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Orca : The Ultimate Predator
Season 1 Episode 59
The Orca (Orcinus orca) is one of the most famous animals on the planet - but there is some very unusual and kind of mysterious stuff going on with o…
4 years, 11 months ago
Rakali : Carnivorous Rodent Eats Poison Toad
Season 1 Episode 58
The Rakali, aka the Australian Water-Rat, (Hydromys chrysogaster) is a pretty remarkable rodent. A carnivorous, semi-aquatic rodent that's native to …
5 years, 1 month ago
Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake : All At Sea
Season 1 Episode 57
The Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake (Hydrophis platurus) is probably the most widespread snake in the world and, arguably, the most marine of all living mar…
5 years, 1 month ago
Electric Eel : Maximum Shock
Season 1 Episode 56
Electric eels (three species, in the genus Electrophorus) are famous animals, and have been for centuries. That doesn't mean they've given up all the…
5 years, 1 month ago
European Beewolf : The War on Fungus
Season 1 Episode 55
The European Beewolf (Philanthus triangulum) is a big, striking wasp. A specialist predator of honeybees, with many tricks up its sleeve: chemical an…
5 years, 2 months ago
Colossal Squid : When Giant Isn't Big Enough
Season 1 Episode 54
The Colossal Squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) is the biggest invertebrate on Earth - a truly enormous mollusc that weighs as much as a bull moose. …
5 years, 3 months ago
Olm : Larval Dragons in Black and White
Season 1 Episode 53
The olm (Proteus anguinus) is a very unusual animal: a large cave salamander, with an extraordinary life and an interesting history of research, that…
5 years, 4 months ago
Madison Cave Isopod : Standing in the Shallows of the Aquifer
Season 1 Episode 52
The Madison Cave Isopod is a small aquatic crustacean living an extraordinary subterranean life: not in underground rivers, but in the groundwater. I…
5 years, 4 months ago
Oilbird : Humboldt's Chupacabra
Season 1 Episode 51
The Oilbird is a bird not quite like any other: first described by one of history's greatest naturalist-explorers, it is a cave-nesting nocturnal fru…
5 years, 5 months ago
Eleonora's Falcon : The Lady-Judge's Bird
Season 1 Episode 50
Eleonora's Falcon is a very elegant, very unusual bird of prey. It nests in big colonies on Mediterranean Islands, and on one of those islands may ha…
5 years, 5 months ago