Nick Baker's Weird Creatures

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March 2016
Baker visits remote corners of the planet to find the ugliest, slimiest and most bizarre animals from the elusive pink fairy armadillo, the gharial crocodile and a lizard that spurts blood from its eyes.
Baker visits remote corners of the planet to find the ugliest, slimiest and most bizarre animals from the elusive pink fairy armadillo, the gharial crocodile and a lizard that spurts blood from its eyes.
Baker visits remote corners of the planet to find the ugliest, slimiest and most bizarre animals from the elusive pink fairy armadillo, the gharial crocodile and a lizard that spurts blood from its eyes.
Baker visits remote corners of the planet to find the ugliest, slimiest and most bizarre animals from the elusive pink fairy armadillo, the gharial crocodile and a lizard that spurts blood from its eyes.
Baker visits remote corners of the planet to find the ugliest, slimiest and most bizarre animals from the elusive pink fairy armadillo, the gharial crocodile and a lizard that spurts blood from its eyes.
February 2016
Baker visits remote corners of the planet to find the ugliest, slimiest and most bizarre animals from the elusive pink fairy armadillo, the gharial crocodile and a lizard that spurts blood from its eyes.
Baker visits remote corners of the planet to find the ugliest, slimiest and most bizarre animals from the elusive pink fairy armadillo, the gharial crocodile and a lizard that spurts blood from its eyes.
Nick drops into one of the most bizarre dive sites in the world in search of a very convincing disguise artist - the mimic octopus, apparently capable of an incredible repertoire of 15 impersonations.
Madagascar's creepiest nocturnal rain forest resident is the Aye Aye. It might look fluffy but somehow it instils terror into the hearts of the local population, enough to make them want to kill it on sight! But why?
In the UK and Spain, Nick investigates stories of enormous cat fish terrorising the waters. But how does this fish get so enormous and why is it the environment agency's public enemy number one?
January 2016
Nick's on a turbo charged chase through Madagascar for Chameleons, the so called masters of disguise. Nick needs to find an invisible one to bust a few myths and uncover the remarkable mysteries about this king of lizards.
In the Appalachian Mountains Nick tracks the giant Hellbender Salamander. Dubbed locally as the snot otter and the devil dog, these weird critters look as if they've been singled out for a beating with the ugly stick.
Nick joins the Cajun trappers of the Southern Bayou in search of a 200lb monster snapping turtle. Finding one is only the first hurdle, now he must test the creature's jaws and biting power using a custom made Snap'o'meter.
It might be tiny, but the huge eyed Tarsiers of the impenetrable Suluwesi rainforest are famed for their ferocious hunting skills.
December 2015
Deep in the subterranean world of the Slovenian Karst, Nick is in search of the Proteus. Legends persist in Slovenia that these creatures are in fact baby dragons.
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