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10 Episodes 2016 - 2016
Episode 1
Mon, May 16, 2016
Artic creatures aren't bothered by the cold. Rather, they fear the warmth caused by human activity that is setting the 'Earth's freezer' to 'defrost'.
Episode 2
Tue, Jun 21, 2016
Serene as it seems, Yellowstone National Park is more unpredictable than an atom of Radium -226, thanks to the active super volcano below it.
Episode 3
Wed, Jun 22, 2016
Most of Earth's animals live in the sea, where they form a "living soup" or a "massive death chowder" in which it's eat or be eaten.
Episode 4
Thu, Jun 23, 2016
The wildebeest, one of the many species of ungulates and "cud munchers" that populate the Serengeti, take part in a grand migration every year.
Episode 5
Fri, Jun 24, 2016
Many of the flora and fauna of Madagascar are found nowhere else on Earth, which is why the island isn't called "Normal-a-gascar."
Episode 6
Mon, Jun 27, 2016
Penguins, "the natural world's answer to Charlie Chaplin," only have to waddle about to make children -- and Amstrong Wedgewood -- smile.
Episode 7
Tue, Jun 28, 2016
Life on islands evolves in isolation from the wider world, and in a manner that is "absolutely potty." Much of this life is weird and wonderful.
Episode 8
Wed, Jun 29, 2016
The great apes, not to be confused with monkeys, have opposable thumbs, complex social politics and other "phenomenally humanlike" qualities.
Episode 9
Thu, Jun 30, 2016
In forests, the perfect combination of sunlight and rain "makes trees grow like billy-o." Among these trees, an entire world springs into being.
Episode 10
Fri, Jul 1, 201625 mins
In canvassing this presentation on bears (but not the koala bear, which is a marsupial), narrator Armstrong Wedgewood fondly recalls voice acting he'd done for Patrick's Pipe, an unsuccessful 1982 children's show canceled for drug references and underage smoking.