The Jeff Corwin Experience
| The Jeff Corwin Experience | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Jeff Corwin |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 39 |
| Original release | |
| Network | Animal Planet |
| Release | 2001 – 2003 |
The Jeff Corwin Experience is an American television show about mostly tropical animals airing on the Animal Planet cable channel since 2001. It is hosted by actor and conservationist Jeff Corwin, who previously appeared in Going Wild With Jeff Corwin on the Disney Channel.
Overview
In its initial season, the program included a cobra festival in India, jungles in Thailand, Borneo and the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador in South America. The following year, the program featured Guyana, Australia and Tanzania. In its third season in 2005, Mexico and Peru were included, as well as Kenya and Uganda in Africa. While the program includes some North American settings, segments have included all the other continents except Antarctica.
The program has educational value, but is produced to entertain as well. Jeff is often bitten or nearly bitten by the animals being described. Jeff also enjoys making numerous jokes and references to pop culture and movies.
Corwin was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in public education from Bridgewater State College. He has long been a proponent of rain forest preservation. Programs such as this and those of Steve Irwin and Terri Irwin (of The Crocodile Hunter) reflect a "human coexistence with wildlife approach" which is in sharp conflict with poachers and past practices in many parts of the world.
Episodes
Season 1
- Episode 1 — Borneo: A Wild Man in Borneo
Animals: Asian elephant, macaque, orangutan, swiftlet, cat, bat, proboscis monkey, leech, harlequin tree frog - Episode 2 — India: Riding the Cobra Express
- Episode 3 — Arizona: Land of the Serpent
- Episode 4 — Alaska: Northern Exposure
- Episode 5 — Louisiana: Call of the Cajun Wild
- Episode 6 — Thailand: The Royalty of Siam
- Episode 7 — Indonesia: Six Days to the Dragon
- Episode 8 — Ecuador: Into the Heart of Darkness
Animals: tapir, anaconda, giant river turtle, Leptodactylus pentadactylus, leafcutter ant, green vine snake, rusty tree frog, kinkajou - Episode 9 — Brazil: The River Wolf and the Isle of Serpents
- Episode 10 — Namibia: Into Africa
- Episode 11 — Madagascar: The Land That Time Forgot
- Episode 12 — Panama: Bridge Between the Americas
- Episode 13 — Galapagos: The Living Laboratory
- Episode 14 — Extreme Encounters
- Episode 15 — Snake-tacular
Season 2
- Episode 1 — Florida: Exploring Pascua de Florida
Animals: eastern indigo snake, manatee, skink, moccasin snake, Siren, apple snail, American alligator, mountain lion, eastern diamondback rattlesnake - Episode 2 — Guyana: Land of the Giants
Animals: giant river turtle, green vine snake, golden poison frog, cane toad, diamondback rattlesnake, giant otter, unknown rat - Episode 3 — California: The Wild One
Animals: great white shark, unidentified jellyfish, southern sea otter, seagull, black bear, southern Pacific rattlesnake, bobcat - Episode 4 — Costa Rica: The Arribiatta
- Episode 5 — Amazon: Goin' Bananas
Animals: pirarucu, Bothrops atrox, squirrel monkey, monkey frog, bald uakari, mata mata, pale-throated sloth - Episode 6 — Australia: Out of Balance Down Under
- Episode 7 — Tasmania: Sympathy for the Devil
- Episode 8 — Zanzibar: Dr. Corwin I Presume
Species: coconut crab, Indian almond, Zanzibar red colobus monkey, street cat, weaver ant, hyrax, Aldabra tortoise, hippopotamus, painted dog, Acacia drepanolobium, ant, puff adder, baobab, arboreal gecko - Episode 9 — Tanzania: Bodies in Motion
- Episode 10 — India: Between the Tiger and the Lion
Animals: Indian cobra, banyan tree, black faced langur, Indian antelope, beautia, spotted deer, Bengal tiger, sambar deer, spiny-tailed lizard, water buffalo, camel - Episode 11 — Nepal: Journey to Shangri-La
- Episode 12 — Morocco: A Time Machine of Sand
- Episode 13 — Spain: Americano Loco
Species: Barbary macaque, Iberian lynx, eucalyptus, Mediterranean chameleon, lesser kestrel, Moorish gecko, European pond turtle, European water snake, sacred scarab beetle
Season 3
- Episode 1 — Botswana: Exploring the Elephant Highway
- Episode 2 — Uganda: It's a Croc Story
- Episode 3 — Mexico: The Great Snake Hunt
- Episode 4 — Peru: Bear Necessities
- Episode 5 — Kenya: Hyena, Queen of the Beasts
- Episode 6 — Australia: Going Bats Down Under
- Episode 7 — Cambodia: Snakes on the Menu
- Episode 8 — Indonesia: The Orangutan Freedom Journey
Animals: Bornean orangutan, (possibly) gibbon, binturong, macaque, sun bear, cobra, (possibly) king cobra - Episode 9 — The Big Bad Wolf?
- Episode 10 — Brazil: Saving the Tamarin
- Episode 11 — Venezuela: Operation Anaconda
- Episode 12 — Where's Jeff?
- Episode 13 — The Urban Show