EpisodesAnimals are listed in "countdown" rank, i.e., in reverse of the order in which they are introduced in each episode.
[edit] Season 1Episode 1: Jumpers
1.Flea–They can jump 350 times their own length and 220 times their own height. That's the equivalent to a human jumping over the Brooklyn Bridge and twice as high as the Statue of Liberty.
2.Tree frog–Some species can jump 150 times their own length. That's the equivalent of a human jumping over the Titanic.
3.Jumping spider–It can jump 100 times its own length, equivalent to a human jumping over two jumbo jets.
4.Klipspringer–It can jump ten times its own height. If we were like a klipspringer, we could jump over the torch of the Statue of Liberty from the shoulder.
5.Kangaroo rat–It can jump 45 times its body length. If they were as large as we are, they could clear a football field (90 m).
6.Kangaroo–It is a very fast jumper; moving at 35 mph (56 km/h), it can sprint 100 metres in 4 seconds and leap 9.1 metres in the long jump.
7.Locust–It jumps 20 times its own body length. They could clear a basketball court (28.65 m) if they were as large as humans are.
8.Tibetan Bharal–They have to be good jumpers to fight on the edge of steep cliffs, and their hooves are built for it.
9.Mexican jumping bean–The moth larva inside a jumping bean can make it twitch and flip.
10.Rabbit–They can jump twice as far as the best Olympic jumpers.
Episode 2: Gluttons
1.Caterpillar–The caterpillar can increase its weight 10,000 times in less than 20 days.
2.Blue Whale–It has a large size as well as a large appetite.
3.Hummingbird–It needs to eat every ten minutes and every day it consumes 2/3 of its body weight.
4.Argentine wide-mouthed frog–It literally bites off more than it can chew.
5.Python–It can swallow something bigger than its head in a single gulp.
6.Vampire bat–It has to drink more than its own weight in blood everyday just to survive. That would be like a human drinking a bathtub's worth of blood.
7.Tasmanian Devil–It can eat 40% of its body weight in half an hour.
8.Vulture–It has the deadliest diet of any animal: anthrax, botulism and cholera and can eat 20% of its body weight.
9.Pig–It is known to be very greedy. However, they are only #9 in the countdown, for they have been known to be very picky eaters and actually have quite small stomachs.
10.Tiger shark–They can take a bite out of shoes, wire, coal, salmon, tin cans, armor, deer antlers, license plates, and turtle shells.
Episode 3: Speed
1.Tiger beetle–It can sprint at 8 mph (13 km/h)! If we were like the tiger beetle, we would be able to run at 307 mph (494 km/h).It's the fastest animal in the world in equivalent to body size. Runs so fast it goes blind
2.Peregrine Falcon–It can dive at 200 mph (320 km/h).
3.Cheetah–It is the fastest land animal reaching speeds of 71 mph (115 km/h).
4.Cone snail–It is the fastest killer in the world.
5.Mako shark–It is the fastest shark, reaching speeds of 30 mph (48 km/h).
6.Ostrich–It's the fastest animal on two legs, reaching speeds of 46 mph (74 km/h).
7.Mantis shrimp–They could beat the best gunslingers in the west with their strike.
8.Hare–They are twice as fast as an Olympic sprinter.
9.Worm–Worms are the fastest legless invertebrate. It moves at 53 feet (16 m) per hour through solid ground.
10.Basilisk–Its feet move so fast, that it can run on water at 3.3 mph (5.4 km/h).
Episode 4: Births
1.Tapeworm–Each section of its body can grow up to be a new tapeworm and can give produce a million offspring a day.
2.Termite–The queen can give lay 30,000 eggs a day.
3.Aphid–The young are pregnant before they are born. If all aphids survive, there would be one octillion aphids. That would cover the United States 14 ft (4.3 m) deep in aphids.
4.Nine-banded Armadillo–It can give birth to identical quadruplets and postpone pregnancy for three years!
5.Surinam toad–It can carry 100 young on its back.
6.Whale–A young blue whale is the size of a small car.
7.Rabbit–They can start a new family every month.
8.Kiwi–The egg is 25% of the mother's body weight.
9.Seahorse–It is the male who gives birth.
10.Tasmanian Devil–In a single litter, it can give birth to 30 pups, but only four survive.
Episode 5: Cheats
1.Female Cuckoo–Lays her egg in Reed Warbler's nest, so the mother Reed Warbler takes care of a chick ten times as heavy as she is.
2.Orangutan–It has found a way to escape the rain: put a leaf on top of its head.
3.Opossum–It can play dead for six hours.
4.Hanuman Monkey–In India, monkeys are a complete nuisance and steal food, water, and other stuff.
