The Nature of Things S06E07 · Animals As Engineers

Overview

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

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1. 1 1. Animals And Man1965-10-03A series studying animal kingdom, and man's place in it, through comparisons of anatomy, function, and behavior.
2. 2 2. Animals On Land1965-10-10How animals get from place to place, including burrowing, crawling, climbing trees, running,.
3. 3 3. Animals In The Water1965-10-17"Animals In The Water" studies fish, crocodiles, seals and whales.
4. 4 4. Animal Adaptation1965-10-24A look at how animals have developed special means of coping with environments - long neck of giraffe, coat of polar bear.
5. 5 5. Animal Adaptation1965-10-31A 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.
6. 6 6. Animals And Food1965-11-07How animals locate, obtain, process and eat food using "anatomical tools": beaks, claws etc.
7. 7 7. Animals As Engineers1965-11-14Animals modify their environments in many ways: by building nests, damming streams.
8. 8 8. Animals As Engineers1965-11-21Program shows how animals modify their environments in many ways; by building nests.
9. 9 9. Animal Hands And Tools1965-11-28Man is known as "toolmaker", although certain other animals do use tools.
10. 10 10. Animal Vision And Smell1965-12-05Different 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 primate
11. 11 11. Animal Territory And Aggression1965-12-12A look at various ways animals and man defend their homes and their young.
12. 12 12. Animal Social Behavior1965-12-19
13. 13 13. Episode 131965-12-26
14. 14 14. Animal Learning1966-01-02How much of animal behavior is inherent, and how much is learned?
15. 15 15. Episode 151966-01-09
16. 16 16. Episode 161966-01-16
17. 17 17. Man And Animals1966-01-23Man, animal species, as he might be described by an objective zoologist from another planet: what is he.