The Nature of Things
Season 6
1965 • 17 Episodes
Episodes
1. Animals And Man
October 3, 1965
A series studying animal kingdom, and man's place in it, through comparisons of anatomy, function, and behavior.
2. Animals On Land
October 10, 1965
How animals get from place to place, including burrowing, crawling, climbing trees, running,.
3. Animals In The Water
October 17, 1965
"Animals In The Water" studies fish, crocodiles, seals and whales.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Animals And Food
November 7, 1965
How animals locate, obtain, process and eat food using "anatomical tools": beaks, claws etc.
7. Animals As Engineers
November 14, 1965
Animals modify their environments in many ways: by building nests, damming streams.
8. Animals As Engineers
November 21, 1965
Program shows how animals modify their environments in many ways; by building nests.
9. Animal Hands And Tools
November 28, 1965
Man is known as "toolmaker", although certain other animals do use tools.
10. 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.
11. Animal Territory And Aggression
December 12, 1965
A look at various ways animals and man defend their homes and their young.
12. Animal Social Behavior
December 19, 1965
No overview available.
13. Episode 13
December 26, 1965
No overview available.
14. Animal Learning
January 2, 1966
How much of animal behavior is inherent, and how much is learned?
15. Episode 15
January 9, 1966
No overview available.
16. Episode 16
January 16, 1966
No overview available.
17. Man And Animals
January 23, 1966
Man, animal species, as he might be described by an objective zoologist from another planet: what is he.