Nick Baker's Weird Creatures Episode Guide

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Episode Guide

Nick Baker's Weird Creatures: Season 3 (2009)

Nick Baker's Weird Creatures: Season 2 (2008)

  • Season 2 Episode 8: The Mimic Octopus

    Naturalist Nick Baker travels to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in search of the mimic octopus, a chameleonic creature allegedly capable of changing shape to camouflage itself. On his first dive into the sea he encounters a variety of other life-forms, including the Ambon scorpion fish and curiously named wonderpus photogenicus. Last in series

    Friday 25th December 9:00pm EST - Smithsonian HD Network
  • Season 2 Episode 7: The Night Stalker

    The naturalist heads to Madagascar in search of a vision from his own childhood nightmares, the rare aye-aye lemur, whose extraordinary physique is a result of unique evolutionary processes that only take place on the south-eastern African island. Despite hearing a plethora of taboos relating to the creature, Nick Baker visits the Nosy Mangabe wildlife reserve to confront his phobias

    Thursday 24th December 10:00am EST - Smithsonian HD Network
  • Season 2 Episode 6: The Frankenstein Fish

    Naturalist Nick Baker, along with his angling enthusiast father, travels from the Withy Pool in East Sussex to the River Ebro in Spain to test his mettle against the wels catfish, known as the largest freshwater fish in the Western world

  • Season 2 Episode 5: The Invisible Lizard

    Naturalist Nick Baker goes in search of chameleons in Madagascar, hoping to dispel some of the common myths surrounding the creatures

  • Season 2 Episode 4: The Hellbender

    Naturalist Nick Baker visits America, where he encounters rare giant salamander the hellbender, a creature with a reputation as a poisonous menace to the local fishing industry. Starting in the Ozark region of Missouri, he investigates the causes of a severe drop in the local population, a problem which has the authorities stumped

  • Season 2 Episode 3: Swamp Thing

    Naturalist Nick Baker goes in search of the alligator snapping turtle in the swamps and marshlands close to the Louisiana city of New Orleans. The creature has powerful claws and jaws and a bite that's among the most vicious in the animal kingdom, easily surviving natural threats such as hurricane Katrina

  • Season 2 Episode 2: The Real Gremlin

    Naturalist Nick Baker encounters the tarsier in the remote jungles of south-east Asia, a creature with an uncanny resemblance to the mythical gremlin. Starting in the Tangkoko nature reserve on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, he begins his search for the elusive carnivorous primate

  • Season 2 Episode 1: The Human Fish

    Naturalist Nick Baker searches the world for the strangest animals he can find, starting with a sightless salamander known as the 'human fish'. He travels to the Postojna caves in Slovenia to find the blind, albino lizard, discovering the creature's skin is very similar to human flesh. Determined to learn more, he ventures 27 kilometres underground and camps for 24 hours in absolute darkness

Nick Baker's Weird Creatures: Season 1 (2007)

  • Season 1 Episode 7: Vampire Fish

    The naturalist travels to Peru in search of the vampire fish, a parasitic creature that lurks beneath the surface of the river and feeds on the blood of other fish. It is alleged the candiru fish is attracted to urine and is allegedly capable of swimming into the human urethra, where it becomes lodged. Nick is joined by a local expert as he observes the creature, before investigating a suspected case

  • Season 1 Episode 6: Saggy Skinned Frog

    The naturalist seeks out the giant saggy-skinned frog of Lake Titicaca in South America. He begins his research at London's Natural History Museum, hoping to find the amphibian whose natural habitat is two miles up in the Bolivian Andes. The team follows in the footsteps of Jacques Cousteau, who visited the area in the early 1960s. However, finding the creature proves a mammoth task as altitude sickness slows the group down

  • Season 1 Episode 5: Star Nosed Mole

    The naturalist travels to Manitoba in Canada to track down the star-nosed mole, whose 22-tentacled snout enables it to assess and devour small pieces of food in less than a quarter of a second. Nick and the team face hot, mosquito-ridden conditions as they attempt to trap the creature in its marshy habitat

  • Season 1 Episode 4: Croc From Mars

    Nick Baker travels to India to seek out the gharial crocodile, which may be descended from the baryonyx, a dinosaur with an elongated jaw whose diet also consisted of fish. The rare creature can grow up to six metres in length, and has developed a fleshy growth called the ghara, located on the end of the snout in adult males. However, the function of the odd protrusion remains a mystery

  • Season 1 Episode 3: Pink Fairy Armadillo

    Naturalist Nick Baker continues to seek out the world's strangest creatures, going on the trail of an armour-plated mammal known as the pink fairy armadillo. The team travels to the Mendoza province in western Argentina in the hope of glimpsing the rarely seen animal, following in the footsteps of Charles Darwin, who visited the area on his Beagle voyage 172 years ago

  • Season 1 Episode 2: Basking Shark

    The naturalist goes in search of the basking shark - the second largest fish in the world and as long as a London bus. Cornwall is statistically the best place to spot the creature in the UK, but bad weather forces Nick and the team to follow the warm water as the shark moves north over the summer, when they are subjected to a series of bumpy rides off the coast of western Scotland

  • Season 1 Episode 1: Blood Squirting Lizard

    Naturalist Nick Baker hunts down the planet's strangest animals, beginning with the horned lizard, an American reptile which blows up like a spiky balloon to protect itself and can also squirt blood from its eyes. He also explores the flora and fauna of the Sonora desert, such as the cholla cactus, which stores deadly poison in hundreds of hooked spines

Nick Baker's Weird Creatures:

  • Anteaters

    Nick heads to Panama in search of the ant-eating Tamandua.

  • Axolotl

    Studying the near-extinct salamander of Mexico City.

  • Horseshoe Crab

    Nick tracks down the horseshoe crab in the Delaware Bay.

  • Marsupial Mole

    Nick travels to Australia's Red Center to search for the marsupial mole.

  • Mole Lizard

    The elusive mole lizard of Mexico's Baja peninsula.

  • Pygmy Sloth

    Nick heads to desert islands in Panama in order to find the pygmy sloth.

  • Slow Loris

    The rainforests of the Bornean jungle contain the Slow Loris, a poisonous primate.