Portrayal of animal communication in wildlife documentary

作者: Yrsa Andersson

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关键词: Animal communicationMatching (statistics)ArtScientific literatureSocial psychologyAestheticsNarrativeWildlife

摘要: Many people turn to documentaries for knowledge about animals, but do give us a truthful portrayal of animals and their behavior? This study looks at how the communication behavior portrayed is depicted in three episodes The Life Mammals. These were observed after which contents compared scientific literature on same topics. results show that quite little actually shown plant predators meat eaters relatively much it episode named Social Climbers, involving primates. matching suggests based narrative accompanying footage, viewer getting realistic picture, with exception few questionable cases.

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