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  • Animal Behaviour
    Animal Behaviour
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    Alison Snowden  &  David Fine 2018 14 min
    Dealing with what comes naturally isn’t easy, especially for animals.

    In Animal Behaviour, the latest animated short from the Oscar®-winning team of Alison Snowden and David Fine (Bob’s Birthday), five animals meet regularly to discuss their inner angst in a group therapy session led by Dr. Clement, a canine psychotherapist. The group includes Lorraine, a leech who suffers from separation anxiety; Cheryl, a praying mantis who can’t seem to keep a man; Todd, a pig with an eating disorder; Jeffrey, a bird with guilt issues; and Linda, an obsessive-compulsive cat.
  • Animals and Psychology
    Animals and Psychology
    Arthur Lipsett 1965 11 min
    Comparative psychology developed as a result of Darwin's theory and the behavioural scientists' search for objective data. Dr. Muriel Stern indicates some of the ways the laboratory rat contributes to our understanding of complex behaviour.
  • Animal Altruism
    Animal Altruism
    Arthur Lipsett 1965 17 min
    Concern and generosity for others are common in man but it has been assumed that this is due to social pressures. Dr. D.O. Hebb indicates, however, that comparative evidence shows it is more fundamental, having developed with evolution; it can be found in the dog, and is clearly marked in the porpoise and chimpanzee.
  • The Teddy Bear
    The Teddy Bear
    Francis Papillon 2022 3 min
    It won’t come as a shock to you to learn that Iris’s and Cathon’s teddy bears are polar opposites! But who created this perennially popular stuffed toy? And did you know that a woman in the US has a collection of over 8,000 of them?
  • Fear and Horror
    Fear and Horror
    Arthur Lipsett 1965 12 min
    The capacity for irrational fears increases with intelligence, being characteristic of the higher animals and people rather than of lower animals, and of older rather than of younger subjects. In this film Dr. D.O. Hebb proposes that emotion is a direct function of intelligence.

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