Wild Tech

The most successful animals on earth prosper because they colonised, they expanded their horizons into often harsh and inhospitable climes. With the planet is rapidly reaching its limit, technology must use existing space to build super colonies - giant buildings, labyrinths, super ships, all designed to pack more people into less space.

Communication is the backbone of every animal's existence. Without it, they cannot eat, develop, mate. Man is no different. But nature has developed a range of secret communications which man is only starting to sit up and take notice of.

If we were to level the battlefield, who's the smartest attacker, - nature, or man? Nature is efficient and precise, compared to the nuclear age's Weapons of Mass destruction. But 21st century urban warfare demands smarter war.

Size for size, does technology out-defend nature? Technology will give individual soldiers super defence, and will give defensive weaponry precision capabilities, but are we only now catching up with a millennia of animal defence techniques?

GPS may be the hi-tech navigation tool of the 21st century, but the abilities of nature's best low-tech navigators prove there still much to discover about the way we travel around the earth.

Of all the senses, seeing is relied on the most for day-to-day living - but nature is showing there are realms of seeing well outside the visual realms of man.

Of all of man's record-breaking feats, going fast remains the ultimate goal. On land, on water, even under water, man is discovering the tricks of going fast are already exhibited in nature's speedsters.