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Emma Marris: Are wild animals really “wild”? | TED

Human activity is affecting the planet in dramatic, unsustainable ways — including destroying the habitats of wild animals. Considering our obligation to care for the creatures we’ve impacted, environmental writer Emma Marris dives into the ethics of wildlife management, zoos and aquariums, offering her thoughts on how we can help Earth’s wildlife flourish. (This conversation,…

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Human activity is affecting the planet in dramatic, unsustainable ways — including destroying the habitats of wild animals. Considering our obligation to care for the creatures we’ve impacted, environmental writer Emma Marris dives into the ethics of wildlife management, zoos and aquariums, offering her thoughts on how we can help Earth’s wildlife flourish. (This conversation, hosted by TED science curator David Biello, was part of a TED Membership event. Visit ted.com/membership to become a TED Member.)

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107 Comments

  1. .x.

    September 10, 2021 at 3:53 pm

    They eat my kitten yesterday

  2. kloassie

    September 10, 2021 at 4:00 pm

    Plot synopsis: Yes

  3. tsrif tsal

    September 10, 2021 at 4:33 pm

    Humans are wild. They must be managed. Religion Fear Money etc etc.

    • Keyser Josaid

      September 10, 2021 at 4:57 pm

      ***humans are messed up. The animals will be fine when we’re gone

  4. Dekaida

    September 10, 2021 at 4:36 pm

    Yet another attempt at changing language to get what you want. All animals are not domesticated because we can/do have an impact on them. Don’t drink this kool-aid people.

    • Afungus Amungus

      September 10, 2021 at 7:38 pm

      Really, which animals have been “domesticated” without human intervention? Try Mexican Tang its way better than kool-aid.

    • Dekaida

      September 10, 2021 at 9:18 pm

      @Afungus Amungus You didn’t understand my point. You’ve conflated two different concepts. I never denied that humans can and do domesticate. I’m saying impacting animals in the wild, and domesticating anomals are two very different things. This presenter attempts to blur those lines to get what she wants. Maybe you should lay off the mexican tang.

  5. Michel

    September 10, 2021 at 4:44 pm

    Most states indiscriminately slaughter wolves now. The Endangered Species Act has been gutted. To say this is a human world is arrogant. We don’t own this world. We did destroy it. Should we feed animals like polar bears? I think it should be considered because we caused the situation for their starvation. It can be done without human contact. We do have more responsibilities now. Humans are causing species extinctions.
    Zoos need to provide habitats that mimic the animals natural habitat. Some of these animals are being poached in uncontrollable rates in the wild. Their habitats are being destroyed. Breeding in the zoos may be the only way to stop extinction.
    I don’t see how sea animals can be kept in a zoo. Their migration patterns are too large. Humans would have to designate huge no fishing zones in each ocean. I don’t see that happening due to human greed.

  6. Chef Greg DC

    September 10, 2021 at 4:47 pm

    This is not good

  7. Raymond Jones

    September 10, 2021 at 4:56 pm

    Thank you so much for your work!!…and this video..I wish there were more people like you!!👍👍💚😎

    • ➕🔥COMINGSN

      September 10, 2021 at 5:05 pm

      Agreed. Most of the comments show majority misses the point. This is why these animals are going extinct. People forget they owe this planet care

  8. ➕🔥COMINGSN

    September 10, 2021 at 5:11 pm

    Sad how most people ignore this. And how many people miss her point. To all you religious folx. We are MANDATED to care for these animals! And if wild we assume these animals arent affected by us. Cant understand or form bonds with people. And dont have their own ability to feel and convey emotion with other species and each other dont communicate or have some form of society then you dont understand animal bio. If you wanna argue or hate on me idc i said what i said and stand by it. Im not gonna provide you with info thats easily googleable. And im not debating. Thank you. Goodbye. God bless. May you see how we are in connection with all of creation. As jesus comes things with these animals will change. They will become free and when you see how they are hurt by us you will see how they used to be more tame than previously thought.

