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Exploring The Secret Side Of The Animal Kingdom

A Nature Miniseries that offers a new perspective on the animal kingdom by taking viewers where no human cameraman can go. The series uses custom cameras worn by the animals themselves to capture the behavior and habitats of nine different species.

8pm Thursday ANIMALS WITH CAMERAS - A Nature miniseries - Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan and animal behaviorists join forces to explore stories of animal lives “told” by the animals themselves.

Brown Bears, Mantas and Sheep Dogs - Deep-dive with Chilean devil rays in the Azores, track brown bears’ diets in Turkey, and follow dogs protecting flocks of sheep from gray wolves in Southern France.

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In the heart of the Atlantic, Gordon joins a team looking to discover why huge numbers of devil rays, fish with `wings' nearly four metres across, gather every summer near the Azores archipelago. In northeast Turkey cameras are carried by brown bears as part of a study trying to understand why so many bears survive in a small patch of forest. Meanwhile, in southern France, on-board cameras help scientists trying to prove that guard dogs can help protect sheep flocks from wolf attacks.

9pm FINDING YOUR ROOTS - History/Culture
Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. guides influential guests into their roots, uncovering deep secrets, hidden identities and lost ancestors.

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FAR FROM HOME - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the family trees of pop icon Cyndi Lauper and actors Jamie Chung and Danny Trejo, exploring records in Italy, Korea, and Mexico to uncover ancestors whose stories were lost when their families immigrated to America.

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