Animal Atlas S06E17 · The Life Arboreal

Overview

A panoramic look at animals that live in trees. We ask how they get up there in the first place (climb, fly, leap), what adaptations they have to live as tree-dwellers (claws to prehensile tails), and which animals we can expect to find in trees (birds, monkeys), including those we don’t (kangaroos).

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Episodes

1. 1 1. Amazing Animal Facts: The PrimatesAn exploration into the world of the primates: from apes, to monkeys, to prosimians. How they differ, how to tell them apart, what they have in common.
2. 2 2. When Is a Monkey a Monkey?A closer look at monkeys: the old world and the new world; the biggest and the smallest; the baboons, the guenons, the tamarins.
3. 3 3. Life as an ApeA fascinating exploration into the world of the four great apes: the gorilla, the orangutan, the chimpanzee, and the bonobo.
4. 4 4. Amazing Animal Facts: The BirdsAll that’s fascinating about birds: from feathers, to flight, to beaks and bills. The biggest, the flightless, the raptors, the nut-crackers. The parrots, the owls, and the ostrich
5. 5 5. Night & Day: Nocturnal & DiurnalAn exploration into the world of animals that are not only nocturnal and diurnal, but crepuscular. We look at why animals are awake at one time instead of another, and what special
6. 6 6. Maturity & Longevity
7. 8 8. Amazing Animal Facts: The ReptilesWe delve into the secrets of snakes and lizards, alligators and crocodiles, and turtles and tortoises.
8. 10 10. Ancient Animals: The Creatures that Time ForgotA look at the animals living today who were around at the time of the dinosaurs, and even before. We look at how some animals have changed a great deal while others have hardly cha
9. 13 13. A Shiver of Sharks, a Zeal of ZebrasA wild ride into animal nomenclature.
10. 15 15. Bones? Who Needs ‘Em?!A closer look at bones, from animals with a backbone (vertebrates), to those with skeletons made of cartilage (sharks), to those animals who don’t need bones at all (invertebrates)
11. 16 16. What’s Wild in the Neighborhood?An exploration into the world of wild animals that live in our human neighborhoods. What makes a habitat livable? We look at how the temperature, plant life, and climate determine
12. 17 17. The Life ArborealA panoramic look at animals that live in trees. We ask how they get up there in the first place (climb, fly, leap), what adaptations they have to live as tree-dwellers (claws to pr
13. 19 19. “S” Is for SpeciesA wild ride through animal classification! What determines an animal’s species? Why do the same kinds of animals sometimes look different from each other? What makes a subspecies?
14. 21 21. Life As an AmphibianAn exploration into the watery life of amphibians, including colorful frogs, toads, newts, salamanders. An examination of what amphibians have in common with other cold-blooded cre
15. 22 22. Lizard WizardsA look at what’s great and fascinating about the nearly 5,000 species of lizards alive today, from chameleons to iguanas to basilisks. First, an examination of what makes a lizard