Weird Creatures with Nick Baker - Season 1

Weird Creatures with Nick Baker - Season 1

Season 1

Nick Baker searches for some of nature's Weird Creatures - from an elusive armadillo that swims through sand dunes, to a lizard that squirts blood from its eyes. For Nick, these are the unsung heroes of evolutionary biology. From scuba diving in Lake Titicaca to a rickety ultralight above the Argentinean desert, Nick's journeys are adventurous

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Episodes7
DatesJan 12, 2007 - Feb 23, 2007
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Episodes

Blood Squirting Lizard
Season 1Episode 160 min

Blood Squirting Lizard

Nick heads to cowboy country - southeast Arizona - in search of the horned lizard, a reptile with an amazing trick up its spiny sleeve. Armed with a high-speed camera, Nick finds a whole range of animals with spectacular defence mechanisms, but his target weird creature promises to deliver a literally eye-popping spectacle.

Jan 12, 2007
Vampire Fish
Season 1Episode 260 min

Vampire Fish

Nick heads to Peru in search of the vampire fish, a parasitic animal associated with some particularly unpleasant tales.

Jan 19, 2007
Pink Fairy Armadillo
Season 1Episode 360 min

Pink Fairy Armadillo

Nick travels the same Mendoza desert roads as Charles Darwin two centuries before, trying all his trapping tricks to find a 'Pink Fairy Armadillo'.

Jan 26, 2007
Saggy-Skinned Frog
Season 1Episode 460 min

Saggy-Skinned Frog

Nick journeys to the Andes to seek out the giant 'saggy-skinned' Lake Titicaca frog, the world's largest aquatic frog.

Feb 2, 2007
The Croc from Mars
Season 1Episode 560 min

The Croc from Mars

Nick journeys to India in search of one of world's biggest reptiles - the gharial crocodile.

Feb 9, 2007
Basking Shark
Season 1Episode 660 min

Basking Shark

Nick is in the UK to seek out the elusive basking shark - a fish as long as a London bus and heavier than most elephants.

Feb 16, 2007
Star-Nosed Mole
Season 1Episode 760 min

Star-Nosed Mole

In this programme Nick heads to Manitoba in Canada to track down the star-nosed mole, whose 22-tentacled nose enables it to find food at lightning speed.

Feb 23, 2007

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