The WORST episodes of Nature
Every episode of Nature ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Nature!
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.
#1 - Tiger!
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/1987
International endeavors to protect the endangered Indian tiger are highlighted by scenes of a mother raising her cubs in the wild.
#2 - Holy Land: A Wilderness Like Eden
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/12/1987
An exploration of the Rift Valley that sweeps North from Kenya to Turkey, where prophets said their god first planted a garden.
#3 - Holy Land: Sweet Water, Bitter Sea
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/19/1987
The unusual life in the salty Dead Sea, where the desert plunges 1,200 feet below sea level.
#4 - The Forgotten Garden
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/26/1987
What happens when a finely maintained garden is abandoned.
#5 - Lords of Hokkaido
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/10/1987
A year on a Japanese island following a family of red foxes.
#12 - America's Wild Horses
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/15/1987
Following the wild mustangs of America’s West.
#14 - Costa Rica: Paradise Reclaimed
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/10/1988
U.S. scientist Dan Janzen uses innovative conservation plans to create a national park amid a tropical forest.
#15 - Masked Monkeys
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/24/1987
Echoing hoots and trills, bandit masks, feathered tufts and orange noses distinguish African forest monkeys called quenons.
#17 - Okavango, Jewel of the Kalahari: The Search for the Jewel
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/21/1988
The first of a three-part survey of "Okavango: Jewel of the Kalahari" describes how earthquakes diverted the Okavango River into Botswana's Kalahari Desert. Observed: elephants, zebras, buffaloes, vultures, ostriches, bush babies and bat-eared foxes.
#18 - Okavango, Jewel of the Kalahari: The Living Jewel
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/28/1988
Creatures of the air, trees and water brave the five-month floods through the Okavango delta. Part 2 of "Okavango: Jewel of the Kalahari," observes African skimmers, lily trotters, baboons, dwarf mouth-breeders, tiger fish and catfishlike squeakers.
#19 - Okavango, Jewel of the Kalahari: A New Challenge
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/6/1988
People of Botswana must balance wildlife protection with preservation of their precious water source.
#21 - Miracle of the Scarlet Salmon
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/27/1988
After two years in the Pacific, the sockeye salmon battles rapids returning to its birthplace to spawn.
#22 - Cowboys, Caimans and Capybaras
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/24/1988
Ranchers and scientists practice conservationism in Venezuelan and Colombian grasslands to protect native animals.
#23 - Galapagos: Cold on the Equator
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/9/1986
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.
#24 - Saguaro: Sentinel of the Desert
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/9/1986
Wolfgang Bayer focuses on the native giant saguaro cactus of the southwestern United States.
#25 - Death Trap
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/23/1986
The sophisticated trapping mechanism of the main group of carnivorous plants.