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Nature
The Beauty of Ugly
Season 26
Episode 4
In the natural world, beauty can be many things -- including what we might find completely repulsive. Not only can the bizarre be attractive, it can also provide just the edge a creature needs to succeed in a difficult environment. From frogfish and hagfish to naked mole rats and elephant seals, we learn how and why ugly can be beautiful, even when it isn't pretty.
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Follow the complex lives of giant elephant bulls in Amboseli and Mount Kilimanjaro.
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Follow a female mountain lion in the Montana mountains over the course of a decade.