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The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
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Crocodile Hunter Diaries


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Format
Wildlife Documentary
Created by
Steve Irwin
Starring
Steve Irwin
Terri Irwin
Country of origin
Australia
 United States
No. of seasons
3
No. of episodes
48
Production

Running time
45–48 minutes
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet and qubo
Original run
January 2, 2002 – December 26, 2004
Chronology

Related shows
The Crocodile Hunter
Croc Files
The Crocodile Hunter Diaries is a wildlife documentary television series first aired on cable TV channel Animal Planet. It was created as a spin-off to the original Crocodile Hunter series hosted by Australian naturalist Steve Irwin and his wife Terri Irwin. In the UK it was aired on ITV. In Australia it was aired on Network Ten.
The show is more focused around the everyday lives of Steve, Terri, and the employees of Australia Zoo. The first season (filmed in 1998 and aired in 2002) covered, among other things, Terri's pregnancy with her and Steve's first child Bindi, medical problems with Steve's dog Sui, the construction of the Crocoseum, daily ups and downs experienced by zoo staff on the job and animal rescue adventures.
References[edit]
Animal Planet: Croc Diaries - Season 1
Animal Planet: Croc Diaries - Season 2
Animal Planet: Croc Diaries - Season 3
External links[edit]
The Crocodile Hunter Diaries at the Internet Movie Database
The Crocodile Hunter Diaries at TV.com
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Dark Days in Monkey City
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Dark Days in Monkey City

Genre
Nature
Documentary
Drama[1]
Written by
Ian McGee[2][3][4]
 (script advisors Joe Casey
Joe Kelly)[5]
Narrated by
John Rhys-Davies
Composer(s)
The Sound Room
Country of origin
New Zealand
Original language(s)
English
No. of series
1
No. of episodes
13[6][7]
Production

Executive producer(s)
Lawrence Cumbo (NHNZ)[4]
 Erin Wanner (Animal Planet)[8]
Producer(s)
Ian McGee
Location(s)
Sri Lanka
Cinematography
Stephen Downes[8]
 Scott Mouat[9]
Running time
22 minutes
Production company(s)
NHNZ Ltd.
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet
Original run
24 February 2009[10] – 14 May 2009[11]
Chronology

Related shows
Temple Troop[12]
External links
Website
Production website
Dark Days in Monkey City is an Animal Planet documentary about the lives of wild Toque Macaques in Sri Lanka. In the tradition of Meerkat Manor it followed the stories of individual primates, but differed from earlier shows by adding special effects and transitional animation (in the style of comic-book panels).[13]
It was devised as part of Animal Planet's strategy to re-brand itself as an "entertainment" network.[14][15] Its entire 13 episode run was broadcast in 2009.[6]


Contents  [hide]
1 Production details
2 Reception 2.1 Broadcast schedule
3 Smithsonian Primate Project
4 Plot 4.1 Temple Troop
4.2 Black Claws
5 The macaques 5.1 Lear
5.2 Gemini
5.3 Hector
5.4 Portia
5.5 Che
6 Notes

Production details[edit]
NHNZ had story boarded the action in advance, and shot the macaques (on location) for a month against portable green screens.[16] Though that green screen footage was used (combined with CGI in post production.[17]) the original script was abandoned in favor of the animals' real behavior - according to series producer Ian McGee.[18]
After green screen filming was complete, the cameras followed the most charismatic monkeys for ten weeks in their natural habitat.[19]
Reception[edit]
Most critics gave moderate recommendations, but preferred Meerkat Manor in the "docu-soap hybrid" genre,[4] feeling Dark Days was over-produced and less credible.[8] Many felt its "intense" visual style (indebted to 300 and Sin City)[17][20] didn't match the available live action footage,[8][13][21] and that the narration was overblown.[22]
Broadcast schedule[edit]
The announced schedule was to air all 13 episodes in successive weeks on Animal Planet (starting 2009-02-24) but only two weeks (and four episodes) were shown on that initial run.[7] All 13 episodes were broadcast later in 2009, and were released on DVD (which included a 14th, "making-of" episode).
Smithsonian Primate Project[edit]
This is only the latest TV series to be based on the Smithsonian Institution Primate Biology Program (PBP) in the "Monkey City", Polonnaruwa.[23] At least two earlier series have documented the PBP's animals,[24] including "The Temple Troop" which followed the Temple Macaques for an entire year.[12]
Dark Days in Monkey City uses footage from the PBP,[25] which has been studying the Polonnaruwa macaques since 1968 (and is the longest continuous study of vertebrate population dynamics in a varying environment). The study's conductor, Wolfgang Dittus said, "We have promoted and participated in film documentaries on the premise that the public will conserve only that which they love, and love only that which they understand".[24]
Plot[edit]
The central narrative over the series' 13 episodes is the struggle between two macaque tribes: the Black Claws, and the Temple Troop.[26]
Temple Troop[edit]
The program begins with "Temple Troop", a troop of Toque macaques who live in a temple area known as Fig Tree Vale.[26] The vale is abundant in figs and water. The troop was led by Lear, the king of the troop who had been its dominant male for 4 years. One of Lear's biggest concerns was the threat of deposal, and that threat came with the arrival of Hector. Hector had recently joined the troop and seemed discontent with his position within it. Hector challenged the old king and during a large scuffle, Lear fell to the ground from a tree, which cost him his throne. Hector was the new king of Temple Troop and took full advantage of his new authority. Hector bullied his subordinates, but to secure his regime, he needed the support of Gemini, the matriarch of the Troop.[27]
The Temple Troop's arch rivals, the Black Claws, invaded their territory, and drove the Temple Troop from it. Exiled to the bad lands, the troop were joined by a wandering male called Che, who proved to be an asset, especially to Gemini and Portia. They tried to invade a market but were driven back to the bad lands by a city troop. As Che was settling into the troop, his wandering band of bachelor males returned, giving Hector an excuse to banish him. Che attacked his former band to remain in the troop, and later he convinced both groups to merge.
With more warriors to fight the Black Claws the exile Temple Troop marched towards Fig Tree Vale to confront their ancient foes.
Black Claws[edit]
The Black Claws are a street bred troop of Toque macaques who live in the periphery of Monkey City, relying of tourists for food. The troop's queen, Pandora, tried to use the opportunity of the Temple Troop males' supremacy battle to capture their abundant territory. She and the Black Claws are the drama's antagonists.
The Black Claws' king Goliath led a small attack on the Vale; this was repulsed, but it was followed by a mass invasion from the entire Black Claw troop. Stronger and more numerous, the Black Claws prevailed in the ensuing battle, killing Lear, and expelling the Temple Troop from Monkey City. (The Black Claws had prospered under queen Pandora with the growth in city trash.)[28]
As Pandora settled into her new territory, a troop of Languar monkeys tried to capture Fig Tree Vale. The Black Claws drove them off, but Pandora disappeared and was found to have died of an unknown cause (ascribed by the program makers to having attacked the sacred Hanuman Langurs). Pandora's youngest daughter, Scarlett became the new queen of the Black Claws. The king of the Black Claws, Goliath, was concerned about the new matriarch, needing to win her favor to remain king. Scarlett was ruthless and greedy with food, not allowing the lower class near any figs. (The Black Claws, comprised two bickering clans: workers & aristocrats, both of which Pandora had dominated.) The leader of this lower clan was Jezebel, who had tired of Scarlett monopolizing the food. Unable to directly defeat Scarlett and her aristocratic sisters, Jezebel led her half of the troop back to their ancestral lands, the car park. To start a troop she needed a king, so she subverted a subordinate Black Claw aristocrat into defection. Scarlett responded with an attack on Jezebel's troop, making her back down. This civil war concludes as Temple Troop begin their march back to Fig Tree Vale.
The macaques[edit]
The Smithsonian Primate Project names all 4,000 individuals in its study,[24] but the show substituted the names of iconic characters from Tragedy. Below are the names and main narrative arcs selected by the writers:
Lear[edit]
Lear's kingship was threatened by Hector, an ambitious recent recruit. Lear watched as his rival forced his authority on the other monkeys, until confronting Hector with a stare. Hector backed down, but later gathered male allies from within the troop and confronted the king. Lear fought Hector in a tree, and was knocked to the ground; he survived but was dethroned.
When the Black Claws first attacked Fig Tree Vale, Lear played an active role in its defense. And, when Portia's baby was seen by a feral dog Lear confronted it, saving his offspring. But Lear was killed by the Black Claws when they invaded in full strength.
Gemini[edit]
Gemini and her sisterhood are the core of the troop and Gemini ruled Fig Tree Vale, her lifelong home.[29] Gemini showed advances to Hector behind Lear's back and when Hector became brutal and attacked an infant, Gemini expected Lear to act; when he did not she turned her attention to the pretender, Hector.
While in exile, the Temple Troop met Che, who's foraging skills impressed her more than Hector's selfish consumption. Che led Gemini and the Temple Troop to the land of the humans and the troop found food, but while the troop was crossing a road one of infants was hit by a car. The merger with Che's band of wandering males gave Gemini the confidence to lead her Temple Troop back to Monkey City.
Hector[edit]
Hector used brutality to establish himself as chief rival for Lear's throne, finally provoking the king by an attack on his queen, Gemini. Lear confronted Hector but allowed Hector to back down and grow in confidence. After building alliances with other males and gaining Gemini's attention Hector challenged Lear to battle.
Hector, triumphantly claimed the throne after dislodging Lear from the tree they had fought in. He won the advances of queen Gemini and authority over all members, including Lear.
After the second Black Claw incursion on Temple Troop territory war broke out between the two tribes; Hector's troop was defeated. In exile water was scarce, but when Hector found a tap, he drank and took a bath from it, never sharing with the other members of the troop. Hector tried to lead the troop back to their home range from the bad lands, but Gemini overruled him and lead them into the city. Hector was uneasy at the sight of people; as a wandering male he had seen his brother captured. He allowed Che's band to join his troop, despite the growing threat from Che, so that they might be strong enough to regain Fig Tree Vale.
Portia[edit]
Portia was the lowest ranking female in the troop, and the central character in the documentary.[8][18] She hoped for Lear not to lose his position to Hector, who often attacked low ranking monkeys like Portia. The program makers emphasized her fear that if Hector rose to power he would kill the babies fathered by the previous king, including her unborn baby by Lear.[30] (Hector ultimately killed no infants, and though rare macaque infanticides occur,[31][32] some researchers say it doesn't specifically target offspring of the previous leader.[33])
When Portia found food, she was often displaced by Gemini, the queen of the Temple Troop and the other high ranking females. In exile Hector found a tap with dripping water, but Portia had to wait for her turn behind high ranking infants, and the tap dried up before she had a chance to use it.
Portia's fortunes improved with the arrival of Che, a wandering male who managed to join the Temple Troop after a romantic meeting with Portia.
She was the first to discover a rice field and the troop briefly had abundant food, but people soon put the troop to flight, and while crossing the road, one of the troop's infants was hit by a car. Portia held on to her own baby tightly.
When Temple Troop marched back to Monkey City Portia tried to give her son a better life by rising up the hierarchy.[34] She was constantly being bullied by Cassandra (her cousin, and a high ranked female). Portia watched as Cassandra bullied Ophelia (another low ranking female in the Temple Troop). Portia allied with Ophelia to drive Cassandra down the pecking order, and increase her own status.
Che[edit]
Che was a wandering male who had encountered the Temple Troop many times before. He got together with Portia in the forest, and when she rejoined the troop Che joined the Temple Troop with total confidence.
While in the forest, one of Gemini's adolescent daughters was playing in the leaf litter when Che saw a python and sounded an alarm. This ensured the troop's safety and impressed Gemini, but king Hector saw Che as a rival. Che was experienced in the bad lands and led the Temple Troop into the land of the humans. Hector was reluctant to follow, but was unwilling to leave his queen alone with Che.
Che suddenly left the Temple Troop and joined the resident city troop, who were said to be former members of his wandering band. In their second visit, the Temple Troop came into conflict with the city troop and among the fighters at the city troop's front line, was Che. As the two troops fought, Che suddenly switched again and sided with the Temple Troop, attacking the city troop. Che and Temple Troop were forced to retreat.
Just when Che was settling into the Temple Troop, his roving band of bachelor males showed up. He knew that the presence of the wandering males would give Hector an excuse to banish him, so, while Hector was watching, Che attacked the wandering males and drove then away.[29] Hector was impressed - though still uneasy of Che. When the wandering males returned Che persuaded them to join the Temple Troop, swelling their army enough to fight for Fig Tree Vale.
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ B. Kilcoin (2009-03-08). "Animal Planet's 'Dark Days in Monkey City' is an experimental hit". The Michigan Daily. "it spotlights several characters, which creates a format more like an hour-long drama than a nature documentary" 
2.Jump up ^ "Ian McGee from Dark Days in Monkey City - at Film.com". Retrieved 2010-05-23.
3.Jump up ^ "Dark Days in Monkey City TV Show". film.com. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c Brian Lowry (2009-02-23). "Recently Reviewed". Variety. Retrieved 2010-05-21.
5.Jump up ^ "Turning Monkeys Into Comics". Discovery Channel. Retrieved 2010-05-21. "An Interview with Man of Action Studios: as long as there have been comics, there have been simians IN comics [...] Dark Days will build on this long tradition"
6.^ Jump up to: a b The first four episodes were the only ones broadcast in the initial Animal Planet run "Dark Days in Monkey City - Series - Episode List". Retrieved 2010-05-23.
7.^ Jump up to: a b "Breaking News - More Shows In/Out at Discovery Networks". www.thefutoncritic.com. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
8.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Hale, Mike (2009-02-23). "Bloody Fights for Primacy in a Graphic-Novel Setting". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-21.
9.Jump up ^ "Scott Mouat: Director of Photography". ELWIN Productions. Retrieved 2010-05-21.
10.Jump up ^ "Dark Days in Monkey City Episode Guide". Retrieved 2010-05-21.
11.Jump up ^ "Release dates for "Dark Days in Monkey City" (USA)". Retrieved 2010-05-21.
12.^ Jump up to: a b "The NATURAL WORLD: The TEMPLE TROOP". Retrieved 2010-05-21.
13.^ Jump up to: a b Josh Bell (2009-02-19). ""Monkey" in the middle". Las Vegas weekly. Retrieved 2010-05-21. "[the macaque characters] even have flashbacks!"
14.Jump up ^ Downey, K. (2008-04-25). "For Animal Planet, it's not just critters". Media Life Magazine. Retrieved 2010-05-23. "Animal is rolling out plenty of shows that underscore its new direction in humanizing animals [...] the partly animated “Dark Days in Monkey City” premieres this winter"
15.Jump up ^ Moss, Linda (2008-08-04). "Animal Planet Offers ‘Entertaining’ Slate". Multichannel News. Retrieved 2010-05-23. "Animal Planet has a slate for the 2008-2009 season that features entertainment-focused programming that will attempt to tap into people’s primal instincts with compelling stories, engaging characters [...] the highly stylized series Dark Days in Monkey City, which uses live action and graphic novel-style animation to reveal the real-life drama"
16.Jump up ^ Benson, Nigel (2009-10-27). "Hey, hey, it's the monkeys". Otago Daily Times. www.odt.co.nz. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
17.^ Jump up to: a b "DeepOcean Quest Productions: Dark Days in Monkey City (2008)". Retrieved 2010-05-23. "DOQP provided CGI modelling, matte painting and animation"
18.^ Jump up to: a b "Hey, hey, it's the monkeys, page 2". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 2010-05-23. "Across all 13 episodes, Dark Days follows the lowliest female character, Portia, as she rises to dominance within the troop"
19.Jump up ^ Berman, L. "Sneak Peek: Animal Planets New Series 'Dark Days in Monkey City'". Retrieved 2010-05-23. "By then we knew the monkeys who were going to be our stars"
20.Jump up ^ "Is Frank Miller Working on Monkey Projects?". AdvertisingAge. Retrieved 2010-05-21.
21.Jump up ^ "Animal Planet's 'Dark Days in Monkey City' is an experimental hit". www.michigandaily.com. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
22.Jump up ^ McNamara, Mary (2009-03-03). "'Dark Days in Monkey City' on Animal Planet - Los Angeles Times". articles.latimes.com. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
23.Jump up ^ "EVERY MONKEY KNOWS HIS PLACE... UNTIL HE'S PUSHED TOO FAR". Retrieved 2010-05-21. "DARK DAYS IN MONKEY CITY is a 13-part series is based on the Smithsonian Primate Project, the longest-running study of primates in the world"
24.^ Jump up to: a b c Hettiarachchi, Kumudini (2009-03-15). "The famous monkeys do it again!". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2010-05-21. "some of the others are ‘Temple Troop’, winner of 12 international awards (1997) and ‘Life of Mammals: Social Climbers’ with David Attenborough (2002) both for BBC Natural World."
25.Jump up ^ McNAMARA, MARY (2009-03-03). "'Dark Days in Monkey City' on Animal Planet". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-05-21. "there is something inherently dramatic about these creatures, if only that they tend to live in Sri Lanka's picturesque ruined temples."
26.^ Jump up to: a b "Meet the Monkeys of Monkey City'". Animal Planet. Retrieved 2010-05-21. "The Temple Troop is the staunch defender of Fig Tree Vale, the best territory in Monkey City"
27.Jump up ^ "Monkey Creates a Love Triangle?". Retrieved 2010-05-23. "Male and female hierarchies in toque macaque society are not linked"
28.Jump up ^ "About the Black Claws". Discovery Channel. Retrieved 2010-05-21.
29.^ Jump up to: a b "EPISODE 7 - "The Stranger"". "only males transfer between troops, while females remain with the troop of their birth throughout life."
30.Jump up ^ "The females live in fear that their babies will be killed by a new leader.". animal.discovery.com. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
31.Jump up ^ "10. SUBORDINATE MONKEY ANTAGONIZES THE QUEEN". Retrieved 2010-05-23.
32.Jump up ^ "Male Monkey Kills the Infants?". "infanticide among macaques is quite rare because macaque parents have developed effective ways to counter it. For instance, females often mate with multiple partners so that it's unclear who the real father is"
33.Jump up ^ Barlett, T.Q.; Sussman, R.W.; Cheverud, J.M. (December 1993). "Infant Killing in Primates: A Review of Observed Cases with Specific References to the Sexual Selection Hypothesis". American Anthropologist 95 (4): 958. doi:10.1525/aa.1993.95.4.02a00090. JSTOR 683025. "This hypothesis suggests that infant killing is a form of sexual competition whereby an infanticidal male gains a reproductive advantage by selectively killing the offspring of his male rivals. Despite criticisms that the evidence in support of the hypothesis is distorted by misinterpretation of data and observer bias, the sexual selection hypothesis, bolstered in part by additional reports of infanticide in a variety of species, has become entrenched"
34.Jump up ^ "Subordinate Monkey Submits to Queen : Top 10 Bizarre Monkey Behavior". "Female rank is socially passed on from the mother to her offspring"
 


