Animal games – scales of nature

By Jonathan Hare2012-05-01T09:21:00

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Animals come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, all with different abilities and skills. If you could somehow make them all the same size you might then be able to directly compare their strengths and weaknesses. This is the idea behind the BBC TV’s Animal Games which shows animals competing in their own Olympic Games.

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