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
Episodes
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.
Vampire Fish
Nick heads to Peru in search of the vampire fish, a parasitic animal associated with some particularly unpleasant tales.
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'.
Saggy-Skinned Frog
Nick journeys to the Andes to seek out the giant 'saggy-skinned' Lake Titicaca frog, the world's largest aquatic frog.
The Croc from Mars
Nick journeys to India in search of one of world's biggest reptiles - the gharial crocodile.
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.
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.
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