World's Weirdest

If you thought man was the sharpest tool in the shed, well think again. In the ever-changing world, animals are employing strategies to stay one step ahead of their predators and prey through systems of memory, communicating, and even mind control!

From sex-crazed slugs to Kung Fu crustaceans, blood-firing lizards to zombie snails, National Geographic journeys from the ocean depths, to deserts and tropical rainforests to reveal that for some creatures the truth really is stranger than fiction.

A mother-to-be Adélie penguin sells her body for stones; chimpanzees trade meat for sex; and a redback spider eats her partner alive while they’re still mating. Meet the world’s weirdest friends with benefits.

If it creeps, crawls, buzzes or sheds its exoskeleton, there's a chance it could cure an illness that's stumping modern medicine. Explore the untapped healing properties of the animals many think are repulsive, but sometimes turn out to be lifesavers.

Meet monkeys that binge drink and throw frat parties, elephants that go on drunken rampages through villages, and lemurs that get high off millipedes, leading scientists to question whether there are evolutionary benefits to psychoactive compounds.

Revel in the methods employed by mothers and their offspring to sidestep and outwit their predators, and marveling in the wealth of evolutionary adaptations that gives their newborns a chance to flourish. It’s life but not as you might know it.

Go beyond the barn doors to discover some of the most bizarre farms, farming methods, and farmers on the planet. From breeding edible insects to milking spiders, National Geographic shows you a side to farming that you never knew existed.

High in the frozen Japanese Alps, female snow monkeys engage in same-gender sex. Across the African savannah, "Lion Kings" enjoy intimate male friendships. In nature, gender is as flexible as life itself.

National Geographic features the puzzling mysteries of hundreds of whales beached on a shore, thousands of black birds suddenly raining from the sky, spontaneously exploding frogs and, sadly, much more!