NOVA Season 36 Episode 12 Synopsis

Once every 48 years, bamboo forests in parts of northeast India go into exuberant flower. Then, like clockwork, the flowering is invariably followed by a plague of black rats that appear to spring from nowhere to spread destruction and famine in their wake. For the first time on film, NOVA and National Geographic capture this rat population explosion in vivid detail and show how scientists are unraveling the connections between bamboo flowering and rat outbreaks. Ultimately, their research should help local people better cope with the next attack-due in 2056.

NOVA Season 36 Episodes...

• s36e01 - Arctic Dinosaurs
• s36e02 - Space Shuttle Disaster
• s36e03 - Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
• s36e04 - Fractals: Hunting The Hidden Dimension
• s36e05 - Alien From Earth
• s36e06 - The Bible's Buried Secrets
• s36e07 - Ocean Animal Emergency
• s36e08 - Is There Life On Mars?
• s36e09 - The Big Energy Gamble
• s36e10 - The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
• s36e11 - The Spy Factory
• s36e12 - Rat Attack
• s36e13 - Extreme Ice
• s36e14 - Last Extinction (Megabeasts' Sudden Death)
• s36e15 - Doctors' Diaries Pt.1
• s36e16 - Doctors' Diaries Pt.2
• s36e17 - Musical Minds

NOVA Show Summary

Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science based television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won many major television awards, most of them many times over.