It’s a whole new concept that Peuple-Animal invites you to discover this summer. Every Wednesday and until August 11, an episode of our series “The most beautiful true stories of animals” will be published on Spotify. Written by animal journalist Jean-Philippe Noël, and told by actor Jean-Paul Bordes, these stories will transport you to Japan, Russia and even Egypt. Already two episodes are available!
# 1 Laïka, the first dog in space
The name Laika may not be completely new to you. What if we tell you cold war, space conquest, Sputnik, not the vaccine but the spaceship? There you are. Laïka is the first living being sent into space. Crowned with the feat of sending Sputnik into space, Nikita Kroutchev wants to drive the point home in the technological and ideological battle between him and America. His ambition? Send the first manned craft into space. It will leave only one month, and not one more, to its engineers to carry out this flight which will be the high point of the commemorations of the fortieth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. It remains to find the living being that will inhabit the capsule. It will be Laïka, a little dog found in the street …
# 2 The beast of Gévaudan
We can no longer count the articles, essays, documentaries, novels and feature films that are still devoted to him today. From 1764 to 1767, the peasants of Gévaudan lived with fear in their stomachs. A bloodthirsty monster would commit horrific murders with a predilection for women and children. The sinister legend was born …
# 3 Hachi-Ko, symbol of loyalty (online June 23)
Hachi-Ko is Japan’s most famous dog. Its history has its origins in the mountainous region of Akita, the cradle of its race. Hachi-Ko, in 1923, joined his master, a university professor whom he expected every evening when he got off his train. Until the day when the man of letters does not return …
# 4 Hans, the horse who knew how to count (online June 30)
Hans the Evil revolutionized the way science looks at animal intelligence. Because Hans knows how to count, add and subtract, indicating the solution of one or more hoof strikes on the ground. His reputation first toured Germany, then the world. But does this horse really know how to count?
# 5 Hans and Parki, an elephantine love story (online July 7)
The fates of Hans and Parki, two elephants, come together in the holds of a Dutch East India Company ship. Captured in the forests of Ceylon in the 18th centurye century to reach Europe, the two teenagers will give birth to a romantic literature …
# 6 Nim Chimpsky, the monkey who thought he was a child (online July 14)
Raised like a human, sold to a laboratory, forgotten at the bottom of a cage, the life of Nim Chimpsky is a bad novel. Withdrawn 15 days after its birth to its mother, the little chimpanzee is intended for a study on the ability to use sign language. For this, he will be entirely raised by a human family made up of 7 children …
# 7 The geese of the Capitol (online July 21)
At IVe century before Jesus-Christ, the Romans and the Gauls wage an interminable war which makes Rome tremble. Deserted by its inhabitants, the city is surrounded by the Gauls who hope to take the Capitol, the most famous of the 7 hills of Rome. While the Gauls think they have found the fault of this fortress, their conquest comes up against vigilant guards: the geese who have made the place their territory …
# 8 Rintintin, or the birth of a star (online July 28)
Rintintin is Hollywood’s most famous dog. But few people know that he was born in France and that he had a destiny that many actors dream of knowing one day… He has his star on Hollywood Boulevard and has breathed his last in the arms of a sex American symbol …
# 9 Tilikum, the sacrificed killer whale (online August 4)
Captured at the age of two in Icelandic waters as part of her family clan, the killer whale joins a tiny cement pool to be shipped to a Sealand in Canada. The young male is manhandled by the other orcs and undergoes the violence of a training the hard way. His life in captivity will be marked by assaults, fatal, on humans. Tilikum has become the symbol of the excesses of the captivity of large marine mammals …
# 10 Zarafa, queen of Paris (online August 11)
Zarafa is probably the most famous of the royal gifts. Gifted by the viceroy of Egypt to Charles X, the giraffe was captured on the banks of the Nile. Arrived in Marseille, she will cross all of France on foot and will become the queen of All-Paris …
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