

David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities
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David Attenborough strávil dokumentováním přírody celý život. Za tu dobu se setkal s mnoha zvláštními zvířaty, přesto by se našlo ještě několik příběhů a zkazek o úžasných stvořeních, která podněcují i jeho zvědavost. Pětidílná dokumentární minisérie Přírodní kuriozity Davida Attenborougha odhaluje tajemství mnoha přírodních záhad – od toho proč má zebra pruhy až po evoluční přešlap ptakopyska, který klade vejce. Díky Davidovu vypravěčskému talentu v kombinaci se skvělými záběry vznikl seriál, jaký jste ještě neviděli.

Some animals appear to have taken Nature’s gifts and stretched them to extreme limits. With these two natural curiosities one creature, the giraffe, has ended up with a super-stretched neck, the other, the chameleon, a super stretchy tongue. In both cases nature has found a way to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.

David discovers the curiosities that have led to accusations of forgery but have ultimately helped us rethink evolution. When early explorers brought the first specimen of a duck-billed platypus back to England in 1799, it was thought so bizarre it was deemed a hoax, while the midwife toad became the centre of a raging scientific storm in the 1920s that led to accusations of fakery.

David encounters two examples where Nature has tinkered with the aging process to alarmingly different effect – the first grows old while trapped in a young body while the second looks old from birth but might hold the key to a long life.

The single spiral tusk of the narwhal inspiration for tales of unicorns and the myriad variations on the twist of the snail shell have delighted and fascinated naturalists and artists since the dawn of civilization.

Zebra stripes vary subtly between the different species but there is one group of animals that has evolved colourful patterns of seemingly infinite variety, the butterflies. In this episode David looks at two examples of animal patterns that have bedazzled and baffled science for a long time, and uses modern tools to unlock their secrets.
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