  9. ➕🔥COMINGSN

    September 10, 2021 at 5:17 pm

    Who would have thought ppl who respect the Earth and creation as part of their philosophy and lifestyle can be best equipped to take care of creation. Maybe yall could learn something from us. Would love to live like my people do

  10. Deodexidus

    September 10, 2021 at 5:19 pm

    I clicked on this TED talks b/c Emma is so attractive, lol! Must be my “wild” nature

  11. Ken Otwell

    September 10, 2021 at 5:34 pm

    Wild is about domestication, not about ecological changes. Not to knock the rest of the talk, but I fundamentally disagree with her definition of wild.

    • Benjamin Rosiek

      September 10, 2021 at 10:30 pm

      This, a leak of words meaning whatever the speaker wants them to is slowly coming in from social sciences into the hard sciences. It’s a serious problem.

  12. tory miller

    September 10, 2021 at 5:34 pm

    climate change helps…. INVASIVE ….species move north.. wht people dont like this..

    warm weather also defeats the purpose of living indoors.. which is to become civilized and greedy as if u where living In outerspace

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  13. Christopher Gruenwald

    September 10, 2021 at 5:47 pm

    Feed the polar bears! Wacko. Then they can come reliant on humans for food so they rely on their hunting skills. Then they can all die off at faster rates. Maybe just leave the wild
    the wild. Humans always think they can manage better than nature and natural processes.

    • Afungus Amungus

      September 10, 2021 at 7:33 pm

      Yeah well in Canada Polar Bears wander the northern cities, “managing” them is better than shooting them.

  14. trayNTP

    September 10, 2021 at 5:54 pm

    I could listen to her all day.

  15. Rays Travel

    September 10, 2021 at 5:55 pm

    Why should we feed the polar bear? Sometimes smart people aren’t that smart. Wouldn’t making a floating platform be wiser? being global warming which is actual a natural part of this world is taking away the polar sheets where the polar bear food sits and rests as well as the polar bear. So when do we take the platform away? Being it’s natural for this planet to warm and get cold. When would having the platform being there be too long changing that natural evolution of nature?

    • Sadie Lapiers

      September 11, 2021 at 5:50 am

      It’s natural for the planet to heat and cool, but it has been shown that we are speeding the change up much faster than what would naturally happen. Polar bears/other animals are not being given time to adapt to their rapidly changing environments.

  16. Mountain Sasquatch

    September 10, 2021 at 6:06 pm

    The ONLY solution is to decrease the human population. Sounds harsh but it’s the only way to reduce the impact humans have on the global organism as a whole. 7.9billion people is too many people. I believe that u2 billion is enough.

    • Mountain Sasquatch

      September 10, 2021 at 6:08 pm

      On the “wild” issue humans are wild and the rest of nature is civil. No creature takes more than it needs except humans.

    • Rays Travel

      September 10, 2021 at 6:11 pm

      But they are doing just that. When bill gates was interviewed he was asked how the world elites plan to take care over world overpopulation. He responded “with vaccinations and thru health care.” He said this about a year before the covid outbreak. Don’t worry bro. They’re working hard to reduce the world population. 😉

  17. Tom Pava

    September 10, 2021 at 6:24 pm

    What if our ethical responsibility to the wild animals of the world extended to the culling of our own, human herd?
    Have you considered the idea that human children are born into “captivity”?

  18. The Dude

    September 10, 2021 at 7:09 pm

    Animals aren’t wild, we just percieve them to be wild. If we were to live like the animals, we’d follow the natural food cycle. Human beings are the ones creating this whole scenario of a “civil” nature

    • jujitsujew23

      September 11, 2021 at 3:54 pm

      wtf are you talking about? Explain how Snow leopards are not wild animals

    • The Dude

      September 11, 2021 at 4:05 pm

      @jujitsujew23 no they’re not. We have built this way of thinking about them as wild animals because of the years and years of development that we have brought upon this planet. If there were no development, we would be the same as them. Hunting and foraging for food sometimes hunted by them. That’s the way of the nature. The food chain. In short, we are the same as them, only we have evolved more than them

    • Illlium

      September 11, 2021 at 9:12 pm

      @jujitsujew23 Just because we have machined slaughterhouses doesn’t mean we’re any less wild than the animals. We just don’t have any direct contact with food production so we can pretend between ourselves that we’re somehow better than a predator biting the neck of its prey.

