The BEST episodes of Nature season 34

Every episode of Nature season 34, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Nature season 34!

Transport viewers to faraway places ranging from the steamy plains of Africa to the splendors of cold Antarctica. The main focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world.

Last Updated: 11/6/2024Network: PBSStatus: Continuing
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Natural Born Hustlers: The Hunger Hustle
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8.73
11 votes

#1 - Natural Born Hustlers: The Hunger Hustle

Season 34 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/20/2016

Animals adapt their bodies or behavior to secure their next meal.

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Pets: Wild At Heart: Secretive Creatures
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8.64
11 votes

#2 - Pets: Wild At Heart: Secretive Creatures

Season 34 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/2015

Moving x-rays, ultraviolet light and doggycams show how pets experience their world through hidden channels of communication.

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Animal Reunions
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8.63
16 votes

#3 - Animal Reunions

Season 34 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/30/2016

Reunions between wild animals and their caregivers reveal whether interspecies bonds can stand the test of time.

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Snow Chick
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8.60
10 votes

#4 - Snow Chick

Season 34 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/24/2016

The journey of an emperor penguin chick, from its emergence from the egg to its independence.

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Nature’s Miracle Orphans: Second Chances
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8.43
14 votes

#5 - Nature’s Miracle Orphans: Second Chances

Season 34 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2015

Part 1 of 2. The Season 34 premiere focuses on the work of human caretakers of orphaned baby animals. At Australia's Cape Otway Conservation Centre, the staff cares for a baby koala found along a road. It's weak and underweight, and should be spending its first six months inside its mother's pouch; the staff gives it a teddy bear to hold for comfort. At a sanctuary in Costa Rica, meanwhile, primatologist Sam Trull cares for six baby orphan sloths, including one that has pneumonia.

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India's Wandering Lions
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8.23
13 votes

#6 - India's Wandering Lions

Season 34 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/13/2016

Once facing extinction, Asia's last wild lions live dangerously close to India's villagers.

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Nature's Perfect Partners
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8.22
9 votes

#7 - Nature's Perfect Partners

Season 34 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/11/2016

Sea and land animals work together to stay alive and solve complex problems.

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8.18
17 votes

#8 - Natural Born Hustlers: Staying Alive

Season 34 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/13/2016

Animals outwit predators in order to stay alive.

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Natural Born Hustlers: Sex, Lies & Dirty Tricks
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8.17
12 votes

#9 - Natural Born Hustlers: Sex, Lies & Dirty Tricks

Season 34 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/27/2016

Males use size, style and skill to trick the competition.

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Big Birds Can't Fly
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8.13
16 votes

#10 - Big Birds Can't Fly

Season 34 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2015

It may seem strange that among the more than 10,000 bird species in the world today is a group that literally cannot fly or sing, and whose wings are more fluff than feather. These are the ratites: the ostrich, emu, rhea, kiwi and cassowary. How and why these birds abandoned flight has puzzled scientists since Darwin’s time, but DNA and dedicated research are helping to solve these mysteries.

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Pets: Wild At Heart: Playful Creatures
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8.00
14 votes

#11 - Pets: Wild At Heart: Playful Creatures

Season 34 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/2015

Mini-cameras, moving x-rays and night vision cameras capture the wild behavior of parakeets, hamsters, cats, rabbits and Peruvian dogs.

Nature’s Miracle Orphans: Wild Lessons
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7.92
13 votes

#12 - Nature’s Miracle Orphans: Wild Lessons

Season 34 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2015

Growing up in the wild is hard enough on young animals when they have parents to rely on for protection and guidance, but what happens when they lose their parents? How do they survive? Over the past few years, great strides have been made in understanding how to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned wildlife.

Jungle Animal Hospital
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7.60
5 votes

#13 - Jungle Animal Hospital

Season 34 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/18/2016

A veterinarian and his team encounter dangerous challenges as they care for endangered animals at a hospital in the Guatemalan jungle.

Soul of the Elephant
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7.58
19 votes

#14 - Soul of the Elephant

Season 34 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2015

Follow filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert as they travel down a river in a remote corner of Botswana and tell the story of two bull elephants that lived into their 70s. The Jouberts discovered the skulls of the old bulls with their tusks still intact, indicating that they had died of natural causes and not at the hand of ivory poachers. Finding undisturbed elephant remains is a rare event, but is more likely in Botswana, which boasts an elephant population of more than 130,000, the largest of any African country.

Raising the Dinosaur Giant
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7.35
17 votes

#15 - Raising the Dinosaur Giant

Season 34 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/17/2016

Paleontologists bring the largest dinosaur ever discovered to virtual life.

Moose: Life of a Twig Eater
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7.25
24 votes

#16 - Moose: Life of a Twig Eater

Season 34 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/10/2016

Exploring the world of moose in the Canadian Rockies, focusing on a calf's first year of life.