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. 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 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)

Animals: Asian elephant, macaque, orangutan, swiftlet, cat, Horseshoe bat, proboscis monkey, leech, harlequin tree frog
Original Air Date: December 7, 2000
Original Air Date: December 10, 2000
Original Air Date: December 17, 2000
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
Original Air Date: February 4, 2001
Original Air Date: February 25, 2001
Original Air Date: March 18, 2001
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
Original Air Date: May 13, 2001
Original Air Date: May 20, 2001
Original Air Date: June 24, 2001
Original Air Date: August 19, 2001
Original Air Date: August 26, 2001
Original Air Date: August 26, 2001
Original Air Date: September 2, 2001

Season 2 (2002)

Animals: eastern indigo snake, manatee, skink, moccasin snake, Siren, apple snail, American alligator, cougar, eastern diamondback rattlesnake
Original Air Date: February 27, 2002
Animals: giant river turtle, green vine snake, golden poison frog, cane toad, Crotalus durissus, giant otter, unknown rat
Original Air Date: March 24, 2002
Animals: great white shark, unidentified jellyfish, southern sea otter, seagull, black bear, southern Pacific rattlesnake, bobcat
Original Air Date: March 24, 2002
Original Air Date: May 26, 2002
Animals: pirarucu, Bothrops atrox, squirrel monkey, monkey frog, bald uakari, mata mata, pale-throated sloth
Original Air Date: July 7, 2002
Original Air Date: July 14, 2002
Original Air Date: July 21, 2002
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
Original Air Date: July 28, 2002
Animals: wildebeest, cheetahs, Egyptian cobra
Original Air Date: July 28, 2002
Animals: Bengal tiger, Asiatic lion, Indian cobra, banyan tree, black faced langur, Indian antelope, beautia, spotted deer, sambar deer, spiny-tailed lizard, water buffalo, camel
Original Air Date: August 4, 2002
Original Air Date: August 11, 2002
Original Air Date: August 18, 2002
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
Original Air Date: December 2, 2002

Season 3 (2003)

Original Air Date: February 26, 2003
Original Air Date: March 5, 2003
Original Air Date: March 12, 2003
Original Air Date: March 19, 2003
Original Air Date: March 26, 2003
Original Air Date: October 15, 2003
Original Air Date: October 22, 2003
Animals: Bornean orangutan, gibbon, binturong, macaque, sun bear, cobra, king cobra
Original Air Date: October 29, 2003
Original Air Date: November 5, 2003
Original Air Date: November 12, 2003
Original Air Date: November 19, 2003
Original Air Date: November 26, 2003
Original Air Date: December 3, 2003