Extraordinary Animals

I loved these 3 episodes. Have spent the last hour trying to find the missing 11 episodes to no avail :(

Animals are better than humans :)

If you can paste the links here Vlatko will add them

Cheers

Wonderful films! The Grim Reaper Dog needs a bit if editing, though. It repeats the intro too many times, which makes it seem odd 7 not thought out. But it was terrific to see, anyway! :)

All three animals were incredibly impressive! I felt the sea lion trainers did a better job testing the intelligence of the sea lion vs humans then the parrot trainer did with her parrot vs the 3 and 4 year old children. I got the impression that the parrot had been asked those exact questions many many many times before, whereas those children obviously had not. In the case of the sea lions, the tests were purely logical, you looked for the pattern, no previous knowledge is required, just thinking skills. The sea lion proved that it was in fact thinking, grouping, and solving problems much like humans do, AMAZING! The Grim Reaper dog was awesome, the fact that dogs can smell things like the chemical processes going on in our bodies, things we still can’t detect with the fanciest machines is just insane! Definitely worth watching all three!!!

Alyz, sounds interesting.

I loved the dog and the sea lion, and i agree with Coyote03 about the parrot, my thoughts exactly.

it was nice to Griffin and all the different things it had learned, but it was also sad to watch how it was kept in that room with no windows, no other parrots and in a small cage. Griffin barely had any feathers, it appears the doctor has long session with him everyday without any real breaks i.e. let the bird be a bird, fly, interact with other parrots….. I strongly believe whatever pet you keep (dog, cat, lovebirds etc.), you should always keep two and of the opposite sex, no matter how much we interact/love/care for an animal we can never be a substitute for its on kind. Just imagine if we were kept as pets, we’d go crazy if it was just us in that lonely cage, but if we had a partner and were allowed to do some humanly stuff every no and then, life wouldn’t be as bad….