Extraordinary Animals in the Womb
1 x 96m Co Production with Fox for Channel 4, Granada
International, National Geographic Channel and National Geographic
Channel International
"In the Womb: Extreme" explores some truly
extraordinary methods of reproduction and gestation in a selection
of animals from across the natural world - from the first
beginnings of courtship right through to birth and beyond. We take
cameras inside the extraordinary and hitherto unseen world of these
animals in utero, following in step-by-step detail the process
through which each individual species-specific trait develops. How
does a penguin embryo not freeze? Why does a kangaroo leave its
mother only half formed? Why is having any brothers and sisters so
potentially lethal for many shark fetuses? And what was it about
one creature's method of reproduction that caused Charles Darwin to
question the existence of God himself?