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Bizarre Breeding

Episode 3 of 6

Series exploring strange behaviour in the animal kingdom focuses on breeding rituals, from dancing scorpions to mice that mate themselves to death.

Discover dancing scorpions, courting birds that give trinkets as gifts, mice that mate themselves to death and a mantis that eats its partner in an exploration of strange behaviour in nature's bizarre breeding rituals.

Meet frogs that rear their young under their skin, fish that leap from the water to lay eggs on leaves and a bullfrog father that becomes lifeguard to his offspring. There are fish that change sex, others that bubble-wrap their young, male hamsters that act as midwives and even a male that becomes pregnant. And, in this weird world, discover a shrew that creates a living daisy chain of its own young.

29 minutes

Last on

Wed 9 Jan 2019 19:30

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Role Contributor
Series Producer John Downer
Narrator Ciaran McMenamin
Camera Operator Rod Clarke
Camera Operator Steve Downer
Camera Operator Warwick Sloss
Camera Operator John Waters

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