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Delight in the differences of South America’s diverse wildlife.
SOUTH AMERICA’S WEIRDEST ANIMALS NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WILD, FROM 2 AUGUST
“Evolution is an eternal quest to find solutions to the ever-changing problem of survival and, every now and then, it coughs up quite the oddity,” says the narrator of this new three-part series.
The programme gives us a quick-fire look at an eclectic mix of species: tapirs, who use their short, prehensile trunks as snorkels; scarab beetles who dine out on dung; and viscachas – rabbit-like rodents “tailor-made for living in the unforgiving Altiplano environment” – to name a few.
Rather than taking an in-depth look at only a few species, a variety of interesting and unusual biology and ecology are given their five minutes
