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The Nature of Things
The Nature of Things

Season 6

October 3, 1965

17 Episodes

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Episodes

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E1

Animals And Man

October 3, 1965

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

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E2

Animals On Land

October 10, 1965

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

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E3

Animals In The Water

October 17, 1965

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

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E4

Animal Adaptation

October 24, 1965

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

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E5

Animal Adaptation

October 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.

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E6

Animals And Food

November 7, 1965

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

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E7

Animals As Engineers

November 14, 1965

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

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E8

Animals As Engineers

November 21, 1965

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

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E9

Animal Hands And Tools

November 28, 1965

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

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E10

Animal Vision And Smell

December 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.

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E11

Animal Territory And Aggression

December 12, 1965

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

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E12

Animal Social Behavior

December 19, 1965

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E13

Episode 13

December 26, 1965

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E14

Animal Learning

January 2, 1966

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

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E15

Episode 15

January 9, 1966

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Episode 16

January 16, 1966

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E17

Man And Animals

January 23, 1966

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