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The Nature of Things

Season 6

1965 · 17 episodes

  1. 1. Animals And Man

    1965-10-03

    A series studying animal kingdom, and man's place in it, through comparisons of anatomy, function, and behavior.

  2. 2. Animals On Land

    1965-10-10

    How animals get from place to place, including burrowing, crawling, climbing trees, running,.

  3. 3. Animals In The Water

    1965-10-17

    "Animals In The Water" studies fish, crocodiles, seals and whales.

  4. 4. Animal Adaptation

    1965-10-24

    A look at how animals have developed special means of coping with environments - long neck of giraffe, coat of polar bear.

  5. 5. Animal Adaptation

    1965-10-31

    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. 6. Animals And Food

    1965-11-07

    How animals locate, obtain, process and eat food using "anatomical tools": beaks, claws etc.

  7. 7. Animals As Engineers

    1965-11-14

    Animals modify their environments in many ways: by building nests, damming streams.

  8. 8. Animals As Engineers

    1965-11-21

    Program shows how animals modify their environments in many ways; by building nests.

  9. 9. Animal Hands And Tools

    1965-11-28

    Man is known as "toolmaker", although certain other animals do use tools.

  10. 10. Animal Vision And Smell

    1965-12-05

    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. 11. Animal Territory And Aggression

    1965-12-12

    A look at various ways animals and man defend their homes and their young.

  12. 12. Animal Social Behavior

    1965-12-19

  13. 13. Episode 13

    1965-12-26

  14. 14. Animal Learning

    1966-01-02

    How much of animal behavior is inherent, and how much is learned?

  15. 15. Episode 15

    1966-01-09

  16. 16. Episode 16

    1966-01-16

  17. 17. Man And Animals

    1966-01-23

    Man, animal species, as he might be described by an objective zoologist from another planet: what is he.

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