The Invention of Pets

2016-02-23

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Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;

Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'

Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;

Man got to tell himself he understand.

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle (1963)

ASSET SOURCES

Survival International

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https://goo.gl/NOiUwg

Libyan Cave Painting Photos by Joe & Clair Carnegie / © Libyan Soup

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Nenet And Chukchi With Dogs ©Jimmy Nelson Pictures B.V.

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Black Lab Gray - Water Happiness by Emo Teofanov

https://goo.gl/ZikJBb

Descubren Insolito Entierro De Perros Prehispanicos by INAH

https://goo.gl/vX8eHC

Free Animal Videos.org

http://goo.gl/lWijWs

The Alex Foundation & Life With Alex

http://goo.gl/yJJdPi

https://goo.gl/U4Cm1U

BOOKS

Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin

http://goo.gl/25v54u

The Tiger In The House by Carl Van Vechten

http://goo.gl/jq7h6d

Parrot Culture by Bruce Thomas Boehrer

http://goo.gl/qhwclM

What’s A Dog For? By John Homans

http://goo.gl/MpFo1j

The Open: Man And Animal by Giorgio Agamben

http://goo.gl/sYdw83

Thinking Through Animals by Matthew Calarco

http://goo.gl/03f305

In The Company Of Animals by James Serpell

http://goo.gl/iTbfEx

ONLINE SOURCES

Cognitive Foundations of the Relationship between Humans and Animals among Hunter - Gatherers and Traditional Farmers

http://goo.gl/7KANzq

The Separation Of Human And Animal

http://goo.gl/prDweL

What Does It Mean To Be Human by Maria Popova

https://goo.gl/jw9R4x

Politics by Aristotle

http://goo.gl/NFPwze

Animation by Preston Blair

http://goo.gl/W0MZLW

Rene Descartes and Animals Are Automata

http://goo.gl/dT0GtI

Witches And Familiars

https://goo.gl/GBCtQF

The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton

https://goo.gl/bRU6v7

Dogs May Have Helped Humans Beat The Neanderthals

http://goo.gl/kgQWbx

2015-2016 APPA National Pet Owners Survey Statistics

http://goo.gl/2m4tnP

Darwin The Dog Lover

http://goo.gl/CIsmnK

The Big Search To Find Out Where Dogs Come From

http://goo.gl/8bWG3S

Dogs Are Even More Like Us Than We Thought by Maya Wei-Haas

http://goo.gl/v9jy4s

Dogs Not As Close Kin To Wolves As Thought

http://goo.gl/lb1qDC

DNA And Victorian Dog Fancy

http://goo.gl/TjlW73

A Biological Homage To Mickey Mouse by Stephen Jay Gould

http://goo.gl/cOJXZ2

Pride And Pedigree: The Evolution Of The Victorian Dog Fancy by Harriet Ritvo

http://goo.gl/XudZAq

Buccleuch’s Labrador Stud Book

http://goo.gl/131yXA

Oxytocin

http://goo.gl/lJcWsz

Dogs And Cats Can Love

http://goo.gl/TIIqMe

Were Cats Domesticated More Than Once

http://goo.gl/e6FSsO

How Humans Created Cats

http://goo.gl/3EorFs

Aesop’s Fables The Lion & The Mouse

http://goo.gl/tl95ob

The Kennel Club

http://goo.gl/uzWE0S

SPECIAL THANKS

BBC Earth & BBC Worldwide

https://goo.gl/7VdFDq

https://goo.gl/a5SS0K

Rhett & Link

https://goo.gl/OVes7E

Origin Of Dogs Traced by Joshua Marks

http://goo.gl/G882T0

Kevin Illustrations by Ian Gibson - Lead Artist at Sky Tyrannosaur

http://goo.gl/qncWBq

Dr. Juliane Kaminski

https://goo.gl/3iRFcc

Dr. Larry Young

http://goo.gl/X8EHBA

VIDEO CREDITS

Written, Produced, Edited and Hosted by Kevin Lieber

Instagram: http://instagram.com/kevlieber

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinlieber

Website: http://kevinlieber.com

Contributing Editor Matthew Tabor, Koala Fight Media

http://koala.fm/

VFX by Eric Langlay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbXVXPFAVI

Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi

http://jaypellizzi.com/

Select Music by Jake Chudnow

https://www.youtube.com/user/jakechudnow

Custom Charts by Craftality

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Craftality

Vsauce2 Links

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Website: http://www.vsauce.com

Canine Cameo by Lucy