Season 2
Nick Baker's Weird Creatures is an English documentary series in which Nick Baker tracks down some of the more bizarre creatures on the planet, using the Natural History Museum as his home base.
The series aired in the USA on Animal Planet and in the UK on Five. There are 15 episodes in two seasons.
The series airs in South Africa on DStv's Animal Planet.
Season 2 premieres on Wednesday 6 February 2008, at 21h00. There are eight hour-long episodes in the season.
Repeats are on the following days:
Thursdays at 03h30
Saturdays at 06h00, 12h25 and 20h00
Sundays at 01h45
Synopsis
Nick Baker’s Weird Creatures takes the viewer to some of the most remote and inhospitable corners of the globe in order to find the ugliest, slimiest and downright bizarre animals that grace the planet.
These are the animals that Nick Baker has been longing to track down ever since his childhood visits to the repository of zoological wonders, at the National History Museum.
Taking viewers behind the scenes into the world of specimen jars and formaldehyde at the Natural History Museum, Nick is drawn to the most extreme, absurd and unusual exhibits.
These are the mutants of the natural world. First appearing as deformities and defects, viewers will see just how these creatures have in fact evolved highly specialised characteristics in order to survive.
Nick meets the specialists who have devoted their lives to these zoological outcasts and the indigenous people with whom these oddities share their habitat.
Tracking these obscurities to their actual homes, Nick is finally able to find the answers to his childhood questions.
Season 2 Synopsis
Ever heard of the mutant turtle, the snot otter and the real Yoda? Some would dismiss these oddities as freaks of nature, but for Nick Baker these are the unsung heroes of evolutionary biology.
Following on from the highly successful first season, Nick Baker returns to Animal Planet for the second season of Nick Baker's Weird Creatures, which will take viewers to some more of the most remote and inhospitable corners of the globe in order to find the ugliest, slimiest and most downright bizarre animals that grace the Earth.
Each episode begins with a visit to the British Natural History Museum’s Darwin Centre, where Nick first acquired his love of all things weird and wonderful.
Nick then tracks these animals of his childhood fascination to their actual homes for close encounters.