Nature Knows Best

It's no secret that birds were the inspiration for the first aeroplanes but, in this episode, Danni Washington takes a look at how exactly that connection succeeded.

Join Danni as she tours the `living building' known as the Bullit Center, a six-story structure that mimics a tree by creating energy, collecting water, and recycling its own waste.

Every species found in nature is a survivor. Danni discovers what we can learn from others to protect ourselves. She explores how fish are helping us build better armour, and how one of the deadliest creatures is helping to keep planes in the sky.

The ocean covers more than 70 per cent of our planet's surface and humankind has only explored about five of it. Danni continues the investigation, heading under the sea and becomes one with the fish by turning her feet into fins.

Everything uses energy but humans are the only species destroying our planet to create it. Danni discovers how other organisms gather energy by studying their eyes, their fins, and the ways they move.

Danni takes a fascinating and fun look at Velcro and other ways inventors have `stuck' with nature, including robots that can scale walls and an innovation based on the holy grail of all adhesively inclined animals.