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Planet Weird

  • 2025
  • Ended
  • Documentary · Family
  • ~50m / ep
  • 1 season

Learn how bizarre behaviours and quirky characteristics get baked in and why these amazing adaptations help ensure the survival of animal superheroes.

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Latest: Season 1 · 2025

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  1. E1. Origin Stories

    Feb 8, 2025 · 50m

    Check out the bowerbird's funky dance moves, the Christmas Island crab's traffic-dodging prowess and the sockeye salmon's incredible swimming skills.

  2. E2. Superpowers

    Feb 15, 2025 · 50m

    Discover fireflies' flirty flashes, the tarsier's incredible night vision, the mantis shrimp's punch and the saltwater croc's prey-detecting sensors.

  3. E3. Villains

    Feb 22, 2025 · 50m

    Admire the great white shark's electrical sensors, the razor-sharp limbs of the dead leaf mantis and the zombie-creating powers of cordyceps fungi.

  4. E4. Sidekicks

    Mar 1, 2025 · 50m

    Explore the partnership between clownfish and anemones and review the quid-pro-poo agreements of dung beetles and pitcher plants.

  5. E5. Fight Club

    Mar 8, 2025 · 50m

    Watch the cannibalistic Portia spider devour the competition, uncover the bloodthirsty side of cuddly koalas and catch an epic giraffe battle.

  6. E6. Gangsters

    Mar 15, 2025 · 50m

    Chase a band of marauding locusts, watch the coconut octopus ambush its next meal and meet a flock of finches who've developed a taste for blood.

Cast

Ross Noble

Self - Narrator