The Jeff Corwin Experience

The Jeff Corwin Experience is an American wildlife documentary television program that premiered on the Animal Planet cable channel in 2000. It was hosted by actor and conservationist Jeff Corwin, who previously hosted Disney Channel's Going Wild with Jeff Corwin.

Overview[]

In its initial season, the program included a cobra festival in India, jungles in Thailand, Borneo and the Galápagos 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, which would be suitable for science education in state schools. 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 (2000–01)[]

• Episode 1 — Borneo: A Wild Man in Borneo
  Animals: Asian elephant, macaque, orangutan, swiftlet, cat, Horseshoe bat, proboscis monkey, leech, harlequin tree frog
  Original Air Date: December 7, 2000
• Episode 2 — India: Riding the Cobra Express
  Original Air Date: December 10, 2000
• Episode 3 — Arizona: Land of the Serpent
  Original Air Date: December 17, 2000
• Episode 4 — Alaska: Northern Exposure
  Animals: Dall's porpoise, sea otter, Steller sea lion, Giant Pacific octopus, black bear, Sitka black-tailed deer, muskoxen, pika, red fox, dall sheep, grizzly bear, Alaskan moose
  Original Air Date: January 21, 2001
• Episode 5 — Louisiana: Call of the Cajun Wild
  Original Air Date: February 4, 2001
• Episode 6 — Thailand: The Royalty of Siam
  Original Air Date: February 25, 2001
• Episode 7 — Indonesia: Six Days to the Dragon
  Original Air Date: March 18, 2001
• 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, Corallus hortulanus, Black caiman
  Original Air Date: March 26, 2001
• Episode 9 — Brazil: The River Wolf and the Isle of Serpents
  Original Air Date: May 13, 2001
• Episode 10 — Namibia: Into Africa
  Original Air Date: May 20, 2001
• Episode 11 — Madagascar: The Land That Time Forgot
  Original Air Date: June 24, 2001
• Episode 12 — Panama: Bridge Between the Americas
  Original Air Date: August 19, 2001
• Episode 13 — Galapagos: The Living Laboratory
  Original Air Date: August 26, 2001
• Episode 14 — Extreme Encounters
  Original Air Date: August 26, 2001
• Episode 15 — Snake-tacular
  Original Air Date: September 2, 2001

Season 2 (2002)[]

• Episode 1 — Florida: Exploring Pascua de Florida
  Animals: eastern indigo snake, manatee, skink, moccasin snake, Siren, apple snail, American alligator, cougar, eastern diamondback rattlesnake
  Original Air Date: February 27, 2002
• Episode 2 — Guyana: Land of the Giants
  Animals: giant river turtle, green vine snake, golden poison frog, cane toad, Crotalus durissus, giant otter, unknown rat
  Original Air Date: March 24, 2002
• Episode 3 — California: The Wild One
  Animals: great white shark, unidentified jellyfish, southern sea otter, seagull, black bear, southern Pacific rattlesnake, bobcat
  Original Air Date: March 24, 2002
• Episode 4 — Costa Rica: The Arribiatta
  Original Air Date: May 26, 2002
• Episode 5 — Amazon: Goin' Bananas
  Animals: pirarucu, Bothrops atrox, squirrel monkey, monkey frog, bald uakari, mata mata, pale-throated sloth
  Original Air Date: July 7, 2002
• Episode 6 — Australia: Out of Balance Down Under
  Original Air Date: July 14, 2002
• Episode 7 — Tasmania: Sympathy for the Devil
  Original Air Date: July 21, 2002
• 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,
  Original Air Date: July 28, 2002
• Episode 9 — Tanzania: Bodies in Motion
  Animals: wildebeest, cheetahs, Egyptian cobra
  Original Air Date: July 28, 2002
• Episode 10 — India: Between the Tiger and the Lion
  Animals: Bengal tiger, Asiatic lion,^[1] Indian cobra, banyan tree, black faced langur, Indian antelope, , spotted deer, sambar deer, spiny-tailed lizard, water buffalo, camel
  Original Air Date: August 4, 2002
• Episode 11 — Nepal: Journey to Shangri-La
  Original Air Date: August 11, 2002
• Episode 12 — Morocco: A Time Machine of Sand
  Original Air Date: August 18, 2002
• 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, Ocellated lizard
  Original Air Date: August 25, 2002
• Episode 14 —Caught in the Act
  Original Air Date: December 2, 2002

Season 3 (2003)[]

• Episode 1 — Botswana: Exploring the Elephant Highway
  Original Air Date: February 26, 2003
• Episode 2 — Uganda: It's a Croc Story
  Original Air Date: March 5, 2003
• Episode 3 — Mexico: The Great Snake Hunt
  Original Air Date: March 12, 2003
• Episode 4 — Peru: Bear Necessities
  Original Air Date: March 19, 2003
• Episode 5 — Kenya: Hyena, Queen of the Beasts
  Original Air Date: March 26, 2003
• Episode 6 — Queensland: Going Bats Down Under
  Original Air Date: October 15, 2003
• Episode 7 — Cambodia: Snakes on the Menu
  Original Air Date: October 22, 2003
• Episode 8 — Indonesia: The Orangutan Freedom Journey
  Animals: Bornean orangutan, (possibly) gibbon, binturong, macaque, sun bear, cobra, (possibly) king cobra
  Original Air Date: October 29, 2003
• Episode 9 — Texas/Colorado: The Big Bad Wolf?
  Original Air Date: November 5, 2003
• Episode 10 — Brazil: Saving the Tamarin
  Original Air Date: November 12, 2003
• Episode 11 — Venezuela: Operation Anaconda
  Original Air Date: November 19, 2003
• Episode 12 — Where's Jeff?
  Original Air Date: November 26, 2003
• Episode 13 — The Urban Show
  Original Air Date: December 3, 2003

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• The Jeff Corwin Experience at IMDb