Educational Videos for Animals?

Some of you know of my interest in Susan McCarthy’s, Becoming a Tiger: How Baby Animals Larn to Live in the Wild (that link is to a great blog entry about one of her book signings in San Diego). McCarthy worries that humans will never be able to teach captive-raised animals natural behaviors. Well, according to the BBC, San Diego native Hua Mei got pregnant and gave birth to twins after watching panda sex on-screen. I wonder if animals can actually learn things this way?

Posted by Deana in Science on September 2nd, 2004 Edit this page's grammar and spelling with Emend.

4 Responses to “Educational Videos for Animals?”

  1. Deana, on September 2nd, 2004 at 9:11 am Said:

    For more on the videos: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2069371.stm

  2. steevo, on September 14th, 2004 at 1:43 am Said:

    Hey, everything I know about sex I learned at the zoo.

  3. parker gabriel, on March 15th, 2005 at 2:28 pm Said:

    Do you provide a way to view sample clips of your videos?

  4. Deana, on March 15th, 2005 at 2:42 pm Said:

    They’re not my videos… I don’t know if they provide clips of them or not. I doubt they’re much different from what you’d see on Animal Planet anyway.

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