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Dog Days (TV series)
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Dog Days is an American reality television series which aired on Animal Planet in the fall of 2002. The show followed a number of New Yorkers, notably former Saturday Night Live choreographer Danielle Flora, as they raised their pet dogs in New York City.
Dog Days aired eight episodes, and was not renewed for a second season. It was produced by Steven Rosenbaum and his New York production company CameraPlanet.
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Dogs 101

Format
Documentary
Starring
Different
Composer(s)
Matthew Richard Harris
 Stephen O'Reilly
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
5
No. of episodes
36
Production

Producer(s)
Jennifer Madden
 Pamela P. Tomlin
 Joseph Sousa
 Portland Helmich
Editor(s)
Walter Blazewicz
 Noah Lydiard
 Gregory William Palmer
 Deb Luchini
 Chad Ervin
 Kristine Young Gaffney
 Alison Ryan
 Eric Merklein
Cinematography
Daniel F. Scherl
Running time
60 minutes
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet
Original run
October 11, 2008 – November 5, 2011
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Related shows
Cats 101, Pets 101
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Dogs 101 is a show that airs on the American cable TV channel Animal Planet. Dog trainers and breeding experts explored the advantages and disadvantages of various breeds of dogs.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot 1.1 Season 1
1.2 Season 2
1.3 Season 3
1.4 Season 4
1.5 Season 5
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Plot[edit]
Each episode of Dogs 101 features 5-6 breeds of dogs. The show explains the characteristics of each featured breed of dog along with opinions from experts ranging from trainers to groomers to veterinarians.
Season 1[edit]
Airedale Terrier
Akita
Basset Hound
Beagle
Bichon Frise
Bloodhound
Boston Terrier
Boxer
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
Chihuahua
Collie
Dachshund
 Doberman
English Bulldog
English Springer Spaniel
French Bulldog
German Shepherd
Golden Retriever
Great Dane
Irish Setter
Jack Russell Terrier
Labrador Retriever
Maltese
Miniature Pinscher
Newfoundland
Pembroke Welsh Corgi
Poodle
 Pug
Rhodesian Ridgeback
Rottweiler
Shar Pei
Shih Tzu
Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier
St. Bernard
Vizsla
Weimaraner
West Highland White Terrier
Whippet
Wire Fox Terrier
Yorkshire Terrier
 
Season 2[edit]
Afghan Hound
Alaskan Malamute
Australian Shepherd
Bernese Mountain Dog
Border Collie
Brittany
Cairn Terrier
Chesapeake Bay Retriever
Chinese Crested
Chow Chow
Dalmatian
English Mastiff
German Shorthaired Pointer
 Havanese
Italian Greyhound
Korthals Griffon
Lhasa Apso
Miniature Schnauzer
Mexican Bull Terrier Puppy
Old English Sheepdog
Pekingese
Pomeranian
Portuguese Water Dog
Siberian Husky
Toy Fox Terrier
Xoloitzcuintli

Special Edition: Designer Dogs
Cavachon
Chiweenie
Chorkie
Goldendoodle
Labradoodle
Puggle
Special Edition: Rare Breeds
Karelian Bear Dog
Lagotto Romagnolo
New Guinea Singing Dog
Peruvian Inca Orchid
Puli
Thai Ridgeback
 
Season 3[edit]
Affenpinscher
American Eskimo
American Pit Bull
Australian Cattle Dog
Basenji
Boykin Spaniel
Bull Terrier
Bullmastiff
Cardigan Welsh Corgi
Cocker Spaniel
 Coton de Tulear
Dandie Dinmont Terrier
Gordon Setter
Great Pyrenees
Greyhound
Irish Water Spaniel
Irish Wolfhound
Komondor
Kooikerhondje
Leonberger
 Norwich terrier
Papillon
Rat Terrier
Saluki
Samoyed
Shetland Sheepdog
Shiba Inu
Silky Terrier
Tibetan Mastiff
 
Season 4[edit]
Anatolian Shepherd
Australian Kelpie
Bearded Collie
Belgian Malinois
Black and Tan Coonhound
Black Russian Terrier
Bluetick Coonhound
Borzoi
 Bouvier Des Flandres
Briard
Brussels Griffon
Canaan Dog
Clumber Spaniel
Dingo
Dogo Argentino
English Setter
 German Wirehaired Pointer
Japanese Chin
Keeshond
Mi-Ki
Miniature Bull Terrier
Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen
Pointer
Swedish Lapphund
 
Season 5[edit]
American Bulldog
Border Terrier
Kuvasz
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Cats 101
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Pets 101
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The Last Dragon
 Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real (U.S. title)
The Last Dragon
Title Screen
 
Genre
Fantasy / Docufiction
Created by
Charlie Foley
Developed by
Charlie Foley
David McNab
Justin Hardy
Kevin Tao Mohs
Starring
Paul Hilton
Katrine Bach
Aiden Woodward
Narrated by
Ian Holm (English release)
Patrick Stewart (U.S. release)
Original language(s)
English
Production

Executive producer(s)
John Smithson
 David McNab
Alice Keens-Soper
Producer(s)
Ceri Barnes
Running time
99 mins
Broadcast

Original channel
Channel 4
Animal Planet
Original airing
2004
External links
Website
The Last Dragon, known as Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real in the United States, and also known as Dragon's World in other countries, is a British docufiction made by Darlow Smithson Productions [1] for Channel Four and broadcast on both Channel Four and Animal Planet that is described as the story of "the natural history of the most extraordinary creature that never existed".
It posits a speculative evolution of dragons from the Cretaceous period up to the 15th century, and suppositions about what dragon life and behavior might have been like if they had existed and evolved. It uses the premise that the ubiquity of dragons in world mythology suggests that dragons could have existed. They are depicted as a scientifically feasible species of reptile that could have evolved, similar to the depiction of dragons in the Dragonology series of books. The dragons featured in the show were designed by John Sibbick.
The program switches between two stories. The first uses CGI to show the dragons in their natural habitat throughout history. The second shows the story of a modern day scientist at a museum, Dr. Tanner, who believes in dragons. When the frozen remains of an unknown creature are discovered in the Carpathian Mountains, Tanner, and two colleagues from the museum, undertake the task to examine the specimen to try to save his reputation. Once there, they discover that the creature is a dragon. Tanner and his colleagues set about working out how it lived and died.


Contents  [hide]
1 Synopsis
2 Dragon biology and behaviour 2.1 Hydrogen production
2.2 Flight
2.3 Fire breathing
2.4 Reproduction and courtship
2.5 Territory
3 Dragon species 3.1 Prehistoric dragon
3.2 Marine dragon
3.3 Forest dragon
3.4 Mountain dragon
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Synopsis[edit]

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The story begins 65 million years ago, sometime in the late Cretaceous period. A Tyrannosaurus rex is stalking a creature that has been raiding its territory and food sources. The creature is revealed to be a juvenile prehistoric dragon. The T. rex had not eaten for days and prepares to attack the young dragon: in an attempt to defend itself, the dragon extends its wings to give the illusion that it is much larger than it really is, but the T. rex is not convinced and continues to advance. The young dragon then tries another tactic: it utters a piercing scream that carries for miles. Although the screech disorientates the T. rex, hurting its sensitive ears, the attack only goads the dinosaur on. Suddenly, the dragon's mother swoops down from the sky to the rescue and attacks the T. rex, slashing the dinosaur's skull with its talons. During the short fight, both animals cause serious injuries to the other; the T. rex breaks the female dragon's wing and in retaliation, the dragon breathes a jet of fire at the Tyrannosaur's face. The Tyrannosaurus limps away with fatal burns, while the female dragon is left unable to hunt for herself or her offspring.
65 million years in the future, at the London Museum of Natural History and Science, England. Dr. Jack Tanner, a young palaeontologist, who has been fascinated with dragons since childhood is introduced. Upon discovering talon marks on a skull of a T. rex, Dr. Tanner shares his theory about the creature that caused the damage to the skull with other palaeontologists. He tells them that the damage was caused by a creature unknown to science. However, he says that it was not the talons that killed it; a blast of fire, precisely aimed at the head was the cause of death, as evidenced by carbon deposits discovered down both sides of the skull. Unfortunately, his colleagues aren't convinced and Tanner's academic reputation is left in tatters.
In his office Dr. Tanner studies photographs taken of a new discovery at Romania. Several human corpses, dating from the Middle Ages, were found in a cave in the Carpathian Mountains while some straying skiers were being rescued. Along with the bodies, a carcass of an unidentified animal was discovered. The Romanian authorities ask the museum to investigate the find. Most of the professors at the museum want nothing to do with the specimen, but Tanner asks if he can go on behalf of the museum. The museum agrees and Tanner prepares to travel to Romania, under one condition - if it is a hoax, they leave immediately: if it's of interest, the body is shipped back to London. Tanner, along with two associates, arrive to discover that the remains have been moved off the mountain, Tanner wonders what evidence may have been lost in the process. The three scientists enter the shed where the carcass is being housed and begin analyzing the specimen.
After initial analysis, Tanner notes that the creature has a scaly hide and a tail, suggesting a reptile, but also has wings and foot talons, characteristics of powered flight. When he finds the wings, he wonders if the creature could really fly, as its wingspan is too small to allow flight. After further investigation, Tanner finds that the bones of the creature have a honeycomb structure, which would allow for flight, being hollow but strong. Internal scans of the creature show a huge heart, needed to pump oxygen-rich blood to the chest muscles during hard work, and two bladder-like structures. Tanner suggests that they could be gas bladders: the gas contained inside is hydrogen, which is lighter than air and would give the creature extra lift. He tells his associates that the creature has everything needed for flight but that they don't add up.
Back in the Cretaceous, two weeks after the fight with the T. rex, the mother dragon is dead, having succumbed to infection; the starving juvenile must now teach itself how to fly, while evading the scavengers seeking to feed on his mother's body: at present, only pterosaurs, but more dangerous creatures will come. The juvenile begins to eat the only food source available; its mother's carcass. While eating, an aged male dragon arrives to feast on the mother. The juvenile, sensing danger, flees, but the older dragon, seeking fresh meat, gives chase. The juvenile flees into a forest where the adult male cannot fly. Body working overtime, the juvenile begins to make hydrogen, essential for flight, as the adult is gaining on the juvenile, nature kicks in and the juvenile regurgitates the contents of its stomach to remove excessive weight and takes to the air, narrowly escaping the adult male.
In the present, Tanner inspects inside the mouth of the creature and declares it a carnivore, but also notices molars and wonders about their purpose in a carnivore. He also notes a fleshy palate at the back of the throat and wonders if it could have been used to prevent backdraft from fire. Noting that the mouth shows no evidence of ever having been exposed to fire, he reconsiders. He theorizes that dragons breathing fire is biologically possible, explaining that the bombardier beetle can emit liquid at a temperature of 200 °C.
The prehistoric dragon, now a young adult, is preparing to fight an alpha male for territory and mates. Before it goes to fight the other adult male it eats rock rich in minerals, which is found at the heart of every dragon territory. The young adult ventures into the territory of an old alpha male. The two fight and the young male wins.
Tanner says that to create fire, they need fuel, oxygen and a source of ignition. He then realizes that he had already found fuel inside the flight bladders, hydrogen and methane, both combustible and lighter than air. He then takes samples of the crushed rocks found on the molars of the creature to discover they are rich in platinum, which can start a fire in a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Tanner is now convinced that his theories have been correct and the creature is a dragon. Tanner begins to wonder how dragons survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, when other large land-dwelling creatures like the dinosaurs didn't. The narrator then explains that at the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event|, a meteor the size of Mount Everest smashed into the Earth, wiping out nearly all life on the planet. Sharks, coelacanths, turtles, and crocodiles all survived and all had one thing in common: they were all marine species. Tanner then remembers that crocodiles also have a false palate like the one found in their dragon, and deduces that it is an evolutionary relic passed down from a marine ancestor. The narrator continues to inform us that the land-dwelling prehistoric dragon was wiped out, but explains that the prehistoric dragon was not the only dragon species alive at the time of the K/T Event. There was also a marine dragon, a cousin of the prehistoric dragon, both descended from a common ancestor.
It is explained that the marine dragon lived in the sea and its the flight bladders became swim bladders allowing extra buoyancy, the wings became vestigial and served as fins, and the large tail became a rudder. As the land recovered from the impact of the meteor, some dragons returned to shallower waters and eventually made the transition back to land. Tanner suggests that the legends of sea serpents were actually recollections of true encounters with marine dragons. One of his associates discovers that a fossil of a false palate had been found in bamboo forest, in China. Tanner theorizes that the marine dragon came back onto land and evolved into a new species in the bamboo forests of Asia. The dragons of Chinese mythology are low-slung, elongated, and slender; all characteristics of a body recently adapted from water, but Tanner wonders if this would have been suitable for living in a forest.
We are taken back 50,000 years to the bamboo forests of China. The age of the dinosaurs has ended, and now the mammals have since risen up to fill the void. Here we are shown the newly evolved forest dragon, adapted to its new environment. We follow the dragon as it stalks its prey, and discover that the dragon has evolved a unique adaptation; mimicry. By controlling the flow of gases out of its bladder, the dragon is able to mimic animals in distress. The vestigial wings are too small to allow flight, the dragon only able to glide small distances; but the buoyancy of the gas bladders let it tread less heavily and thus quieter when stalking prey. The dragons also use their natural fire-breathing abilities to cook their captured prey, as the fur on some of its prey is not easily digested. The dragon succeeds in dealing with several mammalian intruders to its territory, including wild pigs and tigers, but in the distance, another species watches the dragon's use of fire with inquisitive eyes, a species that will turn the dragon's own weapon on it: humans.
In the present, Tanner, after theorizing about the marine and forest dragons, begins to wonder what other dragon species may have evolved within this family of creature. Tanner's associate shows him something strange on the monitor, bone fragments. He thinks they may be ribs, but the ribs are intact. The three scientists lift the wings of the dragon to discover that it has four legs and two wings. Tanner is amazed saying, "No vertebrate that ever lived had six limbs". They check the DNA, knowing that if it is not a hoax then the limbs will show up in the DNA. The DNA test shows that the dragon has a genetic adaptation in the gene responsible for creating limbs. Tanner tells us that world mythology was correct all the time, all depictions of dragons show them to have six limbs. He cites the different depictions of dragons as evidence of a whole family of dragons existing all over the world. He dubs their carcass the mountain dragon, and wonders if this is the dragon in European folk history.
As the three scientists prepare the dragon carcass to be packed up and shipped to England, they perform one final check to see if they missed anything. They find the tip of a broken sword buried in its heart, Tanner goes to where the Romanian scientists are studying the human corpses and find the sword that the tip came from. The narrator tells us the dragons survived until the emergence of humans, who used the dragon's fire against it. These encounters between humans and dragons are recorded in folklore throughout the world. Tanner discovers that the human bodies show evidence of carbonization, showing that the bodies were burnt, but their dragon specimen never breathed fire. As the Romanian authorities come for the dragon, Tanner studies x-rays that had been taken, he sees that the ovaries of the dragon show no follicular activity, and concludes that their dragon was a baby. The three scientists travel to the cave, hoping to find a nest.
We are taken back over 500 years, to the Carpathian Mountains in the Middle Ages. Dragons have been driven to live in remote places of Europe by encroaching human. A female mountain dragon is searching for a mate: she marks her territory with her scent. The female is near the end of her season.
The scientists arrive at the cave and find rocks that have been scorched in symmetrical lines. They scan inside the cave using echo scanning. As the female returns to her den, a male dragon arrives, having traveled to Romania from his territory in the Atlas Mountains, and the female goes to him. Instinct then takes over as the two begin their courtship ritual, where they fly to a great height then freefall together, only pulling apart at the last instant. Inside the cave, Tanner finds a nest, containing egg shell fragments and one intact egg.
Back in the 15th century we see the female dragon, using her fire to incubate the eggs inside the nest. The male returns from hunting, with no food. Instead, he brings another rock for the nest. The female, now being very protective of her nest, allows the male to enter the cave and take care of the nest. As the female takes her turn to hunt, the male enters the nest and places the rock on the nest. But instead of keeping the temperature at a high level, he lowers the temperature of the eggs in order for the eggs to develop into all females, as another male may be a rival for him; the resulting imbalance in sex ratio would have been tolerable in a healthy population but is a severe risk in a species which is now nearly extinct. The female returns from the hunt and finds the male not attending to the eggs. She quickly senses that something isn't right inside the nest. She finds out that the temperature in the nest is dangerously low and attempts to raise it again: one infant dragon has already died, but the other can still be saved. The male senses trouble and makes his escape.
The adult female has been stealing livestock from local villages in order to feed her young daughter, despite the risk of provoking the villagers. As the adult female begins to teach her daughter the secret of fire, a pair of local knights arrive to kill the dragon. They find that the young female cannot defend herself because she cannot breathe fire yet, and kill her. The adult female returns to the lair too late and finds her daughter dead. Both of the knights are soon killed by the enraged female, with one nearly managing to escape. With her daughter now dead, the adult female comes back into heat and begins trying to attract another mate. As winter comes, the female hibernates. More warriors (mercenaries paid by the locals) come to the den and catch her with her gas bladder nearly empty due to hibernation and attack her. She fights bravely, cutting down the mercenaries until only one man is left, badly wounded. As she rears above the man to crush him, he holds a spear upright. As she fatally impales herself on the spear, her toppling corpse crushes the last mercenary beneath her.
In the present, Tanner discovers a chamber. He enters it and finds the adult female. Back at the museum in England, Tanner shows the specimens to his colleagues: the legends of dragons were real, but had been twisted. The narrator tells us:

