Nature Knows Best

It's no secret that birds were the inspiration for the first aeroplanes but, in this episode, Danni Washington takes a look at how exactly that connection succeeded.

Join Danni as she tours the `living building' known as the Bullit Center, a six-story structure that mimics a tree by creating energy, collecting water, and recycling its own waste.

Fish help people to build better armour; woodpeckers help people to address concussions; a deadly creature saves lives by keeping planes in the sky during icy conditions.

A reef that's full of life; an invention based on lobster eyes; becoming one with the fish by turning feet into fins; riding inside a vehicle based on sharks, whales and dolphins.

Humans destroy the planet to create energy; finding ways to improve solar power, wind power and even kinetic power.

A look at how nature has inspired inventions; Velcro was influenced by the sticky burrs of the burdock plant; robots that can scale walls; suction cups inspired by one sucky fish; an innovation based on the gecko.