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Nature documentaries or programmes without too much death?

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BreathlessCommotion · 13/08/2020 11:26

I know that is nature. My 8 yr old dd has ASD and loves watching nature and animal documentaries. But she finds the harsh realities of young animals being abandoned and dying very hard. People with ASD often feel emotions more strongly than NT people, and find it hard to regulate. She can be sobbing and heartbroken for ages.

Are there any TV programmes of this kind? She loves deadly 60, but would love something like Planet Earth but without so much death.

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GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 13/08/2020 11:43

I wish there were - I hope someone will suggest some.

I don’t have ASD but I hate seeing animals being killed or baby animals abandoned and starving to death. Yes, I know it’s nature but they do seem to dwell on it, or even relish it, now.

I went right off Chris Packham when he was clearly revelling in the sight of a bloody great herring gull picking off tiny bats, one after the other, as they emerged from their roost at dusk.

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