''Weird Nature'' is a 2002 British

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produced by

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for the

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. The series features strange behavior in nature—specifically, the animal world. The series now airs on

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. The series took three years to make and a new filming technique was used to show animal movements in 3D.More hi-tech animals lead BBC line-up

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, 5 December 2001. Retrieved 28 September 2010 Each episode, however, tended to end with a piece about how humans are probably the oddest species of all. For example, in the end of the episode about locomotion, the narrator states how unusual it is for a mammal to be bipedal. In the episode about defences, the narrator explains that humans have no real natural defences, save for their big brains.

Episodes

Series 1 (2002)

References

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