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 How Plants Defend Themselves
How Plants Defend Themselves

In this video segment from Nature: “What Plants Talk About,” ecologist Ian Baldwin explains the many different and highly sophisticated ways in which plants, like wild tobacco, have adapted to identify and defend themselves from predators in hostile and often unfamiliar environments.

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 Desert Specialists
Desert Specialists

This video segment introduces and explores the lives of meerkats. Inhabiting the African plains, meerkats are “desert specialists” that have evolved and adapted to a harsh climate.

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 All About Zebras
All About Zebras

This video segment provides a basic overview of zebras, focusing on how a zebra family is structured.

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 The Makgadikgadi Pans
The Makgadikgadi Pans

This video segment adapted from Nature: The Great Zebra Exodus features an overview of the Makgadikgadi Pan complex, an area in northeastern Botswana.

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