Nature television programs (Genre/Form Term)
- Broader heading: Science television programs
Moving image genre-form guide via WWW, June 6, 2008 (nature: Nonfiction work concentrating on the world of plants, insects, and animals, accounts of life in the wild, and how the ecosystems are formed with each species interacting with another, often presented in an anthropomorphized manner)
Moving image materials, 1988 (Nature works (Nonfiction): use for nonfiction films and video which depict the behavior and life cycle of animals, and other aspects of the natural world; UF Animal works (Nonfiction); Domestic animal works (Nonfiction); Wild animal works (Nonfiction); BT Documentaries and factual works)
American heritage dictionary, c1992 (nature: 1. The material world and its phenomena; 2. The forces and processes that produce and control all the phenomena of the material world: the laws of nature)
Nonfiction television programs that depict or explain the natural world and its phenomena.