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1) Human Nature
2) Ceremony
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Birth, marriage, and death. In the animal world, just as in our own, milestones are celebrated in different ways-the unnoticed birth of the bay marsupial, the courting ritual of the jumping spider, and the elephant's graveyard. All animals share these rites of passage, from the 120-year life span of the giant turtle to the short life of the mayfly. Humans may have ritualized these occasions, but they are shared by every living creature.
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Why do we perceive cats as beautiful and spiders as frightening or disgusting? An animal's appearance may be a matter of fascination to humans, but for the animal itself, its appearance may mean the difference between life and death. This program examines the human response to animals, and the human fascination with their-and our-appearance.
4) Family
Description
In the animal world, as in our own, the family unit and social structure are crucial to survival. Animal alliances are as important for caring and sharing as for hunting and killing. Like animals, humans depend on social groups-from the small-scale family unit to a large organization such as the United Nations. By comparing human relationships with perceived animal parallels, this program offers an interesting insight into our shared world.
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In Calls of the Wild, an episode of PBS Scientific American Frontiers, host Alan Alda takes us behind the scenes for a fascinating journey into the science of sound as he introduces viewers to the team of scientists using sound to study animals - also known as the field of bioacoustics. This close look at animal sound is not only being used to study - but even to save species - as common as the harbor porpoise and as elusive and mysterious as the...