The story of life on our planet has been rewritten, by a mother and her child...reunited. The last of a legendary line. Myth made real. The myth of a sheep stealer, the reality of a mother struggling to feed her young. The myth of a vicious beast, the reality of survival...at any cost. The myth of brave knights who climb a mountain to slay a dragon, the reality of persecution and extinction. Now every dragon myth from around the world begs the same question: Were they real too? And more importantly, were these really the last dragons?
The story picks up one year later. Tanner, now Professor Tanner, is given a file by one of his colleagues. Tanner opens the file to find photographs. He looks at them, while his colleague tells him that they were taken only two months ago. Tanner runs off ecstatic, flapping his arms like wings, preparing to track down the dragon that was presumably in the photographs.
Dragon biology and behaviour[edit]

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This work of docufiction presents fictionalized accounts of dragon biology and behaviour.
Hydrogen production[edit]
Sometime in the evolutionary development of dragons, they succeeded in harnessing their natural gut bacteria in two unique ways, flight and fire. Many animals possess in their guts active bacteria which aid in the digestion of food. The bacteria inside the dragon's gut produces hydrogen. The hydrogen produced in the gut is then transferred into the internal bladders. This was seen as the dragon breathed fire.
Flight[edit]
Dragons have several characteristics typical of flight. The honeycomb structure of their bones allows them to be light, while retaining their strength. Huge hearts are also typical of flight, as chest muscles would need vast amounts of oxygen-rich blood in order to move the large wings. Although they possess large wings, just under 20 feet (6.1 m), the wing-span/weight ratio of dragons is not enough for the wings to give enough lift.
Dragons overcame this by utilizing two internal bladders. Fully inflated, these bladders had a combined volume of 30 cubic feet (0.85 m3). The bladders, when filled with hydrogen and methane; both of which are lighter than air, provide the extra lift needed to get the dragon off the ground.
Fire breathing[edit]
As well as the flight bladders being used as buoyancy aids, they also double as fuel stores for the fire that dragons are famous for breathing. The hydrogen and methane combine with oxygen in the presence of platinum, as a catalyst, and combust. The inside of dragons mouths are armor-plated and it has a false palate in its throat, similar to a crocodile, to stop backdraft.
Because of the dual use of the bladders, the more fire a dragon breathes, the shorter the distance it can fly.
Reproduction and courtship[edit]
Female dragons come into season for one month every year. They will only mate once every seven years. As dragons are naturally attracted to shiny objects, a female may use this for attracting a mate. When a male and female dragon prepare to mate, they begin a frightful courtship ritual: they fly to a great height, lock talons and free-fall, only releasing each other at the last moment. Once successful in mating, a female will build a nest of rocks and lay a clutch of two eggs. Like crocodiles, dragon embryos do not possess sex chromosomes, and the sex of the offspring is determined by the temperature of the egg, lower temperatures producing females and higher temperatures, males. The shells of dragons' eggs have heat-resistant properties, enabling them to withstand the intense heat generated from the dragons' fire, without which the chicks would die. The female ensures the eggs are kept from falling below the critical temperature, 60° Fahrenheit, by using her fire to incubate the eggs. Dragons possess special sensors in their genitilias which allow them to check the temperature of the nest.
Territory[edit]
In order to create fire, dragons need access to plentiful supplies of platinum. Because of this necessity, dragons always ensure that they establish their territory in areas which have rocks rich in platinum ore.
Dragon species[edit]

 


 Tree showing the evolution of the five dragon species.
In the program, four dragon species are explored in detail. These are the prehistoric dragon, marine dragon, forest dragon, and mountain dragon. On the evolutionary tree shown during the program, a fifth species, the desert dragon is identified by name only, and the program does not theorize about its possible evolutionary path.
The program's associated website theorizes that dragons split from other reptiles some time in the late Triassic period,[2] citing this time as a period of great diversification. All dragons species descend from an aquatic or semi-aquatic ancestor. Some of these ventured further onto land and evolved into the fully terrestrial prehistoric dragon, while others went further out to sea, evolving into the marine species.
Prehistoric dragon[edit]
The prehistoric dragon lived during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous, alongside the last of the non-avian dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, Torosaurus, Edmontosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, Alamosaurus, and Troodon; as well as the last pterosaurs like Pteranodon and Quetzalcoatlus. Dragons, having evolved from reptiles, were originally quadrupeds, having four limbs and unable to fly or breathe fire. Via the process of natural selection, one species developed the ability to run on two legs. No longer having much use for the forelimbs, they eventually evolved into wings allowing for flight. This evolutionary path mirrors that of birds evolving from small bipedal dinosaurs.[3]
At some point in their evolution, dragons harnessed unique bacteria in their guts. Gut flora are present in all creatures' guts, and help to aid digestion. Dragons, however, harnessed bacteria which was able to produce hydrogen.[3] The production of hydrogen allowed dragons to utilize the gas in flight. With this extra lift dragons were able to grow into the largest known flying animal. At another point dragons began ingesting inorganic material, one of the rocks they ingested was rich in platinum ore. The dragons then developed the ability to breathe fire by igniting the hydrogen and methane in their guts by exposing it to the catalyst of platinum.[3]
The prehistoric dragon became extinct along with most of the dinosaurs at the K/T Event, 65 million years ago, when an asteroid or meteor the size of Mount Everest crashed into the Earth near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, destroying nearly all life on the planet.
Marine dragon[edit]
As some dragons took to land, others remained in shallow waters and coastal swamps and eventually evolved into the marine dragon. After the K/T Event, these were the only dragons that survived, the terrestrial prehistoric dragon, along with many dinosaur species, were wiped out.[4] A mutation in the gene responsible for the generation of limbs, provided dragons with an extra pair of limbs, an adaptation unique from all other vertebrates.
As some of these dragons repopulated the land, their rudimentary limbs evolved into wings[4] as seen in all dragon species post K/T.[5] Other dragons went further out to sea and became more specialized to a life at sea. Over time the rudimentary limbs became fins, the long tail became a rudder and the limbs evolved into flippers.[4] As dragons colonized the seas and oceans, those living in colder waters developed a blood protein to prevent their blood from freezing.
Forest dragon[edit]
After the K/T Event, as global temperatures increased, some marine dragon species ventured back into shallower waters and rivers. It was here that these dragons took their steps back onto land. Over time these dragons evolved into the forest dragons of Asia. Here they lived in bamboo forests.[6] They kept the long, slender bodies of their marine ancestors as they were ideal for rapid movement through the forest undergrowth. The swim bladders, also inherited from their ancestor served to give extra lift, allowing them to move more silently through the bamboo. As their ancestor had no need for them their wings remained only as vestiges. The forest dragon was unable to fly, but could use its tiny wings, and air-filled bladders to allow it to glide short distances.[6]
The forest dragon also developed a unique use for its bladder, mimicry. By controlling the flow of gases from its bladder it was able to manipulate its voice, producing squealing sounds, to sound like a distressed mammal to entice its prey. It is thought that as these dragons ventured further out of the forests into the open country, subspecies evolved, notably the Chinese and Japanese dragon.[6]
Mountain dragon[edit]
Also known as the Carpathian dragon or Mountain Devil. As humans encroached further and further into the dragons' natural habitat, they were forced into the more remote and inhospitable regions of the world, such as the deserts and other barren places of the planet.[5] One species eventually made its home in the mountains of Europe. Thus the dragon of medieval legend has been dubbed the mountain dragon, due to its habitat, although the species was not restricted to the mountains and lived in a wide range of habitats until the advance of humans on those lands.[5]
The mountain dragon, like all other dragon species after the K/T Event possessed six limbs. The mountain dragon's shorter body is even more specially adapted for flight, a long spine being a disadvantage. The tail grew as long as the body, and ending in an arrow-shaped tip could be used as a formidable weapon.[5]
According to the film, the mountain dragon is stated to have been the last (if not one of the last) species of dragons to have existed during the Middle Ages, as many other species at the time presumedly were driven to extinction by human activities. The individuals in the film were probably the last two dragons to ever lived, although this is made relatively ambiguous.
See also[edit]
Dragon
Animal Planet
Tyrannosaurus rex
Mermaids: The Body Found (2012), a similar program airing on Animal Planet that attempted to describe mermaids in a scientific manner.
The Flight of Dragons (book) (1979)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.imdb.com/company/co0000130/?ref_=tt_dt_co
2.Jump up ^ "Dragon Evolutionary Theory". Animal Planet. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c "Prehistoric dragon". Animal planet. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c "Marine dragon". Animal planet. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
5.^ Jump up to: a b c d "Mountain dragon". Animal planet. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
6.^ Jump up to: a b c "Forest dragon". Animal planet. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
External links[edit]
The Last Dragon at the Internet Movie Database
Animal Planet's Official Site
 


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Emergency Vets

Genre
Reality Television
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
Production

Location(s)
Aurora, Colorado, USA
Production company(s)
Rocket Pictures
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet
Original run
August 1, 1998 – 2002
Emergency Vets is a reality television series that airs on the U.S. cable network Animal Planet. First aired in 1998, it depicts the working and outside lives of the veterinarians at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital in Denver, Colorado, USA, plus the animals that they treat. At its peak of popularity, Emergency Vets alternated with The Crocodile Hunter as Animal Planet's most popular show.
The show stopped first-run production in 2002 because Alameda East was occupied with building and eventually moving into a new facility in Denver. In 2004, a new documentary called E-Vets: The Cutting Edge aired on Animal Planet, showing the changes in Alameda East Veterinary Hospital since the show's final episode. The documentary scored good ratings and has been rerun several times as part of the Whoa! Sunday umbrella anthology show on Animal Planet, as well as inspiring a follow-up episode first aired in 2005 that took viewers on a tour of the new Alameda East facility while showing cases of animals receiving cutting-edge treatment at the new hospital. Another documentary, Emergency Vets 20 Most Unusual Cases, aired on Whoa! Sunday in 2006, featuring 20 cases from the series including follow-ups with the families and interviews with the doctors involved.
In 2007, Animal Planet announced that the real-life drama at Alameda East would return to prime-time airwaves under a new title, E-Vet Interns. The new series features six new veterinary interns during their first year of residency practice at the new Alameda East hospital, as well as familiar faces Dr. Robert Taylor, Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald, Dr. Preston Stubbs, and Dr. Holly Knor. In preparation for the new show's debut on January 22, 2007, Animal Planet aired a new E-Vets special, E-Vets: Things Pets Swallow, featuring memorable cases from the Emergency Vets years dealing with dramatic objects that animals have ingested.


Contents  [hide]
1 Staff 1.1 Surgeons
1.2 General Practitioners
1.3 Specialists
1.4 Veterinary Technicians
1.5 Special Years Movie
1.6 The farm animals
1.7 The Wild Animals
1.8 Interns
2 Education
3 References
4 External links

Staff[edit]
Emergency Vets featured a mix of surgeons, general practitioners, specialists, veterinary technicians, and Alameda East's annual class of 4–6 interns per year. Among the staff members featured regularly:
Surgeons[edit]
Dr. Robert A. Taylor, founder of Alameda East, who specializes in orthopedic surgery
Dr. Steve Petersen, surgeon and director of Alameda East's intern program who left the hospital and the show in 1999
Dr. Mark Albrecht, surgeon who replaced Petersen in the 2000 season; departed the hospital before the start of the 2001 season
Dr. Preston Stubbs, surgeon who replaced Albrecht after his departure in the 2001 season
General Practitioners[edit]
Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald, general practitioner who specializes in treating exotic animals, especially reptiles
Dr. Holly Knor, general practitioner specializing in animal pregnancies and associated issues
Dr. Andrea Oncken, general practitioner who left the hospital and the show in 1998
Dr. Jeff Steen, graduate of the Alameda East intern program who joined the staff as a general practitioner in 2000; specializes in dental issues
Dr. Ted Owen, DVM, Western Carolina Regional Animal Hospital
Dr. Fred Rosen, DVM, Western Carolina Regional Animal Hospital
Dr. Michelle L. Foot, DVM, Western Carolina Regional Animal Hospital
Dr. Brandon T. Hughes, DVM, Western Carolina Regional Animal Hospital
Dr. Bill Gibson, DVM, Western Carolina Regional Animal Hospital
Specialists[edit]
Caroline Adamson(now Adrian), head of Alameda East's physical therapy department
Dr. Dan Steinheimer, chief of radiology; director of Alameda East's intern program after Petersen's departure
Dr. David Panciera, internal medicine specialist who left the hospital and the show in 1998 to take a professorship at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia
Dr. Doug Santen, internal medicine specialist
Dr. Lauren Prowse, internal medicine specialist who replaced Panciera in 1998 and left the show in 2000
Dr. Etta Wertz, chief of anesthesiology who left the show in 2000
Dr. James Bailey, consulting veterinary anesthesiologist
Dr. Ric Olsen, human dentist who serves as an associate dentist at Alameda East
Veterinary Technicians[edit]
Rebecca Barwick, vet tech who adopts an owner-surrendered German Shepherd in the episode "Perfectly Imperfect"
Dr. John Fiddler, vet tech who returned to Alameda East after graduating from medical school to become an intern veterinarian, leaving the show in 2000
Ray Parham, Sr. vet tech specializing in radiology procedures
Jackie Steinheimer (née Lenz), Sr. vet tech who later married Dan Steinheimer and now runs Alameda East's Associate Staff program
Jean Wilbert, vet tech often featured giving chemotherapy to animals undergoing cancer treatments
Special Years Movie[edit]
The farm animals[edit]
Pig
Cow
Sheep
Cat
Pony
Rooster
Duck
The Wild Animals[edit]
Elephant
Frog
Zebra
Hippo
Lion
Penguin
Tiger
Polar Bear
Giraffe
Brown Bear
Chimpanzee
Red Fox
Owl
Coyote
Wolf
Interns[edit]
Dr. Rani Pheneger (now Reyter), graduate of the Alameda East intern program who left the hospital and the show in 1998
Dr. Juli White, graduate of the Alameda East intern program who left the hospital and the show in 1998
Dr. Karin Cannizzo, graduate of the Alameda East intern program who left the hospital and the show in 1998
Dr. Dennis Crow, graduate of the Alameda East intern program who left the hospital and the show in 1998
Dr. Craig Webb, graduate of the Alameda East intern program who stayed an extra six months after his internship on a special assignment before leaving the hospital and the show in 1999
Dr. Milan Hess, graduate of the Alameda East intern program who left the hospital and the show in 1999
Dr. Sandy Wang, graduate of the Alameda East intern program who left the hospital and the show in 1999
Dr. Laura Peycke, graduate of the Alameda East intern program who left the hospital and the show in 1999
Dr. Amy Estrada, graduate of the Alameda East intern program who left the hospital and the show in 1999
Dr. Katie Miller, graduate of the Alameda East intern program who left the hospital and the show in 1999
Dr. Corey Wall, graduate of the Alameda East intern program who left the hospital and the show in 2000
Dr. Jason Wheeler, graduate of the Alameda East intern program who left the hospital and the show in 2000; now practices surgery alongside Dr. Steve Petersen at another Denver-area animal hospital
Dr. Carrie Stephaniak, graduate of the Alameda East intern program who left the hospital and the show in 2000
Education[edit]
At least eight years of education are required to become a veterinarian: four years of college and four years of veterinary school. Many veterinarians undergo additional postgraduate training, including internships and residencies.
References[edit]

External links[edit]
Emergency Vets page at animal.discovery.com
Baltimore City Paper: Why Emergency Vets is TV's best tear-jerker
Alameda East Veterinary Hospital
Emergency Vets at the Internet Movie Database
Emergency Vets at TV.com
 


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Escape to Chimp Eden
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Escape to Chimp Eden
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Genre
Nature, documentary
Created by
Eugene Cussons
Directed by
Anton Truesdale
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
2
No. of episodes
32
Production

Executive producer(s)
Erik Nelson
 Dave Harding
 Phil Fairclough
Location(s)
South Africa
Running time
30 minutes
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet
External links
Website



Escape to Chimp Eden is a television series broadcast on the Animal Planet network that premiered on February 8, 2008. The series examines the rescue of abused and neglected chimpanzees.


