The Nature of Things

Season 6

17 episodes · Oct 3, 1965

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  • S6E1

    Animals And Man

    Oct 3, 1965

    A series studying animal kingdom, and man's place in it, through comparisons of anatomy, function, and behavior.

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  • S6E2

    Animals On Land

    Oct 10, 1965

    How animals get from place to place, including burrowing, crawling, climbing trees, running,.

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  • S6E3

    Animals In The Water

    Oct 17, 1965

    "Animals In The Water" studies fish, crocodiles, seals and whales.

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  • S6E4

    Animal Adaptation

    Oct 24, 1965

    A look at how animals have developed special means of coping with environments - long neck of giraffe, coat of polar bear.

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  • S6E5

    Animal Adaptation

    Oct 31, 1965

    A look at process of natural selection by which animals have developed special means of coping with their environments: long neck of giraffe, coat of polar bear.

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  • S6E6

    Animals And Food

    Nov 7, 1965

    How animals locate, obtain, process and eat food using "anatomical tools": beaks, claws etc.

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  • S6E7

    Animals As Engineers

    Nov 14, 1965

    Animals modify their environments in many ways: by building nests, damming streams.

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  • S6E8

    Animals As Engineers

    Nov 21, 1965

    Program shows how animals modify their environments in many ways; by building nests.

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  • S6E9

    Animal Hands And Tools

    Nov 28, 1965

    Man is known as "toolmaker", although certain other animals do use tools.

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  • S6E10

    Animal Vision And Smell

    Dec 5, 1965

    Different combinations of senses are dominant in activities of different animals: vision and smell in insects, smell and hearing in most mammals, vision and touch in higher primates.

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  • S6E11

    Animal Territory And Aggression

    Dec 12, 1965

    A look at various ways animals and man defend their homes and their young.

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  • S6E12

    Animal Social Behavior

    Dec 19, 1965
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  • S6E13

    Episode 13

    Dec 26, 1965
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  • S6E14

    Animal Learning

    Jan 2, 1966

    How much of animal behavior is inherent, and how much is learned?

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  • S6E15

    Episode 15

    Jan 9, 1966
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  • S6E16

    Episode 16

    Jan 16, 1966
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  • S6E17

    Man And Animals

    Jan 23, 1966

    Man, animal species, as he might be described by an objective zoologist from another planet: what is he.

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