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Operation Manhunter on C4.

Sunday's episode (at least i think it was Sunday 8( ) was really quite interesting. The episode was about the problem of Crocodile populations increasing in parts of Africa, and them taking increasingly numerous livestock and human victims. The crocs only have a brain the size of a walnut but are really pretty intelligent creatures, by far the most intelligent reptile. So much so that a group of 'crocodile experts' experimented on captive crocs, using the combination of bait, and electric shocks, and bells, in a kind of Pavlovian experiment. It only took the captive crocs 2-5 goes to learn that the bell ringing = electric shock to the snout.

The wild crocs were even quicker to learn, infact it only took one go for them to associate the sound of the bell with an electric shock, even those crocs that were only watching and not shocked themselves learned the lesson immediately, and immediately scarpered at the sound of a bell from then on. An amazingly cheap and simple, and above all humane way, has been found to keep the crocs at bay in areas they are not welcome.

It's well worth a watch for those interested in wildlife and stuff. The next episode will be about Polar Bears. I wonder what interesting facts that episode will reveal.
 
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Thanks MDB, I may check those out. :)

I watched the first episode of Treasures Decoded the other day, which was about the Easter Island heads... found it rather interesting & learned a few things I hadn't known such as the fact there was only one stone left standing in the 19th Century, which was taken away & now resides in the British Natural History Museum. Will probably watch the second episode about the Great Pyramid later on.

Plenty of time left to watch both on 4oD.
 
^Thanks for that. There was a really good doc on easter island a while ago on bbc2 or bbc4 (can't remember the name, but i think i mentioned it on here). Focused on the old story that the inhabitants cut down all their trees to build the statues and then killed each other off because the lack of resources - turns out this wasn't true: they were basically killed off by white settlers giving them diseases (they hadn't run out of trees and had a sustainable permaculture system).
 
^ it did mention the two conflicting theories about why they stopped worshipping the stones / their ancestors. The overpopulation/civil war was one theory & the other was a series of natural disasters; draught & tsunamis which led them to stop believing that their ancestors were protecting them. The first says the population reached 20,000 whilst the later says 3000, which fits more with accounts from early visitors to the island & would have been sustainable.

I can't remember if I have seen it, but I noticed there is a repeat of Yellowstone on BBC4. The first one is on the iPlayer.
 
I rediscovered/remembered this doc the other day: 'Secrets of the Stone Age' by richard rudglely (there's three parts) - pretty good.

(@Chatative: I'd recommend that BBC4 one about easter island if you haven't seen it - 'Easter Island: Mysteries of a Lost World' was the title (but i couldn't find a stream of it at a glance). I'll be watching that 4od one you mentioned on my 'documentary day' (usually sunday)
 
Cheers.

I've just been watching the first episode of Super Senses: The Secret Power of Animals on sight. It was a really fascinating... seen other programmes about how various animals eyesight is different to ours but this was much more detailed. Plus Helen Czerski is great... first spotted her on that Orbit programme I watched a repeat of earlier in the year.

The first episode is on still on the iPlayer for another 8 days, as well as the second being up. Only downside is they are repeats (it was first aired just over a month ago... ) and they have a gnome in the corner. i.e. with sign language.

Not entirely sure why I missed it the first time around... :?
 
Did anyone see the C4 documentary about Luton Police station, 24Hrs in Custody ?

It reminded me of my youth...I got locked up there :D
 
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Cheers.

I've just been watching the first episode of Super Senses: The Secret Power of Animals on sight. It was a really fascinating... seen other programmes about how various animals eyesight is different to ours but this was much more detailed. Plus Helen Czerski is great... first spotted her on that Orbit programme I watched a repeat of earlier in the year.

The first episode is on still on the iPlayer for another 8 days, as well as the second being up. Only downside is they are repeats (it was first aired just over a month ago... ) and they have a gnome in the corner. i.e. with sign language.

Not entirely sure why I missed it the first time around... :?
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Yeah i saw that when it was on (tbh for me the balance was a chunk too far towards cheesy special effects and away from information - but still good). The one about sound (3rd ep) is cool - i was most interested in the infra-sound speaker contraptions used (basically a propeller) - brought up thoughts of that tin tin story...). Helen's bits was really good, but i thought it sagged when the other geezer's bits were on.

