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Darwin's Frog : Darwin's Menagerie II
Season 1 Episode 129
Following Charles Darwin on his voyage around South America, we arrive in Chile - where he discovers a remarkable little frog that has one of the str…
12 hours ago
Steamer Duck : Darwin's Menagerie I
Season 1 Episode 128
Steamer ducks are big, mostly flightless, famously aggressive ducks in South America. An amazing example of evolution in action, because some suppose…
1 month ago
Reticulated Python : The Killing Mechanism
Season 1 Episode 127
The Reticulated Python: not only the longest snake in the world, but also the only one you could reasonably call a man-eater. A snake that kills by c…
2 months, 1 week ago
Barrel Amphipod : The Hollow Kindergarten
Season 1 Episode 126
The Barrel Amphipod is a tiny terror for certain animals that share its open ocean habitat ...
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3 months ago
Salp : The Great Chain of Being
Season 1 Episode 125
Salps are the strangest, most extraordinary of your reasonably close relatives in the Animal Kingdom ... some of the most extraordinary animals on Ea…
4 months ago
Grey Seal : The Corkscrew Killer Mystery
Season 1 Episode 124
The Grey Seal is a very big predator - but also the victim of a strange killer that was, for a long time, a bit of a mystery ...
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4 months, 2 weeks ago
Moniliformis : Attack of the Necklace Worm
Season 1 Episode 123
Moniliformis moniliformis is an example of one of the strangest groups of animals in the world: the parasitic Acanthocephalans, or the Thorny-Headed …
5 months ago
Kākāpō : Population Boom
Season 1 Episode 122
The Kākāpō is the world's most extraordinary parrot - remarkable in even more ways than most people realise ...
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5 months, 2 weeks ago
Paradise Flying Snake : Swimming in the Air
Season 1 Episode 121
The Paradise Flying Snake is one of the most surprising 'fliers' in the Animal Kingdom. How does it do it? And why is the answer to that question dif…
6 months, 1 week ago
Glanville Fritillary : A Madness of Butterflies
Season 1 Episode 120
The Glanville Fritillary is an elegant European butterfly, the stufy of which reveals some of the hidden forces shaping animal populations. And it wa…
6 months, 4 weeks ago