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Nature's Most Extreme Medics
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"The Most Extreme" is a long-running documentary TV series on the American cable television network, Animal Planet. It first aired on July 1, 2002. Each episode focuses on a specific animal feat, such as strength, speed, flirtation, appendages, diet, etc., and examines and ranks 10 animals which portray extreme or unusual examples of that quality. The rankings are not arrived at by a scientifically rigorous process; they serve only to give a broad depiction.
| 1. | Salamander) If a shallow-water salamander is decapitated by a boat propeller, (a scenario more common than you might think), it can regrow its own limbs. |
| 2. | Wallaby) Wallabies produce their own antibiotic healers. |
| 3. | Bear) Scientists still can't figure it out. Bears hibernate. During hibernation, they don't urinate. Their excess body fat doesn't cause them heart disease. And they never respond to the outside world until they wake up. It still baffles scientists today. |
| 4. | Chimpanzee) 'Chimps', if you will, eat rolled-up leaves to flush tapeworms out of their bowels. When they groom each other, they can remove parasites, such as ticks and lice, from each other's skin. |
| 5. | Elephant) Elephant mothers can eat special leaves while pregnant. Subsequently, they give birth to healthier calves. |
| 6. | Monkey) Eats charcoal to fight infection. |
| 7. | Macaw) Macaws eat clay to fight off infection. |
| 8. | Sheep) Sheep recognize certain types of leaves as having healing properties. Thus they can cure their own illness. |
| 9. | Lemur) Lemurs rub millipedes on themselves so as to cover their fur with hydrogen cyanide to ward off insects. |
| 10. | Eagle) Certain species of eagle place insect repellent leaves in their nests to ward off insects. |
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