# Nature Shows from the POV of Animals.

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**Created:** [September 16, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nature-shows-from-the-pov-of-animals/731432 "2015-09-16T02:49:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nature-shows-from-the-pov-of-animals/731432/1 "2015-09-16T02:49:12Z")

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I watch a TON of nature shows, science shows and history documentaries. My DVR is basically 90% non-fiction with a smattering of shows or movies mixed in. One thing I’ve encountered twice so far, is nature shows that are told from the animal’s POV in the first person.

EX: “My name is Jumbo the elephant and this is my story.”

So far I’ve only come across two of them like this, one was \* I think\* **Elephant Queen** and the other was **Wings of Life**.

Does anyone else dislike this format? Both of the above shows I could only watch a few minutes before I had to turn it off.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nature-shows-from-the-pov-of-animals/731432/2 "2015-09-16T11:24:53Z")

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Disney used to do this all the time – “Charlie the Lonesome Cougar”, “Jungle Cat”, and so on. They did the same thing in Disney comics about animals:

> **[Walt Disney's The Nature of Things, Animal Biographies (No. 727): Dell Comics:...](https://www.amazon.com/Disneys-Nature-Things-Animal-Biographies/dp/B000XTHS2Q)**
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> Walt Disney's The Nature of Things, Animal Biographies (No. 727) \[Dell Comics\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Walt Disney's The Nature of Things, Animal Biographies (No. 727)

Each of the animal “biographies” in that comic are narrated by the animals.

I have this fantasy about the lemmings in Disney’s nature quasi-documentary _White Wilderness_ literally saying “Screw Disney, I’m not jumping!”

> **[Did Disney Fake Lemming Suicide for the Nature Documentary 'White Wilderness'?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-wilderness-lemming-suicide/)**
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> Lemmings don't commit mass suicide, so filmmakers had to use various camera tricks to capture scenes of them supposedly plunging to their deaths.