The Nature of Things - Season 6
1 - Animals And Man
Air Date: 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
Air Date: October 10, 1965
How animals get from place to place, including burrowing, crawling, climbing trees, running,.
3 - Animals In The Water
Air Date: October 17, 1965
"Animals In The Water" studies fish, crocodiles, seals and whales.
4 - Animal Adaptation
Air Date: 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
Air Date: 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
Air Date: November 7, 1965
How animals locate, obtain, process and eat food using "anatomical tools": beaks, claws etc.
7 - Animals As Engineers
Air Date: November 14, 1965
Animals modify their environments in many ways: by building nests, damming streams.
8 - Animals As Engineers
Air Date: November 21, 1965
Program shows how animals modify their environments in many ways; by building nests.
9 - Animal Hands And Tools
Air Date: November 28, 1965
Man is known as "toolmaker", although certain other animals do use tools.
10 - Animal Vision And Smell
Air Date: 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
Air Date: December 12, 1965
A look at various ways animals and man defend their homes and their young.
12 - Animal Social Behavior
Air Date: December 19, 1965
13 - Episode 13
Air Date: December 26, 1965
14 - Animal Learning
Air Date: January 2, 1966
How much of animal behavior is inherent, and how much is learned?
15 - Episode 15
Air Date: January 9, 1966
16 - Episode 16
Air Date: January 16, 1966
17 - Man And Animals
Air Date: January 23, 1966
Man, animal species, as he might be described by an objective zoologist from another planet: what is he.