Animals Like Us

This series consists of the 11 products

Grade Level: Junior High (7-9)-Senior High (10-12)
Subjects: Life Science
Produced By: Village Distribution
Year: 2004
Country: France
Language: English

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How similar are animals to humans? At firts glance, we don't have much in common. Forget the pressure of religion, culture and society. Dismantle old beliefs and face the truth. Mankind is no longer a seperate product in the evolution of species. After 5 years of filming, this evergreen series reveals how animals did it first. 11 x 52 min.

This series consists of the following products

Language

By Village Distribution - 2004

An Indonesian legend claims that monkeys can speak but they prefer to stay quiet. Do animals have languages that we don't understand? Is it just a…

Animal Medicine

By Village Distribution - 2004

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

Adoption

By Village Distribution - 2004

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. In the…

Politics

By Village Distribution - 2004

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…

Tools

By Village Distribution - 2004

Recent discoveries have shown that hundreds of animal species use tools. New Caledonia crows, for instance, use twigs to remove insect larvae from…

Play

By Village Distribution - 2004

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…

Emotions

By Village Distribution - 2004

The study of animal behavior leaves little room for emotional-related explanations. Feelings in animals tend to be presented as functional…

Culture

By Village Distribution - 2004

In the 1950s, rhesus macaques living on the island of Koshima in Japan started to wash the sweet potatoes researchers gave them to eat. This…

Business

By Village Distribution - 2004

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

Homosexuality

By Village Distribution - 2004

According to recent scientific research, more than 450 different kinds of animals engage in homosexual activity. St Thomas Productions has taken this…

Animal Web

By Village Distribution - 2004

Insect societies have always fascinated us by the perfection of their organisation. But without their ability to secrete a substance (wax, glue,...)…