Inside Nature's Giants - Season 1 - Eps 1: The Elephant
This programme looks at how evolution has overcome the challenges of being as big as an elephant. Elephants feed on plants with very little nutritional value for 18 hours a day, so evolution has given them vast intestines as well as huge teeth and jaw muscles - and an equally gigantic head. But this produces another problem: how to reach food on the ground. The solution is the most versatile limb on the planet - the trunk. Capable of everything from picking up berries to ripping a tree from the ground, the trunk is a wonder of evolution. It's a Just So Story for the Darwinian age.
About Inside Nature's Giants
Title: Inside Nature's Giants
First Air Date: 2009-06-29
Last Air Date: 2012-04-23
Status: Ended
Rating: 9.5/10 (from 2 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 5
Total Episodes: 18
Network: Channel 4
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Inside Nature's Giants is a British science documentary, first broadcast in June 2009 by Channel 4. The documentary shows experts performing dissection on some of nature's largest animals, including whales and elephants. The programme is presented by Mark Evans. The series attempts to uncover the secrets of the animals examined. Mark is assisted by evolutionary biologists Richard Dawkins and Simon Watt, and comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg. The show is currently airing on PBS in the United States and repeats are currently airing on Eden and Watch in the UK. There is an iPad application that allows you to see every animal the show have worked on close up.
Cast
Mark Evans
Presenter
Joy Reidenberg
Presenter
Simon Watt
Presenter
Richard Dawkins
Presenter