Contents  [hide]
1 History
2 Featured chimpanzees
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

History[edit]
Caught up in the turmoil of war-torn countries, chimps frequently become orphans of the bushmeat trade, sold at markets or auctions, according to Animal Planet. Chimps also are caged for entertainment or chained as pets. With only about 150,000 chimps remaining in the wild, the chimpanzee population is being destroyed and the lives of these creatures are being degraded.
Eugene Cussons, South African rescue director for Chimp Eden, a sanctuary at the Jane Goodall Institute in the Mpumalanga region of South Africa is the human star of the show. Cussons helps rescue chimps and prepare them for life in the wild, researching the locations of abused and neglected chimps and then either negotiating or forcing them away from their neglectful owners, taking them to the safety of Chimp Eden.[1]
"Call it fate, call it divine intervention, but I felt drawn to the cause of rescuing and rehabilitating chimpanzees," Cussons said. "I was looking to be part of something bigger than myself."
His connection with the chimps is evident when he teaches 11-year-old Cozi to climb a tree for the first time. "Cozi never had been up a tree before, and I could feel he was nervous of falling but also elated by the new experience," said Cussons. "As he put his arm around my shoulders for security, I felt then that, although we belonged to different species, Cozi saw me not just as a friend but a brother he trusted with his life."
Escape to Chimp Eden is produced for Animal Planet by Creative Differences and Triosphere. Phil Fairclough, Dave Harding, and Erik Nelson are executive producers for Creative Differences. Oloff Bergh is an executive producer for Triosphere. Jason Carey is executive producer for Animal Planet.
Featured chimpanzees[edit]
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Chimp
Approx. Age
Date of Rescue
Status
Enclosure
Abu 16 Years March 2006 Deceased N/A
Amadeus 13 Years March 2006 Alpha Male Adult
Azie 1.5 Years July 2008 Infant Female Juvenile 2
Bazia 3 Years July 2008 Infant Female Juvenile 2
Bruce Unknown Died at Sudan Safe House 2007 Deceased N/A
Charlene 2.5 Years July 2008 Infant Female Juvenile 2
Charles Unknown November 2008 Alpha Male Juvenile 2
Charlie 2 Years April 2007 Infant Male Juvenile 1
Claudette 14 Years January 1996,
Moved from Johannesburg Zoo to Chimp Eden in 2008
 3rd Female Adult
Cozi 11 Years April 2006 3rd Male Juvenile 1
Dinka 2 Years April 2007 Infant Male Juvenile 1
Gida 7 Years October 2006 Deceased N/A
Jessica 25 Years December 2008 Adult Female Juvenile 2
Jinga 13 Years November 2006 Alpha Female Adult
Jao 60-65 Years April 2006 2nd Male Juvenile 1
Josephine 18 Years October 2007 Adult Female Adult
Lika 13 Years October 2006 5th Female Adult
Lily 2 Years July 2008 Infant Female Juvenile 2
Marco 5 Years July 2008 Infant Male Juvenile 2
Martha 14 Years July 2008 Adult Female Juvenile 2
Mary 3.5 Years July 2008 Infant Female Juvenile 2
Mimi 13 Years October 2006 2nd Female Adult
Mowgli 3.5 Years July 2008 Infant Male Juvenile 2
Nicky 11 Years March 2006 2nd Male Adult
Nina 4 Years April 2007 Infant Female Juvenile 1
Sally 3 Years July 2006 Infant Female Juvenile 1
Sampa 5 Years October 2007 Adolescent Female Juvenile 1
Suzie 6 Years July 2008 Adult Female Juvenile 2
Tamu 1.5 Years July 2008 Infant Male Juvenile 2
Thomas 4 Years April 2007 Infant Male Juvenile 1
Tony 3 Years October 2007 Infant Male Juvenile 1
Xena 4 Years July 2006 Infant Female Juvenile 1
Zac 17 Years October 2006 Alpha Male Juvenile 1
Zee 2 Years April 2007 Infant Female Juvenile 1
Between Seasons 1 & 2 both Abu and Gida died. Gida died in the episode The Rise and Fall of Gida due to captive chimp syndrome, suffering complications from organ failure. Abu's death was also aired in a previous episode.
See also[edit]
Animal rights
Animal rescue (disambiguation)
Animal sanctuary
Animal welfare
Cruelty to animals
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ * Lafayette, Jon. Chimps find Eden on Animal Planet January 16, 2008. Retrieved January 29, 2008.
External links[edit]
Official website
TV Week: "Chimps Find Eden on Animal Planet". Jon Lafayette. January 16, 2008. Retrieved January 30, 2008.
JGI Chimpanzee Eden website
 


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E-Vet Interns
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E-Vet Interns is a reality television series about veterinary interns working at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital in Denver, Colorado. It is a spinoff of Emergency Vets, a series about the lives of veterinarians at Alameda East that aired from 1998 to 2002 on the U.S. cable network Animal Planet. E-Vet Interns began airing on January 22, 2007, also on Animal Planet.
Episodes[edit]
List of E-Vet Interns episodes
See also[edit]
Emergency Vets
Alameda East Veterinary Hospital
External links[edit]
E-Vet Interns at the Internet Movie Database
Animal Planet - Fan Sites - E-Vet Interns
Alameda East Veterinary Hospital



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Season 1: 2007[edit]

Series Ep.
Episode
Title
Content
1-01 1 Baptism by Fire This episode introduces three of the seven new doctors at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital. It's the beginning of their internship and these doctors are immediately thrown into the mix. Dr. Erik Anderson is challenged on his first day with the fight to save Einstein, a small dog hit by a car. Dr. Kevin Drygas gets a chance to learn from veteran, Dr. Robert Taylor, as they try to remove a stick embedded in Cassie the yellow lab's throat. Dr. Shana O'Marra gets guidance from veteran, Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald, as she strives to save both a Chihuahua named Paloma and the puppy trapped in her birth canal.
1-02 2 Facing the Unknown Two new doctors get challenged when they face new and unknown situations. A dog named Bubby has been attacked by an unidentified animal and Dr. Shana O'Marra must perform surgery by herself to save its life. Meanwhile, Dr. David Gall is challenged when Abby is brought into the emergency room with symptoms he's never seen before.
1-03 3 Captain of the Ship The E-Vets of Alameda East Veterinary Hospital learn what it takes to work the overnight shift on their own, when anything can come through the emergency room doors. A Chow's life is in Dr. Kevin Drygas' hands as Kevin struggles to treat Dynasty's severe dog fighting injuries. Dr. David Gall must try to save Dakota the Lab from the toxic amount of chocolate that the dog has eaten. Dr. Heather Hadley goes to surgery to try to remove a life-threatening needle from the stomach of a young dog named Finn and finds that this case sticks close to home.
1-04 4 The Road Less Traveled Two E-Vets face the unusual and even the Alameda East staff doctors who mentor them are surprised by these rare cases. In her first neurology rotation, new doctor Blair Willman and neurologist Paul Cuddon learn that the only hope of saving the life of Ely, a paralyzed Dachshund, means attempting a difficult surgery. The life of Napoleon, an egg-bound turtle, relies on Dr. Erik Anderson and exotics specialist Kevin Fitzgerald, who must turn to unusual methods to give it the best chance of survival.
1-05 5 The Specialist's Edge Three E-Vets get an opportunity to experience the challenging road of a veterinary specialist while serving at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital. Staff surgeon Ranier Ko teaches new doctor David Gall an important surgical technique on Benny, a dog who has an uncommon problem. Dr. Kevin Drygas and staff surgeon Preston Stubbs are tested when Lucky, a poodle mix, comes in with a mysterious internal mass. Dr. Shana O'Marra faces her fear of snakes as she helps exotics specialist Kevin Fitzgerald wrangle wild rattlesnakes.
1-06 6 Rite of Passage Max the Golden Retriever needs a life-saving surgery but before they can help him, Dr. Dave Gall and Dr. Blair Willman must get help from veteran doctors Kevin Fitzgerald and Preston Stubbs to determine first if Max is a hermaphrodite. Every move counts when Dr. Shana O'Marra gets an important lesson in driving the endoscope to try pull a deadly needle out of the stomach of Hope the cat. Veteran doctor Holly Knor brings Dr. Kevin Drygas to the zoo to give two new lion cubs a neo-natal exam.
1-07 7 New Challenges Alameda East's doctors Shana O'Marra and Kevin Drygas experience an emotionally challenging situation together when William the Weimaraner's owners must give him up in order to give the two new doctors a chance to save his life. An opportunity to assist veteran doctor Robert Taylor on a dog's injured shoulder tests Dr. Heather Hadley's physical limits in surgery. A triage shift for new doctor Erik Anderson brings a strange case: Pita the cat has been badly injured by a coyote.
1-08 8 The Strongest Link The interns learn the value of teamwork during three cases.
1-09 9 Triumph of the Spirit Interns Dave Gall and Kevin Drygas observe cutting-edge technology with veteran doctor Robert Taylor as he attempts to give an amputee husky a new leg.
1-10 10 Facing Their Fears Two doctors face the challenge of surgically fixing a Siamang gibbon's broken arm, but it is the first time either has operated on a primate and the operation is critical.
1-11 11 Dogged Dedication Heather Hadley tries to save a paralyzed dog; Erik Anderson works on a critically ill Great Dane; Kevin takes Erik on a field trip.
1-12 12 Taking the Lead A 19-foot-long python named Valentine needs a check-up, and Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald refers it to Dr. Erik Anderson.
1-13 13 Unfamiliar Territory Dr. Hadley must choose a specialty area and uses a surgery rotation to decide if that's what she wants to pursue for her career.
1-14 14 Out on a Limb Dr. Kevin Drygas tries a procedure he learned as a student on a boxer with a cancerous tumor; Drs. Erik Anderson and Holly Knor examine two cheetahs at the Denver Zoo; a dentist Tavle creates a prosthetic jaw for a box turtle.
1-15 15 Difficult Diagnosis An 8-year-old chow mix is unable to move; an 11-month-old boxer may need surgery, although X-rays are inconclusive; Dr. Fitzgerald treats the doctors to a night on the town.
Season 2 (2007/2008)[edit]

Series Ep.
Episode
Title
Content
2-01 16 Rock and a Hard Place The doctors gain experience as they encounter unusual cases. Drs. Heather Hadley and Kevin Drygas face challenging surgery; Drs. Blair Willman and Erik Anderson work on a dog with a diet high in minerals.
2-02 17 The Fitz Philosophy Turtle surgeries and venomous snakes are among the odd cases for Dr. Fitzgerald.
2-03 18 Rock and a Hard Place A look at unusual cases seen by the doctors. Dr. Hadley reminisces about the cases that helped shape her career as an intern at Alameda East.
 


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Drs. Foster & Smith
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Foster & Smith, Inc.


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Type
Corporation
Industry
Pet supplies
Founded
1983
Headquarters
Rhinelander, Wisconsin, U.S.
Key people
Dr. Marty Smith D.V.M.,
 Dr. Race Foster, D.V.M.
Revenue
US$250,000,000 (2008)
Employees
550 (2006)
Websitehttp://www.drsfostersmith.com/
Foster & Smith, Inc. is an American mail order and e-commerce pet supply corporation based in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. The company funds PetEducation.com, a mostly commercial-free "resource for any pet owner who is seeking information."
Founded in 1983 by veterinarians Race Foster, Rory Foster, and Marty Smith, the company has experienced rapid growth, expanding from 2 employees and $30,000 in sales in 1983 to over 550 employees and $250 million of sales in 2008[citation needed]. The company's first catalog was a 16-page, two-color production selling canine medications. As the company grew, toys, pet furniture, and other products were added. Feline and equine products were added in 1988. The Drs. Foster & Smith line of products launched in 1993 includes products ranging from company formulated brands of cat and dog food to medications and pet furniture.
In 1998, the company began taking orders online at DrsFosterSmith.com. Online business grew after the collapse of Pets.com in 2000. A series of mergers in the early 2000s added aquarium, bird, ferret, and other specialty products to the company's catalogs. In 2008, Animal Planet gave Race Foster and Marty Smith a weekly television program, Doctors Foster and Smith's Faithful Friends, to provide veterinary advice on pet care.


Contents  [hide]
1 Description 1.1 Pet care education
2 History 2.1 Early history
2.2 Rapid growth
2.3 Focus on education & launch of DrsFosterSmith.com
2.4 Continued growth through acquisition
2.5 Product development
2.6 Branching out
2.7 Pet Pharmacy
2.8 Faithful Friends
2.9 Growth time line
3 Reputation
4 References
5 External links

Description[edit]
Located in Rhinelander, Wisconsin Doctors Foster and Smith is a pet supplies company.[1][2] As of 2008, annual sales were estimated at $250 million,[1] while the company was estimated to employ 550 as of 2006.[3] Through 2003, the company had turned a profit every year of its existence (newer figures not available).[4] It is one of the largest employers in Rhinelander.[4]
Drs. Foster and Smith primarily does business through their website, which attracts 1 million unique visitors a month and generates annual sales of $125 million (as of 2007),[5] and through mail order catalogs, which are mailed to over 50 million addresses annually (as of 2006).[3] A small amount of additional sales come through online comparison shopping sites Froogle and Yahoo! Shopping.[5] The company occasionally uses eBay to sell off discontinued merchandise.[5] In 2007, Foster & Smith began selling pet food and furniture through Target retail locations.[3]
Foster & Smith stocks more than 20,000 different products,[1] including a Drs. Foster and Smith line of products developed by the company.[2] The company's private label cat and dog foods were formulated by in-house veterinarians. As of 2007, it operated the United States' two largest pet product catalogs with its main cat and dog book having the widest reach, and its bird, fish, reptile, and small pet catalog ranking second.[6]
Drs. Foster and Smith owns a 240,000 sq ft (22,000 m2). (as of 2004) warehouse located near the Rhinelander Airport, which houses the vast majority of the company's inventory.[4] They also run a retail outlet store that draws thousands of customers to Rhinelander yearly.[7]
The company's large facilities allow it to handle most tasks – including product development, marketing, warehousing, software engineering, building construction and maintenance – in-house.[1]
Drs. Foster and Smith aquatics division, LiveAquaria.com, operates the Aquaculture Coral & Marine Life Facility in Rhinelander. The facility breeds aquacultured corals and captive marine species.
Pet care education[edit]
One focus of Drs. Foster and Smith is providing customer education. The company's catalog features education articles alongside the product.[1] The company's marketing manager, Gordon Magee, credits the focus on education for the company's success,.[5]
The company's websites contain over 300 educational videos and product reviews produced in-house.[8] Some of the videos are how-to guides, although most are product videos.[8]
The company also funds PetEducation.com.[9] The website contains primers on pet care, encyclopedia style articles, a medical dictionary, and technical material aimed at veterinarians.[9] All PetEducation.com materials are written by veterinarians, with a significant portion being contributed by Race Foster or Marty Smith themselves.[9] As of 2008, PetEducation.com attracted more than a million unique visits a month.[1]
History[edit]
Early history[edit]
In the early 1980s, veterinarians Martin Smith and Rory Foster owned and operated four animal clinics in northern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula.[7] The duo was looking for ways to supplement their income in the winter (when business was slow), when a client of Foster asked him for advice on administering vaccinations he had purchased from a mail order catalog.[4] The conversation gave rise to the idea of combining an informational newsletter aimed at "high volume" dog owners (breeders, kennel owners, etc.) interested in home veterinary care with a mail order catalog selling veterinary supplies.[2] By educating their clients, Foster & Smith could allow them to bypass the cost of veterinarian office visits. Foster & Smith were already writing a regular newsletter, so the transition was simple - they just added a sheet of mail-order medications to their existing newsletter.[2]
When Foster was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, his brother Race joined the practice and took over Rory's clinic duties.[2] In 1983, the trio incorporated Drs. Foster and Smith and produced their first full-fledged catalog. The partners wrote the copy, took the pictures, and did the design work themselves, resulting in a 16-page, two-color production.[2] As Rory's illness worsened and he was limited physically, he continued to write veterinary advice published in the catalog.[1]
Aiming for national distribution from day one, the partners searched specialty dog publications, recording the names of potential customers – breeders, kennel owners, hunters, and fellow veterinarians.[2] The first batch of 16,000 catalogs was mailed out in February 1983 using hand typed labels.[2] Two people were hired to answer the phones and handle distribution from the clinics' waiting rooms, which were used to store products.[2] The catalog generated $30,000 of sales during its first year.[2]
Rapid growth[edit]
The catalog business grew quickly as the partners started to advertise and rent third-party mailing lists. Within two years, the mail-order business had outgrown the space available at the doctors' clinics, and a separate warehouse was purchased.[2] Rory Foster died in 1987, but the business continued to expand.[2]
In 1988, the catalog was expanded to 32 full-size pages and became the nation's first full-color pet catalog.[2] Cat and horse supplies were added, and the partners shifted the catalog's focus to include regular pet owners. Toys, pet furniture, and accessories were added to the catalog's existing medications.[2] The catalog's success eventually prompted the veterinarians to give up their clinics and pursue the catalog business full time.[5]
In 1992, construction of a new 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m2). headquarters began. The all-in-one building would serve as a call center, warehouse, distribution center, and office building.[2]
John Powers, a marketing executive formerly with Docktor Pet Centers, was brought on board to oversee the company's continued expansion.[2] In 1993, the Drs. Foster and Smith brand of private label pet-care products was launched. By the end of year one, the product line contained more than 30 items including dietary supplements, pet furniture, and flea and tick products.[2]
Focus on education & launch of DrsFosterSmith.com[edit]
The mid-late 1990s also brought an increased focus on education. In 1995, Drs. Foster and Smith released its first pet handbook, What's the Diagnosis, published by Simon and Schuster.[10] In 1997, the company hired additional veterinarians to answer customer questions and produce educational materials.[2] The growing popularity of the internet prompted Drs. Foster & Smith to move education efforts online, leading to the creation of PetEducation.com.[2]
1998 saw the launch of Pets.com and Petopia, attracting millions of pet supply customers to the web for the first time. Drs. Foster and Smith, which had gone online with a basic homepage a few years earlier, also launched online ordering that year.[1] Drs. Foster and Smith, however, made no attempt to compete with the new Internet retailers on their terms, spending no money on advertising for its website.[2] Instead, the company viewed the website as a support structure for its catalog business. Its existing distribution chain allowed Drs. Foster and Smith to become the first in its industry to promise shipment within 12 hours.[2] Following the 2000 collapse of Pets.com, Foster & Smith's online sales increased substantially.[2] A new telecommunication center was added and order fulfillment upgraded to meet the increased demand.[2]
Continued growth through acquisition[edit]
In an effort to boost catalog distribution, Drs. Foster and Smith offered 100,000 free pet tags to those who joined their mailing list in early 2000.[11] In 2001, Drs. Foster and Smith increased its market share by 20% through the acquisition of Pet Warehouse, a Dayton, Ohio mail-order catalog, in a cash buyout.[12] The acquisition expanded the company's product selection from primarily dog and cat supplies to also include products for aquariums, birds, small pets, and reptiles.[12] After a brief transition period, the Dayton warehouse was closed and its products and employees moved to the Rhinelander location.[2] 53,000 square feet (4,900 m2) were added to the Rhinelander warehouse to handle the 7,000 new items.[2] The acquisition also boosted the company's catalog distribution by 5 million.[12]
Later in 2001, LiveAquaria.com, a specialty aquarium supply company, was purchased by Foster and Smith,[2] and its operations were moved from Dayton, Ohio to Rhinelander, Wisconsin. The website sells tropical fish, aquatic plants, and other aquarium animals online. In 2005, LiveAquaria.com opened its Aquaculture Coral & Marine Life Facility.[13]
Doctors Foster and Smith continued to pursue expansion, signing their first advertising contract in July 2002.[2] Around the same time, catalog and internet departments were integrated to increase efficiency.[2] Advertising efforts were expanded to television in 2003 with spots airing on Animal Planet and Lifetime.[2] The ads were aimed at reinforcing the idea that the company's catalog items are hand selected by veterinarians, according to the then marketing director Joe Voellinger.[4]
Product development[edit]
In 2003, Drs. Foster and Smith moved into product development, introducing its own brands of cat and dog food.[2] The brands were formulated by the company's on-staff veterinarians, aiming at the premium end of the market.[2] Around the same time, company sales were boosted through an auto-replenishment program that automatically billed customers for regularly bought items – food and certain medicines – after an email reminder a few days prior.[2] In exchange for joining the auto-replenishment program, customers received discounted shipping charges.[4] Within a few months, over 2,000 customers were using the program.[14] Also in 2003, a new call center was opened in Hazelhurst, Wisconsin.[7]
In 2005, Doctors Foster and Smith launched its Aquaculture Coral Facility in Rhinelander.[13] The opening drew 250 coral reef enthusiasts for the first annual Coral Conference and Frag Swap, organized by Greater Minnesota Reef Society founder Jim Grassinger.[13] Later in 2005, the company donated over $100,000 worth of pet supplies to Hurricane Katrina animal rescue efforts.[15]
In May 2007, Drs. Foster and Smith recalled its Adult Lite dog & cat food products as a precautionary measure[16] because the products' manufacturer, Chenango Valley Pet Foods, had potentially received contaminated rice protein from China. Although no contamination was ever discovered in any Drs. Foster and Smith products, Foster & Smith contacted customers who had recently purchased the product in question.[16] The company reformulated its pet food to no longer contain rice protein,[16] and later switched manufacturers.
Branching out[edit]
In April 2007, Drs. Foster and Smith acquired the pet division of electronic retailer Neeps Incorporated.[17] The acquisition added 600 mostly ferret-related specialty products to the Foster & Smith catalog.[17]
In July 2007, Drs. Foster and Smith signed an agreement with Target, that enabled the company to move into brick and mortar retail for the first time.[3] The deal placed Foster & Smith branded products in approximately 900 of Target's 1500 stores.[3]
Also in 2007, Drs. Foster and Smith was mentioned by The New York Times as an early adapter of videos showing 360-degree views of catalog products.[18] Magee told The Times "it'll become a major thing in e-commerce."[18] In 2008, the company added an in-house studio to boost their video production.[19]
Pet Pharmacy[edit]
Dr. Race Foster and Dr. Marty Smith were the founding fathers and pioneers of the veterinary pharmacy, being the first in the United States to create a veterinary pharmacy that employed pharmacists, not just veterinarians. In 2010, Drs. Foster and Smith's licensed pet pharmacy earned a seal of accreditation from Vet-VIPPS (Veterinary-Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Sites).[citation needed]
Faithful Friends[edit]
In 2008, Race Foster and Marty Smith were given a show on Animal Planet. Entitled Drs. Foster and Smith's Faithful Friends, the program focused on providing veterinary advice on how to better care for one's pets. The program, which ran for two seasons, featured celebrity interviews, hands-on demonstrations, and an "Ask the Vet" segment.[10][20] Animal Planet marketed Faithful Friends as "the definitive source for your pet's wellness and a home for professional veterinarian advice."[21] Magee, who oversaw production of the show on behalf of Drs. Foster and Smith, described it as a logical way for Drs. Foster and Smith to help pet owners.[10]
Growth time line[edit]

