In every family group, there may be three or four females that breed and three or four males that breed, too. The egg cases carry toxins, and most animals only try them once. After carving out the nest cavity in between the spines, the Gila must wait several months for the inner pulp to dry into a tough leathery casing before moving in. woman: and now, "bbc world news". [ Birds crying ] Look beyond the desolation and the mistakes. Because every autumn, they produce a windfall. [ Animals singing ] [ Squeaking ] Watch. Hiding In Plain Sight/Owl Girl. The females also have white foreheads, but their crowns are black and red. These gnarled old oaks have stood their ground for some 500 years. 13:12 - 13:14 . DIANA AND PETER COOPER TV HOST AND NARRATOR - Last Orangutan Eden The shrimp is almost blind and will only venture to the entranceway if he, or she, can touch the goby with its antenna. From great whales to turtles, to sharks and tiny blennies, the ocean is full of creatures that need and support each other. Companionships are everywhere you look. [ Whales singing ] Humpback whales have left Antarctica and are heading for French Polynesia in the middle of the Pacific. Shana Fischer activity. 42:31 - 42:34 That stance cost Bowers his political career, but hes since found a silver lining. Jellyfish cant see or hear, yet they travel together. HAROLD F. GREENEY AUSTIN ROBERTSON And a family of tree swallows has commandeered another. [ Chicks chirping ] Back in the nest, the chicks are beginning to look like real woodpeckers. These shallow holes are large and square and contribute to a conspicuous pattern that moves up the tree. It's a nursery for juvenile sardines. Broadchurch. For every coming change, there will be winners and losers. Rockfish can live to be 200 years old. DAVE FORSYTH Your continuing support helps make Montana PBS possible. It's the ultimate form of cooperation. ROBIN KLEIN Air Date: May 3, 2023. Growing up in Chino Valley, his mother sparked the creative fire inside of him when he was just 5. Thank you! They rub air into their fur as insulation. They could use a coconut husk, if it was with the anemone. They can bite you hard enough to draw blood. All across the valley, groups keep an eye on each other's holdings, waiting for an opening to take them over. Expose your child to the sights, sounds, smells, and feel of nature. The new documentary premieres on Wednesday, December 29, 8:00-9:00 p.m. A male grabs a female, and his tentacles flush red. The companions of the great white are sardines, who find safety around him. Working together is for more than comfort or your own protection or even mating. From the red feathers sprouting on their own little crowns, it appears they are two females and one male. "Chicago Tonight" is one-on-one with mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson, who faces Paul Vallas in the April 4 runoff election. Historically, they were residents of the American Southeast, only rarely seen north of the New York border. [ Chirping ] The social scene is much more intense back in the oak trees of California. ALISON BARRAT, ORIGINAL SERIES PRODUCTION FUNDING PROVIDED IN PART BY MIKE BARTICK Many fish help to clean other sea creatures. Teaching resources for Several little birds may even roost together overnight if the weather is severe. He's called a 'flicker' because his wings are tinged with gold and flash and flicker in the sunlight as he takes to the sky. Corporation for Public Broadcasting Secrets of the Dead. All these little birds know a woodpecker hole is the safest place in the forest to raise their chicks. Each species taps out its own rhythm, to stake out a territory and call for a mate. It's also a safe home to a porcelain crab. And then, when the monsoons come to Arizona, with those gorgeous clouds, that's always a subject that I enjoy painting. And I would sit and copy it. From forest to coast, witness the majesty of the countrys wild horses, storks, monk seals, flamingos and more. The placid dugong grazes the seagrass meadows. Not every egg hatches, but the family now has three chicks to raise. Cast & Crew. Stretching improves flexibility. Charles Rosenblum In shallow tropical water, there's courtship, too. ERIC WALTERS, ARCHIVE Special Interest, Nature. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. No matter where they live, every woodpecker of every kind makes a hole for a home. [ Whales singing ] A calf nurses, sloppily, 50 gallons of milk a day. Part of a community matured and refined over millennium. Justswimming by. The chicks are naked and blind, but they're loud [ Chicks chirping ] and quick to respond when an adult comes with food. Wai Lana Yoga Dive In! And even bees taste better dipped in sugar. [ Calling ] A warming world is a boon to them and they have seized the moment. TV-PG. Super Cats They are not long-distance travelers. And so they 'talk' to each other by drumming. American horses are icons. The instinct to be part of something draws animals together, sometimes in huge numbers. Major support for NATURE is provided by the Arnhold Foundation, The Fairweather Foundation, Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Kathy Chiao and Ken Hao, Charles Rosenblum, Sarah More. An exploration of the diversity of moths and butterflies from caterpillars to larva to chrysalis to winged flight. They're individuals, yet they move like a single organism, to the frustration of the cormorants. Already, trees and insects are on the move. Pygmy seahorses hide on gorgonian corals. Jellyfish are a clue to food along colder currents, so they tend to pick up passengers or companions, including