Synopsis
Chris van Tulleken accompanies some snake hunters at work, showing what happens inside our bodies when we experience fear.
- Programme: The Human Body: Secrets of Your Life Revealed
- Episode: Survive
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2017
- Biology | Homeostasis and response | Homeostasis | Responses of the body to extreme conditions
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