How can we build fuel-efficient vehicles, smarter homes, more aerodynamic planes? Can we help the blind to see? Humans are not the only ones who strive to meet life’s many challenges – nature has been doing that for the past 3.8 billion years so we are the new kids on the evolutionary block!
On Discovery Kids’ brand new series WILD BUT TRUE, hosts Robert Irwin and Isabel Yamazaki show how biomimicry – the imitation and application of nature’s systems, models, designs, or elements – has paved the way for technology and inspired many modern-day inventions. WILD BUT TRUE premieres every Tuesday at 5:00 p.m., starting 2 December. Encores every Saturday at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Robert Irwin, the wildest naturalist in the house, teams up with Isabel Yamazaki, our resident science geek with all the info at her fingertips, to reveal how science has made mankind a true student of Mother Nature. On each episode, they explore nature’s amazing solutions for problems in the wild and reveal how we humans use these blueprints to make our world greener, safer, more efficient, and more fun for future generations to come! Artificial intelligence in the form of their digital friend Giles helps them along the way – Giles provides clues that will lead them to the answers behind the most puzzling questions, and also hooks them up with scientists, researchers, and developers from across the world who tell us more about the each item or technology.
To better understand concepts, features, and abilities intrinsic in the wild world, Robert and Isabel will also create and participate in fascinating experiments. Kids everywhere will be awed as they discover the impact animals have on humans. Tune in and join the dynamic duo as they reveal where and how nature has helped make our lives better and easier. Get ready for an adventure-filled journey across time, space, science, and nature that can only be described as WILD BUT TRUE!