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Article: Oh, You Animal!; Mating Film Goes Beyond the Birds and the Bees
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- The Washington Post
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- April 6, 2008
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In nature, "females rule the roost, and males will do almost
anything they can to please them," said filmmaker Kevin Bachar.
His two-part documentary, "What Females Want and What Males Will
Do," airing Sunday and April 13, explores sexual selection in the
animal world by chronicling the rituals and rites of courtship among
species as varied as baboons and lizards.
"We want you to know who they choose and why they choose them,"
Bachar said.
The program, part of the PBS "Nature" series, required almost six
months of pre-production to locate wildlife experts and coordinate
filming schedules with them.
His team wanted to include a study of birds, he said, "because
birds are always stunning" ...
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