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How & What Animals Eat

Animals have evolved to eat a lot of different things, even stuff that barely passes for food, and it shapes our entire lives from what we look like to where we live. Today, we’ll talk about why being a carnivore is just easier than being a herbivore, why there are so few omnivores out there, and dedicate a little time to the remaining 2% of animals that really push the definition of food.
Season 1 Episode 4 Length 13:35 Premiere: 05/06/21

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Frontiers in Zoology

S1 E14 Length 12:35 Premiere Date 07/15/21

What is a Species?

S1 E13 Length 12:35 Premiere Date 07/08/21

Phylogenetic Mysteries

S1 E12 Length 12:32 Premiere Date 07/01/21

Parasites

S1 E11 Length 13:04 Premiere Date 06/24/21

Animals Working Together

S1 E10 Length 13:21 Premiere Date 06/17/21

Reproduction

S1 E9 Length 13:00 Premiere Date 06/10/21

Ancestral & Weird Senses

S1 E8 Length 12:42 Premiere Date 06/03/21

How Animals Hear

S1 E7 Length 11:56 Premiere Date 05/27/21

How Animals See

S1 E6 Length 12:39 Premiere Date 05/20/21

Brainy & Brainless Animals

S1 E5 Length 12:45 Premiere Date 05/13/21

How & What Animals Eat

S1 E4 Length 13:35 Premiere Date 05/06/21

Diversity of Bodies & Sizes (but mostly crabs)

S1 E3 Length 13:16 Premiere Date 04/29/21

What’s the Most “Animal” Animal?

S1 E2 Length 11:29 Premiere Date 04/22/21

What is an Animal?

S1 E1 Length 14:56 Premiere Date 04/15/21

Crash Course Zoology Preview

Preview Length 03:36 Premiere Date 04/08/21

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