Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature Episode 2: Super-Senses

Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature Episode 2: Super-Senses

Richard Hammond continues his exploration of weird and wonderful animal abilities by focusing on super-senses, and discovers how those same animal senses have inspired some unlikely human inventions.

Richard gets buried in a Californian gold mine, attempts to talk to a rattlesnake by telephone, and is taken for a ride by a monster truck that drives itself. Along the way, he encounters elephants who can talk to each other through solid rock; seals who use their whiskers to sense the shape, size, speed and direction of an object that passed over thirty seconds earlier; and a blind cyclist who relies on fruit bats to get him safely down a twisting mountain bike trail.
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The Series - Episode Guide
Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature Episode 1: Super-Bodies
Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature Episode 2: Super-Senses
Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature Episode 3: Super-Powers