Really Wild Animals

★ 9.5 · 1994 · 44m · Documentary

An animated globe named Spin whisks kids around the world, teaching them about animals and their habitats.

Episodes

▶1. Swinging SafariFrom the Serengeti Plain to the Kalahari Desert, experience the amazing ways that animals like cheetahs, crocodiles, rhinos, and elephants survive.▶2. Wonders Down UnderTravel to the land of "down under" and learn why the animals of Australia are so darn weird! From the leaping kangaroos to the paddling platypuses to cuddly koalas, you won't believe the amazing variety of animals that make this island world their home.▶3. Deep Sea DiveExplores the last great frontier on earth--under the sea. Join Spin as he explores the world's oceans from surface to seafloor. You'll enjoy learning about the great whales, friendly dolphins, scary sharks, and all the oceans' amazing treasures.▶4. Totally Tropical Rain ForestTake a totally tropical trip to the rain forest! Explore the life-filled rain forest, where there's a greater variety of plants and animals than anywhere else on earth. In the tropical forests of Central and South America, you'll meet spotted jaguars, colorful poison-arrow frogs, slow-moving sloths, and loud-mouthed howler monkeys.▶5. Amazing North AmericaFrom the frozen arctic tot he southern swamplands, you'll meet the amazing animals that make North America a continent full of surprises. Watch polar bears and while wolves struggling for survival on the icy tundra; alligators patrolling the swampy waters of Okefenokee; and ground squirrels battling rattlesnakes in the wild, wild West.▶6. Adventures in AsiaStretching across the eastern hemisphere, Asia is the world's largest continent -- so it's no surprise there are so many amazing animals to see here. You'll meet cuddly giant pandas in southern China, hairy orangutans on the island of Borneo, huge manta rays in the Red Sea, and close-knit elephant families in India.▶7. Polar ProwlGet ready for chills and thrills when you travel to the icy Arctic and Antarctic. Pal around with a polar bear mom and her cuddly cubs north of Norway, tangle with a toothy tribe of walruses on an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean, and cruise with killer whales off the Canadian coast. Then migrate to the South Pole, where playful penguins, slippery seals, and hungry humpback whales swim in the slushy seas of Antarctica.

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