Inside Nature's Giants - Season 3 - Eps 3: The Camel
The BAFTA-winning Inside Nature's Giants team returns for a new series, heading deep into the Australian Outback to explore the ultimate desert survivor: the camel. We don't think of Australia as the home of camels, but in the middle of this vast island there are over a million feral dromedaries roaming around. European settlers introduced them over a century ago to help build Australia's railways and explore the Outback. But with the advent of roads, cars and trucks, camels were no longer needed, so their owners released them into the desert. Mark Evans and Joy Reidenberg brave the baking desert to dissect a camel. They uncover the secret of the camel's hump and investigate how its elastic legs, stretchy lips and pedestal are among the many surprising adaptations that enable the camel to thrive in such a dry and hostile environment.
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
