Peculiar Potions
The series exploring strange animal behaviour looks at how they use drugs and alcohol, from starlings that perform aromatherapy to monkeys with a liking for happy hour.
Series exploring strange animal behaviour looks at how a surprising number of creatures take substances for pleasure or to cure ailments. Discover starlings that use aromatherapy, chimps that administer their own medicine, an odd amphibian that can heal itself, bee bouncers that stop drunk and disorderly bees returning to the hive, monkeys whose liking for happy hour tells us about our own drinking habits, lemurs that ingest mind-altering millipedes, hedgehogs that indulge in strange rituals, cats that get high on plants and reindeer whose fondness for magic mushrooms may have spawned the greatest legend of them all.
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Clips
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Happy hour
Duration: 03:07
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A liking for licking
Duration: 01:28
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Narcotic insecticide
Duration: 02:43
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Catnip fix
Duration: 01:46
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Series Producer | John Downer |
Narrator | Ciaran McMenamin |
Camera Operator | Rod Clarke |
Camera Operator | Steve Downer |
Camera Operator | Warwick Sloss |
Camera Operator | John Waters |
Broadcasts
- Thu 9 May 2002 20:30
- Thu 23 May 2002 01:15
- Mon 10 Feb 2003 19:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two except East, South East & Yorkshire
- Tue 6 Jul 2004 01:15
- Tue 1 Apr 2014 20:30
- Wed 2 Apr 2014 01:50
- Tue 21 Mar 2017 19:30
- Wed 16 Jan 2019 19:30