David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities
David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities
David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities
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Overview
Sir David shines the spotlight on some of nature’s evolutionary anomalies and reveals how these curious animals continue to baffle and fascinate.
Status: Ended
First Air Date: 2013-01-29
Runtime: 0h 22m
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
Top Cast
David Attenborough
David Attenborough
Self - Presenter
Episodes - Season 1
Stretched to the Limit
Stretched to the Limit
Episode 1
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.
A Curious Hoax?
A Curious Hoax?
Episode 2
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.
Young Wrinklies
Young Wrinklies
Episode 3
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.
A Curious Twist
A Curious Twist
Episode 4
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.
Seeing the Pattern
Seeing the Pattern
Episode 5
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.
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