Absurd Planet
Season 1
2020 · 12 episodes
1. Strangest Things
2020-04-22 · 19m
Say hello to Mother Nature’s all-star cast of confounding beasts, featuring Madagascar’s own death-metal lizard: the satanic leaf-tailed gecko.
2. Raging Waters
2020-04-22 · 19m
Dive into an undersea world that's swimming with flirty amphibians, fishy friends, and sea-slug vacuums that keep things clean.
3. Mate Expectations
2020-04-22 · 19m
Time to talk about the birds, the bees and all the other animals with strange mating rituals. When two scorpions make love, it’s anything but lovely.
4. The Cycle of Life
2020-04-22 · 19m
For Earth’s largest rodent, life’s a beach. For mayflies, it lasts only one day. What counts isn’t quantity, but quality — and occasional cannibalism.
5. H2 wOah
2020-04-22 · 19m
Bizarre dramas unfold in the world’s wet and wild oceans, including a leopard seal and a crustacean that team up to ruin an octopus's day.
6. Extremeliest
2020-04-22 · 19m
The miraculous Jesus Christ lizard and goo-spewing bombardier beetle stand out among nature’s oldest, fastest and just plain kookiest creatures.
7. The Flight Stuff
2020-04-22 · 19m
Take to the skies to discover amazing murmurations of starlings and adorably pudgy puffins. Don’t mind the flying snakes, those wingless weirdos.
8. Eat Prey Live
2020-04-22 · 19m
A butterfly that drinks turtle tears is just one of many organisms with unusual appetites and even odder methods of hunting and digesting their food.
9. Fights Camera Action
2020-04-22 · 19m
Get ready for a rumble in the jungle. Whether clawing, crashing or headbanging, animal gladiators like to fight if love or status is on the line.
10. Strangerer Things
2020-04-22 · 19m
The parade of curiosities kicks off with a tiny lizard that fits on a fingertip and monkeys with huge noses. Some Hawaiian sand is fish poop — fact.
11. We're All the Same
2020-04-22 · 19m
Humans share a surprising number of traits with their critter kin, such as using tools, yawning, soaking in saunas and flipping real estate.
12. Absurd is the Word
2020-04-22 · 19m
Did you know goats speak in different regional dialects? Incredible facts about everyday animals lead to one conclusion: being different is awesome.
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