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Crash Course Zoology

Crash Course Zoology

Take a rapid deep dive into the weird and wonderful biology of animals. Host, wildlife ecologist, and conservation scientist, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant will guide us across the tree of life as we endeavor to answer what makes an animal an animal anyway?

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Animals Working Together
We dive into the amazing ways animals interact with each other.
Frontiers in Zoology
We review all that we've learned in this final episode.
What is a Species?
We try to figure what "species" really means.
Phylogenetic Mysteries
We try to answer mysteries from DNA sequences to where all the baby eels are!
Parasites
We explore parasites' ecology and evolution in our ecosystem.
Ancestral & Weird Senses
We discuss how animals use senses to explore their environment and communicate.
Reproduction
We explore sex and gender and how animals pass down genetic information.
How Animals Hear
We explore the evolution of ears and animals' genetic adaptations of them.
How Animals See
We walk through the history of eyes, how they work, and vision's evolutionary advantage.
Brainy & Brainless Animals
We take a closer look at brains, how animals use them, and how some evolved to lose them.