Nature: Great Zebra Exodus (2013)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 53分
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Each year, far from human eyes, a remote expanse of Botswana's Makgadikgadi salt pans hosts one of Africa's last great spectacles when thousands of striped nomads wander the breathtakingly beautiful but barren landscape. It is only by the grace of isolated summer rains that the zebras can survive here at all. Family groups gather together to follow the rains, driven by a constant search for better grazing on islands of grass that dot the pans. Meerkat families watch the zebras come and go, and families of lions wait for them along their grueling trek, hoping for a chance to bring one down. Their journey is one that is sometimes limited by the fragility of new life, but always made possible by the strong family ties that help animals survive in one of Africa's most surreal landscapes. It's a tale of loyalty and sacrifice, of home and exile, of death and new life, in southern Africa's largest zebra population.
The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s, the Tanzanian National Park Administration wanted to fence in the protected area around the Ngorongoro Crater. Bernhard and Michael Grzimek were invited by the national park administration in 1957 to get a precise picture of the animal migrations and to provide the national park administration with the values they needed for their project. Using a new counting method with two airplanes, the Grzimeks found out that the migration of the herds was different than assumed.
ライオンのアレックス、シマウマのマーティ、カバのグロリア、キリンのメルマンの４頭とその仲間たちがマダガスカル島に漂着してから数年後。ようやく飛行機でニューヨークへ帰る手筈が整うが、離陸して間もなく燃料切れで不時着してしまう。そこは、彼らの生まれ故郷、アフリカ大陸だった。様々な動物と交流を育むアレックスたち。だがそんな中、水が枯渇する事態に見舞われる。アレックスたちはその原因究明に奔走する。
Story of the American Prairie as it was when vast herds of bison and elk grazed.
ヒンズー教とキリスト教とイスラム教とを同時に信奉し、かつ円周率を延々と暗記するほど賢く、泳ぎや楽器も得意な少年パイ。インドで動物園を経営していたパイの一家は、新天地を求めて動物とともにカナダに移住を決断。しかし乗船した日本の貨物船は太平洋を北上中に海難事故に遭い、16歳の少年パイが人間では唯一の生存者となる。
Examines the sea horse, the only fish that swims upright. We watch it use its prehensile tail to wrap around plants and other sea horses. A frontal bulge houses organs including an air ballast. Three fins propel this fish. We see a female place her eggs in a male's pouch where they are fertilized and nurtured until birth in violent contractions. Inside the pouch are nurturing blood vessels. We then follow the growth of an embryo, greatly magnified: we examine its heart beating and its dorsal fin moving. Young sea horses attach themselves to each other. The film ends with images of many sea horses moving on the ocean floor, superimposed on a horse race.
The Hidden World is a 1958 American science documentary film produced by Robert Snyder and narrated by Gregory Peck. The film is about insects. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
NGC goes inside one of the greatest natural marvels on the planet - a giant crystal cave described as Superman's fortress, with magnificent crystals up to 36 feet long and weighing 55 tons. A team of experts venture into the cavern, enduring scorching-hot temperatures that could kill a human after just 15 minutes of exposure. They'll push the boundaries of physical limitation to explore a crevasse that could lead to another - and perhaps more spectacular - crystal cave.
On the Antarctic periphery, bathed by the world's most violent waters, there is a lost island where southern nature is still intact, oblivious to man and its devastating impact. South Georgia is a world apart, a land swept by Antarctic winds known as the Furious 50 which require a constant struggle for survival.
