Nick Baker's Weird Creatures

In the warm waters of South Australia Nick meets a marine animal with a jewel-like body; the Leafy Sea Dragon. Such an extreme body form is all about camouflage and this creature displays one of the most complex and convincing disguises in the natural world. Arriving in Australia just after breeding time means that Nick could very well see juvenile/baby Leafy Sea Dragons.

Nick Baker is on a road trip along Mexico's Highway Number 1 running the length of the weird and wonderful Baja peninsula. His aim- to track down Bipes biporus, aka the Five-toed Worm Lizard. It is only found at the southern tip of Baja, and to reach it Nick must travel a thousand miles through one of the weirdest landscapes on the planet.

Mexico City might seem an unlikely place to find one of nature's most extraordinary amphibians; the Axolotl, an almost magical salamander. This film is Nick's pilgrimage to the ancestral home of his favourite amphibian. He learns about the axolotl's unique biology but discovers how the city's development has driven this mystical creature to the very edge of extinction.

This weird creature may not be hard to find, but its story is truly remarkable. The horseshoe crab has been around for nearly half a billion years, making it one of the oldest creatures on the planet. Nick wants to find out what this living fossil has been doing right for so long, and why today this remarkable creature is in danger.

Nick travels to Australia's Red Centre on the trail of one of the weirdest desert diggers, the Marsupial Mole. To Nick's astonishment he discovers that what is known about this mole is very little. With Joe Benshemesh, the world's leading authority on this most elusive of moles Nick sets off on a desert odyssey.

Nick travels to the depths of the Bornean jungle to find the only poisonous primate in the world; the Slow Loris. It looks like a cuddly toy, but it carries a poison that can prove fatal. Small, shy, and nocturnal, it lives in the towering rainforest canopy. So to get closer Nick climbs 40m to spend a vertigo-riddled night from hell and listening to the sounds of the jungle.

Luck is on Nick's side as he goes in search of the awkward middle child of anteaters, the tamandua. Borrowing characteristics from its brothers, the tamandua appears to have an identity crisis. But in an extraordinary moment, Nick witnesses a tamandua making the most of its adaptive abilities as it dines out on the fruit of the forest - behaviour never before witnessed in the wild.

Nicks heads to a group of desert islands in Panama where strange things have been happening to the animals. He hangs out with a pygmy sloth - a species only identified in 2001 - and discovers a species of frog with an identity crisis.