And this is one of the most visited videos in 2011, a breathtaking recording of animal interaction in a nature preserve called Kruger, in South Africa. Judge by yourselves: fake or real?
Pretty amazing, huh? But there's always room for some critical reflection here: Do you think the man may be somehow involved in the way animals interact here? Maybe you wanna think about the dimensions of park safaris like this one...
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Fake or Real?
... So do lemmings really commit suicide? This has been a question sometimes heard in conversations about wild life in the last fifty years... Well, the answer is no, lemmings do not commit suicide. Where does that myth come from? In 1958 Walt Disney produced White Wilderness, part of the studio's True Life Adventure series. This documentary featured a segment on lemmings, detailing their strange compulsion to commit mass suicide. But this was all fake. In fact, it was staged: The lemmings supposedly committing mass suicide by leaping into the ocean were actually thrown off the cliff by Disney filmmakers! The epic "lemming migration" was staged using careful editing, tight camera angles and a few dozen lemmings running on a snow covered turntable.
As Karl S. Kruszelnicki puts it in his article, considering a company like Disney, where one rodent, namely Mickey Mouse, was Royalty, it's rather odd to think that Disney could be so unkind to another rodent, the lemming...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Political Causes of World Hunger: A talk by Nuria Rebato
Dear all,
Hope you had a nice timeout these past days. And hope you're ready to get back to English! For starters, here I attach the great presentation Nuria gave on World Hunger and some of the real causes lying behind. Thanks a lot Nuria, for sharing your work with us!
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