The Nature of Things Season 6

E1: Animals And Man

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

E2: Animals On Land

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

E3: Animals In The Water

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

E4: Animal Adaptation

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

E5: 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.

E6: Animals And Food

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

E7: Animals As Engineers

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

E8: Animals As Engineers

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

E9: Animal Hands And Tools

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

E10: 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.

E11: Animal Territory And Aggression

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

E12: Animal Social Behavior

E13: Episode 13

E14: Animal Learning

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

E15: Episode 15

E16: Episode 16

E17: Man And Animals

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