Animal Atlas - Season 4
Season 4
Network
Episodes26
DatesSep 17, 2007 - Jun 30, 2008
Episodes
Season 4Episode 160 min
30 MPH
What animals, whether two-legged, four-legged or winged, can break the land speed/air speed of 30 miles per hour, the footspeed man has never reached. From the very fast: the cheetah, the horse, the peregrine falcon; to the slow and steady tortoise.
Sep 17, 2007
Season 4Episode 260 min
Who's a Symbol?
Animals who represent something to us, beyond themselves and majestic wildlife: the lion as courage; the bear as strength and fortitude; the bald eagle as freedom; the kangaroo as progressiveness, and a whole lot more.
Sep 24, 2007
Season 4Episode 360 min
Telltale Tails
The nature, function and wide variety of tails in the animal kingdom, from the prehensile tails of the New World monkeys, to the fly swishing tails of the pig family, to the display tails of lemurs, as well as why some animals don’t have a tail at all.
Oct 1, 2007
Season 4Episode 460 min
Heads Up!
Oct 8, 2007
Season 4Episode 560 min
Something's Fishy!
Everything that’s special about fish, both the bony and the cartilaginous, from breathing with gills, to their scales, to their fins, both single and paired, to the wide variety of coloring and markings. How fish live, swim and survive.
Oct 15, 2007
Season 4Episode 660 min
Man's Best Friend
A closer look at the domestic dog: its super senses, how breeding has changed its appearance and why, different breeds and their histories and background and what working dogs do. Also featuring the wolf, the dog’s ancestor, and various other members of the dog family from foxes to wild dogs.
Oct 22, 2007
Season 4Episode 760 min
Curious Cats
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 the wild cats, where domestic cats came from, and how wild cats hunt.
Oct 29, 2007
Season 4Episode 860 min
Felids & Canids
A comparative look at the members of the dog and cat family: their super senses, their respective roles as carnivorous predators, which is the fastest and which is the long distance runner, and how they live: the wolf’s/dog’s pack, the lion’s pride, and the solitary cheetah.
Nov 5, 2007
Season 4Episode 960 min
Who's a Reptile?
A panoramic look at a variety of reptiles, from snakes to lizards to alligators to turtles and tortoises. What makes a reptile a reptile, what characteristics they all share and what makes them different and why.
Nov 12, 2007
Season 4Episode 1060 min
The Kingdom of the Horse
The world of the domestic horse, from breeds to breeding, to the biggest and the smallest, the horse’s historic relationship with man; members of the horse family, from the donkey to the zebra; and the horse’s distant relatives in the wild, from the tapir to the rhino.
Nov 19, 2007
Season 4Episode 1160 min
Variety Show!: The Greatest Mysteries of the Animal Kingdom
A journey into the world of monkeys, from the terrestrial to the arboreal, from the New World to the Old World.
Jan 14, 2008
Season 4Episode 1260 min
Appearances Can Be Deceiving
A panorama of interesting animals whose looks defy their true identity, from the naked mole rat (not a mole, not a rat), to the okapi, the only living relative of the giraffe, to the false gharial and its “true” crocodilian counterpart.
Jan 21, 2008
Season 4Episode 1360 min
Rats and Pigs
A walk on the wild side with members of the pig family and those rodents whose names have negative connotations but who are really remarkable, if not admirable creatures.
Jan 28, 2008
Season 4Episode 1460 min
Big Hairy Spiders & Other Toxic Creatures
A visit into the world of the arachnids, and a vivid explanation of which animals are venomous and why, like the tarantula and the rattlesnake, and which are poisonous, like the poison dart frog.
Feb 4, 2008
Season 4Episode 1560 min
Skin, Fur & Feathers
A very close look at animals with interesting skin such as turtles in their shells and thick-skinned pachyderms like the hippo and the elephant; to remarkable, animals with fur, like the polar bear with its hollow hairs; and also birds, the only animals with feathers.
Feb 11, 2008
Season 4Episode 1660 min
Variety Show!: The Most Amazing Animal Fact
A panoramic look at animals that are truly amazing, from the echidna, an egg-laying mammal, to a kangaroo that lives in trees, to the only living North American marsupial, the opossum.
Feb 25, 2008
Season 4Episode 1760 min
The Wild Life: A Chimp's Life
A close look at a family of eight chimpanzees, living in an-almostlike-the-wild habitat in the zoo, their individual stories and some amazing facts about these great apes.
Apr 7, 2008
Season 4Episode 1860 min
The Birds & the Bees... and Bats
An introduction to animals with wings from birds, to mammals, to insects, and what makes flight possible, and necessary, in the animal world.
Apr 14, 2008
Season 4Episode 1960 min
Super Senses
Animals who have more than the traditional five senses, from the smell-taste sense of those possessing the amazing Jacobson organ (snakes, lions, zebras), to the swim bladder that keeps fish from colliding into each other.
Apr 21, 2008
Season 4Episode 2060 min
The Wild Life: Life on the River's Edge
A journey down the life-sustaining river where near-the-water dwellers include the humongous Nile hippopotamus, the giant anteater, the river otter, and the strange looking bush dog.
Apr 28, 2008
Season 4Episode 2160 min
Variety Show!: The Top Misconceptions in the Animal Kingdom
Some of the whopping misconceptions that still exist from ‘dolphins are fish’ (not), to ‘bald eagles are bald’ (not), to the belief that there’s only one kind of elephant (not).
May 5, 2008
Season 4Episode 2260 min
Wings & Butterflies!
Delving into the secrets of one of the most beloved insects in the world: the colorful, graceful, winged butterflies: what they eat, how they live and how they fly.
May 12, 2008
Season 4Episode 2360 min
Birds of Prey
The great predatory birds, from the eagle to the hawk to the owl; how they hunt, how they fly, their super senses, and the adaptations that help them to pursue and capture prey; their fascinating historic relationship with mankind.
Jun 30, 2008
Season 4Episode 2430 min
The Wild Life: Life's A Crowd
Season 4Episode 2530 min
Wings? Who Needs Wings?!
Season 4Episode 2630 min
Who's At The Zoo, Too?
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