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MUMBAI: Why does an elephant have huge ears? Why does the snake have a split tongue? Why does an alligator use low-pitch rumbles to make the water around them dance? Animal Planet’s new series ‘Super Senses’ will answer these questions by exploring why some animals have strange-looking sense organs. Kicking off on 13 April, the series will air from Monday to Thursday at 10 pm.
‘Super Senses’ will reveal how caribou use UV light to avoid wolves, how nocturnal animals can see in pitch darkness, and how sperm whales’ magnetic superpower senses help in distance migrations.
The viewers will discover how seeing in slow motion gives dragonfly an advantage to make its kill.
The episode line-up includes: Sixth sense: Sensitivity to the earth’s electromagnetic fields, or to weather pressure, can be used to aid navigation.
Some animals can predict earthquakes. Predators put these senses to lethal use: vampire bats detect the infrared radiation of blood, and rattlesnake sees a ‘heat picture’ of its victim.
Sight: A vulture can spot a carcass from a great distance. The four-eyed fish can see above and below water simultaneously.
A fly’s multi-faceted eye sees a very different world than a human eye, while other insects can see into ultra-violet light. Lions have an area on the retina which actually empathises with their prey.
Sound: Human ears have a limited range and are deaf to low-register elephant conversations or the high-pitched squeaking of mice.
Whales use sonar to communicate across hundreds of miles of sea, while spiders listen out for the wingbeats of prey and the kangaroo rat has hearing so sensitive that it can hear the rattlesnake’s strike—and avoid it.
Birds, meanwhile, use sounds to detect changes in the weather and as an aid to navigation.
Read more at:
http://www.televisionpost.com/television/animal-planet-to-launch-new-series-super-senses-on-13-april/
‘Super Senses’ will reveal how caribou use UV light to avoid wolves, how nocturnal animals can see in pitch darkness, and how sperm whales’ magnetic superpower senses help in distance migrations.
The viewers will discover how seeing in slow motion gives dragonfly an advantage to make its kill.
The episode line-up includes: Sixth sense: Sensitivity to the earth’s electromagnetic fields, or to weather pressure, can be used to aid navigation.
Some animals can predict earthquakes. Predators put these senses to lethal use: vampire bats detect the infrared radiation of blood, and rattlesnake sees a ‘heat picture’ of its victim.
Sight: A vulture can spot a carcass from a great distance. The four-eyed fish can see above and below water simultaneously.
A fly’s multi-faceted eye sees a very different world than a human eye, while other insects can see into ultra-violet light. Lions have an area on the retina which actually empathises with their prey.
Sound: Human ears have a limited range and are deaf to low-register elephant conversations or the high-pitched squeaking of mice.
Whales use sonar to communicate across hundreds of miles of sea, while spiders listen out for the wingbeats of prey and the kangaroo rat has hearing so sensitive that it can hear the rattlesnake’s strike—and avoid it.
Birds, meanwhile, use sounds to detect changes in the weather and as an aid to navigation.
Read more at:
http://www.televisionpost.com/television/animal-planet-to-launch-new-series-super-senses-on-13-april/
