Animals use communication to attract mates, warn off predators, defend territory, or trick their prey. And of course, it's the senses that play the key role.
In this episode, we find out more about the animals that have their feet firmly planted on or under the ground. How are their senses tuned to survive?
In this episode of Animal Super Senses, we find out more about the animals that live in the shadows and the adaptations they need to survive.
Animals that live life on the wing, have a vast expanse of the sky to navigate, find mates, locate food, and avoid predators.
While all life began in the oceans, human beings now rely on technology to navigate the seven seas.
In this episode, we examine how every animal has what could be called a sense of rhythm - the human-animal included.
There's a whole world, and more than one spectrum of sensations that animals are aware of, which surpass humans.
This episode is all about "superhuman" senses - animal sensory systems that can detect magnetic fields, electric fields (electroreception), and infrared radiation.
We examine how things taste, and how vital scent is from the animal perspective. But their sense of smell will also detect the scent of odorants carried through the air
Christmas tradition, symbolism, and history are full of characters from the natural world. There is perhaps no animal more closely bound to Christmas as the reindeer.
Christmas tradition, symbolism, and history are full of characters from the natural world. There is perhaps no animal more closely bound to Christmas as the reindeer.
Few creatures have complex levels of regimented society as social insects. Bees, termites, ants, and wasps can form armies to help them build an elaborate home.
Rutting deer and flirting love birds might be what we think of with animal courtship, but even bugs need to breed and they face all the same challenges of winning a mate.
Bugs are the base of the food chain, food for just about everything else, but to start the process, they too must eat.
The evolution of super-colonies allowed social insects to dominate the planet. We show how they arose and why they're so important to our very survival.
We discover all the ingenious ways that insects track down mates and how they give the next generation the best start in life.
Between 5 and 10 million different kinds, maybe ten quintillion individuals – there's absolutely no doubt that we're living on Planet Insect.
Between 5 and 10 million different kinds, maybe ten quintillion individuals – there's absolutely no doubt that we're living on Planet Insect.
Dog drool leads to phone addiction, and the accidents behind Teflon, dynamite, and wifi.
In November 885, hundreds of Scandinavian boats sailing towards Burgundy present themselves before the walls of Paris and besiege the city.