David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities

David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities

2013 4 Seasons ⭐ 7.3
Documentary

Sir David shines the spotlight on some of nature’s evolutionary anomalies and reveals how these curious animals continue to baffle and fascinate.

Seasons

1. Stretched to the Limit

2013-01-29 • ⭐ 8.0

Some animals appear to have taken Nature’s gifts and stretched them to extreme limits. With these two natural curiosities one creature, the giraffe, has ended up with a super-stre…

2. A Curious Hoax?

2013-02-05 • ⭐ 7.5

David discovers the curiosities that have led to accusations of forgery but have ultimately helped us rethink evolution. When early explorers brought the first specimen of a duck-…

3. Young Wrinklies

2013-02-12 • ⭐ 8.0

David encounters two examples where Nature has tinkered with the aging process to alarmingly different effect – the first grows old while trapped in a young body while the second …

4. A Curious Twist

2013-02-19 • ⭐ 8.0

The single spiral tusk of the narwhal inspiration for tales of unicorns and the myriad variations on the twist of the snail shell have delighted and fascinated naturalists and art…

5. Seeing the Pattern

2013-02-26 • ⭐ 8.0

Zebra stripes vary subtly between the different species but there is one group of animals that has evolved colourful patterns of seemingly infinite variety, the butterflies. In th…

Top Cast

David Attenborough
David Attenborough

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