Devious Defences
Series exploring strange animal behaviour reveals the bizarre ways animals defend themselves, from skunks that do handstands to crabs that dress up.
Series exploring bizarre behaviour in the animal kingdom looks at creatures that employ camouflage, armour and other methods to ward off predators. Discover skunks that handstand, crabs that dress up and fish that are slime monsters. Meet an armadillo that can roll into an impregnable ball, owls and frogs that puff themselves up and a cobra that spits venom. There are fish that can copy a chequered board, octopus that shape-shift and creatures that can turn inside out. There are even birds that use projectile vomit or repulsive missiles and creatures that turn playing dead into a performance to die for. Using new filming techniques and some extraordinary special FX, this is nature as never seen before.
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Clips
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Dance of defiance
Duration: 01:31
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Slippery character
Duration: 01:35
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Playing possum
Duration: 01:47
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Eclectic dress sense
Duration: 01:35
Music Played
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Minotauri
Doom On Ice
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Narrator | Ciaran McMenamin |
Camera Operator | Rod Clarke |
Camera Operator | Steve Downer |
Camera Operator | Warwick Sloss |
Camera Operator | John Waters |
Series Producer | John Downer |
Producer | Mark Brownlow |
Broadcasts
- Thu 28 Mar 2002 20:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One Scotland
- Thu 28 Mar 2002 20:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One except Scotland
- Thu 18 Apr 2002 02:50
- Thu 16 Jan 2003 20:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales & England only
- Tue 25 May 2004 01:15
- Thu 1 Dec 2005 03:40
- Tue 4 Mar 2014 20:00
- Wed 5 Mar 2014 01:35
- Tue 21 Feb 2017 19:30
- Tue 8 Jan 2019 19:30
- Tue 14 Apr 2020 19:30