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S1 E2 Animal Play

Documentary

TV-PG

49 minutes

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.Featuring: Mary Baker

Season 1, 11 Episodes

Season 1 (11 Episodes)

Animals Like Us - Animal Medicine

Animal Medicine,

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

Animals Like Us - 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.

Animals Like Us - Animal Adoption

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.

Animals Like Us - Animal Culture

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.

Animals Like Us - Animal Emotions

Animal Emotions,

For many years, scientists thought that animals were incapable of having emotions; they were merely living robots – biological machines ruled simply by urges, instincts, and hormones.

Animals Like Us - Animal Business

Animal Business,

Give me this, I will give you that. This universal definition of trade finds an equivalent in nature in a phenomenon call "mutualism."

Animals Like Us - Animal Homosexuality

Animal Homosexuality,

For years, scientists ignored or denied that homosexuality occurred in the animal world.

Animals Like Us - Animal Language

Animal Language,

An Indonesian legend claims that monkeys can speak but they prefer to stay quiet.

Animals Like Us - Animal Tools

Recent discoveries have shown that hundreds of animal species use tools. New Caledonia crows, for instance, use twigs to remove insect larvae from their galleries; sea otters use flat stones to break open urchin shells or ear shells.

Animals Like Us - Animal Politics

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.

Animals Like Us - Wild Wild Web

Social insects, like bees, ants, or termites have always fascinated men by the perfection of their organization.

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Animals Like Us

Documentary

TV-PG

1 Season

51 minutes

Are man and animal that different? Many cultures and religions have tried to establish a strict separation between the species.

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