John Downer Productions Ltd.

An award-winning media company specialising in wildlife television, feature films and commercials

Weird Nature – Science is stranger than myth

  • Client
    BBC and Discovery Channel 
  • Producer
    John Downer 
  • First Aired
    1 January 2002 
This BBC/DISCOVERY series reveals some of the strangest behaviour in the animal world. In a series of action-packed sequences, tyres fall from a truck and disturb salamanders, which turn into living wheels. Mexican jumping beans spring to life and take over a toy store. Fulmars use projectile vomit to attack a climber. Hagfish slime their way out of a fishing boat by turning water into mucus soup.

A skunk teaches the hardest street gang a lesson in break-dancing. Animal junkies get high on some strange drugs and we even discover nature’s alcoholics. Using new filming techniques and some extraordinary special FX – this is nature as never seen before.