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MUMBAI: Animal Planet has introduced adventurer and animal
expert Nick Baker who is fascinated with bizarre creatures.
An unconventional and daring explorer he travels to the remotest
and inhospitable corners of the globe for encounters with
the ugliest, slimiest and downright bizarre animals in Nick
Baker's Weird Creatures.
From the rarest reptile, the gharial, found only on the Indian
subcontinent to an elusive armadillo that swims through sand
dunes or the star-nosed mole with the fastest nose in natural
history - some would dismiss these creatures as freaks of
nature, but for Nick these are the unsung heroes of evolutionary
biology.
The seven part show airs every Thursday at 10 pm on Animal
Planet. The show begins with a visit to the British Natural
History Museum's Darwin Centre, where Nick first acquired
his love for all things weird and wonderful.
Each episode will take viewers behind-the-scene into the world
of specimen jars and formaldehyde at the Natural History Museum.
Appearing as deformities and defects, viewers will see just
how these creatures have in fact evolved highly specialised
characteristics in order to survive. Nick also meets the specialists
who have devoted their lives to these zoological outcasts and
the indigenous people with whom these oddities share their habitat.
The first episode is Blood Squirting Lizard
Nick heads to the cowboy country, southeast Arizona, in search
of the horned lizard - a reptile with an amazing trick up
its spiny sleeve. He discovers a whole range of life with
spectacular defense mechanisms. Armed with a high-speed camera,
his target weird creature promises to deliver a literally
eye-popping spectacle.
The second episode is Basking Shark. Nicks goes in
search of the basking shark - the second biggest fish in the
sea. Amazingly, for a creature the size of a London bus, very
little is known about its biology and behaviour. On his journey,
Nick meets the best of Britain's marine wildlife, including
some of the weirder visitors to its waters.
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