Amazing Animals
Watch and track your favorite playlist.
Curated by: TED-Ed (110 videos)
Tracks in this Playlist
- Why do cats act so weird? - Tony Buffington
- How does a jellyfish sting? - Neosha S Kashef
- The history of the world according to cats - Eva-Maria Geigl
- Why elephants never forget - Alex Gendler
- The three different ways mammals give birth - Kate Slabosky
- Cannibalism in the animal kingdom - Bill Schutt
- Why isn't the world covered in poop? - Eleanor Slade and Paul Manning
- Why do animals have such different lifespans? - Joao Pedro de Magalhaes
- Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan
- Why the octopus brain is so extraordinary - Cláudio L. Guerra
- Mating frenzies, sperm hoards, and brood raids: The life of a fire ant queen - Walter R. Tschinkel
- Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on Earth - Thomas Boothby
- Why do cats have vertical pupils? - Emma Bryce
- Why are cockroaches so hard to kill? - Ameya Gondhalekar
- How smart are orangutans? - Lu Gao
- Axolotls: The salamanders that snack on each other (but don't die) - Luis Zambrano
- A brief history of dogs - David Ian Howe
- How do animals experience pain? - Robyn J. Crook
- How do fish make electricity? - Eleanor Nelsen
- How smart are dolphins? - Lori Marino
- The evolution of animal genitalia - Menno Schilthuizen
- No one can figure out how eels have sex - Lucy Cooke
- Why don’t poisonous animals poison themselves? - Rebecca D. Tarvin
- The world’s most dangerous fart - Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti
- Would you raise the bird that murdered your children? - Steve Rothstein
- How do dogs "see" with their noses? - Alexandra Horowitz
- Do animals have language? - Michele Bishop
- Meet the bluefin tuna, the toughest fish in the sea - Grantly Galland and Raiana McKinney
- The otherworldly creatures in the ocean's deepest depths - Lidia Lins
- Why mosquitoes bite some people more than others - Maria Elena De Obaldia
- Inside the ant colony - Deborah M. Gordon
- The survival of the sea turtle
- Why can't some birds fly? - Gillian Gibb
- The world’s most painful insect sting - Justin Schmidt
- These squids can fly... no, really - Robert Siddall
- Can you be awake and asleep at the same time? - Masako Tamaki
- Why can parrots talk? - Grace Smith-Vidaurre and Tim Wright
- These animals are also plants … wait, what? - Luka Seamus Wright
- A year in the life of one of Earth's weirdest animals - Gilad Bino
- What happens when you fall into piranha-infested waters? - Antonio Machado-Allison
- How does hibernation work? - Sheena Lee Faherty
- Vultures: The acid-puking, plague-busting heroes of the ecosystem - Kenny Coogan
- Why did Megalodon go extinct? - Jack Cooper and Catalina Pimiento
- Inside the minds of animals - Bryan B Rasmussen
- How smart are crows? - Katharina Brecht
- Why are sharks so awesome? - Tierney Thys
- Why bats don't get sick - Arinjay Banerjee
- Watch this if you're scared of snakes - Andrew Whitworth
- This weird trick will help you summon an army of worms - Kenny Coogan
- Can other animals understand death? - Barbara J. King
- The one thing stopping jellyfish from taking over - Mariela Pajuelo & Javier Antonio Quinones
- How do animals see in the dark? - Anna Stöckl
- Why did it take so long to find giant squids? - Anna Rothschild
- The surprising secrets of hummingbird flight - Kristiina J. Hurme and Alejandro Rico-Guevara
- The last living members of an extinct species - Jan Stejskal
- How turtle shells evolved... twice - Judy Cebra Thomas
- Why are blue whales so enormous? - Asha de Vos
- Can you survive a Komodo dragon bite? - Achmad Ariefiandy
- The fish that walk on land - Noah R. Bressman
- Why is getting bitten by a rabid animal so dangerous? - Charles Rupprecht
- Which animal has the best eyesight? - Thomas W. Cronin
- The sharks that hunt in forests - Luka Seamus Wright
- How the Mongols used horses to create an empire - William T. Taylor
- The real reason dodo birds went extinct - Leon Claessens
- Why fish are better at breathing than you are - Dan Kwartler
- The wild sex lives of marine creatures - Luka Seamus Wright
- The surprising reason birds sing - Partha P. Mitra
- How pigeons took over the world - Elizabeth Carlen and Joanna Moles
- The sneakiest tricksters of the animal kingdom - Eldridge Adams
- The surprising reason zebras have stripes - Cella Wright
- Could you survive the real Twilight Zone? - Philip Renaud and Kenneth Kostel
- Why are beavers obsessed with dams? - Glynnis Hood
- How do animals regrow their limbs? And why can't humans do it? - Jessica Whited
- Are naked mole rats the strangest mammals? - Thomas Park
- Is this the most successful animal ever? - Nigel Hughes
- Is this the most valuable thing in the ocean? - David Biello
- Coneheads, egg stacks, and anteater attacks: The reign of a termite queen - Barbara L. Thorne
- The lovable (and lethal) sea lion - Claire Simeone
- The big-beaked, rock-munching fish that protect coral reefs - Mike Gil
- Are pandas the most misunderstood animal? - Lucy Cooke
- How do snakes swallow animals so much bigger than they are? - Niko Zlotnik
- The history of the world according to rats - Max G. Levy
- Why animals help each other - Ashley Ward
- How does this all-female species reproduce? - Susana Freitas and Darren Parker
- Why are there so many different kinds of dogs? - Kathleen Morrill Pirovich
- This sea creature breathes through its butt - Cella Wright
- What you can do with an extra jaw - Darien Satterfield
- How to speak monkey: The language of cotton-top tamarins - Anne Savage
- The spear-wielding stork who revolutionized science - Lucy Cooke
- Can you figure out the savanna mystery? - Cella Wright
- The other "Golden Rule" - David L. Hu
- Why does this animal never age? - Raymond Adkins
- Why does catnip make cats go crazy? - Jaap de Roode
- Hagfish: The world's slimiest creatures - Noah R. Bressman and Douglas Fudge
- Puke, poop, and tiny cockroaches: How the leafcutter ant queen runs her farm - Charles Wallace
- Why do animals form swarms? - Maria R. D'Orsogna
- How does whale communication work? - David Gruber and Shane Gero
- The coolest stuff animals can do with their tongues - Cella Wright
- These animals can hear everything - Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard
- The best nose in the animal kingdom - Chase LaDue & Bruce A. Schulte