In this last episode of animal Super Senses we take the grand final tour to see the greatest of all the special weapons that help some animals to govern the wilderness. In this episode we literally see it, hear it, touch it, smell it and taste it like animals do. Come and see the champions of the animal supremeness yourselves.


Episode 13, The Most Amazing Senses

Factual

Documentary

Have you ever wondered why some animals have such crazy looking sense organs? Why do snakes have a split tongue? Why do elephants have such huge ears? Why do some bats have different looking ears and noses? Why do moths have antennae that look like feathers? In this series we will explore these senses and how they have evolved.

Super Senses

Series 1

Have you ever wondered why some animals have such crazy looking sense organs? 

In this episode we'll explore the animal sense of sight, and you'll see there's a lot more to this than meets the naked eye. The human imagination is limited when it comes to animal senses. People with good vision are sometimes called "eagle eyed", but eagles can see a fish from many dozen metres away. Only you won't believe how some animals see the world.


Episode 1, Sight

In this episode we travel from the desert, to the forest, Australia to Borneo and back to learn how species as diverse as Bat-eared Foxes, the Bilby, Deer, Kangaroo Rats, cicadas, Proboscis Monkeys and other creatures never miss an auditory trick.

Episode 2, Hearing

In this episode of Animal Super Senses, we get in touch with the feelings of wild animals. Really in touch. Because animals, just like humans, rely heavily on their sense of touch, every day in every way. There may be a fine line between pleasure and pain, but not knowing the difference between the two can be absolutely fatal.


Episode 3, Touch

In this episode of Animal Super Senses, we examine how things taste, and how vital scent is from the animal perspective. 

Episode 4, Taste and Smell

Infrared light, electromagnetic waves and ultrasound, are all found within a spectrum of sensory information that just passes by ordinary humans. This episode is all about those 'super human' senses - animal sensory systems that can detect magnetic fields (magneto- reception), electric fields (electroreception) and infrared radiation.

Episode 5, Superhuman Senses

There's a whole world and more than one spectrum of sensations that animals are aware of, yet which just pass humans by. And yet, while it's widely known that, for example, a dog's sense of smell is dozens of times more acute than humans', or that goats have close on a 360 degree field of vision, there's a kind of "sixth sense" that some animals have
which still defies explanation.

Episode 6, Sixth Sense

In this episode, we examine how every animal has what could be called a sense of rhythm - the human animal included. To give an obvious example, there's our internal body clock which responds to the so-called Circadian rhythm. That's the 24 hour night and day cycle.


Episode 7, Sense of Timing

While all life began in the oceans, human beings now rely on technology to navigate the seven seas - left to our own devices; we're like the proverbial fish out of water. Only the other way around. Once underwater our vision becomes blurred, with light diminished, our hearing becomes muffled and distorted, and our sense of smell is rendered useless.

Episode 8, Underwater

In this episode of Super Senses, we find out more about when senses take flight… and animals become masters of the sky! The speed and precision of a bird of prey captures our attention…and leaves us awestruck. From a soaring height they scan the ground for a pigeon-sized meal.

Episode 9, Sky

In this episode of Animal Super Senses, we find out more about the animals that live in the shadows and the adaptations they need to survive.

Episode 10, Night

In this episode of Animal Super Senses, we find out more about the animals that have their feet firmly planted on or under the ground... and find out how their senses are tuned to survive. What we see above the ground is only a small part of the natural world, a busy, complex web of life lies just beneath our feet.


Episode 11, Earth

Animals use communication to attract mates,warn off predators, defend territory, or trick their prey. And of course, it's the senses that play the key role - Sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing - all are employed to send signals to others in the hope actions speak louder than words. 
