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Nature: Reptiles 2 (2003)
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Enjoy Creepy, Crawly Creatures in Double the Adventure
Program 1: Snakes:
This is a program with real bite, bringing you face-to-face with some of the deadliest snakes alive. Snake experts, some of which have been bitten hundreds of times, hunt and handle these slithery creatures right on screen, giving you insight into their biology and behavior. What makes some snakes so lethal? How can they swallow animals many times their head size? Can snakes "play dead" during times of danger? In between providing the fascinating answers, the program takes you on several life-and-death adventures, including one where a park ranger scours a family's home in search of a Black Mamba; and another where an emergency room staff races to save a bite victim's life. Seeking to reduce your fear of snakes to a slow crawl, the program also shows how snakes help the human cause. Acting as exterminators, they gobble up rats that would otherwise nibble away our crops.
Program 2: Lizards:
Henry Lizardlover lives with 37 lizards, some of which serve as runway models for his unique, tongue-in-cheek photography. Why the strange hobby and living arrangement? According to this amusing and yet highly informative program, it's all about the lizards - those cute, cold-blooded, not-so-cuddly creatures that look like a cross between space monsters and miniature dinosaurs.
Colorful, amazingly diverse, and often endlessly interesting, the more than 4000 different lizards include ones that can walk on water, run upright on land, shoot out their tongues to capture prey, and even change colors to match their mood and environment. Much of this showy behavior has been a survival tactic, enabling lizards to roam the corners of the earth for more than 170 million years. But are they so adaptable that they can even act human? Henry thinks so, and he'll give you plenty of reasons why.
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