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What is an Animal?

What is an Animal?

Season 1 Episode 1
14:56
What’s the Most “Animal” Animal?

What’s the Most “Animal” Animal?

Season 1 Episode 2
11:29
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
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Crash Course Zoology

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In this fourteen-episode series made in partnership with PBS and Nature, Crash Course Zoology will 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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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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