Mermaids Animal \\\Planet

By JOdi Werswick Available [oline] http://blogs.discovery.com/bites-animal-planet/mermaids/ Assessed on 11 June 2015

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You first saw "Mermaids: The Body Found" during Animal Planet's monstrousMonster Week line-up, but the two hour documentary-style program recently re-aired on Discovery. Once again, the Animal Planet program, which uses scientific theory and real events to debate whether or not mermaids exist, caused a stir among viewers and the program was trending in the No. 1 spot on Google after airing. It seems the program had many convinced that mermaids could exist (much in the way another popular Animal Planet program, "Finding Bigfoot," explores the possibility that Sasquatch could be real).


How much of this is real and how much of this is made up?


The science really informs the fiction. The theory of Aquatic Ape mentioned in the program is real and has been studied for decades. Many events in the show have occurred – i.e. the whale beachings, Navy experimental sonar testing, The Bloop ...


We use the transitive property to further explore the possibility of mermaids – i.e. if polar bears evolved from the brown bear, isn’t it possible that a mermaid, which was reported in disparate civilizations for ages, evolved from a human-like creature that retreated into the water?


The scientists are actors who portray an authentic government organization (NOAA) who currently study phenomena like whale beachings and sonar testing. The imagined part of the show is our entry point into a new world of possibility rooted in science.


By JOdi Werswick Available [oline] http://blogs.discovery.com/bites-animal-planet/mermaids/ Assessed on 11 June 2015






Ask: do mermaids lay eggs like fish or do they mate like human beings?


Acquire: my search phrase would be discovery of mermaids


Analyse: analyse inforamtion and data and turn them into raw materials.


Apply : apply this knowledge in the real world.


Assess: asking questions about the process.






Was to let us know that mermaids really do exist and they might be very dangerous as we do not know the way they live . To answer curiousity questions about mermaids to let our imaginations run wild. as well as finding out what people think about mermaids.these amazing creatures are searched by scientist to give us an answer of whether they do exist or not. in some videos of animal planet they look like someone edited them and they make things that dont exist look like they do exist which is wrong, because they give us false information just to make our imagination run wild. but i belive the video are awsome for they also make you interested in the research of finding animals.