Nature Shows

[Mickey]

Anyone watch them?

Ds and I watched Nature on PBS last night. It was about ring-tailed lemurs. The females in the troop had babies and one baby lemur fell out of a tree. They do that occasionally and it's usually no big deal. Well, this baby hit a log and was severely injured. His mother picked him up and tried to get him to hold onto her, but he couldn't. He just kept whimpering. She tried to get him to respond, but he was hardly moving. She carried him around and made this crying noise. She eventually left him and moved on with the troop and the baby died alone! UGH! So I'm crying like a baby at this point and ds is consoling me. Then there was another albino baby and he wasn't well. Very lethargic, wouldn't eat or follow the troop when they moved on. He was left behind once and his mother went back crying out for him and eventually found him and kissed on him and he was so happy and excited, he was crying. So then I'm happy again! Well, he was left behind again the next time they moved on and this time, she heard him cry out and she went back to find him, searching frantically for him. But when she got to him this time, it was too late--he was dead and she cuddled with him and wouldn't leave him for two days. So now I'm crying again. Ds is like, "But Mommy, she found her baby again!" WAH! I tried to explain it, but don't think he understood. They moved on and then we watched as they gave each other "piggy-back rides"! LOL (Actually, I told him they were mating to have babies and they weren't extremely obvious about it!) What an emotional television-watching experience!

Anyway, we usually love watching Nature shows, but this one was a killer!

[Shirl/Silver]

We love the nature shows in our family. Anything about animals we all find extremely interesting.

Well Mick... if nature shows make you bawl like a baby, don't ever ever watch the one about the gorillas called "People of the Forest". Actually, if you do get a chance to watch it, do... it is the most interesting show on gorillas that I've ever seen. Just be warned.... you WILL cry! I think it was on the Nat'l Geographic channel. It followed a family of gorillas around through 3 generations of them, and I have never laughed or cried so much over an animal show. The most pitiful part of the entire thing was how one of the big males caught polio and was paralyzed from the waist down. He was dragging himself on his belly with his hands across the forest floor and all I could do was sit there crying my eyes out saying "Poor little monkey man!! Poor little monkey man!" Just thinking about it makes me tear up. :(

I think I'll go hug my puppy now. lol

[Mickey]

That one sounds very interesting! I LOVE monkeys and primates, so I will DEFINITELY look it! Might even look it up online and see if I can buy it!

[Shirl/Silver]

Oh wait... it was chimpanzee's........ not gorillas. Donald Sutherland did the narration.

[KathyT]

We love nature shows here, even though they can sometimes be so harsh. Mickey was the ill lemur named Sapphire? He had a pigment deficiency so he had pale almost silver fur and blue eyes? That one was amazing, I still tear up when I think of poor Sapphire.

dd just finished a week of zoo camp last week and their theme was "primarily primates" and they got to bottle feed a baby lemur!!!! How cool is that??? The mother was ill and in the infirmary, and the teachers said the baby really responded to the kids. dd was over the moon!

[Mickey]

Originally posted by Shirl/Silver
Oh wait... it was chimpanzee's........ not gorillas. Donald Sutherland did the narration.

I think I may have seen part of one show if it was about chimpanzees! Loved what I saw!

Thanks, again!

[Mickey]

Originally posted by KathyT
We love nature shows here, even though they can sometimes be so harsh. Mickey was the ill lemur named Sapphire? He had a pigment deficiency so he had pale almost silver fur and blue eyes? That one was amazing, I still tear up when I think of poor Sapphire.

dd just finished a week of zoo camp last week and their theme was "primarily primates" and they got to bottle feed a baby lemur!!!! How cool is that??? The mother was ill and in the infirmary, and the teachers said the baby really responded to the kids. dd was over the moon!

YES! It was Sapphire! Poor little guy! And, yes...not albino, but had the blue eyes...I was thinking albino because he was pretty much all white (?) or close to it. But, yes, that was the show. I'm telling you, it just killed me!

Too cool about dd feeding the baby lemur! That sounds like an awesome experience and one she'll remember forever! :)

[Diane]

I love watching programs like this except that I usually end up in tears and feeling awful for the things that I see... so I try to make it a point not to watch them. Either that or I hurry and change the channel just as something awful is about to happen. (animals chasing each other down... ugh!!!) Can't stand to see stuff like that... although I know it happens all the time.

I also use to watch a program on tv called 911... and although I LOVED watching it, I'd end up scared to death the rest of the night worrying about what might or could happen. They'd get me too paranoid. LOL I guess I'm a little bit too sensative.

Diane... :wave:

[Lynda/WA]

Yes, the first channels we check to see what's on are The Learning Channel, Discovery Channel and such. I guess because I grew up around animals that I knew were destined to be food it doesn't bother me as much. Maybe that's also because we're both from hunting fishing families. I wind up feeling sad when it's a baby animal but that's it.

I think the one that bothered me the most was a show where animals were killing babies of their own kind. Elephants that killed baby elephant (it had become seperated from mom). Lions killing all of the cubs in a pride when they take over. Dolphins also turn on their own.

I love the 911 type shows. Any shows with emergency situations and natural disasters. I know those have had an effect on me. A good one. For instance, we had a patio door right by the dining area. DS sat with his back to the patio. After watching 911 where a child tipped their seat backward through the patio door we rearranged seats. Possibly a good thing. Months later DS did tip backwards and blackened a tooth.

DH was in a tornado. The one that hit Salt Lake City downtown. He remembered seeing things on TV and called a coworker and his wife out of their car. Good thing, the windows all exploded in their car. They all ran slightly below ground in a parking area. I taped the news reports but DH won't watch it or any tornado show again.