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How & What Animals Eat

How & What Animals Eat

Season 1 Episode 4
13:35
Brainy & Brainless Animals

Brainy & Brainless Animals

Season 1 Episode 5
12:45
How Animals See

How Animals See

Season 1 Episode 6
12:39
How Animals Hear

How Animals Hear

Season 1 Episode 7
11:56
Ancestral & Weird Senses

Ancestral & Weird Senses

Season 1 Episode 8
12:42
Reproduction

Reproduction

Season 1 Episode 9
13:00
Animals Working Together

Animals Working Together

Season 1 Episode 10
13:21
Parasites

Parasites

Season 1 Episode 11
13:04
Phylogenetic Mysteries

Phylogenetic Mysteries

Season 1 Episode 12
12:32
What is a Species?

What is a Species?

Season 1 Episode 13
12:35
Frontiers in Zoology

Frontiers in Zoology

Season 1 Episode 14
12:35
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Crash Course Zoology

What’s the Most “Animal” Animal?

Season 1 Episode 2

Picture an “animal” in your mind right now. What does it look like? A dog? A lion? Maybe a sloth, pangolin, naked mole-rat, or even just a human? There’s a good chance that you imagined a mammal, which is understandable since we are mammals after all, but there is so much more animal life out there! Today, we’re going to try to figure out what that “average” animal would really look like.

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Frontiers in Zoology
12:35
We review all that we've learned in this final episode.
What is a Species?
12:35
We try to figure what "species" really means.
Phylogenetic Mysteries
12:32
We try to answer mysteries from DNA sequences to where all the baby eels are!
Parasites
13:04
We explore parasites' ecology and evolution in our ecosystem.
Animals Working Together
13:21
We dive into the amazing ways animals interact with each other.
Reproduction
13:00
We explore sex and gender and how animals pass down genetic information.
Ancestral & Weird Senses
12:42
We discuss how animals use senses to explore their environment and communicate.
How Animals Hear
11:56
We explore the evolution of ears and animals' genetic adaptations of them.
How Animals See
12:39
We walk through the history of eyes, how they work, and vision's evolutionary advantage.
Brainy & Brainless Animals
12:45
We take a closer look at brains, how animals use them, and how some evolved to lose them.
How & What Animals Eat
13:35
We explore carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores and how animals help redefine food.
Diversity of Bodies & Sizes (but mostly crabs)
13:16
We take a look at the various ways animals can grow.
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