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Airdate: David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities

This little fella can be found lurking in what is sometimes the darkest of places....

2014-07-31_1401This little fella can be found lurking in what is sometimes the darkest of places, but he manages to burrow himself out to see another day.

And the hedgehog is a bit of a survivor too.

Yes TEN has scheduled new David Attenborough new eps of David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities on Monday nights, which has been a bit of a dark spot on TEN’s schedule this year.

These eps aired in the UK in February.

The series follows Sir David as he travels across the UK to explore animal oddities. Each episode features two different animals with curiously distinctive evolutionary quirks, linked together by a common theme.

True virgin birth, called parthenogenesis, is a remarkable adaptation used by the Komodo dragon and aphid to combat specific environmental pressures. Sir David uses this episode to investigate these two sets of animals capable of parthenogenesis, the production of offspring without the need for sex.

Why do Komodo dragons and aphids need this incredible form of reproduction and what are the downsides?

7:30pm Monday on TEN.

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