The Nature of Things

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  • CBC
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  • Documentary

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Animals and Man
Episode overview
A series studying the animal kingdom, and man's place in it, through comparisons of anatomy, function, and behavior.
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Animals on Land
Episode overview
How animals get from place to place, including burrowing, crawling, climbing trees, running, and jumping.
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Animal Adaptation (1)
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A look at how animals have developed special means of coping with the environments — the long neck of the giraffe, the coat of the polar bear.
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Animal Adaptation (2)
Episode overview
A look at the process of natural selection by which animals have developed special means of coping with their environments: the long neck of the giraffe, the coat of the polar bear, the digging claws of the mole.
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Animals and Food
Episode overview
How animals locate, obtain, process and eat food using "anatomical tools": beaks, claws etc.
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Animals as Engineers (1)
Episode overview
Animals modify their environments in many ways: by building nests, damming streams, by breaking down forests.
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Animals as Engineers (2)
Episode overview
Program shows how animals modify their environments in many ways; by building nests, damming streams, and by breaking down forests.
6x9
Animal Hands and Tools
Episode overview
Man is known as the "toolmaker", although certain other animals do use tools.
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Animal Vision and Smell
Episode overview
Different combinations of the senses are dominant in the activities of different animals: vision and smell in insects, smell and hearing in most mammals, vision and touch in the higher primates, including man.
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Animal Territory and Aggression
Episode overview
A look at the various ways animals and man defend their homes and their young.
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Animal Social Behavior
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This episode has no summary.
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December 26, 1965
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Animal Learning
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How much of animal behavior is inherent, and how much is learned?
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January 9, 1966
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This episode has no summary.
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January 16, 1966
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This episode has no summary.
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Man and Animals
Episode overview
Man, the animal species, as he might be described by an objective zoologist from another planet: what is he, his anatomy, his reproduction, his behavior and his ecology. A summary of the entire series.
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Animals In The Water
Episode overview
"Animals In The Water" studies fish, crocodiles, seals and whales.

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