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    Animal Business

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53 
Dec 31, 2003
"Give me this, I will give you that". This universal definition of trade finds an equivalent in nature in a phenomenon called "mutualism". Shaped by evolution, it describes all long or short-term exchanges and cooperation between animals to survive.

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Season 1, 11 episodes

Season 1
   
Animal Homosexuality,
According to recent scientific research, more than 450 different kinds of animals engage in homosexual activity.
52m Dec 31, 2003
   
Animal Medicine,
Like us, animals are exposed to parasites, bacteria, and viruses - the germs which cause disease. How do they survive these attacks?
52m Dec 31, 2003
   
Animal Language,
An Indonesian legend claims that monkeys can speak but they prefer to stay quiet. Do animals have languages that we don't understand?
51m Dec 31, 2003
   
Animal Politics,
Man is not the only social animal. At the beginning of 2001, Franz de Waal published his work on a group of chimpanzees in the Arnhem zoo, in the Netherlands.
50m Dec 31, 2003
   
Animal Adoption,
Altruism, an act that bestows a benefit on the recipient while conferring a cost to the actor, is one of the central paradoxes of evolution.
51m Dec 31, 2003
   
Animal Tools,
Recent discoveries have shown that hundreds of animal species use tools.
52m Dec 31, 2003
   
Animal Business,
"Give me this, I will give you that". This universal definition of trade finds an equivalent in nature in a phenomenon called "mutualism". Shaped by evolution, it describes all long or short-term exchanges and cooperation between animals to survive.
53m Dec 31, 2003
   
Animal Play,
As children, we learn more about life through playing games than we do in any other way. It is the ability to play that enables us to develop into well co-ordinated, adaptable, highly social individuals. But we are not alone, animals play also.
49m Dec 31, 2003
   
Animal Emotions,
The study of animal behavior leaves little room for emotional-related explanations. Feelings in animals tend to be presented as functional explanations of behavior in a given situation.
49m Dec 31, 2003
   
Animal Culture,
In the 1950s, rhesus macaques living on the island of Koshima in Japan started to wash the sweet potatoes researchers gave them to eat.
51m Dec 31, 2003
   
Animal Web,
Insect societies have always fascinated us by the perfection of their organisation. But without their ability to secrete a substance (wax, glue, ...) insects would never have been induced to become organized.
52m Dec 31, 2003
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