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Copyright National Geographic 2006TV & FilmSociety & CultureScience & Medicine http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wild-chronicles/~3/460826739/Fongoli_Chimp.mp4 78311723e43946555881c11d523c080f Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:37:47 +0000 no 266 no Watch videos from National Geographic, including Mysteries of Lost Civilizations, the World's Most Unusual Foods, Extreme Healing, the World's Toughest Jobs, Spotlights of countries around the world, and more!In Senegal, the recent discovery of a group of woodland chimps sharpening sticks and using them like spears to hunt is rocking the primatology world. First reported by National Geographic Emerging Explorer Jill Pruetz, these savanna dwelling chimps, named the Fongoli group, may provide the most unique insight yet into the study of evolution, early hominids and our earliest ancestors.http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Fongoli_Chimp.mp4http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Fongoli_Chimp.mp4 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wild-chronicles/~3/453169169/Joseph_Lekuton.mp4 2aa5cf9dc67ff31d9711d357fdc03be3 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:25:05 +0000 no 359 no Watch videos from National Geographic, including Mysteries of Lost Civilizations, the World's Most Unusual Foods, Extreme Healing, the World's Toughest Jobs, Spotlights of countries around the world, and more!For many African boys, becoming a man is part of a very special, and in some cases painful, rite of passage. Wild Chronicles gains inside access to the manhood ceremony of Kenya’s Samburu tribe, a rarely seen ritual that happens about once every 14 years.http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Joseph_Lekuton.mp4http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Joseph_Lekuton.mp4 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wild-chronicles/~3/445611085/Elephant_Rehab.mp4 a18e83d3122c2ece124ef4c3252c4796 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:55:16 +0000 no 355 no Watch videos from National Geographic, including Mysteries of Lost Civilizations, the World's Most Unusual Foods, Extreme Healing, the World's Toughest Jobs, Spotlights of countries around the world, and more!Seen as a valuable commodity in the logging and tourist industries of Thailand, Asian elephants are often bought and sold by traders and then subjected to brutal training methods. The demand for young calves has led to poaching from the tiny wild population that remains. Wild Chronicles visits a sanctuary for troubled and abused elephants and meets the dedicated conservationists intent on rescuing and protecting these beleaguered giants.http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Elephant_Rehab.mp4http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Elephant_Rehab.mp4 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wild-chronicles/~3/441410586/Playpumps.mp4 e5e6ef77280d48bfd1e0b93493edac47 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:53:47 +0000 no 336 no Watch videos from National Geographic, including Mysteries of Lost Civilizations, the World's Most Unusual Foods, Extreme Healing, the World's Toughest Jobs, Spotlights of countries around the world, and more!Canada’s boreal forest, one of the largest intact forests on Earth, is the nesting ground for nearly 300 different species of birds, but the health of the forest is under threat. With only eight percent of the boreal designated as protected land, Wild Chronicles and the Pew Environment Group search for a big picture solution that will keep the boreal forest for the birds.http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Playpumps.mp4http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Playpumps.mp4 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wild-chronicles/~3/426421691/Japanese_Bluefin.mp4 67243173900ba2cc0e27e5e2c5dde031 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:51:25 +0000 no 428 no Watch videos from National Geographic, including Mysteries of Lost Civilizations, the World's Most Unusual Foods, Extreme Healing, the World's Toughest Jobs, Spotlights of countries around the world, and more!When it comes to the majestic bluefin tuna, something smells a bit fishy. Once a behemoth of the sea, today bluefins appear to be shrinking – and it may be because of over-fishing. National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle teams with conservationists in Japan to try to bring these giants back from the brink. http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Japanese_Bluefin.mp4http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Japanese_Bluefin.mp4 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wild-chronicles/~3/426421692/Ndoki_Adventure.mp4 cc836982af6e18170b38ec65f0ab2e32 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:48:30 +0000 no 358 no Watch videos from National Geographic, including Mysteries of Lost Civilizations, the World's Most Unusual Foods, Extreme Healing, the World's Toughest Jobs, Spotlights of countries around the world, and more!For National Geographic photographer Nick Nichols, sometimes the toughest part of the job isn’t getting the perfect shot. Surviving the environment he is photographing can prove the ultimate challenge. Wild Chronicles follows Nichols into the Congo’s Ndoki National Park where the bugs will eat you alive and the wilderness is in complete control. http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Ndoki_Adventure.mp4http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Ndoki_Adventure.mp4 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wild-chronicles/~3/426803666/Panama_GoldenFrog.mp4 00c5ed1f458e62979a6c20e3e44808ba Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:44:30 +0000 no 408 no Watch videos from National Geographic, including Mysteries of Lost Civilizations, the World's Most Unusual Foods, Extreme Healing, the World's Toughest Jobs, Spotlights of countries around the world, and more!Considered a symbol of luck and prosperity, Panama’s golden frog is an important part of this country’s natural heritage. But a deadly fungus is spreading like a plague through the forest and the situation is critical for these tiny frogs. Wild Chronicles joins some intrepid researchers going to extraordinary lengths to save these endangered creatures from extinction. http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Panama_GoldenFrog.mp4http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Panama_GoldenFrog.mp4 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wild-chronicles/~3/410517675/Yellowstone_River.mp4 8f1355b9b14daf6d8401d2498d17e5d5 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:30:23 +0000 no 345 no Watch videos from National Geographic, including Mysteries of Lost Civilizations, the World's Most Unusual Foods, Extreme Healing, the World's Toughest Jobs, Spotlights of countries around the world, and more!The return of spring to the Yellowstone River in Wyoming brings a flurry of wildlife activity. Swarms of newly-hatched insects provide an ample food supply for hungry fish swimming upstream to spawn. And the fish themselves are being hunted by even more tenacious predators, as no animal is ever quite safe in Yellowstone’s wilderness. http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Yellowstone_River.mp4http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Yellowstone_River.mp4 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wild-chronicles/~3/403264991/Off_the_Map.mp4 224bbffbf681a14ed4933503ceadd06d Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 no 420 no Watch videos from National Geographic, including Mysteries of Lost Civilizations, the World's Most Unusual Foods, Extreme Healing, the World's Toughest Jobs, Spotlights of countries around the world, and more!In the southern reaches of the Arabian Desert lies the Empty Quarter, a brutally hot, arid landscape that covers a quarter of a million square miles. A trio of adventurers and their guides attempt to retrace a fifty-year-old route across this scorched environment on camelback, ever mindful of the towering, shifting sand dunes and the relentless heat. http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Off_the_Map.mp4http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Off_the_Map.mp4 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wild-chronicles/~3/399943379/Sahara_Trees.mp4 07c327ec24406aee9115611935ddbe5c Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:56:59 +0000 no 244 no Watch videos from National Geographic, including Mysteries of Lost Civilizations, the World's Most Unusual Foods, Extreme Healing, the World's Toughest Jobs, Spotlights of countries around the world, and more!The African nation of Mauritania borders the largest desert in the world, the Sahara. Westward expansion of the desert is encroaching upon the nation, threatening to swallow homes, farms and everything else in its path. Until recently, local residents had nowhere to run from the sands. Thanks to the acacia tree, they may not need to run any longer.http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Sahara_Trees.mp4http://podcastmedia.nationalgeographic.com/ngvideos/Sahara_Trees.mp4 National GeographicnonadultWatch videos from National Geographic, including Mysteries of Lost Civilizations, the World's Most Unusual Foods, Extreme Healing, the World's Toughest Jobs, Spotlights of countries around the world, and more!