Learning on ScreenSupersense (6 Parts)
- Synopsis
- Series on animal perception, showing the world from the animal’s angle.
1: Examines and experiences the senses animals posess but people do not. A shark, for example, has an electronic sense, that enables it to home in on the body electricity of its prey.
2: Discovering the world through animal eyes: it is filled with bizarre hues, invisible colours and strange patterns. Flying with a vulture as it uses magnified vision, hunting with a lion as it eyes up a wildebeest, and finding a fish that simultaneously sees above and below water.
3: Demonstrates how different some animals’ sense of hearing is to our own: spiders can home in on the wing beats of their prey; elephants conversations are pitched below human hearing thresholds and whales call across oceans.
4: How for many animals, smell is the most important sense. Certain birds such as petrels, use smell rather than sight to hunt for fish in the open sea.
5: Shows that every animal’s perception of time is different, and this is related to heart rate. The result is that a shrew lives its life about 30 times faster than an elephant.
6: Shows how the mind of the animal influences its own unique view of the world. - Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of production
- 1988
- Notes
- Broadcast in 6 30-minute parts on BBC2 in 1988, repeated from 20/9/91.
The video version is no longer available but the series was released on DVD in 2006 to coincide with the follow-up series SUPERNATURAL - Subjects
- Biology
- Keywords
- animal behaviour; animal communication; senses; sensory perception
Credits
- Producer
- John Downer
- Cast
Andrew Sachs
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 2 PAL
- Price
- £17.99
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 180 minutes
- Year
- 2006
Sections
- Title
- Sixth sense
- Synopsis
- 1: Examines and experiences the senses animals posess but people do not. A shark, for example, has an electronic sense, that enables it to home in on the body electricity of its prey.
- Title
- Seeing sense
- Synopsis
- 2: Discovering the world through animal eyes: it is filled with bizarre hues, invisible colours and strange patterns. Flying with a vulture as it uses magnified vision, hunting with a lion as it eyes up a wildebeest, and finding a fish that simultaneously
- Title
- Sound sense
- Synopsis
- 3: Demonstrates how different some animals' sense of hearing is to our own: spiders can home in on the wing beats of their prey; elephants conversations are pitched below human hearing thresholds and whales call across oceans.
- Title
- Super scents
- Synopsis
- 4: How for many animals, smell is the most important sense. Certain birds such as petrels, use smell rather than sight to hunt for fish in the open sea.
- Title
- Sense of timing
- Synopsis
- 5: Shows that every animal's perception of time is different, and this is related to heart rate. The result is that a shrew lives its life about 30 times faster than an elephant.
- Title
- Making sense
- Synopsis
- 6: Shows how the mind of the animal influences its own unique view of the world.
Production Company
- Name
BBC Television
Distributor
- Name
2 Entertain Video
- DVDenquiryline@bbc.com
- Web
- http://www.2entertainvideo.co.uk/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7612 3000
- Fax
- 020 7612 3003
- Address
- BBC Worldwide
33 Foley Street
London
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