While everyone knows the migration of wildebeest in east Africa, few have paid attention to their predecessors in this long journey: the zebras. Hundreds of thousands of zebras mark the vanguard of the greater movement of ungulates of the African continent, crossing the legendary Mara and facing terrible dangers. Through two adventures we will know the lights and shadows of this extraordinary journey. The dangers they will face will be just the preamble to major threats, threats that face all species in an ecosystem with a very fragile balance that year after year is dangerously close to destruction
故郷ニューヨークへの里心が募るばかりのアレックスやマーティたち。彼らは、迎えにくると言って先に旅立ったまま、一向に戻らないペンギンズを探してアフリカからモンテカルロへと向かう。そこでまたもや大騒ぎを起こした一行は、敏腕女警部デュボアに追いかけ回され、おんぼろサーカス団に逃げ込んだ。この一座が有名になれば、ニューヨーク公演が実現して故郷に帰れるかも、と立て直しに乗り出すアレックスたちだった。
The Giant Panda is a mammal native to central-western and south western China and is a true member of the Ursidae (bear) family. The Panda's closes ursine relative is the spectacled bear of South America. The Giant Panda is among the worlds most adored and protected rare animal and is one of the few in the world whose natural inhabitant status was able to gain UNESCO World Heritage Site designation. The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries located in the southwest Sichuan province and covering seven natural reserves, were inscribed onto the World Heritage List in 2009. Discover the beauty and wonder of these great panda's and their fight for life.
A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.
Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark stripes mark him as different, he decides he'll race anyway. And with help from the young girl who raised him, he just might end up in the winner's circle.
This documentary goes to coral reefs of the Bahamas and the waters of the Kingdom of Tonga for a close encounter with the surviving tribes of the ocean: wild dolphins and belugas, the love of a Humpback mother for her newborn calf, the singing Humpback males, an orca the mighty King of the ocean, and the gentle manatee. Little-known aspects of these creatures capable of sophisticated communication and social interaction. Documents the life of these graceful, majestic yet endangered sea creatures
While this noble steed's role in a civilized society remains overshadowed by their automotive equivalent of horsepower, this was not always so. Gallop back in time where wild stallions roamed free in herds aplenty. Back to a time when these magnificent creatures stampeded across the Great Plains of America, the rocky mountain terrain of South America, and the desolate outback of the land down under. Forever branded by Hollywood through countless movies about the Wild West era, this educational video reins in the viewer with an honest look at the history, evolution, and the modern-day need for the domestic horse.
Shot mainly using spy cameras, this film gets closer than ever before to the world's greatest land predator. As the film captures its intimate portrait of polar bears' lives, it reveals how their intelligence and curiosity help them cope in a world of shrinking ice.
Main subject of Serengeti is the mass migration of wildebeest , which in search of nutritious grass hundreds of kilometers annually by the savannah draw. At the end of the rainy season, they break into a huge herd of over a million animals on the north. The wildebeest and other animals are joining the migration, as zebras and gazelles , continuously exposed to hazards, particularly by predators such as lions and cheetahs . A highlight of the great migration, the crossing of the Mara is: There, the wildebeest have to overcome not only meter high cliffs, they are also crocodiles delivered. With the onset of the rainy season, however, leave the wildebeest north again what had long been a mystery. The reason for this is that the grass in the north a phosphorus deficiency , and said thus wildebeest forces to retreat to the south.
ニューヨークのセントラルパーク動物園。ライオンのアレックス、シマウマのマーティ、キリンのメルマン、カバのグロリアは大の仲良し。彼らは安全で快適な動物園の贅沢な暮らしをすっかり満喫していた。しかしある日、外の世界に憧れたマーティがテロリストのペンギンたちと一緒に動物園を脱走、マーティを連れ戻そうと後を追ったアレックスたちともども捕らえられ、ひょんなことから四頭はケニア行きの船に乗せられてしまう。さらに思わぬハプニングで海に投げ出された彼らは、やがてマダガスカル島に漂着。そこで現地の動物たちに迎えられ、生まれて初めて野生の生活に触れた四頭は、次第にそれぞれ本来の習性に目覚めていくのだった。
身長120cmで最大のペンギンとして知られる皇帝ペンギン。愛らしい反面、彼らの生活、特に子育ては厳しい。南極に冬が近づくと彼らは他の生き物とは逆により寒い南へ向かう。敵が少ない極寒の氷原で繁殖を行なうためだ。求愛のダンスでパートナーを見つけたカップルは1つの卵を大切に温め合う。やがて母ペンギンたちは往復120日間をかけて餌を求める旅に出発するがその間、父たちは絶食したまま、ひたすら卵を守り続ける。
