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Ecologist Evon Hekkala travels to Madagascar to help protect a village from a man-eating crocodile.
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Ecologist Thom Young-Bayer makes the unthinkable decision to leave science after his life changes course.
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Born and raised in Brooklyn, naturalist Helen Cheng leaves the comfort of the city to venture out into the field.
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Patrick Freeman is studying elephants in Namibia when he receives terrible news.
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Jonaki Bhattacharyya ventures out into rugged Canadian wilderness to research wild horses — but does she have what it takes to survive?
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Ecologist Jessica Henkel finds the keys to her research truck missing, as it's parked on a remote beach with one of the biggest tides of the season about to come in.
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