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The Curious Home-decorating Habits of Burrowing Owls | Blog | Nature | PBS

The tiny raptors have been known to outfit their burrows with foam, rubber window insulation, cigarette butts, tin foil, spaceman toys and Barbie doll parts.

These tiny raptors have been known to outfit their burrows with foam rubber window insulation, cigarette butts, tin foil, spaceman toys, and Barbie doll parts.

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This Week's Nature Reads Round-Up

There is always something new to learn and discover in the natural world. As usual, we’ve been keeping an eye on the latest headlines and have compiled just a handful of NATURE Reads to check out… Domestic cat behaviors are sometimes a bit confusing and easy to misinterpret. But feline behaviorists offered explanations for a …

A new study suggests that goats can read human expressions and they prefer happy people.

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Plant Your Feet! Try This Activity to Discover Hitchhiking Plants

The next time you go for a nature walk, try this fun activity (perfect for kids and adults) to discover what hitchhiking plants may have hitched a ride home with you!

Here's some inspiration for your next nature walk! #NaturePBS

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The animal kingdom is full of great strutters. 

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It may not be candy and roses, but animals have their own unique ways of attracting mates. 

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Friends show their love in different ways. 

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Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions

The returning saga of Cloud, the wild stallion, finds us back in the Arrowhead Mountains of Montana. Cloud is one of two fathers who bring up each other’s sons. Bolder is his by birth, while Flint, sired by another stallion, is the colt Cloud raised. Now, Bolder has gathered some mares of his own, and …

Who will rise to challenge the mighty Cloud?

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Bird of the Gods | Full Episode | Nature | PBS

On the island of New Guinea in the South Pacific lives the most striking and diverse group of birds on the planet. Birds of paradise defy imagination. Covered in spectacular plumage, each species within the Paradisaeidae family is distinct. Some birds are patterned with feathers of bright yellow and green, some have flashy iridescent plumes …

Birds of paradise defy imagination.

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Follow a family of urban raccoons as they navigate the complex world of a big city.

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Raccoon Nation | Full Episode | Nature | PBS

Are human beings, in an effort to outwit raccoons, actually making them smarter and unwittingly contributing to their evolutionary success? Are the ever more complex obstacles that our fast-paced urban world throws at them actually pushing the development of raccoon brains? In this film, scientists from around the world share their thoughts and work to …

Follow a family of urban raccoons as they navigate the complex world of a big city.

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Sargassum Blooms: Too Much of a Good Thing?

If you hit the beach recently in the Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico, you may have encountered piles of stinky seaweed. This is what's known as a sargassum bloom.

If you hit the beach recently in the Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico, you may have encountered piles of stinky seaweed.

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My Life as a Turkey

‎"My Life as a Turkey" gobbled up an Emmy for Outstanding Nature Programming. Watch the full film online.

Follow one man’s remarkable experience of raising a group of wild turkey hatchlings to adulthood.

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Cracking the Koala Code

Watch the full documentary Cracking the Koala Code here on the PBS Nature web site. Follow individual koalas from a small social group on an Australian island to learn just how a koala manages to survive and thrive on a diet poisonous to almost all other herbivorous mammals. From the miracle of marsupial birth to …

Follow a small group of koalas on an Australian island to learn just how they manage to survive and thrive on a diet poisonous to almost all other herbivorous mammals. 

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Soul of the Elephant

Despite living in the wild in Botswana for 30 years, filming, researching and exploring the world they have come to know so well, award-winning filmmakers and conservationists Dereck and Beverly Joubert say they are often still surprised by what they come across on their journeys. Such was the case when the couple were exploring the …

Travel deep into the bush of Botswana to discover the lives and souls of elephants. 

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For Burrowing Owls, the Future Depends on Squirrels, Badgers and Prairie Dogs

Burrowing owls have proven remarkably adaptable to human landscapes. But we’re constantly reshaping the environment in ways that limit their nesting options including the eradication of the very animals they depend on for their homes.

Nature is filled with examples of one species benefiting from the efforts of another.