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Animal Science: Incredible Defenses

20 minutes 28 seconds

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Close up on a dark reddish-brown insect against a blurred background.

Find out how the box turtle can live for up to 100 years. This episode also explains why the red lionfish is considered one of the most dangerous animals in the world. Part of the "Animal Science" series.

Media Details

Runtime: 20 minutes 28 seconds

Topic: Literature, Science
Subtopic: Animal Behavior, Animal Stories, Animals
Grade/Interest Level: 7 - 12
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Release Year: 2013
Producer/Distributor: Steve Rotfeld Productions
Series: Animal Science
Writer: Daniel Strauss
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Two bald eagles look down at something on the rocky ground.

Graphic that looks like a holographic screen shows a silhouette of a monkey’s face. Behind the monkey is a computer screen with a question mark and a box with a line through it. Text reads, “Coming up…High Intelligence.”

Graphic that looks like a holographic screen shows a walrus putting a flipper on the walrus lying next to it like its pushing himself off the other walrus. Text reads, “Coming up…Polar Bear Club.”

Close up to the back of a person dressed in a suit designed to protect them from dog bites. A German shepherd is laying in the distance.

Title screen that says, “Animal Science,” in big silver letters. In the background are science graphics like molecules and graph lines. Small text in the background says, “Heaviest, fastest, smallest, loudest, Longest Teeth, Smartest, lightest.”

Graphic that looks like a holographic screen shows a horse with a rider on its back as it jumps over a competition fence. Text reads, “Coming up…Horse vs. Zebra…”

Shark swims by, close to the sea floor.

Graphic that looks like a holographic screen shows the side of an ostrich head. In the corner of the screen there are four images of the ostrich, each zoomed in closer to its eye. Text reads, “Ostrich, World’s Largest Bird. Eyes are bigger than brain.”

Title screen that says, “Animal Science,” in big silver letters. In the background are science graphics like molecules and graph lines. Small text in the background says, “smartest, lightest, scariest, most colorful, rarest, hairiest, quickest, Sharpest.”

Graphic that looks like a holographic screen shows a Pygmy Slow Loris clinging to a tree branch and staring at us with big eyes. In the corner of the screen are four pictures of the Loris, but each zoom in closer to the Loris’s face. Text reads, “Pygmy Slow Loris, Poisonous. Produces venom in sweat glands.”