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Animal Reality Shows Are Taking Over TV

First Posted: 06/22/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:15 PM ET

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The New York Times:

If you channel-surf with any regularity, you have almost certainly noticed that shows offering absurdly close-up views of nature, and especially of animals, have been popping up everywhere lately. Who can afford to go on a safari or two-week rafting adventure these days? Television gives us all an eco-tourism passport.

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If you channel-surf with any regularity, you have almost certainly noticed that shows offering absurdly close-up views of nature, and especially of animals, have been popping up everywhere lately. Who...
If you channel-surf with any regularity, you have almost certainly noticed that shows offering absurdly close-up views of nature, and especially of animals, have been popping up everywhere lately. Who...
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