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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
Frontiers in Zoology

Frontiers in Zoology

Season 1 Episode 14
12:35
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Crash Course Zoology

What’s the Most “Animal” Animal?

Season 1 Episode 2

Picture an “animal” in your mind right now. What does it look like? A dog? A lion? Maybe a sloth, pangolin, naked mole-rat, or even just a human? There’s a good chance that you imagined a mammal, which is understandable since we are mammals after all, but there is so much more animal life out there! Today, we’re going to try to figure out what that “average” animal would really look like.

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What is an Animal?
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So what is an animal anyway?
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