Kirk takes us to Africa this week to meet the Bat-eared fox. This strange pseudo-fox has more teeth than other foxes and is the fastest chewer in the world.

Rachel talks about weaver ants and some of their incredible feats.

Finally, Victoria brings us the strange story of robots that are being used to restore poor soils in Australia.

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This week Victoria starts us off with one of the weirdest looking birds in the world. She presents...the Potoo. This strange muppet-looking bird can see with closed eyes and looks like a tree stump.

Kirk then brings us the Longest Animal in the World, siphonophores, specifically, the string jelly. This bizarre super-organism is even longer than a blue whale!

Rachel wraps up the show with a discussion of two libraries in Portugal that have for centuries used colonies of bats to keep insects from eating the books.

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Rachel starts us off with a surprising tubenose bat that hibernates where you'd least expect it...in the snow.

Victoria tells us about the strange locomotion and other adaptations of the Sidewinder rattlesnake.

Kirk takes us to Movile Cave, a world hidden from the rest of Earth for 5.5 million years and where life survives completely without the sun.

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