NATURE: Animal Odd Couples // Premieres tonight at 8/7c by PBS
Despite the odds, there are countless stories of the most unlikely cross-species relationships imaginable: a goat guiding a blind horse; a doe who regularly visits her Great Dane surrogate mother; a juvenile gibbon choosing to live with a family of capuchins, and so on. Instincts gone awry? The subject has mystified scientists for years. Now, NATURE investigates why animals form these special bonds. Informed by the observations of caregivers and noted scientists Temple Grandin and Marc Bekoff, the film explores what these relationships suggest about the nature of animal emotions The entire program is now available for online viewing at http://to.pbs.org/RKslFI 
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Kirsten Clinkscales
This is so so sweet !!!!
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Gene Highmoor
Wonderful Program.
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Cindy Conyers Mines
Great show and stories!
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Deborah McDow
Wow!
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Kim C Turner-Palmer
i got to see part of this very interesting
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Crystal Alifanow
This was on my program last night but it's not the episode of Nature that aired. Unless it changed quite a lot after the first 15 minutes. It was talking about extinction though the info said it was supposed to be Animal Odd Couples airing. I was watching DirectTV channel 29 HD.
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PBS
The entire program is now available for online viewing at http://to.pbs.org/RKslFI
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Crystal Alifanow
Thank you!
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Catherine Mulholland
Great program!
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Ellen Ahern
great show - fell in love with "kate" and her fawn!
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Caroline McNabb
This was a wonderful episode. I love Temple Grandin. That baby cheetah was adorable. How wonderful to see that goat help the blind horse. How sweet to see the deer bring her fawns around to visit her doggie friend. I love nature and I love Nature!
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Ruth Bishop McElroy
Temple Grandin. My hero!
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Carol Sue Tracy
already aired but can be watched at site above. excellent documentary
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Ava Wood
Thanks so much for the heads-up about this one- I loved it. The oddest couple for me was the tortoise and the duck, but the most touching was the blind old horse and his billygoat guide. The natural world holds so much fascination....
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Krista Kirkwood O'Connell
loved, loved, loved this...put a smile on my face...wonderful, thank you!!!
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Gary Wohlers
I watched this last nite too Lisa!
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Yary Crts
aaaa que lindo
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Rachel Duncan
awwwee this so cute.
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Susan Tucker
watched it twice last night and absolutely loved it.
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Nalini Jyotsana Chaturvedi
Darling yippeeeeeeee! we will watch it this sunday together!
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Berta Ruiz
There's hope for the Republicans and Democrats!
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Jen Newsom
thanks for this heads up! did you ever see the mermaid thingy?
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Philip Moton
Man thinks that we are a species that has the higher intelligence. But aliens among us ,cats dogs ,monkeys, elephants have an intelligence of their own and it may match ours on certain levels. I'm just saying.
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Fidela Barreda
unable to watch it online
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Victoria Brown Crawford
love these stories..
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Ken M Cooley
Wonderful. Thank you.
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Mary McMackin
The Seattle station carried this earlier this week. A MUST SEE! You'll need kleenex for the horse and goat story.
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Dion Cegielski
thats for you mom
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Maxine Harrison
That's only part Lab with the cheetah..most of that dog is Rhodesian Ridgeback....
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Georgette Gladstone
Sort of like my sister, Max, and me!
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