The Nature of Things
Season 6
Episodes
1. Animals And Man
A series studying animal kingdom, and man's place in it, through comparisons of anatomy, function, and behavior.
2. Animals On Land
How animals get from place to place, including burrowing, crawling, climbing trees, running,.
3. Animals In The Water
"Animals In The Water" studies fish, crocodiles, seals and whales.
4. Animal Adaptation
A look at how animals have developed special means of coping with environments - long neck of giraffe, coat of polar bear.
5. Animal Adaptation
A look at process of natural selection by which animals have developed special means of coping with their environments: long neck of giraffe, coat of polar bear.
6. Animals And Food
How animals locate, obtain, process and eat food using "anatomical tools": beaks, claws etc.
7. Animals As Engineers
Animals modify their environments in many ways: by building nests, damming streams.
8. Animals As Engineers
Program shows how animals modify their environments in many ways; by building nests.
9. Animal Hands And Tools
Man is known as "toolmaker", although certain other animals do use tools.
10. Animal Vision And Smell
Different combinations of senses are dominant in activities of different animals: vision and smell in insects, smell and hearing in most mammals, vision and touch in higher primates.
11. Animal Territory And Aggression
A look at various ways animals and man defend their homes and their young.
12. Animal Social Behavior
13. Episode 13
14. Animal Learning
How much of animal behavior is inherent, and how much is learned?
15. Episode 15
16. Episode 16
17. Man And Animals
Man, animal species, as he might be described by an objective zoologist from another planet: what is he.