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Animal faceoff
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Posted by: daperlman

Anyone else watch this?

I have been watching ads for these for months now and I kept meaning to TiVo it. Finally I remembered, and it was actually pretty good.

The show uses the sweet allure of violence to trick meat heads like me to watch an educational nature show. Beyond the interesting facts about the animals they choose... I am impressed with their engineer's quick thinking to replicate attribute's of the animals in the wild.

Anyway's I kicked of my SP with Cougar versus Wolf. I am looking forward to watching Hippo versus Bull Shark!

Posted by: jschuman

What channel?

Posted by: daperlman

linky: http://dsc.discovery.com/convergenc...malfaceoff.html

Posted by: Melissa

No, I haven't seen it, but now I think I'll check it out- Thanks :)
I'll let you know what I think next week.
-M

Posted by: Zevida

Interesting! I was crusing the upcoming shows on Discovery channel and saw this one and thought the description sounded interesting. I recorded a few eps, but didn't make it past five minutes of the first one (elephant versus rhino).

I found the idea of watching them build machines to be dull. I'd watched a shark show (Anatomy of a Shark Bite?) where they did that and I got bored quickly. I want to watch nature shows for nature, not to hypothesize and build "toys" to experiment with. I like watching video of the actual animals and learning about what they do, not really "what if."

Should I give it another try?

Posted by: sieglinde

I only watched part of the shark vs hippo and haven't watched the others yet. It was interesting but they were using very little data to create the machines so as a "scientific" exercise it has little validity.

For example, they had the shark's bite pressure but no one had ever taken a bite pressure for a hippo.

Posted by: daperlman

quote:
Originally posted by sieglinde
I only watched part of the shark vs hippo and haven't watched the others yet. It was interesting but they were using very little data to create the machines so as a "scientific" exercise it has little validity.

For example, they had the shark's bite pressure but no one had ever taken a bite pressure for a hippo.

I haven't watched it yet, but the way the measured the Cougar and Wolf's was really cool. They first measured the size of some openings below the cheek and plugged in to an equation to determine pressure. They then multiplied that by the amount of force the animal(s) pounced with.

So based on bone structure you'd think they could estimate Hippo bite strength.

Posted by: sieglinde

I suspect they may have done that without telling us. Certainly that makes sense. I would suspect that since wolves and coyotes have been kept as pets, that we would already have the bite pressure numbers.