Spy In The Wild


merjet

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Spy In The Wild is a PBS miniseries airing this month. We watched Episode 1 two nights ago and enjoyed it a lot. Most of the Spy Creatures described on the web page above the brief episode descriptions are in Episode 1. They and the animal reactions to them are funny, too. Well worth watching. After each broadcast, that episode will be available for limited online streaming at pbs.org/nature.

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4 hours ago, merjet said:

Spy In The Wild is a PBS miniseries airing this month. We watched Episode 1 two nights ago and enjoyed it a lot. Most of the Spy Creatures described on the web page above the brief episode descriptions are in Episode 1. They and the animal reactions to them are funny, too. Well worth watching. After each broadcast, that episode will be available for limited online streaming at pbs.org/nature.

Did you see the video of the Orangitan  cutting a branch with a saw?

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4 hours ago, merjet said:

We saw Episode 2 last night. Live stream (temporary).  

We learned something new. We see squirrels chasing one another a lot, but why so often? They are thieves.

I doubt whether squirrels have any notion of property.  Regarding them as "thieves"  is projecting human judgement onto a non-human action.  If we call squirrels "thieves"  are we implying that what they are doing is "wrong".

The live stream presentation is almost a Simon pure example anthropomorphization. 

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1 hour ago, BaalChatzaf said:

I doubt whether squirrels have any notion of property.  Regarding them as "thieves"  is projecting human judgement onto a non-human action.  If we call squirrels "thieves"  are we implying that what they are doing is "wrong".

Of course. I used the term because the show used it.

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On 2/9/2017 at 6:22 AM, BaalChatzaf said:

I doubt whether squirrels have any notion of property.  Regarding them as "thieves"  is projecting human judgement onto a non-human action.  If we call squirrels "thieves"  are we implying that what they are doing is "wrong".

Damn right they're wrong!

--Brant

nutz!

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