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Wonders of the wild

Beary Tales
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Beary Tales

7pm BEARY TALES - Nature Documentary Vaclav Chaloupek is a Czech wildlife photographer and filmmaker living in the Bohemian Forest, a low mountain range that runs through Central Europe. When a forest ranger shows up at Vaclav’s home with a pair of orphaned bear cubs, he agrees to care for them, quickly becoming an experienced bear "mom" — bottle feeding goat milk and honey to the cubs and cleaning up the messes they create. The emotionally engaging documentary Beary Tales chronicles the gradual maturation of the bear twins as they flourish under Vaclav’s care: their first steps, early forest outings, and development from defenseless babies to cheeky, 135-pound teenagers. Using a well-balanced mix of factual information and charming scenes of the playful duo, the film deftly illustrates the specific complexities that arise when bear cubs are influenced by humans.  https://youtu.be/rz0RKejOLlQ  8pm NATURE - Documentary  

SEX, LIES AND BUTTERFLIES - Exploring the abilities of butterflies, including their 360-degree infrared vision, camouflage, chemical weaponry and flight.Butterflies have been making our planet more interesting and beautiful for more than 50 million years, and today a dazzling array of nearly 20,000 different species inhabit the globe. Nature: Sex, Lies and Butterflies follows the lives of these incredible and important insects from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to the emergence of the mature winged creature. This vibrant new Nature special explores the astonishing survival techniques of butterflies, including their 360° vision, deceptive camouflage, chemical weaponry, and fantastic flight across continents. https://youtu.be/ndYEAvQE1cE

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Mia Laurenzo is a 30-year veteran of public television in Miami. She began her career learning every aspect of video production. Currently she is a writer, producer, on-air host and promotions coordinator for TV, radio and the web. Her experiences include producing for a series, special events and historical documentaries. As a native Floridian, she is a perfect fit for South Florida's Storyteller Station, WLRN. She has produced award winning, nationally distributed documentaries like Journey to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade where one year she followed a high school band and a clown as they prepared for the big day and the next year, she had the privilege of being a clown herself. Previously, she produced Weird Florida: On the Road Again, a sequel to the highly successful show Weird Florida: Roads Less Traveled, where the cast and crew travel over 1,500 miles searching the Sunshine State’s weirdest and wackiest places. On a more serious note and what she considers to be her most important work, she produced Out of Darkness, Into Light, a documentary on child sexual abuse,which delved into the lives of three adult survivors, a show in which she was awarded her first of two Emmys.