TBS will continue to carry "National Geographic Explorer" on Sunday evenings, and "Wildlife Adventures," once-a-month specials produced by Turner Original Productions.

Photograph: Michael Tait It's all change in the small tour operator category, with McKinlay Kidd, a Scotland and Ireland specialist, coming up trumps with its enticing programme of itineraries, ranging from West Coast Seafood Trails to Hebridean Wildlife Adventures.

The proper answer to that, and to many other fascinating questions about the beasts, can be found in Grizzly Bears, the first in the new Wildlife Adventures series produced by the National Audubon Society, a conservation group, and Advanced Ideas, a publisher of educational software.

She had also contributed in a web based audio-visual books for children, Gattu's Wildlife Adventures.

Natural Habitat Wildlife Adventures 1 Sussex Station, Sussex, N.J. 07461, (800) 543-8917 or (201) 702-1525.

Those preferring polar bears should check out Wildlife Adventures, which offers several expeditions to Churchill, Manitoba, on Hudson Bay, one of the most accessible places to see them each autumn (there are only a few places left for this fall).

The film is based on the 1926 novel Swift Lightning A Story Of Wildlife Adventure In The Frozen North by Northern genre writer James Oliver Curwood.

Wildlife Adventures (021-702 0643; www.wildlifeadventures.co.za) Northern circuit and southern/East Africa combination itineraries.

A Wildlife Adventure through the Ngorongoro Crater (05:15)