Nature: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Nature Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Alyeska: The Great Land
Oct 19, 1986 · 53 min
Examines how the plants and animals of Alaska’s Alyeska wilderness have adapted to the regions harsh climate.
Baja Lagoon
Oct 26, 1986 · 53 min
An examination of the plants and animals that make their home in a shallow lagoon found on the Western coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula.
Galapagos: How They Got There
Nov 2, 1986 · 53 min
This exploration of the Galapagos Islands, located in the Pacific Ocean West of Ecuador, examines theories explaining the arrival of wildlife to the archipelago.
Galapagos: Cold on the Equator
Nov 9, 1986 · 53 min
Marine iguanas, cormorants, green turtles, sea lions, and sperm whales are among the animals that thrive in the cold waters surrounding the equatorially located Galapagos Islands.
Galapagos: The Ocean Travelers
Nov 16, 1986 · 53 min
A look at the Galapagos Islands’ many birds, include the waved albatross, blue-footed booby, frigate bird and the ground finch; also, man’s relationship with the islands’ changing
Pantanal: Prairie of the Great Waters
Nov 23, 1986 · 53 min
A look at how the Pantanal's wildlife species cope with the annual cycle of flood and drought which transforms the marshy prairie from a dry savannah into the world's largest fresh
Leopard: A Darkness in the Grass
Dec 14, 1986 · 53 min
The activities of an elusive female leopard are traced over a two-day period on the hot plains of Africa.
The Elephant Challenge
Jan 18, 1987 · 53 min
A look at the survival of the African elephants, as ivory and foraging land became more valuable.
Ichkeul: Between the Desert and the Deep Blue Sea
Feb 8, 1987 · 53 min
A freshwater lake in Tunisia that turns salty every summer.
In the Shadow of Fujisan: See No Evil
Feb 22, 1987 · 53 min
The Japanese take efforts to save an indigenous monkey.
In the Shadow of Fujisan: Bird of Happiness
Mar 1, 1987 · 53 min
A look at the crane, Japanese symbol of longevity, true love and happiness.
In the Shadow of Fujisan: Long Live the Turtle
Mar 8, 1987 · 53 min
Hunters and egg poachers threaten the existence of the giant loggerhead turtle.
America's Wild Horses
Mar 15, 1987 · 53 min
Following the wild mustangs of America’s West.
Holy Land: A Wilderness Like Eden
Apr 12, 1987 · 53 min
An exploration of the Rift Valley that sweeps North from Kenya to Turkey, where prophets said their god first planted a garden.
Holy Land: Sweet Water, Bitter Sea
Apr 19, 1987 · 53 min
The unusual life in the salty Dead Sea, where the desert plunges 1,200 feet below sea level.
The Forgotten Garden
Apr 26, 1987 · 53 min
What happens when a finely maintained garden is abandoned.
Lords of Hokkaido
May 10, 1987 · 53 min
A year on a Japanese island following a family of red foxes.
Designed for Living
May 17, 1987 · 53 min
The tunnelers, thatchers, weavers, dam builders, sculptors, potters and spinners of the animal kingdom.
Masked Monkeys
May 24, 1987 · 55 min
Echoing hoots and trills, bandit masks, feathered tufts and orange noses distinguish African forest monkeys called quenons.