David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities
David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities
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David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities

7.3 / 10
2013
4 seasons
27 episodes
Documentary

Sir David shines the spotlight on some of nature’s evolutionary anomalies and reveals how these curious animals continue to baffle and fascinate.

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Seasons

  • Stretched to the Limit

    1.Stretched to the Limit

    8.0
    29-01-201322m

    Some animals appear to have taken Nature’s gifts and stretched them to extreme limits. With these two natural curiosities one creature, the giraffe, has ended up with a super-stret...

  • A Curious Hoax?

    2.A Curious Hoax?

    7.5
    05-02-201322m

    David discovers the curiosities that have led to accusations of forgery but have ultimately helped us rethink evolution. When early explorers brought the first specimen of a duck-b...

  • Young Wrinklies

    3.Young Wrinklies

    8.0
    12-02-201322m

    David encounters two examples where Nature has tinkered with the aging process to alarmingly different effect – the first grows old while trapped in a young body while the second l...

  • A Curious Twist

    4.A Curious Twist

    8.0
    19-02-201322m

    The single spiral tusk of the narwhal inspiration for tales of unicorns and the myriad variations on the twist of the snail shell have delighted and fascinated naturalists and arti...

  • Seeing the Pattern

    5.Seeing the Pattern

    8.0
    26-02-201322m

    Zebra stripes vary subtly between the different species but there is one group of animals that has evolved colourful patterns of seemingly infinite variety, the butterflies. In thi...

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