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Alberta’s Surreal Badlands Shaped By Torrential Rainstorms

Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park is an other-worldly place, full of fantastically shaped hoodoo rocks set amidst an intricate network of narrow winding gullies.

Female Bear Shows Young Male How Mating Season is Done in the Rockies

A female with two young cubs gently nudges an inexperienced — and slightly reluctant — male into action.

The Largest Caribou Herd in North America Is On the March

Watch in 360 as a herd of female caribou walk hundreds of kilometres north to have their calves in one of the most remote parts of northern Quebec.

Every Year Thousands of Northern Gannets Return to This Crowded Rock Ledge in Newfoundland

Cape St. Mary’s is one of the only places in the world you don’t have to take a boat to see these seabirds. Every year, it’s home to one of the largest gannet breeding colonies in North America.

Adorable Sea Otters Frolic As Filmmaker Takes Cover

Spring arrives and notoriously shy sea otter mothers and their pups play in the ocean off Vancouver Island. The Wild Canadian crew hides to capture those magical moments.

Wild Canadian Year Director Films Rufous Hummingbirds In His Own Backyard

Nectar feeders help these birds fuel up for breeding season and provide a delightful show at home.

A Wild Canadian Lynx And A Cameraman Develop An Amazing Relationship

'It was the best day of my life.' Sam Ellis spent 76 days with Mad Max in the Yukon wilderness.

Manitoba’s Bizarre Mole Uses Its Remarkable Nose To Forage For Food

An unusual nose turns this tiny critter’s underground habitat into a field-of-plenty.

B.C. Mountain Goats Take A Trip Into The Valley To Soothe Their Sore Bellies

Spring water rich in nutrients and minerals is just the right balm for an upset tummy.

Super Hearing Makes Manitoba’s Great Grey Owl An Expert Hunter

Small rodents fear this silent predator, which hunts by plunging into the snow.

American White Pelicans Travel to Saskatchewan Looking for Love

In a pelican version of speed dating, these birds only have a week to find 'the one' and engage in charming rituals of nodding and a courtship walk.

An Up-Close Encounter with Bratatouille, a Bold Polar Bear in Churchill Manitoba

When The Wild Canadian Year crew wanted to film polar bears in 360, they set up their rig and crossed their fingers and waited for a polar bear to approach. They didn’t anticipate what would happen next.

Winter Brings A Stark Beauty To Canada’s Remote Sable Island

Grey seals and wild horses brave hurricane-force winds and freezing temperatures in this harsh offshore climate.

Four Hundred Thousand Grey Seals Crowd Onto Sable Island Beaches Every Winter

The world's largest breeding colony of grey seals comes here to mate and raise their young.

Prairie Rattlesnakes Are Born Live with Fangs and Venom, but no Rattles

Giving birth in the fall is unusual in the animal world. But this new mom needs the summer’s heat for her babies to mature before giving birth to them in an underground den.

For Water Shrews, More Than 3 Hours Between Meals Could be Fatal

It’s eat or die for tiny shrews in Manitoba. They need to eat more than their own weight every day and each fall insects are hard to find.

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