Name: National Geographic Live! - Vincent J. Musi: Where the Wild Things Live
Uploaded: 2014-08-27T06:52:13.000Z
Duration: 24 min 21 s
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Vincent J Musi: So our relationship with animals

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For the longest time science  could just never accept

what most pet owners know is that animals think and feel.

But proving that they have  thoughts and emotions

The question for me next  is really about

over these 10,000 years  how does an animal

Vincent J Musi: Thank you, you're very kind.

It all started for me when I bought a haunted house.

It's true. That's what the neighbors told me,

The previous tenants  had heard all this scratching

and kicking and rumbling and  creaking all around the house,

they thought it was  the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe,

who lived in the neighborhood,  where I live now.

So I did what any sane person would do, I called an exorcist.

His name was Mike Hughes.  And he's a trapper

So, he managed to get all the ghosts out of my house,

the squirrels, the opossums, the nine raccoons,

it a national wildlife refuge. (laughter)

Now Mike had quite a menagerie at his own home

and I was curious, so I photographed him.

We're trying to do this eye contact thing, it's simple.

We bring an animal,  we put it on a seamless.

"You know, all animals are food motivated.

All you have to do is really kinda provide

the set and this is going to work out for you.

I thought, okay, that's cool.  Well, mistakes were made.

of the animal cognition.  These are famous animals.

Years of research  had been done with them.

Books had been  written about them,  scientific careers...

the Annie Leibovitz of animal photographs.

And it was going to be all about eye contact and lighting. Right?

Well, it's hard to do that when an animal won't look at you.

every time I picked up  the camera, boom! He was gone.

He'd shoot away.  And my career, like the lemur,

Why am I being punished here? What have I done wrong?

I went all the way to Austria to photograph this Marmoset.

and he's telling his  Marmoset friends to pee on me

And he screamed at me  and he wouldn't stop.

And he told his friends  to scream at me.

even fish were screaming at me  from under water.

This is a Gunnison's  prairie dog, and he  screamed at me too.

Scientists believe these guys  have language ability,

It's not like, "Aah! Bad things are happening...

It's like, "There's a guy from National Geographic

and he's gonna come here and take our picture."

And, he... he's a rescued prairie dog from Phoenix.

He was hit by a car and his name is Speed-bump.

It's like I didn't know what to do, I couldn't take it anymore.

And I started to interview him like... like a press conference,

rapid fire. "Mr. Bump, how are the winters in Wabash?

What do you think?" All this kind of stuff,

and I sang to him. I did everything I could,

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