The Nature of Things Season 6, Episode 8: Animals As Engineers

Animals And Man

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

Animals On Land

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

Animals In The Water

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

Animal Adaptation

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

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.

Animals And Food

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

Animals As Engineers

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

Animal Hands And Tools

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

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.

Animal Territory And Aggression

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

Animal Social Behavior

Episode 13

Animal Learning

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

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Man And Animals

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