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Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature: Episode 2: Super-Bodies

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Episode 2: Super-Bodies

BBC One - Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature, Super-Bodies

Richard discovers how the Cape vulture has inspired a flying submarine.

Documentary series. Richard Hammond discovers how the Cape vulture has inspired a flying submarine and how a giraffe's neck can stop a jet pilot losing consciousness.

Richard Hammond reveals secret animal abilities from the natural world, and discovers how those same animals have inspired a series of unlikely human inventions at the very frontiers of science. 

Unfortunately for Hammond, that journey will involve diving to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, driving a car pursued by geese, and leaping 500 metres off a South African cliff. 

In this first episode, he discovers how the Cape vulture has inspired a flying submarine; how a giraffe's neck can stop a jet pilot losing consciousness; how a woodpecker's skull can safely protect 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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Richard Hammond reveals secret animal abilities from the natural world.

Richard Hammond reveals secret animal abilities from the natural world, and discovers how those same animals have inspired a series of unlikely human inventions at the very frontiers of science.

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