nedelja, 5. julij 2020

TOP 6 DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT LIVING WITH ANIMALS

Since my childhood I have been dreaming of a peaceful and harmonious coexistence of humans and animals. And yes, I always wanted to have a bear, a wolf and a tiger as my best friend - to love and caress them, play with them and cuddle them ...

In these documentaries on YouTube people live my dream.


When I started to think about writing a blog about it, I realized that half of the documentaries are little older, all about living with wild animals, and mostly from a men perspective. Their experiences are based on observing the outside - knowing the behavioral characteristics of the animal, carefully observing their movements ... 

While in the other half the subjects of living with animals are woman. They demonstrate communication with animals on the basis of telepathy - so from an inner point of view. If you have a pet close to you, you know what they talk about ...

The man Who Lives With Bears


The first one that caught my eyes is a documentary following a retired schoolteacher Charlie Vandergaw who lived among black and grizzly bears in the Alaska. It's not about a Grizzly man (Timothy Treadwell)  - he was eventually killed by them.

Charlie Vandergaw says: "I do not consider what I do to be even remotely similar to what Timothy Treadwell did. I try hard not to invade the bears’ space."

Every summer for more than 20 years he stayed in a wood cabin in the Alaskan wilderness. A former hunter realized that bears are not evil beasts. He defies conventional wisdom by feeding them and using food as a way of proving his theory that humans and bears can live safely alongside each other ...

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTw7qps1WG8&t=2156s


Living with Wolves


During centuries wolves were characterized as blood-thirsty beasts, enemies of owners of ranch and killer of helpless live-stock. To overcome deadly misperceptions the cameramen-naturalists Jim Dutcher and his wife Jamie  camped six years during the 1990s in the wilderness of Idaho - living with the covey of wolves - the Sawtooth Pack.


In the Sawtooth Mountains they were observing the wolves' social hierarchy, recording their vocalizations, filming their activities, and earning their trust. What they discovered were animals devoted to one another, capable of emotional bonds and affection resembling those of human families.


Although it is now known that some of the claims are false (for example: Alfa male and female are not the strongest but actually the parents of the pack), the documentary is a wonderful depiction of the coexistence of the two species.



Cheetah Man

Hailed as a modern-day Tarzan, a naturalist Olivier Houalet, raised five cheetahs from young cubs and after four years tried to released them into the wild. He worked with the Cheetah Conservation Fund and they have built up a refuge and rehabilitation centre for big cats in Namibia.


He studied and copied their body-language to gain their trust and help them to bond, develop a vital pecking-order and become self-sufficient.

'I understood that I had to think like these cheetahs ... I had to become like they are in order to enter their world,' he said.


Sometimes he was attacked by his charges, but - 'It's a small price to pay for returning such animals to where they should be,' he insisted.


The Animal Communicatior - Ana Breytenbach


The world of animal communication was introduced to me by Ana with her incredible story of how leopard Diabolo became Spirit. I cried like a baby and she became my greatest heroine.


Anna Breytenbach is a professional animal communicator and has been practising for 18 years in South Africa, Europe and the USA with domestic and wild animals. Her conservation experience includes working with cheetahs, lions, wolves, baboons and elephants in educational and rehabilitation programmes.


Her goal is to raise awareness and advance the relationships among humans and other species, on both the personal and spiritual levels. In her communication and conservation work, Anna lives her personal mission of being a voice for the animals and the wilderness.


She sends messages to animals through pictures and thoughts, and receives messages back.


She can feel the scars hidden under a monkeys fur, she can understand the detailed story that is causing a birds trauma, she transforms a deadly snarling leopard into a relaxed content cat ...


Wild birds land on her shoulders, fish gather around her when she swims, and wild unfamiliar baboons lie on her body as if she is one of their own ...



Penelope Smith - the pioneer of interspecies telepathic communication


Another heroine of mine. You can meet her on her website animaltalk.net:

Communicating with animals telepathically throughout her life, Penelope Smith discovered in 1971 that animals could be relieved of emotional traumas and other problems through the same counseling techniques that helped humans. The training and experience that have contributed to her success are her educational background, with bachelor's and master's degrees in the social sciences; years of training and experience in human counseling, nutrition, and holistic body energy balancing methods; research into animal nutrition, anatomy, behavior, and care; plus the firsthand education from the thousands of animals she has contacted.


For over forty years, Penelope has been the founding pioneer for the field whose name she originated, interspecies telepathic communication.


She has developed tried-and-true telepathic communication techniques, which complement current scientific knowledge and traditional methods. Her methods foster people's ability to understand and communicate with animals on many levels - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.


Penelope feels that the sacred connection we make through telepathic communication with other species is essential for human wholeness. She believes that everyone is born with the power to communicate with other species, and that, although it is long lost for most people, it can be regained for the benefit of all beings on Earth.


These are not documentaries but webinar interviews with her - teaching communication with our animals (more then worth watching):


and her talking with mother earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJVT5toq-PA&t=88s

Animal communication - Understanding how animals think and feel


Presentation on youtube says the following:

This film tells the story of Laïla Del Monte, a world-famous animal communicator. Animal communication is the ability to understand what the animal feels using intuition and empathy.


This phenomenon, born in the USA, is now spreading to Europe. Quite a few certitudes are being questioned and just as the latest discoveries in ethology show, the frontier between Man and Animal is becoming thinner.


Through a series of encounters with specialists, Laïla shows that animals feel a wide range of emotions and that they do, in fact, have a conscience. This is a unique testimony, which broadens the way we look at animals and invites us to undertake the very same journey within our inner selves.





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