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Nature & animals

Animals, trees and whole forests, each telling how it gets by.

0:54 the seed The Arctic vault that saves the world's seeds 0:52 the stone A pebble's 10,000-year journey from mountain to sea 0:52 the oldest tree This tree is almost 5,000 years old (and its location is secret) 0:50 the statue The dog who waited 9 years at Shibuya Station 0:49 the coral What actually happens when coral turns white 0:47 the snowflake Why every snowflake has six arms 0:51 the monarch A 3,000-mile trip to a place they've never been 0:50 the worker bee How bees give directions by dancing 0:49 the turtle How sea turtles find their way home after 25 years 0:58 the dragon Komodo dragons: the 'dragon' that's really a giant lizard 0:59 the shark The Greenland shark: a 400-year-old vertebrate 1:03 the flower Rafflesia: the giant flower that smells like rotting meat 1:04 the pigeon Cher Ami: the pigeon who saved the Lost Battalion (1918) 0:57 the godwit The baby bird that flew 13,560 km without stopping 0:59 the water bear The water bear that survived space and crashed on the Moon 0:57 the dung beetle The dung beetle that navigates by the Milky Way 0:55 the axolotl The axolotl: the salamander that never grows up 0:59 the orange cat Why are most orange cats male? The 'gangster cat' explained 1:00 the octopus Inky the octopus: the great escape down a drainpipe to the sea 0:58 the crow Crows never forget a face: the caveman mask experiment 0:56 the mantis shrimp The mantis shrimp: a punch like a bullet and eyes with 12 colour receptors 1:04 the orangutan The Tapanuli orangutan: the rarest great ape on Earth 1:03 the burr How a burr stuck to a dog became Velcro 1:05 the sloth Why sloths risk their lives once a week to go to the bathroom 1:01 the hummingbird The coin-sized bird that crosses the Gulf of Mexico nonstop 1:06 the bonsai The 400-year-old bonsai that survived Hiroshima 1:01 the cockroach Why cockroaches are so hard to get rid of 1:08 the parrot Alex the parrot: the bird who said 'I love you' 1:04 the whale shark The gentle giants of Cenderawasih Bay, Papua 0:55 the forest Pando: the forest that is actually one tree 1:02 the rhino The Javan rhino: about 50 left, all in one forest 0:57 the jellyfish The 'immortal' jellyfish that turns back into a baby 1:05 the seed Methuselah: the 2,000-year-old seed that brought back an extinct tree 1:02 the ant Leafcutter ants: farmers for 66 million years 1:00 the whale The 52-hertz whale: the loneliest voice in the ocean 1:09 the line The Wallace Line: the invisible border between Bali and Lombok 1:02 the oak The Tree That Owns Itself (and its son)