9/19/2023 0 Comments Gentle reader columnistThe viewer is informed that horses are social creatures and “recent research shows that they use up to 17 different facial expressions to communicate with each other.” Yes, they wink and nod to connect with each other and us. In later episodes it is put to us that horses are, you know, rather like us. If the visuals exemplify the filmmaker’s cheeky dash, there are also elements of more relatable storytelling here. Listen, Star Wars has nothing on the showboating feats of illusion done here. We are taken to a place in Germany where a science chap has a fossil of the ancient ancestor of the modern horse, a wee thing called the “Dawn Horse,” and then it is brought to life through the magic of imaging technology. While some of the assertions are a tad fanciful, the technology employed to make convincing arguments is even more dazzling. If you haven’t thought of that before, your host and guide has guessed that and sets out to convince you. Also that the horse allowed people to survive where humans couldn’t endure alone and are, therefore, the most important factor in the story of civilization. It is asserted that horses, not dogs, are man’s best friend. The entire thing amounts to a journey across 11 countries on three continents in search of fascinating and fun facts about horses. Mongolia's Kazakh nomads in a still from Equus: Story of the Horse that airs on The Nature of Things. If anything, it is sometimes too wide-eyed and innocent in tone but it has an engaging perspective and it sure is eye-popping. A three-part series, it’s made by Edmonton anthropologist/filmmaker Niobe Thompson, who has a childlike wonder about horses of today, yesterday and way back in the millions of years ago. on The Nature of Things) is a very glossy, upmarket nature-documentary series that started recently on CBC and is repeated on the CBC News Network on the weekends. Whether you have a pet in your home or you just take pleasure and solace in observing their antics, you’re on the right path.Įquus: Story of the Horse (CBC NN, Saturday, 7 p.m. Yep, critters are a blessing when you’re feeling wan. It cannot be a shoulder to cry on, but it can be a source of information about how to distract yourself from the awfulness of the everyday news and the indignities of mundane living.Īnimals. It is less a matter of expertise in the matter of television content than it is directing you to a soothing balm. Gentle reader, there are times when this column is less a TV column than it is an advice column.
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