Absurd Planet

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  1. Strangest Things

  19m

  Say hello to Mother Nature’s all-star cast of confounding beasts, featuring Madagascar’s own death-metal lizard: the satanic leaf-tailed gecko.

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  2. Raging Waters

  19m

  Dive into an undersea world that's swimming with flirty amphibians, fishy friends, and sea-slug vacuums that keep things clean.

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  3. Mate Expectations

  19m

  Time to talk about the birds, the bees and all the other animals with strange mating rituals. When two scorpions make love, it’s anything but lovely.

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  4. The Cycle of Life

  19m

  For Earth’s largest rodent, life’s a beach. For mayflies, it lasts only one day. What counts isn’t quantity, but quality — and occasional cannibalism.

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  5. H2 wOah

  19m

  Bizarre dramas unfold in the world’s wet and wild oceans, including a leopard seal and a crustacean that team up to ruin an octopus's day.

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  6. Extremeliest

  19m

  The miraculous Jesus Christ lizard and goo-spewing bombardier beetle stand out among nature’s oldest, fastest and just plain kookiest creatures.

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  7. The Flight Stuff

  19m

  Take to the skies to discover amazing murmurations of starlings and adorably pudgy puffins. Don’t mind the flying snakes, those wingless weirdos.

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  8. Eat Prey Live

  19m

  A butterfly that drinks turtle tears is just one of many organisms with unusual appetites and even odder methods of hunting and digesting their food.

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  9. Fights Camera Action

  19m

  Get ready for a rumble in the jungle. Whether clawing, crashing or headbanging, animal gladiators like to fight if love or status is on the line.

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  10. Strangerer Things

  19m

  The parade of curiosities kicks off with a tiny lizard that fits on a fingertip and monkeys with huge noses. Some Hawaiian sand is fish poop — fact.

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  11. We're All the Same

  19m

  Humans share a surprising number of traits with their critter kin, such as using tools, yawning, soaking in saunas and flipping real estate.

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  12. Absurd is the Word

  19m

  Did you know goats speak in different regional dialects? Incredible facts about everyday animals lead to one conclusion: being different is awesome.

Cast

Afi Ekulona

Mother Nature

Jeff Wild

Jeff Wild

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Paul E. Raff

Self