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A Desert Place

NOVA explores the mysterious ecosystem of the desert: a snowstorm; a lashing summer monsoon; and the emergence—in a pool created only minutes before—of a pair of adult spadefoot toads. Toads who had been waiting beneath the sand for a year for this brief and fortuitous moment to procreate the next generation...

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Season 3

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Episode 1: Predictable Disaster

Episode 2: Joey

Episode 3: Meditation and the Mind

Episode 4: The Planets

Episode 5: A Desert Place

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