Name: How Do Animals Do That?
Released: 2019-01-06T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Eric Meyers

TV Show · Documentary · Educational

How do Jesus Christ lizards walk on water? How do fireflies glow in the dark? How do electric eels create electricity without electrocuting themselves? Animals can do extraordinary things the question is: how do they do it? In this show, we find out. How Do Animals Do It?

2019 · 20m

Starring Hugh Bonneville, Eric Meyers

Director Katie Buckland, Gareth Sacala

EPISODE 9

Cheesy Mice and Flatulent Manatees

A look at how thousands of bats take to the air without colliding, whether or not mice really love cheese, how cats jump so high, and why manatees are so gassy.
EPISODE 10

Flying Whales and Hippo Sunscreen

A look at why dogs tilt their heads, how massive humpback whales propel themselves into the air, if hippos sweat blood, why animals swarm, and why spiders jump out of their skin.
EPISODE 11

Smart Pups and Fish Baths

A look at how fish take a bath, how polar bears stay warm, is a pet pup smarter than a wolf, how spiders float in the air for hundreds of miles.
EPISODE 12

Headbanging Birds and Unsinkable Ants

A look at how woodpeckers avoid concussions, why giraffes' tongues are black, how ants can survive a flood, and how octopuses squeeze into tiny spaces.
EPISODE 13

Whale Songs And Cool Canines

A look at how anteaters slurp up so many ants, why beavers build dams, how canines stay cool, why humpback whales sing, and why dung beetles do what they do.
EPISODE 14

Super Sloths and Ostrich Marathons

A look at how dogs detect underwater targets, what makes ostriches nature's best marathon runners, how sloths spend so much time upside down without passing out, and can a pelican bill really hold more than his belly can.