I know that many people around me love the infamous "Shark Week" on Discovery Channel...or something like "Big Cats Diary"...however, I read an article today that not only disappointed me, but shocked me a little. It's sort of an ironic thing that people try to educate the public about wildlife, yet do so by using human tactics to achieve their goal. SHAME ON YOU!!Wildlife Film Maker, Chris Palmer released a book on how many wildlife documentaries are not in fact captured under "wild" conditions...AND some of them use animals from gaming farms. Gaming farms are places that raise animals for human use, like crocodile farms that produce large amounts of leather for expensive purses and shoes (a completely unnecessary fashion statement in my opinion!).
So they "buy" a croc. from one of these farms...drive out to Lake Placid...throw the croc. in, and then film the whole event as it gets into a fight with another animal or tries to hunt---> and that's what we're watching on television as "wild-life documentaries."
I say blasphemy!
Even more ironic are shows like "Shark Week" that portray sharks as demonic man-eating monsters while trying to urge people to preserve these creatures in the end credits. le sigh.
Let's have week-long show about how Sharks are getting their fins cut off, then thrown back into the ocean alive (only to drown/suffocate later since oxygen is not passing threw their gills since they can't swim)....just for a soup that is seriously not that nutritious. TAKE VITAMINS PEOPLE, EAT MORE FRUIT.
It's a fine balance between using fakes and getting to close trying to get the real thing. The danger happens when people believe they are "one with nature" and get too close...and something happens. Then the animal is deemed dangerous or a killer, when, in fact, it was only protecting its already dwindling territory. You would smack a stranger with a baseball bat if you saw them sneak into your house, right?!? me too.
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