Weird Nature is a 2002 documentary television series produced by John Downer Productions for the BBC

BBC

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 and Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel

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. The series features strange behavior in nature--specifically, the animal world. The series now airs on the Science Channel. The series took three years to make and a new filming technique was used to show animal movements in 3D

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.

Each episode, however, tended to end with a piece about how humans are probably the oddest species of all. For example, in the end of the episode about locomotion, the narrator states how unusual it is for a mammal to be bipedal. In the episode about defences, the narrator explains that humans have no real natural defences, save for their big brains.

Season 1

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External links

• Weird Nature at John Downer Productions
• Weird Nature at BBC One
  BBC One
  BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...