Web of life 12 : table manners

This half-hour series was broadcast in four runs from 1959 to 1963, except 1962. It started as a twenty-six week examination of different forms of animal life, and added more programs in subsequent years. The series was hosted, written and narrated by Dr. Ian McTaggart-Cowan. For all animals, food is the most serious struggle part for existence. In this episode Dr. Cowan divided animals in two groups as plant eater and meat eater, and introduced different eating ways, including grinding, shifting, vacuum cleaning, swallowing the whole prey and catching a large prey and tearing it apart to eat. It also depicted the eating habits of animals including herbivores on land such as elephant, reptiles such as African chameleon, and underwater carnivores such ad moon snail.

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Contributor

• Connochie, Tom
• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010
• Bray, Ken
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Subject

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010
• Animals--Food
• Omnivores
• Herbivores
• Animal behavior
• Carnivora

Publisher

• CBC Vancouver

Language

• eng

Identifier

• CBUT-9870-3

Date created

• January 3, 1960

Resource type

• Moving Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 film reel (00:29:51) : black and white ; 16 mm

Alternative title

• Search for food
• Web of life show 12

Physical Repository

• Physical item housed at CBC Vancouver.

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• documentary film
• video recordings (physical artifacts)
• television programs

Technical note

• mp4. Digitization of the films was contracted by the CBC. Metadata by M. He. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• This item is the property of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is provided for research purposes only. For use other than research, permission must be acquired from the CBC.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/r89m-8650