The Nature of Things: Season 6
Season 6 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Nature of Things Season 5.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 6 Progress Shield
Animals And Man
Oct 3, 1965
A series studying animal kingdom, and man's place in it, through comparisons of anatomy, function, and behavior.
Animals On Land
Oct 10, 1965
How animals get from place to place, including burrowing, crawling, climbing trees, running,.
Animals In The Water
Oct 17, 1965
"Animals In The Water" studies fish, crocodiles, seals and whales.
Animal Adaptation
Oct 24, 1965
A look at how animals have developed special means of coping with environments - long neck of giraffe, coat of polar bear.
Animal Adaptation
Oct 31, 1965
A look at process of natural selection by which animals have developed special means of coping with their environments: long neck of giraffe, coat of polar bear.
Animals And Food
Nov 7, 1965
How animals locate, obtain, process and eat food using "anatomical tools": beaks, claws etc.
Animals As Engineers
Nov 14, 1965
Animals modify their environments in many ways: by building nests, damming streams.
Animals As Engineers
Nov 21, 1965
Program shows how animals modify their environments in many ways; by building nests.
Animal Hands And Tools
Nov 28, 1965
Man is known as "toolmaker", although certain other animals do use tools.
Animal Vision And Smell
Dec 5, 1965
Different combinations of senses are dominant in activities of different animals: vision and smell in insects, smell and hearing in most mammals, vision and touch in higher primate
Animal Territory And Aggression
Dec 12, 1965
A look at various ways animals and man defend their homes and their young.
Animal Learning
Jan 2, 1966
How much of animal behavior is inherent, and how much is learned?
Man And Animals
Jan 23, 1966
Man, animal species, as he might be described by an objective zoologist from another planet: what is he.