Did you see that recent chris packham one about intelligent animals? That was much better i thought (those clever crows!). (inside the animal mind - not on iplayer now)

EDIT: Also did you see that horizon the other night about male and female brain - really interesting food for thought (those boy monkeys playing with cars/girl monkeys playing with dolls). More balanced than the program often is - due to the two presenters with differing views (i'm more with alice's views myself).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04knbny
 
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Did you see that recent chris packham one about intelligent animals? That was much better i thought (those clever crows!). (inside the animal mind - not on iplayer now)

EDIT: Also did you see that horizon the other night about male and female brain - really interesting food for thought (those boy monkeys playing with cars/girl monkeys playing with dolls). More balanced than the program often is - due to the two presenters with differing views (i'm more with alice's views myself).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04knbny
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Yeah I saw Inside the Animal Mind... great doc. I've been quite impressed by the documentaries that have appeared on the BBC thus far this year.

And no I hadn't seen that horizon... I think I'll watch it now. :)

I just saw a link to this: Deadly on a Mission: Pole to Pole ... looks like an intriguing nature/adventure doc with Steve Backshall. Bit gutted to see that only the last episode is available on the iPlayer. :\
 
This is excellent, deffo worth watching

THE UNBELIEVERS (2013) - Official Movie Trailer (Richard Dawkins & Lawrence Krauss)

'The Unbelievers' follows renowned scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss across the globe as they speak publicly about the importance of science and reason in the modern world - encouraging others to cast off antiquated religious and politically motivated approaches toward important current issues.
 
Cheers Dan, I might watch that at some point.

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More balanced than the program often is - due to the two presenters with differing views (i'm more with alice's views myself).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04knbny
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I think I am more inclined to side with Alice's views too. In my mind it's obvious that hormones play some roll, but perhaps only in terms of influencing environmental factors, like situations that people put themselves in, rather than being the root cause of the changes themselves. Very interesting show.

That reminds of Robert Winston... I'm sure he did a programme on the brain many years ago. I wish he'd do another documentary of some ilk.
 
^Found that a bit flaky to be honest, seeing 'occult' influences everywhere - bit too ickey for me (cue sammy's tennants-drinking icke photo) - didn't watch it all though.

For some 'real' conspiracies, check out this documentary on Operation Gladio i came across the other day:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/operation-gladio-natos-secret-armies/5404825

All europeans should know this story - especially ones who still reatin the idea that our govenrments/elites don't do false flags or subvert democracy. A whole string of 'terrorist' atrocities which happened in europe in the last few decades turn out to have been done by nasty nazis and right wing groups in the pay of NATO. Often these bombings/shootings were blamed for years on extreme left wing groups until evidence started to emerge about the NATO operation in the 90s - started after ww2 as 'stay-behind armies' to cause terrorism in europe in the (unlikely) event of soviet invasion, these groups were soon turned to the job of discrediting the left in their own countries to discourage democratic socialism. They did this either by false flags blaming lefties, or just generally creating fear through a 'strategy of tension'.

(not in that doc, but interestingly, a recent CIA whistlebolower Sybil Edmonds claims she saw CIA documents about middle east terrorism/al qaeda which were labelled 'Gladio B')

(also, semi-related, i wonder how gladio intersects with the dirty tricks of 'the wilson plots' (as exposed in Lobster magazine and 'Spycatcher') and the government-approved death squads in NI which were going on during the same period (handily many of the people running the death squads died in that fishy chinook crash in mull of kintyre). Posted before, but Ken Loach's Hidden Agenda is a good fictionalised version of what happened in NI during that time (and just a good thriller) might seem too biased towards republicans to some
 
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^ Quite possibly. The footsoldiers probably wouldn't know either way. I think with ISIS and al qaeda we subcontract to a large degree to Saudi Arabia (and their wahabism) - there was apparently a deal between US/UK/France and Saudi and other arab states in the late 70s: US were in a tricky position cos of the church commitee was looking into the CIA/mind control and all that, so a deal was done to subcontract a lot of the dodgy dirty war stuff to the arabs - shortly after, the mujahedin were going to afghanistan (before the soviet invasion i might add).

The leaders of isis (along with ex baathists and lots of other dodgy terrorists) all spent time in a particular us-run prison in northen iraq (can't remember the name); apparently while there, the inmates openly held terror training and recruitment (why this would be allowed to happen in a prison i don't know)

anyhoo...
 
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