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Weird Nature: Episode 4: Fantastic Feeding

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Episode 4: Fantastic Feeding

Weird Nature

Fantastic Feeding

BBC Four - Weird Nature, Fantastic Feeding

A look at the many inventive ways animals catch prey, from fish to lemurs.

Series that explores strange behaviour in the animal kingdom. The bizarre methods employed by some creatures to catch their prey, from fish to lemurs.

Series exploring strange animal behaviour which reveals the many inventive ways animals catch prey. Discover a creature that employs glue-guns as weapons, a fish that slashes with a chainsaw and a spider that lassos its prey with a swinging blob of glue. Meet a fish that targets its prey using its mouth as a water pistol, a shrimp that stuns its prey with sound and a lemur with an ET-like finger that taps for a meal. Plus a frogfish whose mouth moves faster than its prey can see, a snake with a tail that acts as a maggot-like lure and an eagle that has found a novel way to break into prey. There is even a mantis shrimp with a knockout punch that reaches the speed of a racing bullet and a stoat that uses hypnosis.

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Series exploring bizarre behaviour in the animal kingdom.

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