title card
Series title card from UK broadcast

Also known as
Nature's Most Amazing Events
Genre
Nature documentary
Narrated by
David Attenborough
Composer(s)
Ben Salisbury
 Barnaby Taylor
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language(s)
English
No. of episodes
6
Production

Executive producer(s)
Brian Leith
Running time
50 minutes
Production company(s)
BBC Natural History Unit
Discovery Channel
 Wanda Films
Broadcast

Original channel
BBC One
Picture format
16:9 (HDTV)
Audio format
Stereophonic
Original run
11 February 2009 – 18 March 2009
External links
Website
Nature's Great Events is a wildlife documentary series made for BBC television, first shown in the UK on BBC One and BBC HD in February 2009. The series looks at how seasonal changes powered by the sun cause shifting weather patterns and ocean currents, which in turn create the conditions for some of the planet’s most spectacular wildlife events. Each episode focuses on the challenges and opportunities these changes present to a few key species.
Nature's Great Events was produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in association with the Discovery Channel and Wanda Films. The British version of the series was narrated by David Attenborough. In the USA, the series was shown under the alternative title Nature's Most Amazing Events beginning on 29 May 2009[1] and was narrated by Hasani Issa.[2] In Australia, this program began airing on ABC1 each Sunday at 7:30pm from 14 June until 19 July 2009.[3]
The title Nature's Great Events was previously used by Reader's Digest for an unrelated VHS series released in 1996.


Contents  [hide]
1 Production 1.1 Production team
1.2 Filming
1.3 Television firsts
2 Episodes 2.1 1. "The Great Melt"
2.2 2. "The Great Salmon Run"
2.3 3. "The Great Migration"
2.4 4. "The Great Tide"
2.5 5. "The Great Flood"
2.6 6. "The Great Feast"
3 Reception
4 Merchandise
5 References
6 External links

Production[edit]
Production team[edit]
The series was first unveiled as a co-production deal with independent Wanda Films, under the working title of Earth's Great Events.[4] The title was subsequently revised and the Discovery Channel revealed as additional co-producers.[5] The Natural History Unit’s production team includes series producer Karen Bass and executive producer Brian Leith. The score was composed by Barnaby Taylor and Ben Salisbury,[6] orchestrated and conducted by William Goodchild[7] and performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra. Views of the earth from space, that illustrate the climatic events around the world, were created by design company Burrell Durrant Hifle incorporating NASA photography.
Filming[edit]
Filming took place over a 25-month period, an unusually tight timescale for a natural history production of this scale. In some cases, the events were not guaranteed to occur every year, so working to such a rapid schedule meant that the film crews ran the risk of having nothing to film. Producer Karen Bass described the series as "a minor miracle, given the constraints of luck and timing - we were totally dependent on events happening when they were supposed to." One of the most challenging sequences to film was the climax of the "The Great Tide" episode, featuring aerial and underwater footage of dolphins, sharks and gannets attacking a sardine shoal. In 2007, the sardine run didn't take place, and after weeks of fruitless searching, the crew had to give up. The following year, there was a second and final opportunity. Just in case they were unsuccessful again, the producers devised an alternative sixth episode which would have explored the science behind seasonal changes, looking at how the "Great Events" are triggered and how environmental change may be affecting them. As luck would have it, the sardine run returned for the first time in three years and the team captured the shots they needed.[8][9]
Television firsts[edit]
The BBC claimed a number of TV firsts achieved by the production team. Many of the filming techniques first used on Planet Earth, such as the gyroscopically-stabilised helicopter camera known as the Heligimbal, were adopted again, along with new technology. In "The Great Tide", some of the surface-water footage was shot from a boat-mounted stabilised camera, previously used in the Hollywood film industry. Innovations on "The Great Flood" included FrankenCam, a motion-control macro camera developed by Ammonite Films and capable of shooting extreme close-ups of tiny subjects.[10] The team were also the first to film narwhals from the air and the first to reveal how grizzly bears use their feet to scoop up dead salmon from deep pools. The crew of "The Great Migration" had the good fortune of witnessing the first eruption of a Tanzanian volcano in 40 years, and managed to shoot aerial footage of the event.[11]
Episodes[edit]

The power of the Sun drives the seasons, transforming our planet. Vast movements of ocean and air currents bring dramatic change throughout the year, and in a few special places, these seasonal changes create some of the greatest wildlife spectacles on Earth.
— David Attenborough's opening narration




