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Human Wildlife - Season 1

Series: Human Wildlife
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Episodes
6
Rating
NRC
Year
2005
Language
English
Publisher
Entertainment One

About

We think of ourselves as the sole inhabitants of our skin. In fact, we are far from alone in our bodies: each of us is basically an entire ecosphere of plants and animals that live on, in and through us. Human Wildlife is a series of one-hour documentaries about the hundreds of species of animal and plant life that live on (and in) human beings. It features astonishing real-time moving images produced by a revolutionary microscope that allows you to see living cells and the particles inside them at magnifications only previously obtained from dead and sliced tissues by electron microscopes AND in brilliant colour as well.

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Episodes

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1. The Meaning Of Lice

1h

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This episode looks at the many critters that live on us, in us, and around us like the mysterious microscopic Demodex, the face mite, a member of the spider family that lives quietly in the hair follicles. No one knows why it's there or what it does.

2. In Your Face

1h

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This program shows that every human mouth - even a clean and neatly tended one - is a zoo.

3. The Worm's Turn

1h

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The relationship between humans and worms - the round worms (nematodes) and the segmented worms (the annelids) - is intimate and extensive.

4. Repulsive Invaders

1h

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Repulsive Invaders takes viewers inside the crevices and gullies of the human body to witness firsthand how fungus, warts, and bacteria move in and make themselves comfortable.

5. The Origin Of Feces - Broadcast Master

1h

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Many of the bacteria and parasites harmful to humankind make their way to us via feces: Feces that end up in our mouths, and ultimately our intestinal tracts. We make it easy for these nasty creatures to spread because we are always touching things then putting our hands into our mouths. Our fingers are the ten most dangerous pathways for transferring bacteria and parasites into the human body.

6. Fellow Travellers - Broadcast Master

1h

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Human wildlife, the bugs, viruses and bacteria that live on and in us also like to roam about. With so much global traffic, collisions between us and them are inevitable. And sometimes the encounters are deadly.

Extended Details

  • Closed CaptionsEnglish

Artists

David Langerdirector
Robert Buckmanwriter