  19. Andy Blick

    September 10, 2021 at 7:32 pm

    In New Zealand, where I live, all the common wild animals are deemed invasive and on a list for extermination. Not control or management but complete elimination. These animals include possums, stoats, tahr, chamois, weasels, ferrets, hedgehogs, several species of deer, rats, mice, wild pigs, wallabies and goats. The list is extensive.
    Despite man actually being responsible for clearing 90% of the forested land these animals are blamed for the loss of native wildlife diversity. Simultaneously their own contribution to this diversity is discounted.
    It also goes unacknowledged that since arriving in NZ these animals have become different from their origin species and are well on their way to becoming unique sub-species and species in their own right.
    As if it couldn’t be any worse their is very little constraint on the methods used to remove introduced animals. Once these animals are labelled pests anything goes.
    An efficient propaganda machine means the majority of people believe there is a crisis of survival going on for “native” wildlife.
    The proper debate on what exactly is native or introduced in a world where life was only created once is set aside and deadly poison, 1080, is spread routinely, and repeatedly, over millions of hectares of forest.
    It’s true effects on wild ecosystems remains largely unstudied though many science papers have been published by government researchers, in support of its ongoing use.
    Sixty years of use have seen wild animal populations decimated over large areas yet this poison is unable to fulfill the relatively new goal of total eradication.
    To achieve total eradication all manner of studies are going on into gene editing, sterilisation compounds and other techniques for killing for which there appears no constraint.
    As I live in a small village in a large forest I am regularly confronted with the reality of this insanity.
    Like many people who live around poison drops I don’t like them but any opportunity to be involved in decision-making has been removed. Protests have no effect. .
    We have a Prime Minister that espouses kindness in the face of adversity yet she heads a government that uses a cruel poison to kill millions of wild animals every year.
    It’s as if the only value a wild animal has is the money to be made from its death.
    A wild animal in NZ has no rights not even to live.

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  21. TheVigilante2000

    September 10, 2021 at 7:49 pm

    Pets are like members of the family? Never put my mom down for biting a child (and she has).

    • Brenda Walton

      September 11, 2021 at 6:58 pm

      Don’t bite children

  22. No 2 A.i

    September 10, 2021 at 8:21 pm

    Actually humans are wild animals behave by instinct!

  23. Paul Brooks

    September 10, 2021 at 11:21 pm

    Wild animals are a factor of personality. It’s well understood in Bear ecology that the “harshness of their original environment and the time spent there determine their behaviors”. We know that polar bears are far more dangerous than bears in the lower latitudes.

    We also know that ecological niches play a role in animal personality. However, there are definitely animals that are dangerous regardless of environment, where we can adapt away from or mitigate their presence so we don’t incidentally get hurt. A perfect example is Australia and the sheer number of deadly creatures.

    It’s far too much of a blanket statement to assert that there are no wild creatures that we can’t manifest a relationship with. This has been proven countless times and it’s outright folly to assert anything other than: there are places in this world for all creatures, but some simply cannot live in harmony. And that’s okay.

    Humans have spread far beyond a fair balance with nature and we are way past encroachment upon *untamed* spaces that need to be left alone in order to thrive. If anything, the lack of “wildness” and animal extinction is a product of human destruction of any creatures that don’t conform to what we want.

    If “wildness” should die, then so too has non-human-sanctioned ecology, and the world will be far poorer for it.

  24. Ukie TheOverlord

    September 11, 2021 at 1:10 am

    This lady hasn’t spent one night in the wilderness I am willing to bet.

  25. Dustin K

    September 11, 2021 at 2:15 am

    I don’t want wild bird feed….they are already wild enough

  26. Ramandeep Nijjar

    September 11, 2021 at 6:07 am

    Really fascinating talk. I enjoyed it immensely thank you!

  27. Kevin Wells

    September 11, 2021 at 6:16 am

    I won’t listen much further, I’m just old and tired. But the idea of a dog running free with wolves, and then impregnating a wolf… isn’t that nature? Dogs were not always dogs. They were wild. Wolves became dogs, at least as we understand it through history. What business is it of ours? We want to manage the entire world. And to paraphrase Star Wars: “the tighter you close your grip, the more ‘it’ will slip between your fingers”. Why would anyone end the pregnancy of a wolf because it had bred with a dog? Unless that dog was Cujo of course. That I would understand. Geeze!
    Sorry for the bad humor. I don’t have much faith in mankind saving animals until I know we can all save ourselves. But I do love your concern and involvement. Good luck.

