Super Senses

In this episode, the animal sense of sight is explored, and there's a lot more to this than meets the naked eye.

In this episode, travel from the desert to the forest, from Australia to Borneo and back to learn how diverse species never miss an auditory trick.

Get in touch with the feelings of wild animals. Really in touch. Animals rely heavily on their sense of touch for survival, and with a fine line between pleasure and pain, not knowing the difference can be absolutely fatal.

In this episode, examine how things taste and how vital scent is from the animal perspective. In mammals, taste receptor cells are scattered over the tongue, but in other creatures, they can be located in some fairly odd places.

Infrared light and ultrasound are all found within a spectrum of sensory information that just passes by ordinary humans. This episode is all about those animal "super human" senses that can detect magnetic fields, electric fields and infrared radiation.

There's a spectrum of sensations that some animals have which just pass humans by, a kind of "sixth sense" that still defies explanation.