Name: Miracles Of Nature
Uploaded: 2012
Description: Richard Hammond explores weird and wonderful animal abilities and discovers how they have inspired some unlikely human inventions.

Richard Hammond explores weird and wonderful animal abilities and discovers how they have inspired some unlikely human inventions.

We can learn from the abilities of animals. Richard Hammond discovers how a giraffe's neck can stop a jet pilot losing consciousness; how a woodpecker's skull safely protects a light bulb dropped from space; and how a South American butterfly holds the secret to making any mobile phone waterproof.

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Episode 1: Super-Bodies

Richard Hammond explores more wonderful animal abilities by focusing on super-senses; and discovers how those same animal senses have inspired some unlikely human inventions - like fruit bats helping a blind cyclist safely down a twisting mountain bike trail.

Episode 2: Super-Senses

Here are more animal super-powers that have inspired scientists and engineers to create brand new human inventions. Richard Hammond will see how the husky’s paw can help American football players; how the kingfisher could revolutionize air-sea rescue; and more.