Philosophy
Continuing with a second season of the fascinating documentary series Inside Nature's Giants, the team sets out to dissect and understand the inner workings of the most feared predator of the ocean: the great white shark.
At first glance, you might imagine that this is just an overgrown fish with huge teeth, but you would be wrong. As it turns out, the set of adaptations that have conferred upon this animal its infamous reputation is not only a remarkable display of evolution's problem-solving skills but of its blind creativity and opportunism... on steroids.
From its ability to smell minute traces of blood from miles away to the power to propel itself into the air, or from its ever-rotating factory of teeth to its chain-mail skin or its launchable jaws, every cut in this dissection presents new and truly astonishing facts about this predator's highly evolved anatomy and physiology.
Prepare to learn the secrets of this cold-blooded killer that, apparently, is not actually cold-blooded :)
Get inside more of nature's giants.
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- Inside Nature's Giants - The Camel
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- Inside Nature's Giants - The Big Cats
Their loud and guttural roars can send chills up and down your spine, even from great distances. If they're running for you, and you're not protected by some sort of fence, you're dinner. If giraffes, crocodiles, zebras, wildebeests and elephants...
- Inside Nature's Giants - Polar Bear
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- Inside Nature's Giants - Giant Squid
It wasn't uncommon just a few centuries ago for sailors to tell tales of gigantic sea monsters whose tentacles would crush entire ships. Jules Verne's version of this monster as it attacked Captain Nemo's Nautilus is probably a good example...
- Life In Cold Blood - The Cold Blooded Truth
In this fascinating documentary series, Sir David Attenborough brings to bear a new sense of awe, respect and admiration for our cold blooded cousins: the reptiles and the amphibians. Since they can't produce their own body heat the way we mammals...
Philosophy
Inside Nature's Giants - Great White Shark
At first glance, you might imagine that this is just an overgrown fish with huge teeth, but you would be wrong. As it turns out, the set of adaptations that have conferred upon this animal its infamous reputation is not only a remarkable display of evolution's problem-solving skills but of its blind creativity and opportunism... on steroids.
From its ability to smell minute traces of blood from miles away to the power to propel itself into the air, or from its ever-rotating factory of teeth to its chain-mail skin or its launchable jaws, every cut in this dissection presents new and truly astonishing facts about this predator's highly evolved anatomy and physiology.
Prepare to learn the secrets of this cold-blooded killer that, apparently, is not actually cold-blooded :)
Get inside more of nature's giants.
.
- Inside Nature's Giants - The Camel
I've never thought much of camels, what with their lenky legs, their weird humps and simultaneously pretentious and dumb-looking ruminant mouths, I never thought these were interesting animals, but watching this documentary about them absolutely blew...
- Inside Nature's Giants - The Big Cats
Their loud and guttural roars can send chills up and down your spine, even from great distances. If they're running for you, and you're not protected by some sort of fence, you're dinner. If giraffes, crocodiles, zebras, wildebeests and elephants...
- Inside Nature's Giants - Polar Bear
Continuing with their exploration of the anatomy and physiology of the giants of nature, the team travels to the North Pole in search of a polar bear: the largest land mammalian predator in the world. Because of the difficulties of finding polar bears...
- Inside Nature's Giants - Giant Squid
It wasn't uncommon just a few centuries ago for sailors to tell tales of gigantic sea monsters whose tentacles would crush entire ships. Jules Verne's version of this monster as it attacked Captain Nemo's Nautilus is probably a good example...
- Life In Cold Blood - The Cold Blooded Truth
In this fascinating documentary series, Sir David Attenborough brings to bear a new sense of awe, respect and admiration for our cold blooded cousins: the reptiles and the amphibians. Since they can't produce their own body heat the way we mammals...