Bizarre Breeding
Series exploring strange behaviour in the animal kingdom focuses on breeding rituals, from dancing scorpions to mice that mate themselves to death.
Discover dancing scorpions, courting birds that give trinkets as gifts, mice that mate themselves to death and a mantis that eats its partner in an exploration of strange behaviour in nature's bizarre breeding rituals.
Meet frogs that rear their young under their skin, fish that leap from the water to lay eggs on leaves and a bullfrog father that becomes lifeguard to his offspring. There are fish that change sex, others that bubble-wrap their young, male hamsters that act as midwives and even a male that becomes pregnant. And, in this weird world, discover a shrew that creates a living daisy chain of its own young.
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Clips
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Skincare
Duration: 01:01
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Dying for sex
Duration: 01:43
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Genetic determination
Duration: 01:35
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Objects of desire
Duration: 02:24
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Series Producer | John Downer |
Narrator | Ciaran McMenamin |
Camera Operator | Rod Clarke |
Camera Operator | Steve Downer |
Camera Operator | Warwick Sloss |
Camera Operator | John Waters |
Broadcasts
- Wed 3 Apr 2002 20:25大象传媒 One Scotland
- Thu 4 Apr 2002 20:30大象传媒 One except Scotland
- Thu 25 Apr 2002 02:15
- Thu 23 Jan 2003 20:00大象传媒 Two Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales & England only
- Tue 1 Jun 2004 01:50大象传媒 One except Scotland
- Sat 5 Jun 2004 02:30大象传媒 One Scotland
- Thu 8 Dec 2005 03:25
- Tue 11 Mar 2014 20:00
- Wed 12 Mar 2014 01:50
- Tue 28 Feb 2017 19:30
- Wed 9 Jan 2019 19:30