Animal Planet Explores the Boundaries between Facts and Fiction In The Bizarre World of Plants and Animals

The natural world has weird and wonderful stories beyond our wildest dreams. But can we really trust our eyes? Can we tell fact from fiction? A lively new series, FOOLED BY NATURE, will bring you the most extraordinary stories from the wild. Animals that have to fight against their own kind to survive, a hungry hippo that fights for a patch of food-rich river, world's largest rodent whose life is a constant battle, and many such stories from the natural world. 

In each episode, the series presents five unique stories.  But only four of these stories are true. Can you separate the reality from fiction? Is the suicidal spider the red herring? Or is it the authoritarian mole rat? FOOLED BY NATURE explores the weird, the wonderful and the dazzling in the natural world – with a twist. 

The 26-part series FOOLED BY NATURE airs on Animal Planet every Friday at 8 pm. 

Commenting on the series, Rahul Johri, senior vice president and general manager – South Asia, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific said, “FOOLED BY NATURE reveals incredible stories from the wild, unveiling the amazing world of animals which is as bizarre as it is wonderful. The channel continues to bring such unbelievable stories that entertain and engage the viewers. In this series, Animal Planet unearths astonishing facts and myths about animal behaviour.” 

The series features interesting tales of the male monkey who is lost without female support, Frigatebirds in the Caribbean which are fish eating sea birds with a fear of water, the star nosed mole with a power to detect and eat prey with such a speed that is way too fast for the human eye to follow! In the wild, truth is stranger than fiction.

Brief Episode Description:

SUPER SENSES

Meet some of the most bizarre animals with supers senses to detect their prey, danger. Meet the Hammerhead Shark, the world's most bizarre looking shark of Hawaii’s coastal seas. The army ant of South America, the unusual chameleon, the largest Great Grey Owls with a foreboding sight in the dense coniferous forests of North America. 

PUZZLING PREDATORS

These animals are all predators that hunt in unusual ways using surprising, stealthy and sneaky strategies to catch they prey. Some creep up on their victims, others use lures, enticing their prey with subterfuge and deceit. And some hunters group together using amazing team tactics to ambush their quarry. These are the special agents of the animal world and they are all clever killers.

CRAFTY CROOKS

It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, full of Crafty Crooks. The Lion is the King of the African Plains, but this proud predator hides a shameful secret. It's also a two bit gangster, stealing up to half of its food and Langurs, in the Indian city of Jodhpur, are uncontrollable rebels that are able to steal what they want without upsetting the local people.

Fanciful Families

Animals with amazingly strong family ties. We'll meet a family of otters who cooperatively hunt like a pack of wolves, lemurs who use others to nurse their babies, a pack of dogs with impeccable table manners; and Gibbons that have a winner takes all singing competition. 

Creature Conflicts

We're looking at Creature Conflict. Animals that have to fight against their own kind to survive. A hungry hippo that fights for a patch of food-rich river, a permanently bad tempered warthog, a bison designed for clashing heads, wrestling rattle-snakes that dance with their rivals, and the world's largest rodent whose life is a constant battle.  

Hungry Hunters

We'll meet some of nature's Hungry Hunters. These animals use the weirdest weapons and strangest strategies to catch and kill their prey.  Meet a screaming giant Humpback whale, a sensitive spider, a weird primate called the Aye-Aye with X-ray ears, and a sharp-shooting fish.