  28. jujitsujew23

    September 11, 2021 at 6:23 am

    This lady has no clue what she’s talking about. Wild animal numbers have been reduced greatly by the actions of humans but they do still exist from the Andean cat to the polar bear or the blue whale. She then asks if we should kill human introduced invasive species to preserve native endangered species..YES!!!…what is wrong with her to think that question doesn’t have a clear answer? This wasn’t a ted talk, it was an ignorant person spouting BS

    • Fate Clash

      September 11, 2021 at 8:15 pm

      How is ‘native’ defined tho? Pre-human influence?
      Distinguishing between whether a species arrived by:
      a transient land bridge VS stowing away on our boats.
      This seems arbitrary. It is entirely natural for life to take every advantage available to it.

  29. An Nguyễn Văn

    September 11, 2021 at 6:44 am

    The speed of this video so Fast for me !! But Contents are Great!

  30. Robert Wayne

    September 11, 2021 at 7:26 am

    We need a new classification. This really made me think. I loved this.

  31. Don Pete

    September 11, 2021 at 12:00 pm

    Man.. Ted talks get dumber by the day,
    How do you tell people like this, everything that walks on this earth eventually dies, whether you interfere or not. Trying to interfere so you can feel good about yourself is another vanity chasing ventures for humans, make peace with your short unimportant life and live nature alone, or go disturb the balance but at least admit its due to boredom and not moral virtue.

    • Illlium

      September 11, 2021 at 9:17 pm

      Is it safe to assume if you saw a collapsed person on the street without a heart rate you would just keep on walking?

  32. cc Rider

    September 11, 2021 at 12:23 pm

    Is a man really a man if he nurses and suckles a mommy cow for baby’s milk?

  33. John Blue

    September 11, 2021 at 1:52 pm

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  34. Yemeni Mesa

    September 11, 2021 at 4:47 pm

    Plant based food for polar bears? GTFOOH!

  35. hemnhemn hemnhemn

    September 11, 2021 at 6:10 pm

    l really intrested thx so much !
    she is very good isn’t she?

  36. Zuzia Zukowska

    September 11, 2021 at 7:24 pm

    I wish this Ted talk would have more views. It’s very important but not a lot people are interested. 😞

  37. uygur tebrik

    September 11, 2021 at 8:42 pm

    Are wild animals really “wild”? Yes, it’s clear from the name. It’s wild. But this is definitely not contempt. From the perspective of man, it is a symbol. Man has plant nature and animal nature. Morality is the basic rule of being a man. Sometimes people do become real people, but sometimes they become wild animals, and sometimes people are more wild than wild animals. At this time, you can’t say that they are wild animals, because this sentence has the meaning of disdaining wild animals, because people are more despicable and shameless than animals at this time. Please be careful. Man does bring behavior and temper to wild animals to achieve relationships and identity. Just as man has space, time and rules, wild animals also have space, time, action rules and laws. For example, tigers eat the meat of dead deer. Otherwise, it will be hunted by hunters, or he will fall to death from a high place, and so on… There must be a kind of punishment, which comes from one’s own fault and violation of the law. Because the tiger has violated the animal law, it can only be called a wild animal when it finds out its own range. Other examples can also be taken to infer. It’s really wonderful!

  38. Brazos Forager

    September 11, 2021 at 11:11 pm

    Climate change is caused by human hysteria. The real best solution is to have Tesla make electric wolves and polar bears.

  39. Bud Stoney

    September 12, 2021 at 1:11 am

    Absolutely incredible !

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  41. Graeme Goodkey

    September 12, 2021 at 4:40 am

    In case you are unaware, Polar bears are one of the only animals who will actively hunt humans for food. Every year one or two people “feed the bears”, tragically in northern Canada. They are wild animals!

  42. Tomáš Garaj

    September 12, 2021 at 4:45 am

    Whats next?! It’s Apple really apple, why humans must talking talk aboat shitti things, better talk aboat our diing planet

  43. mr_BO_ NAJIB

    September 12, 2021 at 10:57 am

    Try standing next to a hungry lion, you’ll believe they’re wild for a reason.

