Animal Senses

Season 1

From the earliest primitive life forms to sophisticated animals like mammals, primates and birds, animals have evolved powerful senses to perceive their environment. These developed senses can turn mechanical waves, airborne particles, and photons into information that helps animals find food, shelter, mates, and communicate with each other. Animal Senses traces the evolutionary history of those senses.

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6 Episodes

  • Humans vs. Animals
    E1
    Humans vs. AnimalsHumans have sharp senses, which we use explore our environment. Vibrations in the air, light, and chemicals in our food and in the air give us the information we need to survive. But some animals have taken those senses and, through evolution, turned them into marvels of biological engineering.
  • Smell
    E2
    SmellThe first sense to evolve in the first animals was chemoreception. It means being able to detect chemicals in the animal’s environment. This helps animals find prey and mates, and to sense predators from a distance.
  • Touch
    E3
    TouchThe sense of touch is useful to feel physical forces such as bites, changes in temperature, texture, etc. Some animals have become extra sensitive to feel very faint vibrations, which give them a lot of information about their environment.
  • Sight
    E4
    SightSeeing the world is one of the most amazing animal adaptations. Different types of eyes give animals different types of vision, and in some cases they can be extraordinary.
  • Hearing
    E5
    HearingSound waves are produced by movement. Animals have evolved organs to detect those sound waves in the air or water to perceive movements in their environment. This can be used to find prey, predators, and mates. These are some of the animals that have mastered the sense of hearing.
  • Super Senses
    E6
    Super SensesSome animals have senses that humans can’t even conceive. With those powers they can do marvelous things.

 

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