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About The Dark Side Of Elephants (Elephant Documentary)

Ask most people and they'll tell you elephants are our friends. Fascinating gentle giants, whose strength, intelligence and loyalty make them ideal working companions. That's why we're so shocked by headlines about elephants who have turned on, and killed, their keepers. About wild elephants who have trampled through villages, crushing inhabitants in their wake. But should we be surprised? This revealing documentary sets out to discover why this is a growing problem, looking at cases around the world when both captive and wild elephants have turned nasty. Content licensed by ITV Global to Little Dot Studios.

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As a society documentary, The Dark Side Of Elephants (Elephant Documentary) uses elephants, elephant as its central frame. Social documentaries work best as invitations to examine systems through lived experience. Distinguish individual testimony from wider claims, and consider which institutions, incentives and inequalities shape the choices shown.

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Title
The Dark Side Of Elephants (Elephant Documentary)
Category
Society
Runtime
50 minutes
Language
English
Publisher
Real Wild

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