mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 17 2007 | movies, documentaries, watched, koko, gorillas
Watched this on Netflix "Watch Instantly". There were many amazing scenes, including
a) A male gorilla describing (using sign language) how his mom was shot when he was an infant.
b) Koko selecting a mate through video dating. She was very clear about who she liked and didn't. When she found her favorite, she asked her trainer to bring him to her.
c) Koko painting a picture of her favorite dog -- deliberately selecting only black and white from a palette of 5-10 other colors.Quoted: Narrated by Martin Sheen, this installment of the Emmy award-winning PBS series Nature features the story of the famous gorilla named Koko. Collecting conversations -- in which Koko "spoke" via sign language -- from a decades-long dialogue with the ape, this program details the wants and needs expressed by Koko and her complexity and creativity.
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 20 2007 | movies, grizzly man, documentaries, watched
I thought this was just okay. I have two takeaways:
1) What Treadwell was doing was not really helpful. Historically, bears and humans have a balanced relationship where they just stay away from each other. Treadwell was threatening that balance by getting too close to the bears and "teaching" the bears that it is okay to get close to humans.
2) The bears (unlike gorillas or monkeys) don't really bond with humans. While Treadwell thought he was befriending the bears, they looked completely indifferent. They were just contemplating whether they should eat him or not.Quoted: A devastating and heartrending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.
ShareViewed: 24 Times- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 15 2007 | movies, watched, austria, gentrification, documentaries, review
Quoted: Ostensibly a look at four old-world Austrian businesses that won’t survive gentrification, this rewarding documentary is really about the quiet moments and the banter that takes place among the aging proprietors. Beautifully shot and absolutely charming, it recalls of a time when community was more important than consumerism.
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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 19 2006 | tosee, movies, documentaries
Recommended by my friend Luke.
Quoted: A devastating and heartrending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.
ShareViewed: 7 Times- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 23 2006 | genetics, science, documentaries, watched, movies
Good documentary. He uses dna from blood samples to build a family tree for the human race. Four stars instead of five only because the narrator/scientist is a little high on himself.
Quoted: This show is so compelling and complete in its coverage of how we/man evolved and traveled out of Africa. Dr. Wells travels to Namibia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, Arizona, Brazil, North Australia, and South India among other places. He incorporates interviews with other scientists to support his work - such as linguists.
Quoted: Wells also relies on a controversial theory of cognitive development that suggests that early homo sapiens may have looked like modern humans by around 100,000 years ago, but that brain development lagged far behind. According to this theory, somewhere around 60,000 years ago, there was a "great cognitive leap forward," during which the human brain became essentially modern.
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You must be Mohit's friend before you can comment on this Fave.i've read about Koko too. She's amazing! Gorillas are so intelligent, and I can't believe they are going extinct. so sad :(
OK -- I'm ordering this from Netflix now! :-)
Bill
i remember when koko's pet kitten died and she talked about grief and sadness using sign language. so amazing!
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