Natural History New Zealand Ltd.

"Meet the 35 classmates of Forest School 103 at the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Rescue and Rehabilitation Center [in Borneo]. These precocious, red-haired "children of the forest" get the opportunity, through this innovative project led by Lone Droscher-Nelsen and her team, to live wild on a protected island. Orangutan Island is the foundation for the largest primate rescue project in the world. Go with them on their journey to adulthood as they struggle...

At the prestigious Wild Animal Orphanage near San Antonio, four lion cubs are rescued and raised with loving care. At the Tiger Creek Wildlife Refuge in Texas, meet the founders of this home for more than 30 great cats that have been abused, neglected or displaced and witness the birth of two tiger cubs. Three cheetah cubs, born at South Africa's Cango Wildlife Ranch's Cheetah Breeding Centre, are raised by a rancher and her dog. Host Edie Falco goes...

With the help of professional caregivers, learn how these baby animals from the wilderness are raised. Includes timber wolf pups; Sitka deer; a black bear cub; and Mush the baby moose.

National Geographic recreates ancient worlds and unearths clues that reveal more than ever before about how dinosaurs lived, hunted and died in the Jurassic age.

"Equatorial Africa can be very unexpected, and its animals are still evolving, and adapting to the challenge of change."--Container.

The equator is not only the line that divides the earth in two, it is also the climatic and evolutionary powerhouse of the world. Here, where the sun burns at its most intense, the pace of evolution quickens. This documentary tells the story of how island life in the Galapagos Islands and the Palmyra Atoll are shaped by the equatorial sun and the immense power of the Pacific Ocean.

Visit Mongolia's steppes and the Gobi Desert, India's hot coastal regions and Nepal's high barren lands to see how a variety of plants and animals adapt to their harsh desert environment.

"In Southern Asia's lush forests one remarkable group of trees cast their pervasive shadows over the extraordinary array of plants and animals living below. The equatorial rainforests of South East Asia are amongst the tallest and richest forests on earth towering up to 80 meters high. The canopy is dominated by a single family of forest giants called dipterocarps, which cast enormous influence on the huge diversity of plants and animals living in...

"At the equator, the sun rises over the greatest rainforest on the earth, Amazonia. Here one thousand rivers flow, the water and sun fueling an environment that is home to half the known species in the world...Rivers of the Sun is a stunning examination of one of the world's great locations"--Container.