I really like these two videos in that they opened up a new route for our topic, which is mimicking. They use human voice lip-sync animal's original voices, and give audiences an unexpected result.
The first scene is the most hilarious one for me. While the black bird saying something like "Dai Dai", he used his wings to cover his face and then remove his wings, which remind me of the game mom played for their kids. When babies have not learn the "object permanence", which is the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be observed, moms always put their hands on their faces to pretend they are not there and then remove their hands to bring themselves back, which always make babies happy. Before I saw this video, I thought the game should only played by human, but when the human voice added into the video, I start to believe they were really playing the same game. On the one hand, I was surprised that the human language fit so well in the animal; on the other hand, I found it amazing that animal can maybe talk about same topics with us! Who knows?! That uncertainty is the most interesting part of the videos. We do not know if they really have languages to communicate and we also do not know what are they talking about if they do? Do they talk about the same topic with us? This ambiguity gives us a lot of imagination, and makes audiences curious about the fact. It also makes me realize how little I know about other animal's world, and perhaps their daily life as interesting as mine. Although I knew, in the biological perspective, human is also animal, just like other species on the earth, I still feel like we are superior than others since we have higher intelligences. Therefore, I feel unbelievable when I start to think about animals can also talk while the videos make so many senses.
Moreover, I was impressed by BBC due to their creativity. Everything seems changed completly after conferring meanings to animals' nonsense voices. I saw some of the scenes before, but I never use the human perspective to interpret their behaviors. When I saw the bird cover their face, I will not thought about the game, because I unconsciously separate other animals with human and enlarge the distances between human and other species. Living in the city for most of my life, I hardly have opportunities to really feel the beauty of nature and do not even talk about get in touch with animals. Therefore, I always admire people who can always try to empathy with animals or try to build relationship with other species. I would love to try to understand animals later, just like communicate with people. I am sure I will have more fun in my life in this way and thank Cawood for showing us these videos. I do learn a lot!
It is certainly true that we almost think animals can really talk when we watch these sorts of things. In reality, it's hard to know what's happening. The philosopher Wittgenstein said something once to the effect of: if the lion could talk, we couldn't understand it. These videos pretend to bridge this gap of course.
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