Year
Annual sales
Employees
Catalog distribution
References
1983 $30,000 2 16,000 [4]
1998  300+ 20,000,000 [22]
2000 $125,000,000 ~450 25,000,000 [12]
2002 $156,000,000 400+  [7]
2003 $170,000,000 ~600 40,000,000 [4]
2006 $232,000,000 550 50,000,000 [3]
2008 $250,000,000   [1]
Reputation[edit]
A 1994 Chicago Sun-Times review called the Drs. Foster and Smith catalog "a dog-gone good source" for pet products,[23] while the Star Tribune has called it "a good resource for people who can't get to the pet superstores."[24] In 1999, the company made Multichannel Merchant's list of best catalog copy, ranking second.[25] Multichannel remarks "their catalog is as much a manual of health care as it is ... product for sale", and states that one feels "these guys really care about puppies and kittens".[25] In 2004, Drs. Foster and Smith won the "Consumer Cataloger of the Year Award" from Catalog Success.[10]
Internet Retailer listed DrsFosterSmith.com as among the "Best of the Web Top 50" in 2006.[10] As of 2010, the website is ranked #100 in the Internet Retailer "Top 500" retail websites.[8] In 2007, a ForeSee Results survey ranked Doctors Foster and Smith fifth in customer satisfaction among the 100 highest-grossing online retailers.[26] The company scored 81 points out of a possible 100, with the highest score (85) being earned by Netflix.[26]
In a 2001 review for The Washington Times, Joe Szadkowski gave PetEducation.com an "A" rating and said the website featured "an incredible array of 'I didn't know that' facts."[9] He stated that the site's search engine and linked articles made finding needed information hassle free. Saying the site was worth visiting often, he added "I particularly enjoyed the section 'Cases From Our Clinic'."[9]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i Morris, Giles (July 25, 2008). "Foster and Smith marks 25 years of success". Rhinelander Daily News. p. A1.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af Ed Dinger (2004). "Drs. Foster & Smith, Inc - Introduction". In Tina Grant. International directory of company histories. Vol. 62. Gale Cengage. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
3.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Doris Hajewski (July 24, 2007). "State firm sends pet products to Target; Rhinelander catalog company signs deal". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. p. 1D.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Doris Hajewski (August 17, 2003). "Rhinelander, Wis., Pet Supply Firm Thrives where Competitors Have Failed". The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. p. 1D.
5.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Mitch Bettis (January 17, 2007). "High Performer Series: Drsfosterandsmith.com". Practical eCommerce. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
6.Jump up ^ Mark Del Franco (September 1, 2007). "From Fido and Fluffy to frogs and ferrets". Multichannel Merchant 24 (9). ISSN 1554-8961.
7.^ Jump up to: a b c d "Drs. Foster & Smith celebrates 20-year anniversary". Rhinelander Daily News. January 26, 2003. p. B3.
8.^ Jump up to: a b c "Drs. Foster & Smith builds how-to videos based on customer inquiries". Internet Retailer. July 16, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
9.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Joe Szadkowski (May 6, 2001). "Pet owners' guide to how to be an animal's best friend". The Washington Times. p. D5.
10.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Skubal, Michael (April 13, 2008). "Pet supply company expands to television". Rhinelander Daily News. p. A1.
11.Jump up ^ Sarah Casey Newman (March 25, 2000). "Web Site Offers Free Tags For Pets". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. 47.
12.^ Jump up to: a b c d Moira Cotlier (September 28, 2001). "News: Drs. Foster & Smith acquires Pet Warehouse". Multichannel Merchant. Retrieved March 6, 2010.
13.^ Jump up to: a b c Lenten, Laurie (August 8, 2005). "Coral and the Northwoods?". Rhinelander Daily News. p. 1.
14.Jump up ^ Bob Tedeschi (May 12, 2003). "E-Commerce Report; Shopping sites are offering plans that automatically send customers the routine purchases of life". The New York Times. p. C7.
15.Jump up ^ "Foster-Smith sends help for pets hit by hurricane". Rhinelander Daily News. September 12, 2005. p. 1.
16.^ Jump up to: a b c Schaefer, Heather (April 27, 2007). "Foster & Smith voluntarily recalls two pet food products". Rhinelander Daily News. p. A1. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
17.^ Jump up to: a b Ron Bartizek (May 2, 2007). "Neeps sells off pet supply business". The Times Leader. p. 1C.
18.^ Jump up to: a b Bob Tedeschi (July 2, 2007). "To Raise Shopper Satisfaction, Web Merchants Turn to Videos". The New York Times. p. C4.
19.Jump up ^ Jayne O'Donnell; Christine Dugas (March 3, 2008). "Sellers jazz up sites with videos". USA Today. p. 7B.
20.Jump up ^ "Faithful Friends: The 27 Episodes". Heads and Tails.
21.Jump up ^ "Faithful Friends: Animal Planet". Discovery Communications. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
22.Jump up ^ "Foster and Smith 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m2) expansion nears completion". Rhinelander Daily News. January 14, 1999. p. 1.
23.Jump up ^ Vanessa Williams Snyder (September 10, 1994). "Wisconsin Pair's Pet Catalog Is a Dog-Gone Good Source". Chicago Sun-Times. p. 31.
24.Jump up ^ Lynn Underwood (November 14, 1997). "Doggone good gifts". Star Tribune. Buyer's EDGE insert, p. 22.
25.^ Jump up to: a b Herschell Gordon Lewis (January 1999). "The annual best and worst catalog copy". Multichannel Merchant (PRIMEDIA Business Magazines & Media Inc).
26.^ Jump up to: a b Jon Brodkin (June 1, 2007). "Netflix, QVC, Amazon best at satisfying online shoppers; Best Buy, electronics retailers score low". Network World.
External links[edit]
Official Doctors Foster and Smith website
PetEducation.com - Veterinary education library run by Drs. Foster & Smith
Business Week Profile of Drs. Foster & Smith
LiveAquaria.com - Aquatic Life website run by Drs. Foster & Smith
 


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Fatal Attractions (TV series)
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Fatal Attractions
Fatal Attractions TV logo.jpg
Genre
Documentary
Format
Documentary with re-enactments
Created by
Joe Evans
Nigel Levy
Narrated by
Jana Sheldon
Theme music composer
Birger Clausen
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of series
4
No. of episodes
25
Production

Executive producer(s)
Caroline Hawkins
Erin Wanner
Producer(s)
Nigel Levy
Running time
44 minutes
Production company(s)
Oxford Scientific Films
Distributor
BBC Worldwide
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet
Picture format
720p (HDTV)
Original run
March 14, 2010 – February 22, 2013
External links
Website
Fatal Attractions is a recurring documentary series on Animal Planet. First aired in 2010, the show focuses on human obsessions with wild animals that can become dangerous and sometimes fatal. This program holds a TV-14 rating due to the disturbing content in each episode.


Contents  [hide]
1 Premise
2 Episodes
3 Criticism
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Premise[edit]
Each episode deals with either a species (chimpanzee, tiger) or a class (reptiles, big cats) of animals—referred to in the show as "exotic"—not normally regarded as domesticated pets. Generally, two or three stories about a person whose relationships with these animals turned tragic are intertwined.
Each story within an episode is told through flashbacks and re-enactments, narrated by actress Jana Sheldon. Subject-matter experts (SMEs), along with family members and surviving attack victims, are interviewed as part of the narrative.
Episodes[edit]
A three-episode miniseries premiering in March 2010[1] served as the pilot for the series. Animal Planet ordered an additional four episodes, which began airing in October 2010.[2] Another order was placed for four more episodes, which began airing in February 2011.[2]
Each episode deals with two or three stories of people who keep animals as pets that are generally not meant to live in domestic environments and often are hostile to mankind in general. Episodes explore how these owners come to develop a psychological dependence on these animals, to the point of allowing themselves to get so close to these animals that the line between predator and prey becomes blurred or even non-existent. Episodes usually depict someone getting hurt or killed as a result of keeping exotic species as household pets.[3] Each story is tied together at the end, as part of the overall theme of why wild animals should remain in the wild and not in backyards.
Many episodes deal with high-profile animal attack cases, such as the February 2009 mauling of Charla Nash by Travis, a 14-year-old chimpanzee who had lived as a pet for his entire life with Connecticut businesswoman Sandra Herold. Others deal with high-profile animal seizures, such as the finding of Ming, a Bengal tiger living in a Harlem apartment.
Occasionally, the subject-matter experts (SME for short) being interviewed for an episode relate first-hand stories of animal attraction nearly turning fatal for themselves or someone close to them.
Herpetologist and former Cincinnati Zoo director of reptile care Winston Card, who appears as a SME in reptile-based episodes, recounted his personal role in one of the stories told in the series' first episode, "Reptiles". In October 2004, Card was contacted by the police requesting assistance from the Cincinnati Zoo in the search of a North College Hill, Ohio home belonging to Alexandria Hall. Hall had driven herself to a Cincinnati hospital and collapsed upon reaching the emergency room, managing to tell the doctors that she had been bitten by an urutu pit viper before she lost consciousness, dying two days later of a bleed in the brain. Card and a team of Cincinnati Zoo herpetologists discovered Hall was sharing her home with over a dozen illegally-acquired snakes and lizards, including the urutu whose bite had killed her.[4]
Captive Wild Animal Protection Campaign (CWAPC) program director Josephine Martell, often used as a SME in the pilot miniseries episodes, described in the episode "Big Cats" the experience of witnessing a leopard biting the tip of an index finger off of an exotic cat owner. Martell related that, as she set out on the long drive from the owner's home in the Nevada desert to the nearest hospital emergency room, the owner suddenly seemed to have a rare moment of clarity about the dangers of owning exotic cats; the owner reportedly said, "I knew this would happen, this always happens to people who own these kind of animals," but just hours after the woman was stabilized in the hospital, she began to excuse the animal's behavior through language Martell describes as "the standard denial" many injured exotic animal owners use when describing how the injuries weren't the animal's fault: "She said the animal was just playing, the animal would never hurt her, the animal loved her, it was just some freak accident."[5]
In the same episode, Tammy Quist Thies, director of a Minnesota sanctuary for rescued exotic cats known as The Wildcat Sanctuary (TWS), related her connection to one of the episode's stories, the death of exotic cat trainer/exhibitor/breeder Cynthia Lee Gamble in April 2006. Gamble's operation, The Center for Endangered Cats (CEC), was located in Duxbury, Minnesota, only a few miles from TWS. The business side of CEC—providing trained wild animals for movies, TV, and public appearances—was on the decline after Gamble and her business partner, Craig Wagner, split in 2004; Gamble filed for bankruptcy shortly afterward.[6] Rumors were circulating in the area that her collection of exotic cats were near starvation—including three Bengal tigers, the largest of which was a male named Tango that was later determined to be over 100 pounds (45 kg) underweight—and Gamble had been forced to seek out roadkill to feed her cats. When Thies learned that Gamble had been mauled and partially eaten by Tango (who had to be put down due to his extreme aggression), she offered to take in Gamble's remaining two tigers, and discovered that both of them were near starvation as well, with damaged and rotting teeth due to poor quality food and general malnutrition, along with high human aggression levels due to their state of starvation. Thies was able to return both cats to health, and both of their demeanors improved as well. Thies later learned that just weeks before her death, Gamble had reportedly told a friend that she was seriously considering contacting TWS and asking them to take all of her cats. "I wish, for her sake, that we could have all just done the right thing for the cats, and then she could have just moved on," Thies said.[5]
Herpetologist Jim Harrison of the Kentucky Reptile Zoo, used as a SME in several episodes dealing with snakes, is one of four herpetologists in the U.S. qualified to perform venom extraction from poisonous snakes to produce the life-saving medication antivenin. His work extracting venom was filmed throughout the spring of 2009 for use as background footage in the reptile episodes. In May 2009, Harrison was bitten by one of his pit vipers; Harrison's wife videotaped his transport to the hospital and the treatment he received there. After Harrison left the hospital, the producers shot additional footage of him back at the Kentucky Reptile Zoo, still struggling with the effects of the snakebite as he returned to venom extraction. Harrison's bite and recovery became the subject of one of the stories told in the episode "My Pet Python".[7]
A recurring theme throughout the series is the notion that when an exotic animal attack on a human results in a fatality to the human, it almost always results in an additional fatality. The animal involved in the attack, often simply exhibiting its hard-wired instincts or prey drive, usually has to be put down as well. Experts interviewed for the show explain that sometimes the killing of the animal is to prevent it from further attacks on humans; other times, the animal is euthanized in order to retrieve the body of the victim; still others are killed as routine legal procedure, applied to any animal that injures or kills a human, in order to perform a necropsy and test for diseases such as rabies. Thus, the human's attraction is just as likely, if not more so, to be fatal to the animal as well.
Criticism[edit]
Many pro-exotic animal ownership groups, such as Responsible Exotic Animal Ownership (REXANO), view Fatal Attractions as "propaganda-ridden" and "unbalanced".[8] Herpetologist Dean Ripa was featured as a subject on the 16th episode, "Seven Deadly Bites". He would go on to criticise the filmmakers for mischaracterizing him, quoting him out of context, perpetuating factual errors regarding the proper use of antivenom, and ignoring his suggestions to improve the program's scientific accuracy for the sake of "artistic license".[9]
See also[edit]
Exotic animals
Travis (chimpanzee)
Ming of Harlem
Big cat
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Jeanne Rizzotto, Chimpanzee Owner, FATAL ATTRACTION!". 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2011-05-26.
2.^ Jump up to: a b "Fatal Attractions (2010) episode list". IMDb. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
3.Jump up ^ "Discovery.com 'Fatal Attractions'".
4.Jump up ^ "Reptiles". Fatal Attractions. Season 1. Episode 1. 2010-03-14. Animal Planet. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
5.^ Jump up to: a b "Big Cats". Fatal Attractions. Season 1. Episode 2. 2010-03-21. Animal Planet. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
6.Jump up ^ Gordon, Sari. "Cat Scratch Fever: Inside the world of exotic animal ownership". Retrieved 2011-05-28.
7.Jump up ^ "My Pet Python". Fatal Attractions. Season 1. Episode 7. 2010-10-29. Animal Planet. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
8.Jump up ^ "Animal Planet performs another half-donkey job with their new propaganda ridden and unbalanced exotic animal series". Responsible Exotic Animal Ownership (rexano.com). 2010-01-08. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
9.Jump up ^ http://www.capefearserpentarium.com/Fatalattractions.pdf
External links[edit]
Official Animal Planet page for Fatal Attractions
Official Animal Planet episode guide for Fatal Attractions
IMDb entry for Fatal Attractions
 


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Fooled By Nature
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Fooled By Nature is a documentary reality television series broadcast on Animal Planet. It shows facts and myths about animal behavior and invites the spectator to guess if is true or false.
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Thieves[edit]
The frigatebird steal fish from another birdsDolphins in Brazil steal fish from fisherman nets.Lions steal food from leopards and another big catsdolphins sleep with There One Eye Open-By Abhishek Patil
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The Future Is Wild
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The Future Is Wild

