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14 episodes in this season

Sex, Hot Eruptions and Chili Peppers

Firebird

Killer Whales: Wolves of the Sea

Toadskin Spell

Island of the Ghost Bear

Webs of Intrigue

Vampires, Devilbirds and Spirits: Tales of the Calypso Isles

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Pandas of the Sleeping Dragon

The Witness Was A Fly

E10

Untangling the Knot

E11

Snowdonia: Realm of Ravens

E12

Race For Life: Africa's Great Migration

E13

Islands in the African Sky

E14

Comrades of the Kalahari

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Pandas of the Sleeping Dragon

Season 12 · Episode 8 · Apr 4, 1994

Filmed in the nature reserves of the mixed bamboo forests of the Sleeping Dragon Mountains in Sichuan province, central China. Focuses on the predicament of the giant panda and on the lessser-known red panda. The giant panda's digestive system is more suited to meat eating yet, because it feeds almost exclusively on bamboo, which has a low nutritional value, the animal must feed virtually around the clock to survive. Other animals that live in the forests include parrot bills, bamboo rats, golden monkeys, tufted deer, wild dogs, golden pheasants and the takin - a distant relative of the musk ox. The giant salamander, known as the water dragon, the world's largest amphibian is also to be found in the area.

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Natural World

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19831h7.4

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Pandas of the Sleeping Dragon

Season 12 · Episode 8 · Apr 4, 1994

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