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A warthog with long tusks curving towards its body and leathery skin covered in mud. Caption: we can see that each has a beauty all its own.
Nature
Season 26 / Ep 4
30 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Head and shoulders of a bear visible in a berry patch. Caption: has its unique way of coping with its environment.
24 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Illustration of an anteater at an ant mound with a person standing behind it. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 25
13 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A woman against an illustrated backdrop of sand dunes and a camel. Spanish captions
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 12
12 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A book with a pop-up dolphin. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 9
13 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A woman against an illustrated backdrop with an elephant. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 18
13 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A fox sitting on a log. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 24
13 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A woman with a paintbrush and a pallet. On her canvas and around her are illustrated giraffes. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 26
12 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A woman with a paintbrush and a pallet. On her canvas and around her are illustrated horses. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 11
13 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A woman in front of an illustrated backdrop with a jaguar. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 23
12 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A woman in front of an illustrated backdrop with a kangaroo. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 13
12 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A popup book with an illustrated lion. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 4
13 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A dark brown monkey. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 21
13 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A polar bear in a zoo setting. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 19
13 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
A woman against an illustrated background with a sea lion. Spanish captions.
Animapaka (Spanish)
Episode 16
13 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 3
Two elephants being ridden by two people each on a path through a jungle. Caption: It's time to head out for food.
11 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Still image from: Beavers and How They Live
18 minutes
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Close up of an orange, white, and black tiger laying down. Caption: (narrator) This is charger, Brabaricha's dad --
23 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two rhinos facing each other with heads lowered, in a clearing surrounded by trees. Caption: or to defend themselves and their young.
23 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
A white cow with brown spots on its head in a grassy field. Caption: began about 8,000 years ago in three separate locations.
Nature
Season 22 / Ep 11
27 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
The upper body of a chimpanzee visible in between the trees. Caption: There's also big trouble in store for the chimpanzees.
23 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
A grizzly bear chasing an animal, moving so quickly the image is blurred. Caption: the grizzly once ruled alone.
Nature
Season 28 / Ep 6
29 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close up of a monkey suspended in air. Caption: in their lifestyles and what they eat,
23 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
A blue whale in the water, from above. Caption: Blue whales are the largest animals
Crittercam
Season 1 / Ep 7
23 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Dugong face with the body visible behind it. Caption: but it's actually a descendant of elephant lineage.
Crittercam
Season 1 / Ep 11
23 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A humpback whale seen from below. Caption: Today, just 10,000 remain in the North Atlantic ocean,
Crittercam
Season 1 / Ep 1
23 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A leopard seal with its mouth open. Caption: Armed, dangerous, and extremely hard to find,
Crittercam
Season 1 / Ep 10
23 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A Hawaiian monk seal as seen from below. Caption: The Hawaiian monk seal is on the brink of extinction.
Crittercam
Season 1 / Ep 3
23 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Long-eared dog in a house with its nose to the ground. Caption: He finds termites that could damage houses.
13 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Close up of bats hanging upside down with tracking tags on their wings. Caption: These are little fruit and blossom bats.
Dr. Chris Pet Vet
Season 4 / Ep 22
20 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Bats hanging upside down from the roof of a cave. Caption: bat guano was used mainly in fertilizers.
16 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Elephants in the wild. One has a large amount of plant matter held in its trunk. Caption: (Poole) The trunk is an amazing appendage,
23 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Adult and baby manatee in the water as seen from below. Caption: and weigh 60-70 pounds at birth.
14 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 10
A large number of eggs laid in water has a thick layer of jelly.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 1
8 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A panda eating bamboo shoots.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 46
8 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
An illustration depicts a bat flying in sky.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 35
11 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of a primate standing on two legs. Caption: Ardi is neither a chimp nor is she a human.
Great Transitions
Episode 3
19 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two bats on top of each other, wedged into a crack in between some rocks. Caption: Latin America. The vampire bat lives in Latin America
20 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Four dolphins of various sizes swimming closely together in the water. Caption: These pods are groups of moms who all have had babies.
24 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Close up of a young koala bear holding on to a larger furry body. Caption: Eventually, the youngster starts to explore.
23 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 10
Close up of the head and shoulders of a hippo halfway submerged in the water. Caption: are mammals you may have seen before.
10 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Dolphin in the water with its head over the water line and mouth open while a person in a wetsuit out of the water reaches towards the dolphin. Caption: They can vocalize like this, listen:
Career Opportunities for Young People
Episode 3
24 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Close up of a very large brown moth with a large spot on each of its four wings and dark dots on the tip of two of them. Caption: And that led into studying bat-moth interactions,
10 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Close up of the head and shoulders of a small black kitten. Caption: Cats can live well into their teens
Pets And Pet Care
Episode 2
50 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of a spider. Caption: We breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide.
