Some animals are starrier than others—there's Africa's Big Five (lions, leopards, elephants, rhinoceros and buffalos), of course, and aquatic celebrities like the blue whale and the great white, the latter of whom gets its own dedicated week of headlines and premieres. But Nat Geo's newest animal series celebrates the unique behaviors of animals who don’t usually get to be the stars of the show, "from their hidden talents to their unconventional hygiene choices to their unsavory courtship rituals," per the network.
With a simulcast premiere tonight, June 15 at 9pm Eastern Time on both National Geographic and ABC, Underdogs will showcase "a different aspect of the underdogs’ bizarre mating strategies, surprising superpowers, deception, dubious parenting skills and gross-out behaviors" across each episode of the five-part series. For example, the premiere episode—entitled "The Superzeroes"—focuses on animals with unexpected abilities including indestructability and superglue slime.