    • Rik van der Bruggen

      September 13, 2021 at 7:25 am

      So killing another life form when your hungry makes you wild? Wouldnt that make humans wild aswell?

    • mr_BO_ NAJIB

      September 13, 2021 at 7:42 am

      The way animals do it, is wild

    • Rik van der Bruggen

      September 13, 2021 at 5:24 pm

      What is wilder about that then how we do it?

    • mr_BO_ NAJIB

      September 13, 2021 at 6:09 pm

      They are told savage killers sir,

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      September 15, 2021 at 9:35 pm

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  44. skuratchinz

    September 12, 2021 at 12:15 pm

    Animals are what we say they are. Nobody else is labeling things here!

  45. delio an

    September 12, 2021 at 12:37 pm

    Hope to see more movie

  46. bobpeters61

    September 12, 2021 at 1:27 pm

    All cats are wild. They just choose to be friends with humans.

  47. Arun Babu

    September 12, 2021 at 1:49 pm

    Wild means free from any sort of systematic conditioning, right?

    We humans are afraid of anything with that level of absolute freedom.

    Sometimes i felt that these “wild” animals have more humanity than the real humans.

  48. mark totton

    September 12, 2021 at 2:44 pm

    Wild animals are non-domesticated animals – easy

  49. mark totton

    September 12, 2021 at 2:49 pm

    That we are affecting the climate and habitats is unquestionable, and that we should be providing “wild” animals environments in which they can thrive, is also obvious. However, life is not easy or predictable. When we change the world, the results are not always clear. We desire to maintain the variety of life, but that needs to be balanced with the needs of people.

  50. Yet Another One

    September 12, 2021 at 5:20 pm

    Crazy perceptions, opinions, suggestions — the result of uni(one) versity (message) education. This is for the programmed millennial brains.

  51. Jayni Morris

    September 12, 2021 at 6:14 pm

    We owe animals the duty of Stewardship and stewardship in ideology, approach, title, and moral duty would make a great fundamental for a revised Green party (within the USA).

  52. Elias Machado

    September 12, 2021 at 6:36 pm

    This topic is really important for us, here in Brazil, we have a lot of wild animals, mainly in the forest Amazon and Pantanal as well.

  53. Angela Bilyeu

    September 12, 2021 at 6:52 pm

    I feel there is an underlying assumption that humans are not part of nature. That we are outside of or above nature. We are not.

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    September 12, 2021 at 7:11 pm

    OMG it’s Simone Giertz’s older sister 😀

  55. MaidenintheMeadow

    September 12, 2021 at 8:22 pm

    I was talking about this to my husband the other about feeding the polar bears. I do think we need to take my responsibility. We can see that they are starving we need to feed them.

  56. cory leblanc

    September 13, 2021 at 12:12 am

    humans are %100 herbivore

  57. cory leblanc

    September 13, 2021 at 12:14 am

    eating meat makes you a bad person

  58. Jeremiah Johnson

    September 13, 2021 at 1:11 am

    Short answer.. all animals are wild, including us.

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    September 13, 2021 at 1:13 am

    What about just reducing the human population and giving back more land to wild life?

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  62. Simon Willig

    September 13, 2021 at 6:12 pm

    All living creatures react to external stimuli. Does the fact that a stimulus is caused by human make that creature less wild? It depends on the nature of the stimulus I would say…

  63. RADIOACTIVE1980s

    September 16, 2021 at 12:27 am

    Simple answer no, animals are not wild, they are living with nature. Humans are wild, we don’t live with nature and destroy nature/planet more and more every day.

