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Hero Animals

2009

~30 min / ep

1 season

6 episodes

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Ep 1
1.The Dog That Battled the Bear
04-03-200930 min
New series profiling heroic animals. The first edition features the story of Grizzly, a husky that protected its master when he was attacked by a black bear in Canada. While all of...
Ep 2
2.The Dolphins That Saved the Surfer
11-03-200930 min
Documentary revealing how a pod of wild bottlenose dolphins protected Californian surfer Todd Endris after he was attacked by a great white shark. The creature lunged at Todd, shre...
Ep 3
3.The Gorilla that Saved the Boy
18-03-200930 min
Documentary looking at the story of Levan Merritt, the five-year-old boy who in 1986 fell head-first into the gorilla enclosure at Jersey Zoo, but was protected by dominant silverb...
Ep 4
4.The Elephant that Rescued the Girl
25-03-200930 min
Documentary revisiting the scene of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Phuket, Thailand, where eight-year-old Amber Owen was remarkably saved by a baby elephant named Ning Nong. As the...
Ep 5
5.The Pig That Called for Help
01-04-200930 min
The story of Lulu, a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig who found help when her elderly owner Jo Ann Altsman suffered a heart attack. Lulu trotted to a nearby road and waited for help, unt...
Ep 6
6.The Dog That Gave First Aid
08-04-200930 min
Reconstructing the story of the miniature poodle-schnauzer mix that saved its owner from drowning during Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. As the flood waters rose, Frisky licked G...

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