Wild Chronicles Digital Shorts (Video) Updates: New every Friday. Duration: 5 minutes.
Choose from an array of National Geographic videos, including Mysteries of Lost Civilizations, the World's Most Unusual Foods, Extreme Healing, the World's Toughest Jobs, and more.
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Rare Elephant Pool Play Seen
On a visit to a Botswana watering hole, Wild Chronicles' Boyd Matson videotaped pachyderms frolicking like few have ever observed before.
Credit: Video by Public Television's Wild Chronicles, from National Geographic Mission Programs.
(c) 2008 National Geographic (AP)
Vultures of the Serengeti
Reviled by many, Ruppell’s griffon vultures are true survivors on Africa’s Serengeti plains. At times one of the world’s richest meadows, the Serengeti’s rich grasses wither in the dry season. Riding high on the wind, vultures monitor the great cycle of life and death, awaiting a feast for their growing families.
Drug-Sniffing Dog Cloned
Officials in South Korea have high hopes for the noses of seven Labrador retrievers cloned from a star drug-sniffing canine.
(c) 2008 National Geographic (AP)
Facing a Mountain
In Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, Wild Chronicles follows adventurer Jon Krakauer across 40 miles of barren landscape to witness the challenge of his lifetime. Troubled by a tragedy on Mount Everest that took the lives of several of his friends, Krakauer hopes to conquer not only a mountain that has never been scaled before, but his personal doubts as well.
Elephant Slaughter
Kakouma National Park in southeastern Chad is home to one of the few viable elephant populations in Africa, but these massive beasts are in trouble. Wild Chronicles presents exclusive footage as National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Mike Fay puts his life on the line, evading gun-wielding poachers, to save these majestic animals.
