Anyone seen "I'm Alive" on Animal Planet?

[TwylaTwobits]

I watched this show yesterday before going to sleep. Yeah, it was just what I wanted to drop off to, but it was the story of a chimpanzee attack in Sierra Leone.

I didn't catch it at the beginning but they were talking to the man and he described his reaction to seeing his friend attacked. That a rage came over him and he just knew he wasn't gonna let that damned monkey eat his friend. They cut to the man being attacked and he described how the man had picked up a downed tree and charged the chimp. Finally pinning him by the throat and yelling and finally the chimp backed away submissively.

It got me to thinking about the incredible things we humans do, in the midst of always hearing news stories of man's inhumanity to man, there are people who care enough to risk not just their own comfort but their very life to save another.

In this case it was an animal but in many other cases it's the neighbor next door, or the government thinking that a certain group of people doesn't deserve to live. Just recently I read the article about the recent revelation of a massacre hidden in the Congo back in 2009. 321 people killed by rebels. Survivors with body parts removed as a warning not to tell.

Mans inhumanity to man. It still goes on every day in all parts of the world. Some we hear about thanks to the proliferation of the media, some we will never know. So at some point....stop and reflect. The world goes on but it doesn't get any better or worse unless we remember.

[FalconAngel]

We're more History Channel watchers. Haven't watched anything on Animal Planet in years.

But it does have shows that we are interested in, from time to time.

[Jackal]

I watched this show yesterday before going to sleep. Yeah, it was just what I wanted to drop off to, but it was the story of a chimpanzee attack in Sierra Leone.

I didn't catch it at the beginning but they were talking to the man and he described his reaction to seeing his friend attacked. That a rage came over him and he just knew he wasn't gonna let that damned monkey eat his friend. They cut to the man being attacked and he described how the man had picked up a downed tree and charged the chimp. Finally pinning him by the throat and yelling and finally the chimp backed away submissively.

It got me to thinking about the incredible things we humans do, in the midst of always hearing news stories of man's inhumanity to man, there are people who care enough to risk not just their own comfort but their very life to save another.

In this case it was an animal but in many other cases it's the neighbor next door, or the government thinking that a certain group of people doesn't deserve to live. Just recently I read the article about the recent revelation of a massacre hidden in the Congo back in 2009. 321 people killed by rebels. Survivors with body parts removed as a warning not to tell.

Mans inhumanity to man. It still goes on every day in all parts of the world. Some we hear about thanks to the proliferation of the media, some we will never know. So at some point....stop and reflect. The world goes on but it doesn't get any better or worse unless we remember.

Yes I've seen that episode and it was fucking chilling. It would make an excellent horror film. I don't think you'd have to change a thing. Humans do all kinds of horrifying things, and sadly I think we turn a blind eye because the problems are so immense we don't know where to start or how to deal with them. That and the people effected have nothing the developed world wants. On the subject of cover ups, the sanctuary's website mentions nothing about the tragedy. They mention the locks failed, but that's it. The chimp that was responsible for the attack in the story still lives there and is their star resident.

[TwylaTwobits]

Yes I've seen that episode and it was fucking chilling. It would make an excellent horror film. I don't think you'd have to change a thing. Humans do all kinds of horrifying things, and sadly I think we turn a blind eye because the problems are so immense we don't know where to start or how to deal with them. That and the people effected have nothing the developed world wants. On the subject of cover ups, the sanctuary's website mentions nothing about the tragedy. They mention the locks failed, but that's it. The chimp that was responsible for the attack in the story still lives there and is their star resident.

Exactly, but sometimes we just need a start. So if everyone who reads this thread pledges to not stand idly by, and everyone they talk to, soon an entire town, then a county, then a state or parrish, then a country and then a continent. Before long we'll have a world that says ENOUGH. I'm not idealistic enough to wish for world peace I'll settle for a civilized world. A world where nothing gets swept under the carpet, where justice is swift and sure and people don't kill people for sport.


(And yes, Bruno still lives there, back with the people who raised him, who helped him lose his fear of humans that contributed to the attack. Many many people are attacked each year by "domesticated chimps", file their teeth put them in clothes and they are still a wild animal with faster reactions and more strength than a human)

[darkeyes]

I'm not idealistic enough to wish for world peace I'll settle for a civilized world.

Can a world without peace truly be called civilised Twyla? .. but the other thigs are a good start...:bigrin:

..lots of folk think chimps are like the ones on films old tea adverts you got on telly and cuddly, trainable and extremely cute.. yea.. when they are babbas an youngsters.. they may be playful and cuddly then, but when they grow to adulthood, they are huge, wild and potentially viscious animals with enormous strength who will quite happily kill another ape, even one of their own species and have it for dinner.. they are more like humankind than we give them credit for then...

[TwylaTwobits]

It can when you remember there must be balance, Fran. A child is born and an elderly person dies. A raindrop falls so that things grow and a sun cures a harvest. But when things happen that are too much to take in, we fail as humans to realize the good things that happen. We dwell too much in darkness and soon we forget to look for the light.

[darkeyes]

It can when you remember there must be balance, Fran. A child is born and an elderly person dies. A raindrop falls so that things grow and a sun cures a harvest. But when things happen that are too much to take in, we fail as humans to realize the good things that happen. We dwell too much in darkness and soon we forget to look for the light.

Don dwell 2 much on the dark Twyla.. tho sum mite say me has a morbid fascination wiv it an that mite b so.. am much 2 optimistic 2 allow me life 2 b wrecked or badly influenced by it.. am a realist bout most things.. is possible 2 b an idealist yet a realist..

Can liv wiv old peeps peggin out an new life takin ther space.. but dus find it hard 2 liv wiv both yung an old bein forced 2 peg out prematurely or b maimed by a stupid thing like war.. that seems mitily uncivilised 2 me...:(