My Little Planet
Episode 24
5 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
A smiling woman and two children seated on a couch with a golden retriever up on the woman's lap. Caption: It's important that everyone knows the house rules
Pets And Pet Care
Episode 1
40 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A monkey swinging from tree branches. Caption: Both spend a lot of time on the ground and in trees,
12 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 6
Woman seated while examining a cat in her lap. Cotton balls, hydrogen peroxide, and other items on the table. Caption: visible cuts and tears to the ears and face,
34 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Woman kneeling next to a roll who has one leg bandaged and is rolling to show her its belly. Caption: Just because a dog uses a limb
41 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Pigs!
9 minutes
Grade Level: K - 3
Bat held down by cardboard restraint, pinning wings to body. Caption: how these highly-specialized creatures navigate their world.
Science Nation
Episode 233
3 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Bat with wings extended spots on the rib of one wing highlighted. Caption: We're interested in bat flight mechanics and how they fly.
Science Nation
Episode 169
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Small rabbit in the snow. Caption: (Shipley) In the winter, it might eat 99% of its diet in sagebrush.
Science Nation
Episode 225
3 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Primate hanging from a rope. Caption: how our distant ape cousins watch and learn.
Science Nation
Episode 138
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Zebras in natural habitat. Caption: which means they can control their body temperature.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 99
4 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Primate perched in a tree. Spanish captions.
Science Video Vocab (Spanish)
Episode 100
5 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Closeup of a sea lion's head. Caption: The future of this pup could depend on our learning
14 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Sea otter swimming on its back. Caption: because of their specialized diet and fur --
23 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Illustration of a bear in snow. Caption: for the long winter's nap,
Seasonal Science
Episode 2
2 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Three beluga whales swimming under water. Caption: Their flippers are used for steering,
23 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Small, furry animal with a pointed head and nose. Caption: meerkats emerge just after sunrise.
24 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
People walking through a cave. Caption: And try and set your feet without dragging your shoes
The Brain Scoop
Episode 27
6 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Three people in a dark cave wearing headlamps. Caption: There are so many bats in here.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 28
9 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person holding a skeleton approximately the length of her thumb. Caption: …each of the limbs, and the scapula.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 7
5 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: Well, today we're gonna talk about mammalian diversification.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 6
3 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Illustration of a skeleton. Arrows indicate the front right toe and back left heel. Caption: Their elongated heel bone and Achilles tendon.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 1
2 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
People holding very small skeletons. Caption: Like you and I, there are five lumbar vertebrae,
The Brain Scoop
Episode 12
5 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A pile of small, furless rodents huddled together in a den lined with grass. Naked mole-rat huddle. Caption: If they're cold, they huddle together,
The Brain Scoop
Episode 32
10 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person running. Caption: This frees our lower back, the lumbar, for movement.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 35
4 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Platypus with a duck-like snout, webbed feet, and a furry body. Caption: They're the craziest things I've seen in my life.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 9
5 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A gray whale is surfing in the ocean. Caption: It is here that they begin and end the longest migration.
2 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person talking on a cellphone and walking in a dark building with bats hanging from the ceiling. Caption: First of all, if vampires aren't real,
The Magic School Bus
Season 2 / Ep 204
25 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 6
Collection of sharp tools made from stone. Caption: Stone-tool technology designed to create sharp edges.
5 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Group of seals on a beach, one looking up. Caption: Females actually return year after year
3 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Two kittens playing with a ball. Caption: but I think it's great when we find some new home for them.
This Is Emily Yeung
Episode 4
30 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
A girl riding a horse. Caption: She's got a very fluid seat and arm.
25 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: All -
A person looking up at a pair of primates in the trees. Caption: That's why scientists are interested in studying them.
14 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 9
Person holding the paw of a dog with a toenail exposed in one hand and a pair of nail clippers in the other. Caption: until you start to visualize a little black dot or quick
59 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 12 -
A cloud of fruit bats is hanging upside down from the branches of a tree. Caption: Scientists want to know where these viruses are,
9 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Cow grazing in the snow. Spanish captions.
10 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Person playing with pandas. Caption: China is committed to saving its best-known species.
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 339
5 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
A horse with patchy fur, visible ribs, and a short mane grazing in a field. Caption: They were severely emaciated and debilitated
Wild Chronicles
Season 3 / Ep 342
4 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Three wolves in the snow. Caption: He's one of the oldest in the northern range,
Nature
Season 26 / Ep 2
29 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A person holds a baby chimpanzee.
Your Inner Fish
Season 0 / Ep 3
55 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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