Animal Erotica in Serial Documentaries


ABC'S World of Discovery: [COMM; ABC/syndicated]


Acorn: The Nature Nut: [COMM; Animal Planet]


Adventures of A.R.K.: [COMM; Discovery Channel]


Amazing Animals: [COMM; Disney Channel]


Amazing Tails: [COMM; Animal Planet]


America's Great National Parks: [PBS]


Ancient Inventions with Terry Jones [Discovery Channel]


Animal Doctor [COMM; Animal Planet]:

Note: this series may be the same as "Animal Hospital," listed below.


Animal Encounters (with Jim Fowler) [COMM; Animal Planet]:


Animal Hospital (airs in England and Australia):

Note: this series may be the same as "Animal Doctor," listed above.

"WP" reports: "Basically a presenter and camera crew hang around the RSPCA, while some other reporters go off on 'special' or 'unusual' assignments. There is never anything deliberate in the show, but it is supposed to be scientific, so there are numerous shots of different animals' anatomies. [These include] a Grey Nurse shark getting a massage from a chiropractor (it had a kink in its tail and was later released) and [some] dolphins getting a check up at Sea World where you get to see a very clear shot of a male's slit."


Animal Planet Safari [COMM; Animal Planet]:

(formerly called "Planet Safari"?)

All episodes are 60 minutes except those labeled as [30 mins].


Animal X:


Animals Are People, Too! [COMM; PAX]:

This (syndicated?) series airs on the PAX network and is hosted by Alan Thicke.


Audubon Specials:


Big Cat Diary [COMM; Animal Planet]:

Note: The opening credits of each episode include slow-motion footage of male lions fighting; one of them rolls on his back and urinates in the air.


Billy Connelly's World Tour of Australia:

"WP" reports: "(In the episode) when he comes to Perth he goes swimming with some phins. There are numerous shots of slits during that section, but everything is done in short cut scenes, so you never get to see anything very explicit."


Born in Africa [Animal Planet, with Ralph Bousfield]:


Breed: All About It [COMM; Animal Planet]:


Buck Staghorne [COMM; Animal Planet]:

A viewer reports: "If this guy is not a zoo...too many programs to list but I have seen masturbating elk, rutting everything." [Actaeon's note: I've watched a few episodes of Buck Staghorne, and while they apparently have no titles, the one where he's up in the mountains features a bull elk with a partial erection.]


CBS/Discovery Channel Specials [all COMM]:


A Celebration of Horses:


Celebrity Crusaders: [COMM; Animal Planet]


Champions of the Wild: [COMM; Animal Planet]


Company of Animals [COMM; Home & Garden TV]:


The Crocodile Hunter: [COMM; Animal Planet]


Crocodile Hunter's Croc Files: [COMM; Animal Planet]


David Attenborough's Natural World:


The Desert Speaks:


Desmond Morris' "The Human Animal": [COMM]


Desmond Morris' "The Human Sexes": [COMM]


Discover Magazine [COMM]:


Discovery's Animal Planet [COMM]:


A Dog's Life (COMM; Discovery Channel):


Dolphin Stories (Produced by Gruppe5; WDR; Greenpeace):

"WP" reports: "Excellent series focusing on dolphins. Very informative, excellent camera work and not all new age things like some Greenpeace things I have seen. I have several episodes from it."

"Nothing too explicit; "Secrets" has a few mating scenes and one scene of an Orca giving birth. 'Living in Freedom' has some mating scenes, but that is as about as risque as it gets."


Emergency Vets: [Animal Planet]


Extraordinary World of Animals [COMM; Fox Family Channel]


Eyewitness: [PBS]


From Cradle to Grave [COMM, Animal Planet]:


Full Circle (with Michael Palin):

"ZG" reports: [In Episode 6, on Australia and New Zealand] "In one part, Michael travels with an "outback vet" to a remote town in the outback to care for some animals. The vet sedates a dog and lays him on his back on a table. There's a very nice closeup of the dog's testicles [which I didn't see --Actaeon], and then (not for the faint of heart) a closeup and quite gory scene of the dog being castrated [they didn't show this either; it was from a distance --Actaeon]. In another scene, Michael takes part in a cow rodeo. There's a closeup scene, at least five seconds long, of the backside of a urinating cow." [Actually, it's having a runny bowel movement, complete with sound effects. --Actaeon]


Going Wild!:


Good Dog U [COMM; Animal Planet]:


Great African Wildlife Rescues [COMM; Animal Planet]:


Hidden Worlds:


History of Sex [COMM; History Channel]:


Horse Tales [COMM; Animal Planet]:


Horses: [PBS]


Hunters [COMM; Animal Planet]:


Infinite Voyage:


In the Wild:


Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures:


Jaws and Claws [COMM; Discovery Channel]:


Jim Henson's Animal Show:


K 9-5 [Animal Planet]:


Kratts' Creatures:


The Life of Birds (by David Attenborough) [PBS]:


The Living Edens [Reader's Digest World; PBS]:


Living Wild:


Lorne Greene's New Wilderness:


Love Chronicles [A&E]:


Madison's Adventures Growing Up Wild [COMM; Animal Planet]:


A Most Remarkable Planet:

"WP" reports: The episode entitled "The Dolphin's Gift" [is a] "documentary about Fungie, a wild dolphin who visited Dingle (small fishing village in county Kerry, Ireland) and the effect he had on the people. No sexual content."


Mother Nature: Tales of Discovery [COMM; Animal Planet]:


National Geographic:


National Geographic on Assignment:


National Geographic Explorer:


National Geographic's Really Wild Animals:


Nature:


NatureScene:


The Nature of Things:


The New Explorers:


Nova:


Oregon Field Guide:


Our World (Cousteau Society and Amaya Films):


Outdoor Idaho:


Petcetera [COMM; Animal Planet]:


The Pet Department (a series on the FX network) [COMM]:


Petsburgh USA [COMM; Animal Planet]:


The Planet's Funniest Animals [COMM; Animal Planet]:

Episodes have no titles or index numbers, so I have no convenient way to indicate which scenes are in which episodes. Peeing dogs seem to be popular camera subjects, accidental or otherwise. Also, one episode included the lion urination scene from the "Private Parts" episode of "The World's Funniest," but they blurred out the lion's genitals. Good grief, how timid can we be?


The Science of Sex [COMM; The Learning Channel]:


Scientific American Frontiers:


Sci-Trek:


Sea Trek [BBC, 1991]:

"WP" reports: "[This series is] about two divers who go swimming around the place telling you all about the local marine life. I've only got one episode where they visit the spotted dolphins in the Caribbean (yes, the same oversexed ones from National Geographic). Plus there is lots of patting of sharks and rays. Nothing explicit either, but a few 'innocent' shots."


Shamu TV [COMM; Animal Planet]:


Smithsonian World:


Supernature [COMM; Discovery Channel]:


Survival (Survival Anglia):


Trials of Life:


The Ultimate Guide [COMM; Discovery Channel]:


Understanding (a series on The Learning Channel):


Vets in the Wild (COMM; Animal Planet):


Warhorse (COMM; History Channel):


Washington Park Zoo: "Alphabet Zoop" video series:


Wild About Animals: [COMM; Animal Planet]


Wild America: [PBS]

This series, hosted and primarily filmed by Marty Stouffer, originally aired on PBS, but was apparently cancelled a few years ago, due to controversy over the use of "staged" footage. Scene times for those early episodes are from the start of the "Wild America has been brought to you by..." plug. In September 1999, a local ABC affiliate began airing "new" episodes, listed here as [COMM]; scene times for these episodes are from the opening graphics.


Wild Discovery (COMM; Discovery Channel):


Wild Europe (a six-part documentary on PBS):


Wild Kingdom:


Wild Indonesia (a three-part documentary on PBS):


Wild Islands (PBS):


Wild! Life Adventures: [all COMM]


Wild Ones (Beyond Productions, 1998):

"WP" reports: The "Dolphin's Day" episode [is a] "documentary about a the pods of dolphins who live in Kooyembi (?) Bay, Bunbury, Western Australia. Includes a relatively long, essentially group rape scene."


Wild Rescues (COMM; Animal Planet):


Wild Side:


Wild Things:


Wild World:


The World of Nature [all COMM]:


The World's Greatest Pets (UPN, hosted by Jeri Ryan):

I only saw the last 45 minutes of the first episode, and saw nothing to report. The "Happy Holidays" episode that aired on 12/22 didn't show anything either.


World Wildlife Fund:


Zig & Zag: Alpha Dog Challenge [COMM; Animal Planet]:

Episodes are untitled, and are listed here by the names of the team leaders.


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