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This programme looks at how evolution has overcome the challenges of being as big as an elephant. Elephants feed on plants with very little nutritional value for 18 hours a day, so evolution has given them vast intestines as well as huge teeth and jaw muscles - and an equally gigantic head. But this produces another problem: how to reach food on the ground. The solution is the most versatile limb on the planet - the trunk. Capable of everything from picking up berries to ripping a tree from the ground, the trunk is a wonder of evolution. It's a Just So Story for the Darwinian age.

Release Date: 2009-06-29
Seasons: 1 2 3 4
TMDb: 9.5/10
  • Country: GB
  • Language: English
  • Runtime: 60

Other episodes for this season

The Elephant
Episode 1 - The Elephant
The Whale
Episode 2 - The Whale
The Crocodile
Episode 3 - The Crocodile
The Giraffe
Episode 4 - The Giraffe