Pandas In The Wild:

Only about 1,600 Giant Pandas survive in the wild with 200 to 300 in China’s mist-shrouded Quinling Mountains, which extend for thousands of miles and where few people gain permission to enter.

Pandas in the Wild captures the loving warmth between a mother panda and her newborn, the fierce competition among male pandas fighting for females as spring approaches and the harsh struggles pandas endure to survive the snow-buried winter.

It’s a journey into a remote and exotic locale and an up-close look at the secret lives of these rare mammals-an intimate portrait of one of the world’s most treasured animals.
Smithsonian Networks captures the panda in its natural habitat for the first time, behaving in ways you won’t see at the zoo.

Big Blue - The World´s Largest Creature:

Dive down into the deep blue sea Down Under to learn what you didn’t know about Earth’s largest inhabitant in The Big Blue, spouting onto DVD July 21 from Infinity Entertainment Group.

For years fishermen have known of a unique spot in the ocean off southern Australia, a place of amazing catches and a huge luminescent blue creature of the deep. As much as 100 feet long, weighing up to 180 tons, with a heart the size of a Volkswagen and a tongue that weighs more than an elephant, the Blue Whale is a sight to behold.

Join Smithsonian Networks as HD cameras capture the planet’s largest living creature having a feeding frenzy.

Also includes the bonus feature Footprints on the Water: The Nan Hauser Story, which follows the personal quest and groundbreaking work of this American conservationist as she journeys to some of the last unspoiled places on earth on a mission to unravel new clues to the behavior of whales and dolphins.

Wanted: Anaconda

Guyana is home to one of the world’s most legendary creatures, one that rarely encounters man, yet has gained the reputation of being a merciless killer … even of humans. But how much is fact and how much fiction?

Located in jungles near water, an Anaconda can grow as big around as a grown man. These enormous snakes kill their prey by coiling their powerful bodies around their victims and squeezing until they suffocate or are crushed to death. It then unhinges its jaw to swallow the victim whole … a scenario that has been portrayed in more than one Hollywood B-movie, helping giving rise to the snake’s formidable reputation.

Join Smithsonian Networks and a crew of wildlife photographers and biologists as they set out to discover the legendary monster, the biggest Anaconda in the world.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 14 December, 2009