With bold, bright illustrations by award-winning illustrator, Becky Thorns, this is a marvelous science/biology book that will get kids thinking about how their bodies interact with and make sense of the world around them. You won't believe your eyes or ears or nose! Learn how our bodies make sense of reality in this fact packed book about sensory perception. They say that seeing is believing and there s some truth in that. Highly sensitive receptor...

A high-energy blend of wildlife footage and quirky motion graphics, this collection of 26 fun and informative one-minute video clips highlights important facts about animals, from basic to bizarre. What's on these creatures' menus? Where do they like to hang out? How do they get from place to place? Animal Crackers tells it like it is as it introduces viewers to penguins with crazy hairdos, monkeys with massive noses, dancing lemurs, ferocious frill-necked...

Mechanical engineers study the planet's prettiest bugs for flight insights.

Professor Alice Roberts is making a new human being - she is pregnant with her second child. But before he is born, she wants to find out what makes a human, human? What separates us from our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees? We share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees and yet from the moment of birth, our lives are completely different. So are we just another animal, or is there something special about being human? Before her new baby emerges...

Insects outnumber us by 200 million to one. They thrive in environments where humans cannot and without insects, entire ecosystems would collapse, crops would disappear and waste would pile high. The secret of their success? Their incredible alien anatomy. To reveal this extraordinary hidden world, entomologists Dr. James Logan and Brendan Dunphy carry out a complete insect dissection. Cutting-edge imaging technology shows us the beauty and precision...

A new test for Lyme disease in horses and dogs can better determine the stage of infection, and can increase the effectiveness of treatment.

In this episode Brian Cox visits South East Asia's 'Ring of Fire'. Attending the annual Day of the Dead in the Philippine highlands, he explores the thin line between life and death, and raises the question: what is life? Brian explains the laws governing energy and reveals life to be a conduit through which energy passes. Visiting a volcano, he demonstrates how the first spark of life may have arisen through a source of energy created by chemical...

This documentary shows the diverse and mostly unknown wildlife of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), the second largest island of the Caribbean. More than 120 birds, including 30 endemic species, are shown in their natural environment. See special sites with higher diversity and animals of special interest that share these habitats, e.g. sea turtles, lizards, snakes; and two of the most endangered land mammals-the solenodon and the hutia-in...

Oral medication reduces allergic reactions in man's best friend.

Whose five senses are superior: dogs or humans? In a showdown of the senses, who would come out as top dog: canines or humans? This junior nonfiction book for ages 6 to 9 creates a fierce but fun competition, comparing the ways dogs and humans perceive the world through each of the five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. As dogs and humans are playfully pitted against each other, with one round for each sense, young readers will discover...