A one-hour documentary for five in the UK and PBS in the US. The film looks at how animals and plants can help solve crime. I met the world's foremost crime-busting scientists and in the process learnt how they've used the natural world to convict some notorious felons. Flies and their maggots can reveal how long a body has lain undiscovered and microscopic pollen can match a k...
Wildlife presenter Nigel Marven heads to China to learn about giant pandas for his latest adventure. He visits the beautiful reserves t he pandas inhabit, before heading into the wild to achieve his ambition of being the first presenter to be filmed with a giant panda in its native habitat. He is also astonished to witness a brown panda cub, one of only five known to science. A...
Wildlife adventurer Nigel Marven travels along the narrow isthmus between the North and South America finding extraordinary wildlife and heart-warming stories every step of the way. In the style of the previous and successful Wild Philippines series; Nigel reveals the breath-taking landscapes of the region, discovers many of the extraordinary animals that live in the Central Am...
感觉指导我们的日常生活,一方面保护我们,一方面令我们感到欢愉。到底这些感官有多少敏感 又有多少准确?人体的感觉可以忍受到甚么程度 我们将会环游世界,进行感觉测试。我们的自愿者将会挑战感官极限,无论是世上最难嗅的气味,还是世上最辣的辣椒,都一一尝试。我们亦会做一些实验,证明人类的感觉很容易被误导。我们又会到动物世界,找寻感觉强的衅动物,找出一切感官的根源。这套轻松短片将会逐一介绍不同的感官,它的功能以及我们如何依赖它们。你一定从未感受过!
究竟人对恶臭的气味有何反应?而世界上最难闻的气味是……为什么同一款食物,有人钟爱有加,吃在其它人口里却是一种苦差?原来听觉是五感中唯一廿四小时活动的感官,而且对异性的声音灵敏度会更高!原来人人都有第六感,而动物界中却只有两种雀鸟有这第六感……十指痛归心,为什么往往指头受损远较腿部受创来得痛苦百倍?由眼睛接触事物到...