  64. Gina Rios

    September 16, 2021 at 4:42 am

    The Creator made the beasts and ADM named them. In the zoo they are captive but still wild. Dogs and cats have been domesticated, but the chimpanzee, for example, should never be a pet. // SHLM & HaB (peace & love). The Name of the Creator is Hayah asher Hayah, as what He told Moshah (Exodus 3:14), preserved in the Hebrew Scriptures. There is a curse to the G-o-d name (Isaiah 65:11-12), preserved in the Hebrew Scriptures. All followers of the Messiah are to do the 7 appointed times (Leviticus 23), but no more animal sacrifices, following the Crucifixion of the Messiah. We are now of the order of MLK TSDQ (King, righteous), to Whom ABRaHM tithed. Ask the Messiah to be your personal Savior. He is the Atoning Offering for mankind for the remission of sin ( 1 John 2:2). He said to him, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6). If you believe the Messiah died on the cross, & Resurrected three days later (presenting Himself as First Fruits to the Father), please ask Him to be your Savior. He is the ONLY way to Everlasting Life.

  65. lettersfromhelen

    September 17, 2021 at 9:50 pm

    Typically presenters on TED talks are intelligent and/or well-informed. She came across as neither. Too bad.

  66. Iain Mackay

    September 18, 2021 at 1:15 am

    A lion will attack and eat you if hungry a gorilla will charge you if you invade there territory feed a polar bear it will hang around and probably eat your child animals in the wild will track you down and eat you if hungry a chimp in captivity will rip your face off birds do not track down and eat people
    What wild animals are you actually talking about To save them you need dedicated sanctuaries if poached severe punishment like death sentence unless you cull a billion or so humans

  67. 8BIT GAMES

    September 18, 2021 at 10:07 am

    Fish doesn’t think because fish KNOWS everything 😉

  68. Tori Isaacs

    September 18, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    What about dear meat for the polar bear

  69. B Ntagkas

    September 19, 2021 at 7:11 am

    “if we want to see animals happy we must do this or that”
    are you aware about some little known problems in our society called homelessness, poverty etc? we should first start caring about making humans happy, and well do the animals next, deal?

  70. cassidy barnett

    September 19, 2021 at 4:42 pm

    Read “the trouble with wilderness”

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Did you know the world’s largest tropical forest is partly formed by seeds emerging from poop? Ecologist Ludmila Rattis reveals the surprisingly fruitful benefits of letting nature take care of its own business, sharing how the digestive habits of tapirs — pig-like creatures that roam Amazonia — spread seeds that help regenerate the forest and…

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Did you know the world’s largest tropical forest is partly formed by seeds emerging from poop? Ecologist Ludmila Rattis reveals the surprisingly fruitful benefits of letting nature take care of its own business, sharing how the digestive habits of tapirs — pig-like creatures that roam Amazonia — spread seeds that help regenerate the forest and promote climate resilience worldwide. (Even nature’s waste is put to good use!)

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Why All Dogs Are Good Dogs | Alexandra Horowitz | TED

Canine cognition expert Alexandra Horowitz offers a peek inside the mind of your dog, sharing solutions to common “misbehaviors” that are often simply the result of a pup’s attempt to communicate in a world that’s very different from their own. Hear about the evolution and psychology behind your dog’s actions — and how to give…

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Canine cognition expert Alexandra Horowitz offers a peek inside the mind of your dog, sharing solutions to common “misbehaviors” that are often simply the result of a pup’s attempt to communicate in a world that’s very different from their own. Hear about the evolution and psychology behind your dog’s actions — and how to give them a happier, healthier life.

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Vet Breaks Down How He Did Brain Surgery on a Bear | WIRED

Wildlife veterinarian Romain Pizzi performed the first brain surgery on a bear as well as the first keyhole appendix surgery on an orangutan. He’s also anesthetized hundreds of seals. Using hours of his own self-shot footage, let’s take a look at how Romain prepares and performs these amazing wildlife surgeries. Check out Romain’s book here:…

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Wildlife veterinarian Romain Pizzi performed the first brain surgery on a bear as well as the first keyhole appendix surgery on an orangutan. He’s also anesthetized hundreds of seals. Using hours of his own self-shot footage, let’s take a look at how Romain prepares and performs these amazing wildlife surgeries.

Check out Romain’s book here:

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Director: Anna O’Donohue
Director of Photography: Steven Cassidy
Editor: Parker Dixon
Expert: Romain Pizzi
Producer: Katherine Wzorek
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Samantha Vélez
Production Manager: Eric Martinez
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila
Camera Operator: Aidan Black
Audio: Simon Tomlinson
Production Assistant: Charles Marks
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Diego Rentsch

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