Genre
documentary, speculative science
Starring
See Scientists below
Country of origin
United Kingdom
No. of episodes
13 (List of episodes)
Production

Producer(s)
Jo Adams Television
Running time
20–25 minutes
Broadcast

Original channel
BBC, Arte, ZDF, ORF, Mediaset, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel
Original run
April 2 – June 25, 2002
External links
Website
The Future Is Wild is a 2002 thirteen-part documentary television miniseries. Based on research and interviews with several scientists, the miniseries shows how life could evolve in the future if humans were to disappear from the Earth altogether through extinction. The version broadcast on the Discovery Channel modified this premise, supposing instead that the human species had completely abandoned the Earth and had sent back probes to examine the progress of life on the planet as time progressed. The show took the form of a nature documentary. It is narrated by John de Lancie in the Discovery Channel version.
The miniseries was released with a companion book written by geologist Dougal Dixon, the author of several "anthropologies and zoologies of the future" (such as After Man: A Zoology of the Future), in conjunction with natural history television producer John Adams. For a time in 2005, a theme park based on this program was opened in Japan. In 2008 a special on the Discovery Channel about the development of the video game Spore was combined with airings of The Future Is Wild.
A film version of the series was picked up by Warner Bros.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Ecosystems 1.1 5 million years' time
1.2 100 million years' time
1.3 200 million years' time
2 Episodes
3 Production 3.1 Scientists involved
4 Distribution
5 Merchandise 5.1 DVD release
5.2 CD-ROM
5.3 Book
5.4 Futuroscope
6 See also
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links

Ecosystems[edit]
Twelve ecosystems were presented, four in each of three future periods.
5 million years' time[edit]
The early episodes describe a world after an ice age, when giant sea-birds roam the beaches and carnivorous bats rule the skies. Ice sheets extend as far south as Paris in the northern hemisphere and as far north as Buenos Aires in the southern hemisphere. The Amazon rainforest has dried up and become grassland. The North American plains have become cold desert, and Africa has collided with Europe, enclosing the Mediterranean Sea. Without water to replace it in the dry climate, the Mediterranean has dried out into a salt flat dotted with brine lakes, as it has been in the past. Most of Europe is frozen tundra. The part of Africa east of the African Rift Valley has broken away from the rest of the continent. Asia has dried up and is now mountainous. The once warm, tropical area of Central America has been transformed into a dry area. Australia has moved north and collided with eastern Indonesia.
Profiled speciesBrine flies, flies that thrive on hypersaline water; the very same species alive today.
Hypothesized speciesBabookari, a ground-living New World monkey descended from the present-day Uakari;
Carakiller, a giant, flightless bird of prey, descended from the present-day Caracara;
Cryptile, a lizard that inhabits salt flats and has a sticky neck frill for catching flies;
Deathgleaner, a giant, carnivorous bat descended from the vampire bat of South and Central America;
Gannetwhale, a large, flightless, seal-like seabird descended from the present-day gannet;
Rattleback, an armoured rodent descended from the present-day Paca or Agouti; there are two species, one in the Amazonian grasslands and the other in the northern deserts;
Gryken, a slender terrestrial mustelid descended from the present-day pine marten;
Scrofa, a wild pig living on the Mediterranean salt flats descended from the wild boar.
Shagrat, a giant, capybara-like rodent found in the tundras northern Europe; descended from the present-day marmot;
Snowstalker, a large, white, saber-toothed mustelid from northern Europe, descended from the present-day wolverine;
Spink, a small, mole-like, burrowing bird found in southern North America, descended from the present-day quail.
100 million years' time[edit]
In the scenario for 100 million years in the future, the world is much hotter than at present. Octopuses and enormous tortoises have come on to the land, much of which is flooded by shallow seas surrounded by brackish swamps. Antarctica has drifted towards the tropics and is covered with dense rainforests, as it was 300 million years before, in the Carboniferous period. Australia has collided with North America and Asia, forcing up an enormous, 12-kilometre-high mountain plateau much taller than the modern Himalayas. Greenland has been reduced to a small, temperate island. There are cold, deep ocean trenches. The Sahara has once again become the rich grassland it was millions of years ago.
Profiled speciesRed algae, a protist that is alive today and evolves into a plant-like shape to form reefs in the absence of corals and forge a symbiosis with the Reef Gliders.
Hypothesized speciesFalconfly, a giant predatory wasp descended from the sand wasp;
Grass Tree, a plant species of the Great Plateau, harvested by Silver Spiders to feed the Poggles; descended from bamboo;
Great Blue Windrunner, a giant, blue, four-winged crane whose legs have flight feathers that can act as gliding surfaces; it is descended from the present-day Sandhill Crane;
Lurkfish, a giant, big-mouthed, electric fish descended from the electric catfish;
Nursery Vase, a plant that traps water within it and is used as a nursery by the Swampus in a very close symbiosis. It is similar to the present-day pineapple and bromeliad and is possibly a descendant from their lineage.
Ocean Phantom, a giant descendant of the Portuguese man o' war;
Poggle, the last mammal, living inside mountains and descended from a species of social rodent;
Reef Glider, a giant, swimming sea slug;
Roachcutter, a swift species of Flutterbird, a variety of birds unique to Antarctica that descended from present-day Antarctic species of birds such as the Albatross and Skua;
Silver Spider, a large colonial spider
Spindle Trooper, a giant sea spider that lives in Ocean Phantoms, which they defend against enemies;
Spitfire Bird, a species of Flutterbird that shoots acidic flower nectar from its nostrils as a defense;
False Spitfire Bird, a Flutterbird species that mimics the Spitfire Bird to frighten such predators as the Falconfly;
Spitfire Beetle, a cooperative, predatory beetle that preys on Spitfire Birds;
Spitfire Tree, a flowering tree that makes two chemicals collected by Spitfire Birds, which pollinate the tree in the process;
Swampus, a semi-terrestrial, brackish swamp-dwelling octopus;
Toraton, a giant tortoise that grows to 120 tons.
200 million years' time[edit]

 


 Map of a hypothetical future Earth ~200 million years hence
The hypothetical world of 200 million years from now is recovering from a mass extinction caused by a flood basalt eruption even larger than the one that created the Siberian Traps, wiping out 99% of the species on the planet. Fish have taken to the skies, squid to the forests, and the world's largest-ever desert is filled with strange worms and insects. All the continents have collided with one another and fused into a single supercontinent, a second Pangaea. One large global ocean with a single-current system gives rise to deadly hurricanes called hypercanes, which batter the coastlines of the continent all year long. The northwestern side of Pangaea II, drenched with an endless supply of rain, has become a temperate forest. Mountains resting at the end of the coast prevent most of the rain's moisture from reaching a long line of scrubby rainshadow deserts. The very center of the continent receives no rain at all and has become a barren, plantless desert. Only fish, arthropods, worms and mollusks were left to repopulate the Earth.
Hypothesized speciesBumblebeetle, a fast-flying beetle that lives and breeds inside the carcasses of dead Ocean Flish;
Deathbottle, a carnivorous plant living in the Rainshadow Desert;
Desert Hopper, a hopping snail with a modified single foot;
Forest Flish, a small, forest-dwelling, hummingbird-like fish that no longer lives in the oceans but instead flies like a bird (Flish being a portmanteau of flying and fish).
Ocean Flish, another type of Flish which relies on the ocean more than does the Forest Flish, like the Forest Flish it is a descendant of cod;
Garden Worm, an algae-filled worm that feeds only on sunlight;
Lichen Tree, a descendant of living lichens that has grown gigantic due to the high levels of moisture of its future environment and reaches 10 feet (3 meters) in height;
Megasquid, a 5-meter-high (16.5-feet-high), 8-ton, omnivorous, terrestrial cephalopod; its eight arms have evolved into walking legs like an elephant's; it uses its two long tentacles for feeding.
Rainbow squid, a 25-meter-long (82-feet-long), gentle, ocean-going cephalopod and is the descendent of the Giant Squid;
Sharkopath, a bioluminescent shark that hunts in packs it is the descendent of the Spined pygmy shark;
Silverswimmer, fish-sized neotenous Crustaceans;
Slickribbon, a cave-dwelling, 1-meter-long (3.2-feet-long), predatory worm with a striking resemblance to the Opabinia of the early Cambrian;
Slithersucker, a large, predatory slime mold;
Squibbon, a terrestrial cephalopod that swings from tree branches and is related to the Megasquid; it is highly intelligent and the likeliest ancestor for future life that may allow civilization to once again reestablish itself on Earth, like the Megasquid it is a descendent of the Swampus;
Terabyte, a highly specialized colonial descendant of termites;
Gloomworm, a primitive-looking, bacteria-eating worm.
Episodes[edit]
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Each episode generally focuses on just one food chain within a particular ecosystem.
1."Welcome to the Future" (a summary of the coming episodes);
2."Return of the Ice" (5 million years' time, in the newly frozen wasteland of Europe);
3."The Vanished Sea" (5 million years' time, in the Mediterranean salt desert);
4."Prairies of Amazonia" (5 million years' time, in the grassland where the Amazon rainforest once was);
5."Cold Kansas Desert" (5 million years' time, in the cold desert of Kansas, in North America);
6."Waterland" (100 million years' time, in the huge network of swamps of Bengal);
7."Flooded World" (100 million years' time, in the shallow seas edging the lowlines of the continents);
8."Tropical Antarctica" (100 million years' time, in the rainforests of Antarctica, which is now at the equator);
9."The Great Plateau" (100 million years' time, at the Great Plateau, the spot where Northern Asia, North America and Australia have collided);
10."The Endless Desert" (200 million years' time, in the vast desert of central Pangaea II);
11."The Global Ocean" (200 million years' time, in the world's global ocean);
12."Graveyard Desert" (200 million years' time, in a rainshadow desert);
13."The Tentacled Forest" (200 million years' time, in the rainforest situated at the northwest of the newly-formed supercontinent);
14."The Future Is Wild and the Making of Spore" (a special on the Discovery Channel about the development of the video game Spore was combined with airings of The Future is Wild; made and broadcast 6 years later).
Production[edit]
The Future is Wild is a £5-million co-production of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Franco-German channel Arte, the German ZDF, the Austrian ORF, the Italian Mediaset, and Animal Planet and Discovery Channels Inc of the United States.[2]
The BBC intended that the miniseries would repeat the success it had with its prehistoric documentary series Walking With Dinosaurs, which attracted 17 million viewers in 1999. The program used computer-generated imagery to show the possible future of life on Earth. The 13-part series was produced in four years by independent producer John Adams, who conceived it in 1997.[3]
Scientists involved[edit]
Scientists involved in the project include the following:
R McNeill Alexander, zoologist
Leticia Aviles, evolutionary biologist
Phillip Currie, paleontologist and paleoornithologist (the study of prehistoric birds)
Dougal Dixon, geologist
Richard Fortey, paleontologist
William Gilly, cell biologist, developmental biologist and marine biologist
Stephen Harris, mammalogist
Kurt M. Kotrschal, zoologist
Mike Linley, herpetologist
Roy Livermore, palaeogeographer
R. McNeill Alexander, specialist in biomechanics
Karl J. Niklas, botanist
Stephen Palumbi, marine biologist
Jeremy Rayner, zoologist
Stephen Sparks, geologist
Bruce H. Tiffney, palaeobotanist
Paul Valdes, paleoclimatologist
Distribution[edit]
The Future is Wild doubled the previous ratings record for the Animal Planet channel when it was aired in the United States. The series was shown on BBC2 in late 2004.[3]
ZDF Enterprises sold the television rights of the series to 18 markets: Belgium, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Middle East, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia and Venezuela.[2]
Merchandise[edit]
DVD release[edit]
The series was released on three DVDs: episodes 1–5, episodes 6–9 and episodes 10–13. The three DVDs have also been released together as a set. Both the single DVDs and the three-DVD set are available for DVD regions one and two. Although the singles are available for region four, the three-DVD set is not.
CD-ROM[edit]
An educational CD-ROM entitled The Future Is Wild was produced by Sherston Software in 2006. It is designed to fit in with international school curricula for science, mathematics, geography and history.
Book[edit]
A book version was released in 2003, published by Firefly Books.
Futuroscope[edit]
In 2008-2012 Futuroscope theme park in Poitiers, France contained an exhibit dedicated to the movie, its animals and habitats.
See also[edit]
Human extinction
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Tezer, Adnan (2 October 2009). "Warner sees the 'Future'". Monsters and Critics. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Mainz (26 November 2003). "The Future is Wild is ZDF Enterprises’ bestselling documentary in 2003". ZDF Enterprises. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Byrne, Ciar (30 March 2004). "Fish in trees and elephant-sized squid - the future as seen on TV". The Independent. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
Further reading[edit]
Future Evolution by Peter Ward
Life After People
The World Without Us
Rhinogradentia
After Man: A Zoology of the Future
Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future
Alien Planet
External links[edit]
Official website
The Future Is Wild at the Internet Movie Database
 


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List of The Future Is Wild episodes
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This is a list of The Future Is Wild episodes. Most episodes focus on one food chain in a scenario of the world 5, 100 or 200 million years from now. Each episode was written by Victoria Coules.
Episodes[edit]

