The BEST episodes of The Nature of Things season 6

#1 - Animals as Engineers (2)

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1965

Program shows how animals modify their environments in many ways; by building nests, damming streams, and by breaking down forests.

#2 - Animal Hands and Tools

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/1965

Man is known as the "toolmaker", although certain other animals do use tools.

#3 - Man and Animals

Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1966

Man, the animal species, as he might be described by an objective zoologist from another planet: what is he, his anatomy, his reproduction, his behavior and his ecology. A summary of the entire series.

#4 - January 16, 1966

Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1966

#5 - January 9, 1966

Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1966

#6 - Animal Learning

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/2/1966

How much of animal behavior is inherent, and how much is learned?

#7 - December 26, 1965

Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/26/1965

#8 - Animal Social Behavior

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/19/1965

#9 - Animal Territory and Aggression

Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1965

A look at the various ways animals and man defend their homes and their young.

#10 - Animal Vision and Smell

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1965

Different combinations of the senses are dominant in the activities of different animals: vision and smell in insects, smell and hearing in most mammals, vision and touch in the higher primates, including man.

#11 - Animals and Food

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1965

How animals locate, obtain, process and eat food using "anatomical tools": beaks, claws etc.

#12 - Animal Adaptation (2)

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1965

A look at the process of natural selection by which animals have developed special means of coping with their environments: the long neck of the giraffe, the coat of the polar bear, the digging claws of the mole.

#13 - Animal Adaptation (1)

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1965

A look at how animals have developed special means of coping with the environments — the long neck of the giraffe, the coat of the polar bear.

#14 - Animals on Land

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/1965

How animals get from place to place, including burrowing, crawling, climbing trees, running, and jumping.

#15 - Animals and Man

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/1965

A series studying the animal kingdom, and man's place in it, through comparisons of anatomy, function, and behavior.

#16 - Animals as Engineers (1)

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1965

Animals modify their environments in many ways: by building nests, damming streams, by breaking down forests.

#17 - Animals In The Water

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/1995

"Animals In The Water" studies fish, crocodiles, seals and whales.