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1) Bears
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Showcases a year in the life of a bear family as two impressionable young cubs are taught life's most important lessons. Set against a majestic Alaskan backdrop teeming with life, their journey begins as winter comes to an end and the bears emerge from hibernation to face the bitter cold. The world outside is exciting-but risky-as the cubs' playful descent down the mountain carries with it a looming threat of avalanches.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adventurer and bear ecologist Chris Morgan takes us on a motorcycle odyssey deep into the wilds of Alaska, one of North America's last truly wild frontiers. Traveling with a small film crew, Chris lives among Alaska's bears for more than a year, exploring the amazing resiliency and adaptability of these majestic animals as they struggle to make a living in five dramatically diverse Alaskan ecosystems: coastal, urban, mountain, tundra, and pack ice....
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The film has extraordinary access to the work of scientist Todd Atwood, the lead polar bear scientist for the US Geological Survey. He has estimated that there has been a 40% decline in the polar bears around the South Beaufort Sea since 2006. It is an extraordinary decline, and he is determined to find out why. With more and more polar bears turning up year on year, scientists are determined to find out why this is happening.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Part of the massive Tongass National Forest, Admiralty Island in Southeast Alaska supports the largest concentration of bears anywhere in the world. Sustained by a wealth of salmon streams, isolated and protected by their environment, some 1,700 Alaskan brown bears are part of a unique circle of life that has played out here for centuries.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Follow the epic journey of wildlife conservationist and bear biologist Chris Morgan as he travels by motorcycle across Alaska while filming the PBS Nature documentary Bears of the Last Frontier. From thick forests to the icy arctic, his immersion into the bears' world reveals, as never witnessed before, an astonishingly intimate portrait of North America's three bear species: brown bears, black bears, and polar bears.
Publisher
SkyRiver Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Alaska's coolest animals is a delightful journey through the Greatland to see and learn about all these animals up-close. You'll wrestle with polar bears, swim underwater with sea otters, migrate across Alaska's vast tundra with a caribou herd, hunt with eagles, observe a pod of whales fighing -- in fact, you'll meet and learn about more than 50 different Alaska animals! Bonus program, The biggest bears: Through beautiful animal photography, original...
13) Bear island
Publisher
National Geographic Television
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Researcher LaVern Beier attempts to deploy National Geographic's Crittercam, presenting the opportunity to vicariously walk with brown bears in their Alaskan habitat. This DVD also includes an episode of Wild chronicles entitled "Crittercam : black bears" which examines black bear behavior in Yosemite National Park in California.
Publisher
Bloomingdale Public Library
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"From Disneynature, the studio that brought you Chimpanzee and Bears, comes Monkey Kingdom, a spectacular tale set among ancient ruins in the storied jungles of South Asia. Maya, a clever and resourceful monkey, finds her world forever changed when she welcomes her son Kip into her colorful extended family. As Maya strives to keep Kip safe through unexpected and sometimes perilous adventures, amazing footage captures all the magic and surprises of...
Publisher
Topics Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Its mountains are breathtaking, its characters colorful, and its beauty is staggering, experience Alaska, the "Land of the Midnight Sun", in this special 6-DVD collection featuring hours of spectacular scenery and wonderful wildlife.
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A series of illuminating essays on the brown, black, and polar bears of Alaska, and their behavior across a wide range of interactions with each other, their environment, and especially human society. Combining field research, interviews, and a host of up-to-date secondary sources, Alaskan native Simpson blends scientific understanding with lucidly polished prose to reveal how complex, mystifying, and somehow essential bears are for those who live...
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