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The Nature of Things

Season 6 · 17 episodes · Oct 3, 1965

  1. Episode 1

    Animals And Man

    Oct 3, 1965

    A series studying animal kingdom, and man's place in it, through comparisons of anatomy, function, and behavior.

  2. Episode 2

    Animals On Land

    Oct 10, 1965

    How animals get from place to place, including burrowing, crawling, climbing trees, running,.

  3. Episode 3

    Animals In The Water

    Oct 17, 1965

    "Animals In The Water" studies fish, crocodiles, seals and whales.

  4. Episode 4

    Animal Adaptation

    Oct 24, 1965

    A look at how animals have developed special means of coping with environments - long neck of giraffe, coat of polar bear.

  5. Episode 5

    Animal Adaptation

    Oct 31, 1965

    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.

  6. Episode 6

    Animals And Food

    Nov 7, 1965

    How animals locate, obtain, process and eat food using "anatomical tools": beaks, claws etc.

  7. Episode 7

    Animals As Engineers

    Nov 14, 1965

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

  8. Episode 8

    Animals As Engineers

    Nov 21, 1965

    Program shows how animals modify their environments in many ways; by building nests.

  9. Episode 9

    Animal Hands And Tools

    Nov 28, 1965

    Man is known as "toolmaker", although certain other animals do use tools.

  10. Episode 10

    Animal Vision And Smell

    Dec 5, 1965

    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.

  11. Episode 11

    Animal Territory And Aggression

    Dec 12, 1965

    A look at various ways animals and man defend their homes and their young.

  12. Episode 12

    Animal Social Behavior

    Dec 19, 1965

  13. Episode 13

    Episode 13

    Dec 26, 1965

  14. Episode 14

    Animal Learning

    Jan 2, 1966

    How much of animal behavior is inherent, and how much is learned?

  15. Episode 15

    Episode 15

    Jan 9, 1966

  16. Episode 16

    Episode 16

    Jan 16, 1966

  17. Episode 17

    Man And Animals

    Jan 23, 1966

    Man, animal species, as he might be described by an objective zoologist from another planet: what is he.