5.Female Firefly–To get food, female fireflies attract males with their bioluminescence. When the male arrives, the female ambushes and eats him.
6.Alligator Snapping Turtle–Their tongue looks like a worm, so it attracts fish.
7.Caterpillar–It can disguise itself as many things, even dung to fool predators.
8.Chameleon–They can't be seen with their amazing camouflage. They are only No. 8 because they can't change color on everything.
9.Rat–Cheats its way into human lives.
10.Fox–It steals various types of bird eggs and then uses rocks to break the shell.
Episode 6: Survivors
1.Water bear–It can survive temperatures as low as −328 °F (−200.0 °C), temperatures as high as 303 °F, 1000 times more radiation than any animal, can lose 99% of the water in its body, 120 years without water, and can even also survive in a vacuum like that found in space.
2.Weta–It can stay frozen for months without frostbite, even when all heart and brain activity ceases and it loses 99% of the water in its body.
3.Male Emperor Penguin–Males have to survive in -70 °C temperatures for 65 days with an egg balanced on their toes with winds of 100 mph (160 km/h)!
4.Polar bear–They can survive the winter without answering to the call of nature.
5.Tube worm–They can survive thousands of feet below water in toxic waste, with its bottom in near freezing water, and its head in boiling water.
6.Cockroach–It can survive heavy doses of radiation, poison and nine days without its head.
7.Guanaco–It thrives at 20,000 feet above sea level without getting sick.
8.Gannet–It is the only kind of animal that can crash into water at a speed of 90 mph (120 km/h) and survive.
9.Rat–They have flexible bones that make it capable of surviving of falling down from the second floor of a building. They are immune to large amounts of poison too.
10.Camel–It can lose 40% of its body weight in water, and survive without drinking water for eight days.
Episode 7: Fighters
1.Ant–Ants are devastating warriors. Nothing stands in their way. If a scout sees an opposing colony, the ants send out workers, and they try to calculate their advantage and can only lose when they make a mistake in calculating, because they will never fight a war they think they can lose. A group of Asian Ants make the ultimate sacrifice by rupturing glands on its abdomen to explode themselves releasing toxic substances at the enemy. They are the greatest military force the world has ever known!
2.Betta–If you put two males in the same tank, they'll use their sharp teeth to rip each other to shreds.
3.Tasmanian Devil–They are very aggressive, contributing to fighting.
4.Ring-tailed Lemur–They can shoot stink bombs at enemies!
5.Muskox–Musk oxen can repeat head bangs up to 20 times at 20 mph (32 km/h).
6.Polar Bear–It can take down something three times its own weight.
7.Praying Mantis–A kung fu technique was named after this animal. They can also stand up to something much bigger than they are.
8.Male Elephant Seal–The males fight a bloody battle for over 50 females!
9.Bombardier beetle–Rockets missile-type weapons at over 700 times a second at threats.
10.Lion–For thousands of years, lions were a worthy opponent for even the strongest men.
Episode 8: Builders
1.Termite–A human sized termite can make a building bigger than the Empire State Building relative to its size, with only dirt, dung and saliva.
2.Beaver–It builds its own huge dams.
3.Bee–They carefully build witty hives.
4.Nautilus–They build their own underwater mobile home that can withstand being under 1,500 ft (460 m) of water pressure.
5.Caddisfly–Their larvae can build jewelry!
6.Prairie Dog–They can build underground canals that can stretch over a mile!
7.Spider–They build silk that is five times stronger than steel!
8.Male Bowerbird–The male builds the most decorative house to attract a mate.
9.Orangutan–They build beds every night.
10.Gray tree frog–When they mate, the female creates a bubbly home that hangs on a cliff. After that, the eggs fall on the bubbly home, and then after hatching, they fall into a small body of water. It's only #10 because it doesn't last very long.
Episode 9: Horrors
1.Parasitic worm–They can live inside your body for up to 30 years.
2.Snake–Snakes frighten more people than any other animal in the world.
3.Killer Bee–People are afraid of swarms.
4.Spider–It causes arachnophobia in lots of people.
5.Bat–Many cultures say that bats are associated with vampires.
6.Shark–Sharks are the most feared predators of the sea.
7.Bear–Bears are a camper's worst nightmare. They are only #7 because teddy bears are popular stuffed animals.
8.Piranha–People are afraid of going swimming in the Amazon River for many reasons, but this fish are probably the main ones.
9.Mouse–The program stated that one in three American women have a fear for mice.
10.Wolf–The wolf's howl scares people during the night. It is only #10 because it is more scared of us than we are of them.
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