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Title
Original air date

1
101 "Welcome to the Future" April 2, 2002
The opening episode serves as an introduction to the series, featuring many clips from later episodes and giving an overview of the series. It opens by discussing which animals (such as the big cats and bears) will disappear in a few thousand years and explains that evolution will continue. It is also the only episode to touch upon the absence of humans in the future. It does not, however, explain what will have happened to the human race. The creators said that it was up to the viewers to make their own assumptions about the fate of mankind (although in the Discovery Channel's airing of the series, it is stated that humanity migrated to another world, and has been sending probes periodically to inspect their former home).
2
102 "Return of the Ice" April 9, 2002
The episode is set in North Europe, 5 million years into the future. The episode focuses on three hypothesized species: (1) Shagrat, a descendant of the marmot that has grown in size and developed thicker fur and a smaller nose to protect it from the cold; (2) Snowstalker, a descendant of the wolverine that has evolved sabre-teeth and white fur for camouflage; (3) Gannetwhale, a descendant of the gannet which has grown to immense size to replace the sea mammals. The episode explains that the onset of the ice age was very fast, so many animals died out. The ones that did survive had to have quick generations so they evolved fast. This is why rodents were successful. The episode follows the story of a female Snowstalker teaching her cubs to hunt, the Gannetwhale's breeding season and the mass migration to the south of the Shagrats.
3
103 "The Vanished Sea" April 16, 2002
The episode is set in what was the Mediterranean sea in 5 million years time. It features four species: (1) Cryptile, a lizard with a sticky frill to catch flies which it can then lick off at its leisure; (2) Scrofa, a descendant of the wild boar which has developed spindly legs to allow it to live on the rocky islands in the desert; (3) Gryken, a descendant of the pine marten which hunts Scrofa in the cracked rocks of the landscape; (4) brine flies (live-acted).
Before this time in the future, the tip of Africa has collided with the southern tip of Spain, thus enclosing the Mediterranean inland. It has since dried up to become an enormous salt desert with a few lakes of ultra-saline water, as it was during the Messinian salinity crisis. The holiday islands that used to be in the sea are now mountains scattered throughout the desert. The episode starts with two cryptiles mating. Then the female cryptile goes looking for grykes to lay her eggs in, for if they were laid in the salt, they would shrivel up and die. After she lays her eggs, she is chased by a gryken, but escapes, for grykens only have short speed bursts. The gryken hunts by crawling through the grykes, and captures its prey by surprise. The gryken then hunts scrofas. However, it fails, and is chased by an adult male. The gryken tries a second time and succeeds. However a baby scrofa gets lost in the process and wanders into a the salt plains. It spots a cryptile eating brine flies. Soon the baby scrofa dies. The narrator explains how some animals such as pigs, lizards, and pine martens adapted to life in the salt flats.
4
104 "Prairies of Amazonia" April 23, 2002
The episode is set in South America where the Amazon used to stand in 5 million years time. It features three species: (1) Carakiller, a descendant of the caracara which has evolved to replace land predators; (2) Babookari, a descendant of the uakari which lives like baboons and has discovered how to catch fish; (3) Rattleback, a descendant of the agouti which has developed tough armour and can live through quickly-passing grass fires.
This episode shows that due to the cooling of the planet, the Amazon rainforest has vanished and has been replaced by grassland. Most primates have died out but the Babookari has evolved to live on the plains. They have also become much cleverer and can now make nets out of twigs to catch fish. There is also the rattleback, a heavily armoured rodent which is somewhat fireproof, and lives on a diet of Carakiller eggs, grass stems, and tubers. The episode also shows the biggest danger to these animals - fire.
The narrator explains that the Amazon died out because the annual rains failed to fall due to the second ice age. All monkeys died out, except the uakari, a social monkey that lives on the ground and in the trees. It has evolved into the babookari, a complete ground monkey. It catches fish by weaving a basket of twigs and dipping it into the water. They are attacked by carakillers, descendants of the caracara. The rattleback, descendant of the agouti eats carakiller eggs. The carakillers powerful beak can't destroy the rattlebacks armor. A prairie fire sends the babookari's running, which the carakillers take advantage of. They chase down and kill them. The rains come down and end the fire.
5
105 "Cold Kansas Desert" April 30, 2002
The episode is set in North America, 5 million years into the future. The episode focusses on three species: (1) Deathgleaner, a massive carnivorous vampire bat that spends the day hunting for prey in the desert and spends the night in a communal roost; (2) Spink, a descendant of the quail whose wings have become digging paddles. The species lives much like the naked mole rat of our time; (3) Desert Rattleback, a descendant of the agouti, when lives in the cold regions. The episode explains that the onset of the ice age caused the agricultural belt of the USA to turn into a desert where temperatures at night regularly reach freezing. The episode shows how the animals have evolved to cope with the harsh features of this forbidding landscape.
6
201 "Waterland" May 7, 2002
The episode is set in the Bay of Bengal, 100 million years into the future. The episode focuses on three species: (1) Toraton, a descendant of the giant tortoise and the largest creature ever to walk the Earth. They can weigh up to 120 tonnes; (2) Swampus, a descendant of the octopus which has formed a symbiotic relationship with a plant to house its young. They are very intelligent; (3) Lurkfish, a descedant of the electric catfish that can fire up to 1000 volts to stun prey. They are ambush predators. The episode shows that at this point of the future, volcanoes are belching out copious amounts of greenhouse gases causing the planet to overheat. It shows how swampus breed and how toraton have evolved to cope with their new size.
7
202 "Flooded World" May 14, 2002
The episode is set in shallow seas of the world, 100 million years into the future. The episode focuses on three species which all live together: (1) Ocean Phantom, a type of portuguese man-of-war that can grow to ten metres in diameter; (2) Reef Glider, a descendant of the sea slug which hunts ocean phantoms. The young, however, are prey to the ocean phantom; (3) Spindle Trooper, sea spiders that live in chambers on the ocean phantom and protect it from danger. The ocean phantom in return feeds it. This episode focuses on the extinction of the coral reefs and their replacement with red algae reefs. It shows how this food chain works and how the animals have evolved together. It also shows how ocean phantoms can be ripped apart by a severe storm but still carry on living.
8
203 "Tropical Antarctica" May 21, 2002
The episode is set in Antarctica, 100 million years into the future. The episode focuses on five species: (1) Roachcutter, a descendant of an undisclosed sea bird and one of the first species to colonise Antarctica. It feeds on the insects of the forest and flies incredibly fast and with brilliant agility; (2) Spitfire Bird, a descendant of an undisclosed sea bird which collects chemicals from flowers of the Spitfire tree which it then spits at enemies; (3) Falconfly, a descendant of the wasp which feeds on birds; (4) Spitfire Beetle, a beetle or mantis that gathers in groups of four to take on the appearance of a Spitfire flower; (5) False Spitfire Bird, an undisclosed sea bird that looks almost identical to the other spitfire bird but cannot fire chemicals. At this point in the future, Antarctica has moved so far north it is now on the equator and has grown a jungle. It shows how the seabirds have evolved to deal with the new dangers of the jungle. Oxygen levels have also allowed insects to grow big again.
9
204 "The Great Plateau" May 28, 2002
The episode is set in a lofty plateau created by the collision of Australia (who moved northward) against Japan and Kamchatka (the Asian tectonic plate), 100 million years into the future. The episode focuses on four species: (1) Silver Spider, a descendant of our spiders, the silver spiders live in huge colonies and have a caste system based on the size of the animal. They build massive webs across canyons; (2) Poggle, a descendant of the hamster and the last species of mammal on Earth at this time, prey to silver spiders; (3) Great Blue Windrunner, a brilliant blue bird with wings on its legs which sees in ultraviolet and lives at the highest points on the plateau; (4) Grass Trees, Tree-like plants descended from bamboo.
This episode shows how this bizarre food chain works. The silver spiders build massive webs across canyons which catch seeds from grass trees. These are then harvested by the spiders and taken to an underground cavern. In here, the Poggle hides and feeds on the seeds until they are killed and fed to the enormous queen. Great Blue Windrunners feed on the spiders that they pluck from the webs. At the end of the episode, we see the beginning of a mass extinction, which almost wipes the slate clean and allows evolution to start again.
10
301 "The Endless Desert" June 4, 2002
The episode is set in the central desert of the new Pangea, 200 million years into the future. At this point in the future, there are no mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians. The episode focuses on four species: (1) Terabyte, descendants of termites that live in massive air-conditioned underground cities where they farm algae. Each termite is built for a specific role. There are transporters, glue-spitters, diggers and other types too, which form a caste system. (2) Gloomworm, a simple worm that is descended from a single type of bristleworm which survived the mass extinction. (3) Slickribbon, a transparent creature with pincer jaws and a nasty sting. It appears to be descended from the same bristleworm as the Gloomworm. (4) Garden Worm, a descendant of the convoluta worm, the garden worm houses green algae in fleshy lobes that stick out like leaves from their backs. The algae convert sunlight into food to feed their host. With no rainfall reaching the middle of the single continent, the whole place has dried up. Patches of water are rare and in demand. Many of the animals here live in underground lakes and caves to get away from the heat of the desert.
11
302 "The Global Ocean" June 11, 2002
The episode is set in the only ocean in the world, 200 million years into the future. At this point in the future, there are no mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians. The episode focusses on four species: (1) Rainbow Squid, a massive squid which changes colour to hide and which did not take to the land unlike some cephalopods; (2) Ocean Flish, descendants of cod which have evolved to breathe out of water and have developed wings; (3) Sharkopath, a descendant of sharks that have bioluminescent patches on their sides to communicate with one another; (4) Silverswimmer, descendants of crustaceans that have grown in size and evolved to fill the roles that fish previously held. There are many different species and they have different ways of life. Some are predators, some are prey and some are scavengers. Since all the land is joined together, much like Pangea, there is only one ocean now as well. Some views from space show the Earth as just a blue circle now. This episode shows how weird things have got and, no matter what happens, life will continue to thrive in the oceans.
12
303 "Graveyard Desert" June 18, 2002
The episode is set in a rainshadow desert on the eastern side of Earth's only continent, 200 million years into the future. Wedged between this desert and the Global Ocean is a series of very tall mountain ranges (which are comparable to the Andes in today's world) which are tall enough to block even the most powerful storms. At this point in the future, there are no mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians. There are very few fish.
The episode focuses on five species: (1) Bumblebeetle, a species of beetle that has been pushed to the edge of specialisation. They spend their lives searching for dead flish which are a good food source for their young. (2) Desert Hopper, a bizarre rabbit-sized cone snail that hops about on one muscular foot. They tend to bury themselves during the heat of the day and only come out at the cool of the night. (3) Deathbottle, a carnivorous plant, that has traps to feed on the Desert Hoppers. (4) Ocean Flish, shown dead, animal from the previous episode. (5) Grimworm, a worm, live inside dead Ocean Flish body and scavanging it. They are the Bumblebeetle larva.
The desert has little food so the animals here must make use of what they can find. During violent Hypercane, some ocean flish are thrown over the mountains and land in the dry desert where they die. Adult bumblebeetles spend their entire lives searching for these dead ocean flish so they can lay their larva in them. This episode talks how the deathbottle, a carnivorous plant that eats desert hoppers, breeds.
13
304 "The Tentacled Forest" June 25, 2002
The episode is set in the northern forest, 200 million years into the future. At this point in the future, there are no mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians. There are very few fish. The episode focuses on five species: (1) Lichen Trees, a group of species evolved from simple lichens. Some species are small bushes while others are giant tree like creatures. (2) Forest Flish, a smaller species of flish with hooks for feet so it can hang upside down on tree branches to rest. (3) Megasquid, an eight metre tall squid with rhino-like skin and three metre tentacles which patrols the forest. Its eight boneless legs are packed with muscles that act like bones. (4) Squibbon, an arboreal species of squid that swing through trees and have stereoscopic vision. The squibbon could well be the next sapient life on the planet and create new civilization. (5) Slithersucker, an arboreal species of giant slime mold. Predatory by nature and reproduces by taking control of huge Megasquids.
This forest is about the only place left on Earth where there is consistent rain and trees can grow. The trees here are lichen trees, descended from simple lichens that today grow on rocks. The forest is populated with a whole manner of creatures that would look out of place in our time. The episode shows how animals that were once aquatic have evolved to conquer the forests. It also suggests that the squibbon could become the next species to develop sapience and become the dominant force on planet Earth, just like humans...
14
— "The Future Is Wild and the Making of Spore" 
This episode is a Discovery Channel special, made and broadcast in 2008 (6 years after the original series), about the development of the video game Spore, and was combined with airings of The Future is Wild.
 


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Finding Bigfoot
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Finding Bigfoot
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Genre
Documentary
Paranormal
Starring
Cliff Barackman
 James "Bobo" Fay
 Ranae Holland
 Matt Moneymaker
Narrated by
Ken Scott[1]
Theme music composer
Raney Schocke
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
5
No. of episodes
56 w/specials (List of episodes)
Production

Executive producer(s)
Keith Hoffman (for Animal Planet)
 Brad Kuhlman & Casey Brumels (for Ping Pong Productions)
 Chad Hammel (co-executive producer for Ping Pong Productions)
Producer(s)
Ping Pong Productions
Running time
45 minutes (some 90 minute specials)
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet
Original run
May 30, 2011 – present
External links
Website
Production website
Finding Bigfoot is a documentary television series on Animal Planet. It premiered on May 30, 2011, and entered its fifth season on June 8, 2014. The program follows four researchers and explorers investigating potential evidence of Bigfoot, a cryptid hominid allegedly living in the wildernesses of the United States and Canada.


Contents  [hide]
1 Premise
2 Cast 2.1 Matt Moneymaker
2.2 Cliff Barackman
2.3 James "Bobo" Fay
2.4 Ranae Holland
3 Format
4 Reception
5 See also
6 References

Premise[edit]
The team consists of Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) founder and President Matt Moneymaker, researchers James “Bobo” Fay and Cliff Barackman and skeptical scientist Ranae Holland. The series never questions the existence of bigfoot, but rather documents the team's search efforts and study of evidence in an attempt to prove the existence of the elusive creature.[2]
Over the course of the series, the team has introduced many new bigfoot related terms into the American vernacular. Their nighttime investigations, for example, are referred to as "Squatchin" (though an action verb in the present participle, the "G" never appears at the end of the word). The areas they investigate are often described as "Squatchy," with Washington having been described as "the squatchiest state."
Cast[edit]
Matt Moneymaker[edit]
Moneymaker is the founder and president of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (founded in 1995).[3] Moneymaker was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and moved to Ohio in the 1990s. He has been researching bigfoot for twenty-five years.[4]
Cliff Barackman[edit]
Born and raised in Long Beach, California, Barackman currently resides in Portland, Oregon. The evidence analyst of the group has been a dedicated sasquatch field researcher for the past two decades who has been known to spend over 200 days a year in the field. He is also an accomplished jazz guitarist holding a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Long Beach.[5]
James "Bobo" Fay[edit]
The expert field caller was born and raised in Manhattan Beach, California, and has been searching for bigfoot since the 1980s. The tallest and burliest member of the team, he is the one most often used to stand in for bigfoot in reconstructions. Fay is known for his "Gone squatchin" hat, and often wears other bigfoot-related attire. He and Barackman searched for Bigfoot together before the series started.[6]
Ranae Holland[edit]
The skeptical member of the cast is a Field Biologist born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. While she is not a member of the BFRO, and does not believe in bigfoot, her interest in the creature was fueled by her father's fascination with the phenomenon. As a child, she and her father spent quality time together squatchin and watching bigfoot movies.[7]
Format[edit]
The show usually begins with the four en route to a new destination where new evidence was recently unearthed in the bigfoot community (usually a photo or a piece of video footage). The team will then do a re-creation of the footage, and evaluate it. While one of the members camps out and looks for evidence, the rest of the team holds a town hall meeting, where local witnesses recount their bigfoot encounters. The locations of these encounters are mapped out in order to determine if a pattern exists.
They then travel to the location of one or more of these sightings with the witness, and do a reconstruction with a team member as a stand-in for bigfoot in order for witnesses to judge scale. Using the evidence collected, the team will pick a location do at least one nighttime investigation per show, where they use call blasting, mimicking the yells of the creatures. They also do wood knocks, which mimics the bigfoot's communication. Night-vision technology and forward looking infrared (FLIR) cameras are used to document these investigations. They will then evaluate what they learned and announce that during the ending credits. Occasionally, they will show their trail cam pictures or DNA results following the credits/summary.
In the third season, The team expanded its search from North America to investigate the sasquatch phenomenon known as “yowies” in Australia. Later in the season, they traveled to Indonesia searching for the “orang pendek” and Vietnam to search for the "wildman."[8] In season four, the team traveled to China in search of the "yeren," and Nepal in search of the "yeti."
Reception[edit]
Animal Planet has received criticism for Finding Bigfoot and Mermaids: The Body Found[9] for their "outlandishness," however, Fay is quick to defend Finding Bigfoot, and draw a line between the two programs. "You can't equate bigfoot with mermaids."[10]
Regardless, Finding Bigfoot is one of Animal Planet's top rated programs.[11] It has spawned two spin-offs, Finding Bigfoot: Further Evidence and Finding Bigfoot: Rejected Evidence. Finding Bigfoot: Further Evidence is similar to VH-1's Pop-Up Video. Episodes of Finding Bigfoot are re-aired with "info nuggets" from the team members. Finding Bigfoot: Rejected Evidence is an on-line only series in which executive producer Keith Hoffman airs videos deemed not worthy of inclusion on the show.[12]
Season 5 of Finding Bigfoot debuted on June 8, 2014, as opposed to November when the last two seasons started.
See also[edit]
Main article: List of Finding Bigfoot episodes
Formal studies of Bigfoot
MonsterQuest



References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Ken Scott". Voices.com.
2.Jump up ^ "About Finding Bigfoot". Animal Planet.
3.Jump up ^ "Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization Official Website".
4.Jump up ^ "Matt Moneymaker". Animal Planet.
5.Jump up ^ "About Cliff". The Official Website of Cliff Barackman.
6.Jump up ^ "James "Bobo" Fay". Animal Planet.
7.Jump up ^ Ben Cartwright (January 6, 2012). "VIDEO: Lesbian biologist on cult hit "Finding Bigfoot" spills the beans". San Diego Gay & Lesbian News.
8.Jump up ^ Guy Edwards (August 2, 2012). "Animal Planet: "Finding Bigfoot" Season Three will be BIGGER!". Bigfoot Lunch Club.
9.Jump up ^ Jim Vorel (July 17, 2012). "Mermaid body found? No, bad TV". Quad-City Times.
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11.Jump up ^ Sharon Hill (August 3, 2012). "Finding BigRatings: Animal Planet ditches reality for docudrama dollars". Lithospherica, LLC.
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This is the list of episodes for the Animal Planet series Finding Bigfoot.


Contents  [hide]
1 Seasons
2 Episodes 2.1 Season 1 (2011)
2.2 Season 2 (2011–2012)
2.3 Season 3 (2012-2013)
2.4 Season 4 (2013-2014)
2.5 Season 5 (2014)
2.6 Season 6 (2014-2015)
3 References

Seasons[edit]

Season No.
No. of episodes
No. of
 special episodes
Overall No.
 of episodes
Season premiere
Season finale
 1 6 1 7 May 30, 2011 July 17, 2011
 2 10 1 11 October 30, 2011 March 11, 2012
 3 17 4 21 November 11, 2012 March 31, 2013
 4 13 0 13 November 10, 2013 February 16, 2014
 5 7 1 8 June 8, 2014 July 27, 2014
 6 10 TBA TBA November 9, 2014 June 2015
Episodes[edit]
Season 1 (2011)[edit]

Series
 episode No.
Season
 episode No.
Title
Original
 air date
Overall
 episode No.

1
1 "Bigfoot Crossing in Georgia [1]" May 29, 2011 1
The team, in their first episode, are in northern Georgia investigating cases with Bigfoot. One thing they investigate is what a police officer believes to be a Bigfoot running across a road. Also, Cliff and Ranae find two possible footprints, and the Georgia chapter of the BFRO is called on to help a search.
2
2 "Swamp Ape [2]" June 5, 2011 2
The team visits Northern Florida investigating some mysterious cases with the Florida subspecies of Bigfoot, the Swamp Ape or Skunk Ape. They investigate a case about a couple that believes there is a Bigfoot living on their property and is bothering them. Also, the team talks with the Seminole people, asking about some experiences some members of the tribe have had with Bigfoot.
3
3 "Caught on Tape [3]" June 12, 2011 3
The team travels to North Carolina, specifically the Uwharrie National Forest to investigate supposed Bigfoot sightings. Also, Matt's leadership skills are called into question, and the largest search for Bigfoot ever is organized.
4
4 "Fishing for Bigfoot in Oregon [4]" June 19, 2011 4
The team travels to Oregon to investigate multiple cases with sightings of Bigfoot. A group of rafters accidentally capture a video supposedly having a Bigfoot in it. Also, the team makes its first visit to Bigfoot and Beer, and then use a rabbit to try and lure out a sasquatch.
5
5 "Frozen Bigfoot [5]" June 26, 2011 5
The team heads to southern Washington to investigate cases involving Bigfoot encounters. One man caught a picture that may show a Bigfoot that is on a snowcapped mountain. Also, Matt and Bobo claim to hear what sounded like human voices during a night investigation, and Cliff and Ranae ride in a small raft to see if they can see a Bigfoot.
6
6 "Alaska's Bigfoot Island [6]" July 10, 2011 6
The team heads to southeast Alaska because the mayor of the town of Hydaburg asks them to investigate compelling footprint photos. Also, Ranae and Bobo find a possible footprint, and talk with a woman who claims to have had a log thrown thrown at her taxi and spotted a Sasquatch in a tree the next day.
Special Episode 1
7 "Behind the Search [7]" July 17, 2011 7
The team returns to a gathering in Oregon at Ike's Pizza, called "Bigfoot and Beer" to talk personally to fans. The team talks about their excursions to find Bigfoot and reflect on them, answer questions from their fans, and play footage that was not aired on previous episodes.
Season 2 (2011–2012)[edit]

Series
 episode No.
Season
 episode No.
Title
Original
 airdate
Overall
 episode No.

