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What is it like to be a dog, a shark, or a bird? Long the subject of human daydreams, this question is now getting serious attention from scientists who study animal senses. The senses define our experience of the world—they shape our minds, and help make us what we are. Humans rely on smell, sight, taste, touch, and sound, but other animals have super-powered versions of these senses, and a few, like electrically-sensitive sharks, even have extra senses we don’t have at all. From a dog who seems to use smell to tell time, to a dolphin who can "see" with his ears, we will discover how animals use their senses in ways we humans can barely imagine. But it’s not just the senses that are remarkable—it's the brains that process them. How does a swallow’s tiny, one-gram brain take in the flood of visual information that enables the bird to whiz within inches of buildings while flying at 40 miles per hour? How does a dog’s mind turn the sight of a hand signal into the happy anticipation of a treat? How has the evolution of the dog—from its wolf ancestors–reshaped its brain? NOVA goes into the minds of animals to “see” the world in an entirely new way.
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| # | Title | Watched | Air Date | |||
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| Eps 1 | 2013-09-11 | |||||
| Eps 2 | 2013-10-09 | |||||
| Eps 3 | 2013-10-16 | |||||
| Eps 4 | 2013-10-23 | |||||
| Eps 5 | 2013-10-30 | |||||
| Eps 6 | 2013-11-06 | |||||
| Eps 7 | 2013-11-13 | |||||
| Eps 8 | 2013-11-20 | |||||
| Eps 9 | 2013-11-20 | |||||
| Eps 10 | 2014-01-08 | |||||
| Eps 11 | 2014-01-15 | |||||
| Eps 12 | 2014-01-22 | |||||
| Eps 13 | 2014-01-29 | |||||
| Eps 14 | 2014-02-05 | |||||
| Eps 15 | 2014-02-12 | |||||
| Eps 16 | 2014-04-02 | |||||
| Eps 17 | 2014-04-09 | |||||
| Eps 18 | 2014-04-16 | |||||
| Eps 19 | 2014-04-23 | |||||
| Eps 20 | 2014-05-07 | |||||
| Eps 21 | 2014-05-14 | |||||
| Eps 22 | 2014-05-28 |
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