Animals In The Wild Vol. 5: Animals Undercover

As naked apes, humans have borrowed the coverings of other animals to keep themselves warm. Leather shoes, fur coats and feather boas are among the fashion accessories that have protected humans from the elements. Animal skins, scales, feathers and furs, are in fact hi-tech protective coverings that only now, at the end of the 20th Century, do we fully appreciate. How are feathers like zippers, scales like chain mail and how do animals change color to fit in with their surroundings? This program answers these and other questions and uses graphics and macro-photography to show the structure and complexity of animal coverings in amazing detail.