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Dogs : man's best friend.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmPublisher number: MABF600 | PBS DistributionSeries: PBS explorer collectionPublisher: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Distribution, 2011Description: 4 videodiscs (240 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Audience:
  • Unrated
  • General
ISBN:
  • 1608835014
Other title:
  • Man's best friend
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 636.7 23
LOC classification:
  • SF426 .D6465 2011
Contents:
NOVA. Dogs decoded (2010) / director, Dan Child ; Dogs and more dogs (2004) / directors, Noel Buckner, Rob Whittlesey -- NOVA scienceNOW. How smart are animals? (2011) / directed by Alexis Bloom ... [et al.] -- Through a dog's eyes (2010) / produced by Margaret McEvoy ; written by Don Campbell ; directed by Peter Schnall.
Narrators: Lance Lewman (Dogs decoded), John Lithgow (Dogs and more dogs), Neil Patrick Harris (Through a dog's eyes) ; host: Neil deGrasse Tyson (How smart are animals?).Summary: Uses science to explore the bond between dogs and humans; looks at the history of dog domestication; focuses on animal intelligence and the discovery that the dog brain is remarkably similar to a human's; examines the rearing, training, and placement of service dogs.
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DVD Idaho Springs Public Library DVD Nonfiction DVD NF DOG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 30404100064060

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NOVA. Dogs decoded (2010) / director, Dan Child ; Dogs and more dogs (2004) / directors, Noel Buckner, Rob Whittlesey -- NOVA scienceNOW. How smart are animals? (2011) / directed by Alexis Bloom ... [et al.] -- Through a dog's eyes (2010) / produced by Margaret McEvoy ; written by Don Campbell ; directed by Peter Schnall.

Narrators: Lance Lewman (Dogs decoded), John Lithgow (Dogs and more dogs), Neil Patrick Harris (Through a dog's eyes) ; host: Neil deGrasse Tyson (How smart are animals?).

Uses science to explore the bond between dogs and humans; looks at the history of dog domestication; focuses on animal intelligence and the discovery that the dog brain is remarkably similar to a human's; examines the rearing, training, and placement of service dogs.

Not rated.

DVDs, stereo.

For private home use only.

Closed-captioned.

Visually described for the blind and visually impaired ("How smart are animals?" only).

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