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Weird Nature: Episode 5: Puzzling Partners

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Episode 5: Puzzling Partners

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Puzzling Partners

BBC Four - Weird Nature, Puzzling Partners

Series exploring strange animal behaviour focuses on unusual partnerships.

The series exploring strange animal behaviour focuses on unusual partnerships, including the fishermen who have forged a co-operative venture with wild dolphins.

Discover a lizard that uses a scorpion as a bodyguard, a toad that sets up home with a tarantula, an animal that uses hummingbirds as an air charter, the barber that fish use, a crab that carries living fisticuffs, mutant frogs, a snake that acts as pest controller in an owl's nest, dolphins that co-operate with fishermen, a bird that guides people to honey and an odd farmyard full of strange friendships.

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Series exploring bizarre behaviour in the animal kingdom.

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