 Polar bear on sea ice
1. "The Great Melt"[edit]
US title: "Arctic Summer"
Broadcast 11 February 2009, 3.68 million viewers (14.5% audience share)[12]
The opening episode shows how different species respond to the annual summer thaw of sea ice in the Arctic. The extent of the melt has been increasing in recent times, and this could be disastrous for polar bears. A mother emerges from her winter den with cubs, and leads them on to the sea ice to hunt. As the ice breaks up, the bears have difficulty walking and resort to swimming between floes. For others, it's a race to breed in the short summer season. When guillemots arrive at their nesting cliffs, the rocks are still cloaked in ice. A few short weeks later, the young launch themselves on their maiden flights, but those that crash before they reach open water present an easy meal for an Arctic fox mother and her cubs. Aerial footage shows the arrival of belugas and narwhals at the edge of the sea ice. The narwhals navigate their way along leads, but can become trapped if the ice ahead is still unbroken. In the height of summer, large parts of the Arctic Ocean are virtually ice-free, leaving some polar bears stranded on the few remaining icebergs. Those that reach dry land must wait for the winter ice to return before they can start hunting again. As the bears congregate, fights break out between the males. Nature's Great Events Diaries follows the camera team's attempts to locate narwhals in "Quest for Ice Whales".[13]
2. "The Great Salmon Run"[edit]
US title: "Grizzly Wilderness"
Broadcast 18 February 2009, 4.45 million viewers (18.7% audience share)[14]
The subject of the second programme is the annual salmon run on the west coast of North America. Hundreds of millions of Pacific salmon return to the mountain streams in which they were born, where they will spawn and then die. Their passage upstream is fraught with danger, from rapids, waterfalls and hungry grizzly bears. The programme begins at the arrival of spring, with a grizzly mother leading her cubs down from their winter den in the Alaskan mountains. The bears congregate in the forested valleys, where they forage for whatever food they can find. Survival is tough for all, as shown by a pack of hungry wolves attacking an adult grizzly. It is not until July that the salmon arrive in great numbers. Other predators join the feast, including Orcas, Stellar sea Lions, Salmon sharks and the Bald headed Eagle. Those that make it past the bears risk becoming trapped in shallow reaches as the water level subsides. Relief comes as a summer storm replenishes the streams, triggered by moist ocean air rising over the coastal mountains. As they reach the spawning grounds, the salmon change body shape and colour in preparation for spawning. When it is over, the fish are close to exhaustion and they die en masse, providing an easy meal for birds and lingering bears. Their deaths are not in vain, for the nutrients from their decaying bodies help to fertilise the soil, sustaining the forests of tall pines. The diary piece, "Close Encounters of a Grizzly Kind", reveals how footage of the bears fishing using their feet was obtained.[15]




 Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano
3. "The Great Migration"[edit]
US title: "Surviving the Serengeti"
Broadcast 25 February 2009, 3.73 million viewers (15.8% audience share)[16]
The third installment follows a year in the life of the Ndutu lion pride, which occupies a territory on the short-grass plains of the Serengeti. Their lives are dictated by the annual migration of one million wildebeest and zebra around the Serengeti. As the herds move north following the rains, the Ndutu pride's four lionesses and seven cubs are left behind to face the dry season without their main prey. The grass dies off leaving the lions without cover, making hunting what few animals remain even more difficult. The pride must keep moving to find food, but gradually the starving cubs weaken. A female cub and her brother, both in very poor condition, cannot keep up with the adults, and their fate seems sealed. However, when the pride is relocated the following month, the two cubs have somehow survived and been reunited with the adults. The lions face a further challenge as the active volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai erupts for the first time since 1967, raining ash down on the plains. These cyclical eruptions play a crucial role in the Serengeti ecosystem. The ash fertilises the earth, and with the arrival of the first storms, the plains become green and lush. The wildebeest herds return and give birth to their young, and the Ndutu pride can enjoy the good times again. In "Pride and Peril", the diary segment, cameraman Owen Newman's long and lonely vigil watching the Ndutu pride is rewarded with a story of hardship, loss and fortitude.[17]
4. "The Great Tide"[edit]
US title: "Army of Predators"
Broadcast 4 March 2009, 4.04 million viewers (17.6% audience share)[18]
Along South Africa's east coast, the right combination of winter weather and ocean currents trigger the sardine run, one of the most impressive events in the world's oceans. In recent years, the sardine run has become less predictable, for reasons which are still unclear, bringing into jeopardy an entire food chain which it supports. The fourth programme follows the largest gathering of predators on the planet as they hunt down billions of sardines pinned to the cold water along the coast. They include Cape gannets, which time their breeding to coincide with the arrival of the huge sardine shoals. They are filmed at their breeding colony on Bird Island and in super slow motion breaking the surface on their plunge dives. In the water, a super-pod of 5,000 common dolphins also hunts down the sardines. A 15-mile long shoal is located by the predators, and the ensuing feeding frenzy is filmed from the air, the surface and underwater. Dolphins herd the sardines into the shallows, where they come within reach of the diving gannets. Thousands of sharks arrive to join the attack, but the largest predator of all is the lunging Bryde's whale. "Life on the Run" follows the fortunes of the film crew as they track the hunters. In 2007, the sardine run didn't happen at all, but their patience was rewarded the following year.[19]




