Documentary Description
Shot as a wildlife documentary over several months, this
27 min film follows the lives of domestic rats after being released in a large
outdoor enclosure where they have to compete, like their wild cousins, for food,
shelter and mates. As we witness the emergence of a complex and structured society
which soon thrives in this wild environment, the film demonstrates how studies
ranging from physiology to psychology have uncovered a number of features which,
despite generations of domestification, remain ready to be expressed when given
the opportunity. We may have taken the rat out of
the wild, but have we taken the wild out of the rat?
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