Inside Natures Giants Episode 1 The Elephant

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WARNING - contains EXPLICIT scenes of animal dissections.

Season 1 Episode 1 : The Elephant

Inside Nature's Giants dissects the largest animals on the planet to uncover their evolutionary secrets. Most wildlife documentaries tell you how an animal behaves, but by dissecting the animal and studying its anatomy we can we can see how an animal works. Experts in comparative anatomy, evolution and behaviour will put some of the most popular and enigmatic large animals under the knife. Veterinary scientist, Mark Evans, will interpret their findings, biologist Simon Watts tests the animals' physiology in the field and Richard Dawkins traces back the animals' place on the tree of life.

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.

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[evirus]

@kvg44gbs oh i love that fairy tale, main character is a little sadistic though.

[ann998]

Looking at the audience in this show, it seems that England's next generation of vets is going to be overwelmingly composed of women (not that there is anything wrong with that).

[EllysaE]

my parents (and i guess by extension, me) have a super old piano with ivory keys ... now I feel bad about that ... : (

[Dogluvr611]

can someone tell me how i can get this footage to use in a school project???

[notEisiger]

After That we went To Elementary School To learn When Capitalization is Appropriate

[ukuledoj]

@kvg44gbs shit.. he didn't have any lights to see. Oh man!

[Lampy73]

'He' didn't.

[TheFunkyAlchemist]

7:32 LOL

Size is everything

[OrGaZmO666]

lol that was funny!

[radeon9700pro]

Fascinating, thanks for uploading!