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Human Planet
2011 · TV series · documentary · 60 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Dale Templar, Brian Leith
A cinematic experience bringing you the most amazing human stories in the world. Humans and wildlife surviving in the most extreme environments on Earth.
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There are larger predators like lions featured heavily in cave paintings and other forms of the earliest human art for a reason. We have never hunted predators like bears and big cats as a primary food source, but a willingness to defend humans and our food with hand weapons is actually a skillset actively practiced until very recently in societies like the Maasai. The Human Planet docuseries has a pretty incredible scene where hunter gatherers coordinate to steal a kill from an entire pride of lions. It makes you see why people on the other side of the world in highly industrialized societies would find it to be an adrenaline rush to hunt the biggest, baddest looking animal they can find (not that I do this personally).
You're completely right that the desire to hunt a tiger isn't really logical or necessary, I'm just pointing out that it is not psychologically aberrant that some people (mostly men) would find it satisfying to do things like that as a thrill-seeking activity.
If you can find the "Human Planet" series that was great, but it was removed from most services after a few scenes were discovered to be disingenuous. I would highly recommend it though.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1806234/
There makes up part of one of the BBC Human Planet episodes. An absolute must-watch show.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00llpvp/episodes/guide
Ever since watching the "Cities" episode of Human Planet I've assumed most restaurants have pest infestations to varying degrees. Is that not the case?
The first time I saw this was Human Planet, in an episode about Kazakh hunters training Golden Eagles to hunt foxes for them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y3Dl0BGFfw
The extras part of the documentary includes a behind-the-scenes look at getting the birds-eye shot.
These were featured in Human Planet documentary series ( Rivers ). Well worth a look.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Planet
While we're handing out recommendations, check out of the BBC documentary Human Planet. The name might suggest otherwise, but it breaks out of the increasingly stale Attenborough mold. It's as much anthropology as nature documentary, even more so than Wild China.