The Nature of Things
Season 6
196517 episodes
Episodes
- E1
Animals And Man
1965-10-03
A series studying animal kingdom, and man's place in it, through comparisons of anatomy, function, and behavior.
- E2
Animals On Land
1965-10-10
How animals get from place to place, including burrowing, crawling, climbing trees, running,.
- E3
Animals In The Water
1965-10-17
"Animals In The Water" studies fish, crocodiles, seals and whales.
- E4
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.
- E5
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.
- E6
Animals And Food
1965-11-07
How animals locate, obtain, process and eat food using "anatomical tools": beaks, claws etc.
- E7
Animals As Engineers
1965-11-14
Animals modify their environments in many ways: by building nests, damming streams.
- E8
Animals As Engineers
1965-11-21
Program shows how animals modify their environments in many ways; by building nests.
- E9
Animal Hands And Tools
1965-11-28
Man is known as "toolmaker", although certain other animals do use tools.
- E10
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.
- E11
Animal Territory And Aggression
1965-12-12
A look at various ways animals and man defend their homes and their young.
- E12
Animal Social Behavior
1965-12-19
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E13
Episode 13
1965-12-26
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E14
Animal Learning
1966-01-02
How much of animal behavior is inherent, and how much is learned?
- E15
Episode 15
1966-01-09
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E16
Episode 16
1966-01-16
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E17
Man And Animals
1966-01-23
Man, animal species, as he might be described by an objective zoologist from another planet: what is he.