sharks. It seems an unlikely relationship -- a plain crab and a venomous beauty -- but partnerships like these are the heart and soul of the ocean. The males are distinguished by white foreheads and bright red crowns. She's helping Eurasian Red squirrels Great tits and Boreal owls find homes here, too, where they can raise their own young. At first, the little woodies nap a lot, securely tucked away in their dark wooden womb. Different kinds of fan corals have different kinds of seahorses. Major support for NATURE is provided by the Arnhold Foundation, The Fairweather Foundation, Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Kathy Chiao and Ken Hao, Charles Rosenblum, Sarah , Find standards-aligned teaching resources for, Green Up Your Inbox With NATURE's Newsletter. A plague of pelagic red crabs, millions of them, arrive from the open ocean. See how this group of 4th graders became citizen scientists. He's been filming beavers for over 30 years and has perfected capturing these creatures at work. Many of the jellyfish have passengers. Tides and currents, ripples and upwellings connect the furthest reaches. In just 18 days, they're sprouting long, dark feathers. Acorns, by the tens of thousands, are tattooed into every nook and cranny. 15 on TV Guide ' s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. All Creatures Great and Small. When the moon is right, blue sea stars stand on tiptoe to spawn and sea cucumbers reach up. JERRY ALLEN, SCIENCE ADVISORS Go deep into the woods to explore the lives of a unique avian family. The beetles need dead trees to survive and beetles help keep the forest system humming by nourishing so many birds and mammals. Like closed captioning, DVS was also pioneered by PBS to ensure the widest possible audience is served. ROSA PONCE Arnhold Foundation Shows Early Childhood Support PBS SoCal 10 Days in Watts. You will see their four-month drama unfold against the backdrop of their lives-primarily, cruise ships with enthusiastic tourists to photograph the penguins, and buy . Many of the anemones on the reef protect a nursery, and the parents must defend their anemone at all costs. But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. WALT KOENING JEROEN MARTJAN LAMMERTINK [ Clicking ] They are all part of a global and ancient system that could explain everything. He carves out an enormous oblong opening. LEO CARROLL Get a never-before-seen look at how life underwater co-exists in a marriage of necessity. [ Hissing ] Male corals release sperm. Cleaner shrimps dedicate their lives to others, and an extraordinary trust has built up between them and the moray eels. Gila woodpeckers make their homes in cacti in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. 23:19 - 23:20 . Maggies research opens a window to a world of pollinators and highlights the importance of creating habitat for native pollinators across the Western United States. Kathy Chiao and Ken Hao The hammerhead is searching beneath the sand. Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust I think it's kind of a combination of manmade geometry with God's geometry and how those juxtapose. [ Calling ] Today, these woodpeckers-on-the-move are continuing their conquest of the North, a range expansion of a thousand miles. But the chicks are doing well under all the relentless parenting. It's an ancient system of give-and-take where communities of life cooperate. Koo and Patricia Yuen Six-foot Mola molas and other fish appear, and the drifting kelp becomes a mobile cleaning station. Machines that set out to destroy life now nurture it. Filomen M. DAgostino Foundation The female has lined the hole with feathers and pine boughs. Their purpose in the chain of generations is fulfilled. It has been distributed to United States public television stations by the PBS television service since its debut on October 10, 1982. MARK FLETCHER AND HOWARD HALL, SOUND ROBIN KLEIN They all use the same nest and take turns incubating the group's eggs. . HAROLD GREENEY MATT BRADBURY Since the 90s, conservationists have worked to understand the many threats to tigers. 3,000 miles to the east, off Mexico, Clarion angelfish wait for a different customer. GARTH MCELROY [ Chirping ] It's a feature that unites the family, and it's what makes them such significant citizens of the forest. He's guarding a female and a cave hiding her eggs. Defending Wild Dogs. Drumming is their song drilling is how they find food and highly skilled carpentry is how they craft their remarkable homes. MICHELE HALL Find standards-aligned teaching resources for Woodpeckers come in 239 species and live on every continent except Antarctica and Australia, playing a powerful role in every ecosystem they inhabit. Starstruck: Gene Kelly's . RHETT TURNER Almost everything will eat the dying parents, but the eggs carry toxins. Major support for NATURE is provided by the Arnhold . Watch classic NATURE episodes with the PBS station member benefit Passport. They drift inshore, and by the time they arrive, the females are carrying pods of growing embryos. ANN JOHNSON PRUM, ADDITIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY A white-breasted nuthatch wants a simple renovation, something it doesn't have to build from scratch. Six months after losing the Republican primary to his Trump-backed opponent. Now it becomes food and shelter for a host of new creatures, chief among them the horned passalus, also known as the patent-leather beetle. Immerse yourself in Scotlands wild highland landscape and meet its long-lived forest keeper, a magnificent Scots pine tree. 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