 Lions at an elephant carcass in Botswana
5. "The Great Flood"[edit]
US title: "Kalahari Flood"
Broadcast 11 March 2009, 3.88 million viewers (16.8% audience share)[20]
The fifth installment is set in Botswana, where the arid plains of the Kalahari are transformed into a lush wetland by the annual flooding of the Okavango Delta. The Okavango River is charged by rain falling in the Angolan highlands, but it is months before the water arrives at the delta. Meanwhile, thousands of animals follow ancient migration routes across the desert, braving dehydration and punishing heat. New elephant behaviour is filmed as they skim their trunks delicately across the surface of a stagnant pool, siphoning clean water from the upper layers. The transformation of the desert into a green oasis is filmed using time-lapse photography, whilst sequences shot with macro lenses show the changes in much finer detail. For the first time, vast clouds of dragonflies are observed emerging to mate and lay their eggs. Larger animals make the most of the sudden riches the new landscape offers. Male hippos plough through the newly formed waterways and battle for dominance, red lechwe bound through the shallows and huge flocks of wading birds arrive to breed. Elephants and buffalo face one final challenge before they reach the delta; a pride of hungry lions. The lions attack in broad daylight, bringing down an elephant calf. The making-of featurette, "Mission Impassable", follows the crew as they struggle to cross ever-deepening waters to reach and film the front line of the advancing flood.[21]
6. "The Great Feast"[edit]
US title: "Pacific Feast"
Broadcast 18 March 2009, 4.02 million viewers (18.0% audience share)[22]
The final episode features the summer plankton bloom along the coast of British Columbia and Alaska. In winter, the coastal fjords and inlets are relatively lifeless, and the resident Steller sea lions must dive deeper and further from the coast to catch the widely-dispersed herring. Humpback whales overwinter in the warm Pacific waters off Hawaii, where new mothers suckle their calves. They begin their 3,000 mile journey north in early spring, when the sea lions also give birth to their young. Spring storms are a hazard for the sea lion colonies and some pups are inevitably lost, but these same storms disturb nutrients in the water which, together with the strengthening power of the sun, act as the catalysts for the plankton bloom. Huge shoals of herring arrive to spawn, turning the shallows milky white. The herring sift plankton from the water. In their wake come larger predators, including Pacific white-sided dolphins and killer whales. The latter are filmed attacking a male sea lion. Common murres dive under the herring shoals and pick off the fish from below, pinning them to the surface. Their defence is to form a bait ball, but gulls gathering on the surface attack them from above. The finale to the programme features unique underwater footage of humpbacks engulfing whole bait balls, and reveals their co-operative hunting behaviour called bubble-netting. The diary segment, "Swallowed by a Whale", looks at the challenges of filming the humpbacks and sea lions underwater.[23]
Reception[edit]
The series drew an average of 4.0 million viewers and a 16.9% audience share, down on BBC One’s average share of 24% for the same time slot in 2008.[24] However, the Sunday evening repeats at a more family-friendly viewing time drew similar viewing figures to the first broadcast, and the episodes regularly featured in the top ten weekly chart on BBC iPlayer.
The series received almost universal praise in the British press. Writing in The Guardian of the scene in which a humpback whale swallows a shoal of herring, Lucy Mangan commented: "You can cradle your jaw safely in your lap for the rest of the evening, as you replay that moment in your mind's eye and reel at the slower but no less staggering evocation by the entire programme, the entire series, of the incredible force and fragility of it all."[25] The sequence was also singled out by Tim Teeman in The Times, who wrote "now that was a money shot. Nature's Great Events: "The Great Feast" was no mis-sale". He went on to describe it as "the most surprising bit of television this week" and "the most mind-blowing, horrific and beautiful sequence of film".[26] The series also gained a very favourable review in The Scotsman. Its critic Paul Whitelaw described it as "quite simply wonderful television. Visually stunning, immersive and mesmerising, it examined some of the most dramatic wildlife spectacles on Earth with characteristic verve and insight." He singled out praise for David Attenborough, noting that "even when he is merely narrating, [he] is quite brilliant at what he does, and I defy anyone to refute that."[27]
Matt Warman of The Daily Telegraph was complimentary about the "wealth of surprising, beautiful images", but criticised the series for its superficial treatment of environmental issues. Writing about the plight of polar bears highlighted in "The Great Melt", he commented "it was tempting to ask whether the rise of one species, man, and the decline of another could not be considered a sad part of evolution by natural selection... Nature's Great Events, however, chose not to engage with the debate."[28]




