September 17, 2007
What animals, whether two-legged, four-legged or winged, can break the land speed/air speed of 30 miles per hour, the footspeed ma...Read more
September 24, 2007
Animals who represent something to us, beyond themselves and majestic wildlife: the lion as courage; the bear as strength and fort...Read more
October 1, 2007
The nature, function and wide variety of tails in the animal kingdom, from the prehensile tails of the New World monkeys, to the f...Read more
October 15, 2007
Everything that’s special about fish, both the bony and the cartilaginous, from breathing with gills, to their scales, to their fi...Read more
October 22, 2007
A closer look at the domestic dog: its super senses, how breeding has changed its appearance and why, different breeds and their h...Read more
October 29, 2007
The cat family, from the domestic cat to the wild cats: how size is not the factor that separates the big cats from the rest of th...Read more
November 5, 2007
A comparative look at the members of the dog and cat family: their super senses, their respective roles as carnivorous predators, ...Read more
November 12, 2007
A panoramic look at a variety of reptiles, from snakes to lizards to alligators to turtles and tortoises. What makes a reptile a r...Read more
November 19, 2007
The world of the domestic horse, from breeds to breeding, to the biggest and the smallest, the horse’s historic relationship with ...Read more
January 14, 2008
Episode 11 of Season 4 premiered on January 14, 2008
January 21, 2008
A panorama of interesting animals whose looks defy their true identity, from the naked mole rat (not a mole, not a rat), to the ok...Read more
January 28, 2008
A walk on the wild side with members of the pig family and those rodents whose names have negative connotations but who are really...Read more
February 4, 2008
A visit into the world of the arachnids, and a vivid explanation of which animals are venomous and why, like the tarantula and the...Read more
February 11, 2008
A very close look at animals with interesting skin such as turtles in their shells and thick-skinned pachyderms like the hippo and...Read more
February 25, 2008
A panoramic look at animals that are truly amazing, from the echidna, an egg-laying mammal, to a kangaroo that lives in trees, to ...Read more
April 7, 2008
A close look at a family of eight chimpanzees, living in an-almostlike-the-wild habitat in the zoo, their individual stories and s...Read more
April 14, 2008
An introduction to animals with wings from birds, to mammals, to insects, and what makes flight possible, and necessary, in the animal world.
April 21, 2008
Animals who have more than the traditional five senses, from the smell-taste sense of those possessing the amazing Jacobson organ ...Read more
April 28, 2008
A journey down the life-sustaining river where near-the-water dwellers include the humongous Nile hippopotamus, the giant anteater...Read more
May 5, 2008
Some of the whopping misconceptions that still exist from ‘dolphins are fish’ (not), to ‘bald eagles are bald’ (not), to the belie...Read more
May 12, 2008
Delving into the secrets of one of the most beloved insects in the world: the colorful, graceful, winged butterflies: what they ea...Read more
June 30, 2008
The great predatory birds, from the eagle to the hawk to the owl; how they hunt, how they fly, their super senses, and the adaptat...Read more