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David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities

David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities
★ 7.3/10•2013•12•Documentary
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Sir David shines the spotlight on some of nature’s evolutionary anomalies and reveals how these curious animals continue to baffle and fascinate.

StatusEnded
LanguageEN
First Air DateJan 29, 2013

Episodes

Episode 1 - Stretched to the LimitE122m

Stretched to the Limit

Some animals appear to have taken Nature’s gifts and stretched them to extreme limits. With these two natural curiosities one creature, the giraffe, has ended up with a super-stretched neck, the other, the chameleon, a super stretchy tongue. In both cases nature has found a way to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Jan 29, 2013

Episode 2 - A Curious Hoax?E222m

A Curious Hoax?

David discovers the curiosities that have led to accusations of forgery but have ultimately helped us rethink evolution. When early explorers brought the first specimen of a duck-billed platypus back to England in 1799, it was thought so bizarre it was deemed a hoax, while the midwife toad became the centre of a raging scientific storm in the 1920s that led to accusations of fakery.

Feb 5, 2013

Episode 3 - Young WrinkliesE322m

Young Wrinklies

David encounters two examples where Nature has tinkered with the aging process to alarmingly different effect – the first grows old while trapped in a young body while the second looks old from birth but might hold the key to a long life.

Feb 12, 2013

Episode 4 - A Curious TwistE422m

A Curious Twist

The single spiral tusk of the narwhal inspiration for tales of unicorns and the myriad variations on the twist of the snail shell have delighted and fascinated naturalists and artists since the dawn of civilization.

Feb 19, 2013

Episode 5 - Seeing the PatternE522m

Seeing the Pattern

Zebra stripes vary subtly between the different species but there is one group of animals that has evolved colourful patterns of seemingly infinite variety, the butterflies. In this episode David looks at two examples of animal patterns that have bedazzled and baffled science for a long time, and uses modern tools to unlock their secrets.

Feb 26, 2013

Actors

David Attenborough

David Attenborough

Self - Presenter

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