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List Price: $19.99 | | Label: Questar Video
Salesrank: 112908
Released: July 1, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Discover What Animals Think and Feel in This Two-Part Special - Program 1: Are Animals Intelligent? Seeking to answer this most fascinating question, scientists test and observe a variety of animals - both in the lab and in the wild - and show us their amazing conclusions, including the cognitive maps generated by birds, math savvy parrots, and a host of other incredible findings. Program 2: Do Animals Have Emotions? and Animal Consciousness - Researchers seeking to understand the feelings of animals test their physiological and chemical responses and uncover some captivating results, such as jealousy in birds, lovesickness in sheep, and more, moving you to endless wonder about the nature of animals.
Nature: Animal Minds Reviews:
Rare topic among documentaries; most important contribution in this Nature series 
2007-01-19 - Animal consciousness is neglected topic among documentaries. Even David Attenborough's epic "Life of ..." series does not have a single episode dedicated to animal consciousness. "Nature: Animal Minds" is the only existing documentary (right now) that addresses both how we can know whether an animal is intelligent and what we can know about animal intelligence. The topics dealt with in the first program that probe the features of animal intelligence are: navigation, insight, tools, abstract thought, and language. The second program deals with other features of animal intelligence including: emotions - fear and happiness, sadness, stress, love, and "secondary emotions." In the third program the topics are: consciousness, awareness, the neo-cortex of larger brained animals, language, knowledge of self-awareness, pain, and death. Throughout the 3 programs both optimistic and pessimistic scientists and philosophers are interviewed about their contributions to the field of studying animal consciousness.
It is not enough to read about animal consciousness; it is a profound experience to watch video of animal behavior to see for yourself the relative degree of awareness of nonhuman animals.
Good summary of research on animal intelligence 
2004-11-25 - This set includes three hours of video combining summaries of current research, demonstrations, and excellent footage of animals behaving. A remarkably good job of translating key experiments into visuals and reenactments. A plus is that in most cases, the video interviews the scientists about their work. This keeps the films from being just "gee whiz" animal stories. I recommend this for teachers of introductory animal behavior courses, high school or college level. Production values are very high. My students watched all three hours with rapt attention.
