Amazing Animal Clues
About
Discover how animal bodies work and what their movements, shapes, and tracks can tell us. Explore whiskers, gills, enormous whales, living dinosaurs, footprints, and winter survival.
Episodes
1. Why Do Cats Have Whiskers?
Follow a whisker from its fine tip to the nerves beneath a cat's skin. Discover touch-sensitive hairs on the face and wrists, scientific investigations, and clues in a cat's posture.
2. How Do Fish Breathe?
Follow water through a fish's gills, compare gills with lungs, and discover how rivers and ponds get the oxygen their animals need.
3. How Big Is a Blue Whale?
Measure an ocean giant through photographs, then follow its enormous meals down to tiny krill and the cells that feed them.
4. Meet the Dinosaurs of Your Backyard
Follow feathers, bones, and fossil nests to discover why a familiar backyard bird belongs to the dinosaur family.
5. The Great Animal Footprint Mystery
Compare paw prints, snow slides, and chewed wood to discover the different visitors along a North American waterside.
6. Why Do Animals Hibernate?
Follow ground squirrels, bears, bats, and pikas through different ways of surviving a season with less food.