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S1 E8 Animal Play

Documentary

TV-G

49m

Dec 31, 2003

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.

Season 1, 11 Episodes

season 1 (11 episodes)

Animal Homosexuality,

According to recent scientific research, more than 450 different kinds of animals engage in homosexual activity.

Animal Medicine,

Like us, animals are exposed to parasites, bacteria, and viruses - the germs which cause disease. How do they survive these attacks?

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?

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.

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.

Recent discoveries have shown that hundreds of animal species use tools.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Animals Like Us

Documentary

TV-PG

1 Season

52m

This 11-episode series questions the separation that our cultures or religions have tried to establish between human beings and animals.

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