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What’s the Most “Animal” Animal?

What’s the Most “Animal” Animal?

Season 1 Episode 2
11:29
How & What Animals Eat

How & What Animals Eat

Season 1 Episode 4
13:35
Brainy & Brainless Animals

Brainy & Brainless Animals

Season 1 Episode 5
12:45
How Animals See

How Animals See

Season 1 Episode 6
12:39
How Animals Hear

How Animals Hear

Season 1 Episode 7
11:56
Ancestral & Weird Senses

Ancestral & Weird Senses

Season 1 Episode 8
12:42
Reproduction

Reproduction

Season 1 Episode 9
13:00
Animals Working Together

Animals Working Together

Season 1 Episode 10
13:21
Parasites

Parasites

Season 1 Episode 11
13:04
Phylogenetic Mysteries

Phylogenetic Mysteries

Season 1 Episode 12
12:32
What is a Species?

What is a Species?

Season 1 Episode 13
12:35
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Crash Course Zoology

What is an Animal?

Season 1 Episode 1

So what is an animal anyway? In our inaugural episode of Crash Course Zoology, we’ll endeavor to answer just that because as it turns out, it’s complicated! But before we get there we’ll need to introduce you to zoology more broadly, tell you about taxonomy, and then we’ll get to phylogenetics.

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What’s the Most “Animal” Animal?
11:29
We try to figure out what that “average” animal would really look like.
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