The Nature of Things — Season 6
17 episodesFirst aired 3 October 1965
E1Animals And Man
Oct 1965
A series studying animal kingdom, and man's place in it, through comparisons of anatomy, function, and behavior.
- E2
Animals On Land
Oct 1965
How animals get from place to place, including burrowing, crawling, climbing trees, running,.
- E3
Animals In The Water
Oct 1965
"Animals In The Water" studies fish, crocodiles, seals and whales.
- E4
Animal Adaptation
Oct 1965
A look at how animals have developed special means of coping with environments - long neck of giraffe, coat of polar bear.
- E5
Animal Adaptation
Oct 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.
- E6
Animals And Food
Nov 1965
How animals locate, obtain, process and eat food using "anatomical tools": beaks, claws etc.
- E7
Animals As Engineers
Nov 1965
Animals modify their environments in many ways: by building nests, damming streams.
- E8
Animals As Engineers
Nov 1965
Program shows how animals modify their environments in many ways; by building nests.
- E9
Animal Hands And Tools
Nov 1965
Man is known as "toolmaker", although certain other animals do use tools.
- E10
Animal Vision And Smell
Dec 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.
- E11
Animal Territory And Aggression
Dec 1965
A look at various ways animals and man defend their homes and their young.
- E12
Animal Social Behavior
Dec 1965
- E13
Episode 13
Dec 1965
- E14
Animal Learning
Jan 1966
How much of animal behavior is inherent, and how much is learned?
- E15
Episode 15
Jan 1966
- E16
Episode 16
Jan 1966
- E17
Man And Animals
Jan 1966
Man, animal species, as he might be described by an objective zoologist from another planet: what is he.
