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Mutant Planet


Mutant Planet
Mutant Planet is a celebration of the power of evolution; an exploration of the forces that shape life in all its unexpected glory. This breath-taking series combines traditional natural history programming with cutting edge science documentary. Viewers are transported to six strange worlds within worlds where it seems as if nature has thrown the rule book out the window. Go in for a closer look, and see how the magic of evolution and the forces of nature have together shaped eccentric animals, eclectic lifestyles and unorthodox patterns of behavior.

Genre: Documentary

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  • Watch Mutant Planet Season 1

    • Episode 6

      6. Japan

      aired: Tue, Feb 8, 2011

      Isolated from the Asian mainland, Japan's animals have been forced to endure the most violently active islands on earth in a climate of extremes. Animals cast away on these outcrops must find innovative ways to overcome periods of starvation.

    • Episode 5

      5. Madagascar

      aired: Wed, Jan 26, 2011

      The land of lemurs, an ancient primate family that evolved from only one small group which arrived on the island more than 60 million years ago. For them Madagascar became the land of evolutionary opportunity and today there are almost 100 living species

    • Episode 4

      4. Africa's Rift Valley Lakes

      aired: Mon, Jan 18, 2010

      On the shores of Africa's Rift Valley Lakes a troop of chimpanzees provides an astonishing evolutionary counterpoint to the amazing story of small fish living beneath the surface, in a species pressure cooker, unlike anywhere else on the planet.

    • Episode 3

      3. Brazil's Cerrado

      aired: Tue, Jan 11, 2011

      On Brazil's ancient Cerrado grassland a community of eccentric creatures are all inter-dependent, and all life revolves around the landscape of mysterious mud-caked monoliths.

    • Episode 2

      2. Australia

      aired: Tue, Jan 4, 2011

      Australia is a floating laboratory whose ancient geological past and changing climate have triggered mutations in the animals here, culminating in over 200 species of bizarre pouched marsupials, which are all equipped with astounding survival features.

    • Episode 1

      1. New Zealand

      aired: Tue, Jan 4, 2011

      New Zealand is a fairytale archipelago with a turbulent geological past. A land with astonishing creatures: flightless birds, night dwellers, living fossils. Evolution has run wild on this isolated land, producing some of the world's most unusual animals.

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