Special Episode 2
1 "Birth of a Legend [8]" October 30, 2011 1
The team heads to the Mecca of Sasquatchery, Bluff Creek, California. While there they recreate the famous Patterson–Gimlin film, accompanied by Bob Gimlin himself. They also investigate the Marble Mountain footage. Later, while exploring the area, Ranae has an experience she's not likely to forget.
7
2 "Baby Bigfoot [9]" January 1, 2012 2
The team travels to New York state to investigate the New York Baby Footage. Ranae also spends some time alone near the site of the film, and dozens of witnesses come forward.
8
3 "Big Rhodey [10]" January 8, 2012 3
The team travels to Rhode Island to examine video of a roadside sighting of a bigfoot.
9
4 "Canadian Bigfoot, Eh? [11]" January 15, 2012 4
The team travels to the Canadian Rockies in Alberta to investigate a unique bigfoot encounter caught on tape.
10
5 "Peeping Bigfoot [12]" January 22, 2012 5
The team travels to Minnesota to investigate howls recorded at a bigfoot hot spot and a sighting of what may be the tallest Bigfoot ever seen (11 feet tall).
11
6 "Buckeye Bigfoot [13]" January 29, 2012 6
The team heads to Ohio to investigate an encounter with a bigfoot that is caught on tape. Along with a team of volunteers, they search the surrounding forests for evidence of a bigfoot.
12
7 "Virginia is for Bigfoot Lovers [14]" February 12, 2012 7
The team travels to Virginia to investigate video of what the locals are calling "the Beast of Gumhill."
13
8 "Moonshine and Bigfoot [15]" February 19, 2012 8
The team travels to Kentucky to investigate footage of glowing eyes that could belong to a bigfoot. The team tries a new search technique in the Daniel Boone National Forest.
Special Episode 3
9 "The Best of Finding Bigfoot [16]" February 26, 2012 9
A special that looks back at past Finding Bigfoot episodes.
14
10 "Hoosier Bigfoot [17]" March 4, 2012 10
The team travels to Indiana to investigate footage of a bigfoot caught in broad daylight.
15
11 "Holy Cow, it's a Bigfoot [18]" March 11, 2012 11
The team travels to Utah to investigate a mysterious tape of a supposed bigfoot.
Season 3 (2012-2013)[edit]

Series
 episode No.
Season
 episode No.
Title
Original
 air date
Overall
 episode No.

16
1 "Ripped From the Headlines [19]" November 11, 2012 1
The team is in Pocatello, Idaho investigating video evidence that is garnering national media attention. The video, shot by local high school students, briefly shows an unidentified creature turning away from them and walking into the forest. The team enlists the world's leading academic expert on bigfoots to help them out, and after chatting with several other eyewitnesses from the area, they devise an unusual game plan they believe may prove the mystery of bigfoots true once and for all.
Special Episode 4
2 "Untold Stories [20]" November 11, 2012 2
The gang talk about their bigfoot experiences.
17
3 "Mother Bigfoot [21]" November 18, 2012 3
A trail camera photo of what may be a sasquatch carrying her youngling through an apple orchard draws the team of bigfoot investigators deep into Vermont. This area of the Adirondack Corridor has a rich history of sasquatch sightings and compelling accounts of recent activity, and the team is eager to search for bigfoots. The investigators narrow down the search grid to the forest surrounding a local reservoir and takes to land and water in hopes of flushing out one of these mysterious creatures.
18
4 "CSI Bigfoot [22]" November 25, 2012 4
The team is in central Oklahoma for what may be their big break. Recent physical evidence has turned up and it may actually be bigfoot DNA. The investigators interview witnesses in the area and learn that there are several reporter sightings near local waterways. The team deploys a stealth technique they believe may prove that sasquatches do indeed live just miles from Oklahoma City.
19
5 "The Sierra Spy [23]" December 2, 2012 5
The Sierra Nevada Mountains of California are a hot spot for bigfoot activity, and the team is travelling near Fresno to investigate multiple sightings. The investigators visit with a local Native American tribe that confirms that sasquatches have inhabited the mountain region for centuries. With the reaffirmation from the Native American tribe, the team is determined to locate a sasquatch and attempts to cash in on the curiosity of these mysterious creatures by breaking out a relic from the past that they believe can prove bigfoots run wild in the Golden State.
20
6 "Dances With Bigfoot [24]" December 9, 2012 6
The team is in Arizona's Mogollon Rim to investigate sightings of what locals have described as a bigfoot. Before launching a full-on investigation, the team searches for clues that Arizona's habitat could support these elusive creatures, and they come across what may be a training ground for juvenile sasquatches. Then, with help from a local Apache Indian tribe, the team sets out to prove bigfoots do call Arizona home.
21
7 "Bigfoot and Wolverines [25]" December 16, 2012 7
The Finding Bigfoot team has traveled deep into the mountains and woods of Northern Michigan to investigate a promising message left on the BFRO hotline. With a wealth of recent reports from this area, the team takes to the woods in one their most successful night investigations ever.
22
8 "Bobo Marks His Turf [26]" December 23, 2012 8
New Mexico is dubbed the "Land of Enchantment," and the team is in the Jemez Mountains to investigate a thermal video image captured during a Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) expedition. Through the testimonials of local eyewitnesses, the team discovers that this particular bigfoot may be residing in the Valles Caldera, a National Preserve which hosts vast herds of elk. Forested canyons surround the park, and the team of investigators believes it’s found the perfect habitat for the world's largest and most mysterious apex predator. In a stealthy attempt to pinpoint this elusive beast, the team takes to the friendly skies via a hot air balloon.
Special Episode 5
9 "Australian Yowie [27]" December 30, 2012 9
The team takes an unprecedented trip across the globe to investigate recent eyewitness reports of yowies terrorizing locals in Australia's Gold Coast. Yowies are mysterious creatures described as bipedal, apex predators with brown fur, and the team must use their sasquatch expertise to track down where these creatures may be. With help from local witnesses and experts, the investigators traverse deep into Australia's jungle in hopes of proving bigfoot's cousin down under is in fact real. (120 Minute special episode)
23
10 "Squatch Spies [28]" January 6, 2013 10
Reports of howls in Washington state by local Bigfoot researchers give the team a chance to use its high-tech thermal equipment to investigate.
24
11 "Bacon for Bigfoot[29]" January 13, 2013 11
The mayor of a small town in Louisiana calls upon the bigfoot team to investigate unusual activity in his community. To lure in these mysterious creatures, the team deploys a new baiting technique and discovers convincing evidence themselves.
25
12 "Bigfoot Merit Badge[30]" January 20, 2013 12
The team travels to Colorado to investigate footage of a possible bigfoot, predating the famous Patterson-Gimlin film by five years. They narrow down their search grid and call upon the aid of a Girl Scout troop to help bait a bigfoot..
26
13 "Bigfoot Hoedown [31]" January 27, 2013 13
The team travels to West Virginia to investigate photographs from a young bigfooter that may depict a sasquatch in his own backyard. The team sets out to get their own photographic proof and deploys a baiting technique not for the faint of heart.
27
14 "Badlands Bigfoot[32]" February 10, 2013 14
The team meets with witnesses from the Lakota Sioux, who claim Bigfoots roam the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. After zeroing in on a hot spot, the team is granted special access to private land where they just might find the Lakota's legendary Tall Man.
28
15 "Indonesia's Little Bigfoot[33]" February 17, 2013 15
The Finding Bigfoot team journeys to the Kerinci region on the island of Sumatra in search of Indonesia's elusive Orang Pendek, venturing into the unfamiliar jungle in hopes of proving this mythical creature is in fact real.
Special Episode 6
16 "More Untold Stories (Squatchers Without Borders) [34]" February 17, 2013 16
Go behind the scenes for a second time with the Finding Bigfoot team as they reveal more stories of their quest that never make it onto the show. Get the inside scoop on their recent trips to Indonesia and Australia; find out how the cast handles hoaxers. (This airs AFTER Indonesia's Little Bigfoot)
29
17 "Peek-A-Boo Bigfoot [35]" February 24, 2013 17
The team travels to the Great Smokies of Tennessee to investigate trail camera photos that may show a sasquatch living in these mountains. After witnesses share stories, the team enlists the aid of professional hog callers to try and bait a hungry bigfoot.
30
18 "Bigfoot and the Redhead [36]" March 3, 2013 18
The team travels to Pennsylvania to meet with teenagers who may have filmed a bigfoot while riding go-karts. A packed town hall leads them to the Allegheny National Forest, where they deploy a unique search technique to try and elicit a response from a bigfoot.
31
19 "Bigfoot Loves Barbeque [37]" March 10, 2013 19
The team travels to Connecticut to investigate a video of a possible bigfoot captured by a mother recording her children at play. In one of the most populated states, they meet with locals and set up a bait trap in hopes of luring in any hungry bigfoots.
32
20 "Oregon: Virgin Bigfoot [38]" March 17, 2013 20
The team returns to Oregon to investigate a record amount of bigfoot tracks originally cast and documented by Cliff. As they zero in on a recent hotspot, the team deploys a dangerous technique to increase their odds of capturing this elusive creature.
33
21 "Bigfoot the Friendly Ghost [39]" March 24, 2013 21
The team travels to Illinois to meet a man who claims to have recorded bigfoot howls in his own backyard. Several witnesses share their sightings of these creatures in some unusual locations, including a graveyard and a highway interchange.
34
22 "Vietnam: The Heart of Squatchness [40]" March 31, 2013 22
The team travels to the dense jungles of Vietnam to search for what U.S. soldiers reported as "Rock Apes", and what the Vietnamese call "The Wildman".
Special Episode 7
23 "Untold Stories: Behind the Squatch[41]" March 31, 2013 23
Go behind the scenes for a third time with the Finding Bigfoot team as they reveal more stories of their quest that never make it onto the show. Get the inside scoop on Matt's method for resting between interviews and a behind-the-scenes look at Bobo's life (and bachelor pad) away from the show. (This aired AFTER Vietnam: The Heart of Squatchness)
Season 4 (2013-2014)[edit]

Series
 episode No.
Season
 episode No.
Title
Original
 air date
Overall
 episode No.

35
1 "The Legend of Boggy Creek" November 10th, 2013 1
The team travels to Fouke, Arkansas, home of the 1972 bigfoot documentary, "The Legend of Boggy Creek." With a long history of sightings near this small town, the team takes to the surrounding swamps in hopes of proving Arkansas' bigfoot is more than a legend.
36
2 "Surf's Up, Sasquatch" November 17th, 2013 2
The team travels to Santa Cruz, California to visit the Bigfoot Discovery Museum. The museum's owner directs them to recent eyewitnesses and secret hotspots. Bobo hopes the smells from an authentic Hawaiian luau will be too much for nearby bigfoots to resist
37
3 "Best Evidence Yet" November 24th, 2013 3
The team returns to Florida to investigate thermal footage of a possible bigfoot. Convinced of the evidence, they revisit witnesses from previous expeditions and narrow their search to a recent hotspot.
38
4 "Kung-Fu Bigfoot" December 1st 2013 4
The team travels to China in search of the Yeren, a bi-pedal, hair-covered ape similar to bigfoot. Little is known about this elusive creature, but the team uses their bigfooting skills to try and prove China's Yeren is more than just legend.
39
5 "Sketching Sasquatch" December 8th 2013 5
The team travels to the California/Nevada border to investigate audio recordings of a possible sasquatch obtained near Lake Tahoe. While blasting calls throughout multiple valleys in the Sierras, they discover some of their best evidence to date. Matt and Ranae find some evidence of themselves during the night investigation.
40
6 "Lonestar Squatch" December 15th 2013 6
The team travels to East Texas to investigate thermal footage that may show a bigfoot spying on a campsite. Convinced by the evidence, they enlist the aid of primate tracking dogs in hopes of proving bigfoots do roam the Lone Star State.
41
7 "Abominable Snowman" December 29th 2013 7
The team from Finding Bigfoot travel around the world to Nepal in search of the infamous Yeti. They visit monasteries with Yeti relics, talk to firsthand witnesses and travel into the dense forests of the Himalayas. Will they succeed in finding evidence?
42
8 "Big Sky Bigfoot" January 5th 2014 8
The team travels to big sky country to investigate sasquatch activity near the city of Bozeman, Montana. After meeting witnesses, they enlist the aid of a dog sled team to take them into a nearby valley, where they set up a fake deer trap to lure a bigfoot.
43
9 "Bigfoot of Oz" January 12, 2014 9
The team travels to the heartland to determine if bigfoots live on the great plains of Kansas. With help from eyewitnesses, they narrow their search to waterways outside of Wichita where they take to the sky and employ a unique baiting technique.
44
10 "Super Yooper Sasquatch" January 19th 2014 10
The team go to Michigan to investigate a photo of an alleged Bigfoot on the Upper Peninsula, where witnesses claim the beasts have been stalking them.
45
11 "South Jersey Sasquatch" January 26th 2014 11
The team travel to New Jersey to investigate a foot cast of an alleged Bigfoot; they also speculate on sightings of the Jersey Devil possibly being misidentified Bigfoot sightings.
46
12 "Coal Miner's Bigfoot" February 9th 2014 12
The team travels back to West Virginia to investigate recent recordings of possible Bigfoot howls. With the help of a radio show, the team reaches out to witnesses from across the state and rafts deep into the holler in hopes of finding a bigfoot.
47
13 "1, 2, 3, 4, I Declare a Squatch War" February 16th 2014 13
The team travels back to the Pacific Northwest to determine the "squatchiest" state in the U.S. With the team evenly divided and a friendly wager made, Bobo and Cliff head to Oregon while Matt and Ranae head to Washington to see which state is "squatchier".
Season 5 (2014)[edit]

Series
 episode No.
Season
 episode No.
Title
Original
 air date
Overall
 episode No.

48
1 "Bigfoot Call of the Wildman" June 8, 2014 1
In the fifth-season premiere, the team go to Kentucky to inspect casts of alleged Bigfoot tracks, and spend some with Ernie Brown Jr. (aka Turtleman) who recalls a chilling childhood encounter with a mysterious beast.
49
2 "Squatters for Sasquatch" June 15, 2014 2
The team travels to Virginia where a trail camera photo may contain the image of a possible juvenile Sasquatch.
50
3 "Beast of the Bayou" June 22, 2014 3
The Bigfoot team investigates a trail camera photo taken in Louisiana's bayou country that may contain the image of a possible Sasquatch.
51
4 "Squatching in a Winter Wonderland" June 29, 2014 4
A trip to Washington state to investigate 50 years of alleged Bigfoot sightings in the Blue Mountains includes a meeting with anthropology professor Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State University.
52
5 "Live to Squatch Another Day" July 6, 2014 5
The team's search in Oklahoma appears to yield positive results with the use of a cherry picker and some music to spot a Bigfoot, but they also find themselves in danger on their last night in the state.
53
6 "Bama Bigfoot" July 13, 2014 6
The team go to Alabama to explore the forests of an area the locals call Creepy Mountain, where they design a special search technique after examining thermal footage.
54
7 "Bobo's Backyard" July 20, 2014 7
The team go to California to investigate unusual photographs taken in a Redwood forest not far from Bobo's home in Humboldt County.
Special Episode 8
8 "Biggest Search Yet" July 27, 2014 8
In this special episode the team embark on their biggest investigation yet. They cast the widest net possible to find a sasquatch starting from the Four Corners Monument to explore the southwestern U.S. states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
Season 6 (2014-2015)[edit]

Series
 episode No.
Season
 episode No.
Title
Original
 air date
Overall
 episode No.

55
1 "Daylight Bigfoot" November 9, 2014 1
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Get Out There! is an American reality television series about families on tours of the wilderness areas of the United States. It was shown on Animal Planet.
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Going Ape
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This article is about the 2006 television program. For the 1981 comedy film, see Going Ape!.

Going Ape

Format
Docu-Soap
Starring
Rachel Hogan
 Avi Sivan
 Talilah
 Babs the Vet
Country of origin
United Kingdom
No. of episodes
13
Production

Camera setup
Single-camera
Running time
30 minutes (with adverts)
Broadcast

Original channel
Animal Planet
Original airing
Tuesday 21 November 2006
External links
Website
Going Ape is a British Television docu-soap program that is aired on the Animal Planet.
The television series first aired on Tuesday 21 November 2006 at the weekly time of 21:00 running a total of thirteen episodes. The series is now in re-runs and has an irregular running format.
It follows the story of 50 Chimpanzees, 26 Gorillas, seven Baboons and four Mandrills who have been orphaned by the bush meat trade in the West African country of Cameroon showing the vital work of the Mefou National Park and the Limbe Wildlife Centre along with Ape Action Africa (formerly the Cameroon Wildlife Aid Fund) and "In Defence of Animals - Africa", two charities that are dedicated to saving the primates in the region. .Its narrator was Charlotte Uhlenbrook


Contents  [hide]
1 Characters
2 Episodes 2.1 Series One, 2006
3 External links
4 References

Characters[edit]
Rachel Hogan
Avi Sivan
Talilah
Babs the Vet
Episodes[edit]
Series One, 2006[edit]
Free at Last - "At the Limbe Wildlife Centre the government have just delivered two confiscated pet primates, but the sanctuary has a problem: they're full."
When They're Gone - "Babs and Talila fight for the rights and for the life of Caroline the chimp. As without the correct equipment and treatment she will die."
New Life - "In this the last episode of this moving series Rachel is out buying a pregnancy test kit. But it's not for her, it's for her oldest gorilla, Gerry."
Friend or Foe? - "It's a race against time to save Nino, a four-year old chimpanzee who was savagely attacked by an older male grieving for his dead baby."
Letting Go - "Orphaned baby gorilla Shufai has a seizure. He's raced from the rain forest into the Cameroonian capital in search of medical help."
Hope - "Gah, a baby chimp found paralysed in the back of a drug dealers car. His plight seems hopeless but Felix and the team give him their all."
Help - "Nino, the chimpanzee whose face was ripped off by an older male chimp will die unless Vet Sheri Speedes appeal for international help is successful."
No Going Back - "Its 6 weeks since new chimp mum Yao and her baby Miko escaped from their sanctuary. When they're finally caught, it all goes wrong for Miko."
Last Chance - "At the Limbe Wildlife Centre Gah, the chimp who was found paralysed in a drug smugglers car faces the greatest test of his rehabilitation."
External links[edit]
Animal Planet Listings at Animal Planet
Ape Action Africa
Animal Planets Going Ape Section
Limbe Wildlife Centre
In Defence of Animals - Africa
References[edit]
News Announcement to Going Ape TV Series.
Going Ape Feature at Animal Planet
 


Categories: Animal Planet shows
2000s British television series
2006 British television programme debuts




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Good Dog U
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Good Dog U is an American television program about training and caring for dogs. It was hosted by Joel Silverman and dog trainer Jay Stutz. It is shown on the channel Animal Planet.
External links[edit]
Good Dog U at the Internet Movie Database
Jay Stutz at the Internet Movie Database
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