Nature's Great Events DVD cover
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Merchandise[edit]
A 2-disc, Region 2, DVD has been released by 2 entertain on 16 March 2009 (BBCDVD2863), featuring all six full-length episodes. The USA DVD and Blu-ray Disc was released on 2 June 2009 and a Region 4 DVD and Blu-ray was also released by ABC DVD/Village Roadshow on 1 July 2009.[29]
An accompanying hardback book has been published by Mitchell Beazley on 2 February 2009. Called Nature's Great Events: The Most Spectacular Natural Events on the Planet, it is authored by the BBC Natural History Unit, edited by Karen Bass and has an introduction by Brian Leith (ISBN 9781845334567)
The companion volume for the US market, Nature's Great Events: The Most Amazing Natural Events on the Planet, was published by the University of Chicago Press in May 2009.[30] (ISBN 9780226471549) Sample pages in PDF are available.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ David Lambert (2009-03-17). "Nature's Most Amazing Events, the BBC/Discovery Channel Follow-Up to Planet Earth on DVD & Blu-ray". TVshowsonDVD.com.
2.Jump up ^ Hale, Mike (2009-05-28). "Television Review. Nature's Most Amazing Events: Pretty Clouds, Vistas and Sardines, Too". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-05-30.
3.Jump up ^ "ABC1 Programming Airdate: Nature's Great Events (episode one)". ABC Television Publicity. Retrieved 2010-09-26.
4.Jump up ^ "BBC Worldwide signs first ever Spanish co-pro". BBC Press Office. 2007-03-07. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
5.Jump up ^ "Discovery Touts New Series for 4th Quarter at Upfront". www.tvweek.com. 2008-03-31. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
6.Jump up ^ "Stop Press". SMA Talent. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
7.Jump up ^ "CV: Orchestrator". www.williamgoodchild.com. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
8.Jump up ^ Bass, Karen (February 2009). "The Power of Nature: A Quick Chat with Karen Bass". BBC Wildlife 27 (2).
9.Jump up ^ "Groundbreaking nature show". Bristol Evening Post. 2009-02-07.
10.Jump up ^ "Wild Things". The Engineer Online. 2008-10-27. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
11.Jump up ^ "Nature's Great Events TV firsts". BBC Press Office. 2009-01-05.
12.Jump up ^ "TV Ratings Roundup, 11 February 2009". Digitalspy.co.uk. 2009-02-12.
13.Jump up ^ Produced by Justin Anderson (2009-02-11). "The Great Melt". Nature's Great Events. BBC. BBC One.
14.Jump up ^ "TV Ratings Roundup, 18 February 2009". Digitalspy.co.uk. 2009-02-19.
15.Jump up ^ Written and produced by Jeff Turner (2009-02-18). "The Great Salmon Run". Nature's Great Events. BBC. BBC One.
16.Jump up ^ "TV Ratings Roundup, 25 February 2009". Digitalspy.co.uk. 2009-02-26.
17.Jump up ^ Produced by Peter Bassett (2009-02-25). "The Great Migration". Nature's Great Events. BBC. BBC One.
18.Jump up ^ "TV Ratings Roundup, 4 March 2009". Digitalspy.co.uk. 2009-03-05.
19.Jump up ^ Produced by Hugh Pearson (2009-03-04). "The Great Tide". Nature's Great Events. BBC. BBC One.
20.Jump up ^ "TV Ratings Roundup, 11 March 2009". Digitalspy.co.uk. 2009-03-12.
21.Jump up ^ Produced by Peter Bassett (2009-03-11). "The Great Flood". Nature's Great Events. BBC. BBC One.
22.Jump up ^ "TV Ratings Roundup, 18 March 2009". Digitalspy.co.uk. 2009-02-19.
23.Jump up ^ Produced by Hugh Pearson and Joe Stevens (2009-03-18). "The Great Feast". Nature's Great Events. BBC. BBC One.
24.Jump up ^ "Nature’s Great Events ends on 4m". Broadcast. 2009-03-19.
25.Jump up ^ Lucy Mangan (2009-03-19). "Last night's TV: Nature's Great Events". The Guardian.
26.Jump up ^ Tim Teeman (2009-03-19). "TV and Radio: Nature's Great Events". The Times.
27.Jump up ^ Paul Whitelaw (2009-03-19). "TV review: Nature's Great Events". The Scotsman.
28.Jump up ^ Matt Warman (2009-02-12). "TV Review: Nature's Great Events (BBC1)". The Daily Telegraph.
29.Jump up ^ "ABC Shop: Nature's Great Events (two DVD set)". Retrieved 2010-09-26.
30.Jump up ^ "Nature's Great Events: The Most Amazing Natural Events on the Planet". Retrieved 2009-03-13.
External links[edit]
Nature's Great Events at BBC Programmes
Nature's Great Events on the Eden website
Official Discovery website for Nature's Most Amazing Events
UK publisher's webpage for Nature's Great Events book
US publisher's webpage for Nature's Great Events: The Most Amazing Natural Events on the Planet
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