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Inside Nature's Giants

TV·2009–2012·4 seasons, 18 episodes·Channel 4·Documentary·1h

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Inside Nature's Giants is a British science documentary, first broadcast in June 2009 by Channel 4. The documentary shows experts performing dissection on some of nature's largest animals, including whales and elephants. The programme is presented by Mark Evans. The series attempts to uncover the secrets of the animals examined. Mark is assisted by evolutionary biologists Richard Dawkins and Simon Watt, and comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg. The show is currently airing on PBS in the United States and repeats are currently airing on Eden and Watch in the UK. There is an iPad application that allows you to see every animal the show have worked on close up.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01The Sperm WhaleS03E02 · 10.0
  2. 02The CamelS03E03 · 10.0The BAFTA-winning Inside Nature's Giants team returns for a new series, heading deep into the Australian Outback to explore the ultimate desert survivor: the camel. We don't think of Australia as the home of camels, but in the middle of this vast island there are over a million feral dromedaries roaming around. European settlers introduced them over a century ago to help build Australia's railways and explore the Outback. But with the advent of roads, cars and trucks, camels were no longer needed, so their owners released them into the desert. Mark Evans and Joy Reidenberg brave the baking desert to dissect a camel. They uncover the secret of the camel's hump and investigate how its elastic legs, stretchy lips and pedestal are among the many surprising adaptations that enable the camel to thrive in such a dry and hostile environment.
  3. 03The Dinosaur BirdS03E04 · 10.0The BAFTA-winning series returns to Australia on the trail of a bird that's been described as a living dinosaur and hides in Queensland's tropical rainforests: the Cassowary. The Cassowary is a gigantic bird with a fearsome reputation. It can be taller and heavier than a full-grown man and is armed with five-inch talons that have actually killed humans It has earned the dubious reputation of being the most dangerous bird in the world, yet unless the Cassowary feels threatened it struts quietly around the jungle and occasionally the coastline. It has a bright blue head, adorned with a horn-like crown and red pendulums of flesh dangling from its neck. By any standards this is a bizarre bird. Mark Evans and Joy Reidenberg carry out a dissection on a Cassowary that was hit by a car. Unfortunately, such accidents are quite common on roads that cut through their territory.

Cast

Mark EvansMark EvansPresenter
Joy Reidenberg
Joy ReidenbergPresenter
Simon Watt
Simon WattPresenterRichard DawkinsRichard DawkinsPresenter

Episodes by season

Season014Episodes2009Aired—Season avg
  1. S01E01The ElephantJune 29, 2009—This programme looks at how evolution has overcome the challenges of being as big as an elephant. Elephants feed on plants with very little
  2. S01E02The WhaleJuly 6, 2009—In this episode experts dissect a 65-foot, 60-ton fin whale - second only in size to its 'cousin' the blue whale - that has died after being
  3. S01E03The CrocodileJuly 13, 2009—Veterinary scientist Mark Evans joins experts in anatomy, evolution and behaviour in a bid to get under the skin of the crocodile. Meanwhil
  4. S01E04The GiraffeJuly 20, 2009—Veterinary scientist Mark Evans acts as guide as a team of experts investigate the giraffe. Creationists question how this extraordinary cr

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season024Episodes2010Aired—Season avg
  1. S02E01The Great White SharkJune 8, 2010—The experts travel to South Africa to dissect a 900kg, 15-foot-long great white shark.
  2. S02E02The Monster PythonJune 15, 2010—
  3. S02E03The Big CatsJune 22, 2010—The experts dissect a lion and a tiger, and travel to South Africa to see lions in the wild.
  4. S02E04The Giant SquidOctober 14, 2010—

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season03Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2011Aired 10.0Season avg
  1. S03E01The Polar BearJune 30, 2011—
  2. S03E02Season's bestThe Sperm WhaleAugust 7, 2011 10.0
  3. S03E03The CamelAugust 30, 2011 10.0The BAFTA-winning Inside Nature's Giants team returns for a new series, heading deep into the Australian Outback to explore the ultimate des
  4. S03E04The Dinosaur BirdSeptember 6, 2011 10.0The BAFTA-winning series returns to Australia on the trail of a bird that's been described as a living dinosaur and hides in Queensland's tr
  5. S03E05The Leatherback TurtleSeptember 13, 2011—The team travel to Florida to dissect the ocean's largest reptile - the leatherback turtle. They uncover the evolutionary mystery of how tur
  6. S03E06The RacehorseSeptember 20, 2011—The thoroughbred racehorse is one of the greatest athletes on the planet, galloping with incredible speed and stamina for such a large anima

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season044Episodes2012Aired 10.0Season avg
  1. S04E01Rogue BaboonJanuary 10, 2012 10.0
  2. S04E02The HippoApril 9, 2012 10.0So many hippos congregate to feed in Zambia's Luangwa Valley that they threaten the survival of other species in the park, so the authoritie
  3. S04E03The KangarooApril 16, 2012—Mark Evans and Joy Reidenberg head to Australia to dissect its most iconic animal, and find the marsupials' reproductive organs to be most s
  4. S04E04The JungleApril 23, 2012—The team take on their hardest challenge so far, to dissect an entire ecosystem - the jungle. Deep in the rainforest of Borneo they erect a

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

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